The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-20 00:00:00

THE NEW METROPOLITAN MARKET AT
COPENHAGEN FIELDS.

Yesterday the Lord Mayor received from the Rev.
D. Wilson, the vicar of Islington, a memorial in favour
of holding the first cattle market of the week on Tues-
day, instead of Monday, as at present. The following
is an extract imDm the document :

" The memorialists,have long suffered grievances and
annoyance from droves of cattle coming into and pass-
ing through the parish on the Sunday, to be in readi-
ness for the Monday's market, and causing obstruction
and sometimes danger to the attendants of public wor-
ship, while other persons belonging to their own and
other parishes, are, through occupations in connexion
with the market, altogether shut out from any due
observance of the Sabbath—a grievance which would
be greatly increased when Islington would become
the converging circle for all the various lines of ac-
cess to the new market. That this monstrous evil
would be altogether obviated by a transfer of the market
from Monday to Tuesday. That this very change of
market day was expressly recommended by the select
committee of the House of Commons in 1832, in their
report on the observance of the Sabbath-day. It will
appear, they reported, from the evidence, that by
transferring Smithfield and other markets from Monday
to Tuesday, a great part of the evil of Sunday travel-
ling might be abated within a circle of 120 miles
around London. In the wish to promote so desirable an
object, the chief coach proprietors, together with sales-
men of great respectability, and others connected with
Smithfield market, concur. It is in evidence that this
market is crowded on Monday morning very inconveni-
ently to buyers and sellers, and not less injuriously to
the cattle, and that the Friday's market is so much less
abundantly supplied, that if the other market was held
on Tuesday, instead of Monday, the proportions of the
supply would be better adjusted ; nor does it ap-
pear that any evil would result to any class of so-
ciety from the change of the day, certainly none
that can for a moment be placed in competition with
the unquestioned mischiefs which the Sunday prepara-
tions for the Monday market, more especially the har-
bouring and driving of large masses of cattle in the
neighbourhood, of London on the Lord's-day unavoidably
cause.' To this the memorialists add, that such un-
questioned mischiefs' have greatly multiplied since 1832,
by the increased requirements of the metropolitan mar-
ket, on account of the augmented population, and would
now, unless the day be changed, be all concentrated with
accumulated force on Islington. They also submit that
the opportunity for changing the day of late years has
greatly improved, by the facilities afforded by the rail-
ways for bringing the cattle expeditiously to market ;
and is now brought to the most favourable crisis that
could be devised by the transfer of the market to the
new site."

The Lprd Mayor sent an answer to the application,
in which he says :—" I am sensibly aware of the grie-
vance long felt by the inhabitants of Islington and other
parts of the metropolis on this subject, and I beg to
assure you that your efforts to put down so great an evil
and one so painfully felt by the religious community,
have my entire: approval. Any petition, therefore,
embodying your views on this matter would, I am con-
fident, be received by the Common Council of the 'City
of London with every respect and attention, and would
have that weight attached to it to which it is so justly
entitled."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, DEc. 19.

Sir James Graham, Bart., M.P., First Lord of the
Admiralty, is at Osborne to-day, and will visit the
dockyard to-morrow, it is (very naturally) supposed
on business with the authorities connected with the
fleet.

Rear-Admiral Berkeley, C. 8., M.P., visited this
dockyard to-day, and had an interview with the Port-
Admiral.

Lieutenant Horatio Nelson Atkinson (a godson of
Nelson) of the Coast Guard service, is here to-day to
try the efficacy of projecting a common rocket from a
ship to the shore within a certain distance. This is in
contradistinction to the coast mode of endeavouring to
throw a rocket line over a ship in distress near shore,
for,, while the various points along shore are supplied
with rocket stations and missiles for this essential ser-
vice, it does not appear to have been considered neces-
sary to have such means of safety at hand on board the
ship whose crew may stand in need of them. Lieuten-
ant Atkinson's idea is most simple, and would save a
large amount of dragging about materialsif it should be
thought capable of supplying the needful aid in the hour
of danger without necessitating the establishment of
cumbersome and expensive gear ashore, which is likely
to be found useless when suddenly required, as has been
too often proved to be the case. The principle of the
"notion" of Lieutenant Atkinson is briefly this :—A ship
is a diminutive and difficult object to hit at sea, even
when stranded, whereas the shore is widespread, and
could not be missed if the range of the rocket would take
it in.

The Leopard, 18, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Captain G.
Giffard, was removed from the fitting basin to-day, and
hauled off to the Malabar coaling depot to complete coals
for further service.

The Helena, 16, sailing-sloop, was brought down the
harbour this morning, and placed in the_ fitting-basin
ready for docking to refit.
The Tyne store transport, Master-Commander Tucker,
is ordered into harbour to fill up with' stores.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 19.

His Sardinian Majesty's frigate Eurydice, 28, Capt.
A. De Ceva, arrived here this morning, and was imme-
diately boarded by the Sardinian Consul, Mr. Treeby.
She saluted the British flag with 21 guns, the Port.
Admiral with 17, and the Consul, on his departure, with
five guns. The compliment was duly acknowledged
from the battery in the citadel, and from her Majesty's
flagship Impregnable, in Hamoaze. •The Eurydice is
19 days from Genoa and Villafranca, and had touched
at Gibraltar, since which very severe weather has been
experienced. She has altogether 550 men, including a
few who are going by rail to Newcastle to take charge
of the steam-frigate Carlo Alberto, lately launched there
for his Sardinian Majesty. From Plymouth the Eury-
dice proceeds in six or seven days to Boston and New
York.

WOOLWICH, DEC. 19.

APPOINTMENTS.

Captain Richard Laird Warren (1839) to command
the Cressy, 80, screw steam-ship, commissioned this day
at Sheerness.

Captain Henry Caldwell (1853), promoted in August
last, while serving as Commander of the Prince Regent,
90, flagship of Rear-Admiral Corry, has been appointed
to study steam at the Factory at Woolwich Dockyard.
Captain Horatio Beauinan- Young (1846), to study
steam at the factory at Woolwich Dockyard.
Paymaster George Grant (1850), recently serving in
the Prometheus, steam-sloop, when on the West Coast of
Africa station, to the Juno, 26, at Chatham, fitting for
service on the Australian station.

Mate James T. Pringle (1852), recently serving as
Acting-Mate in the Hastings, 72, when flagship on the
East Indies station, to the Boscawen, 70, at Chatham,
fitting to serve as flagship on the North America and
West Indies station.

Midshipmen.—William H. Nurse, to the Princess
Royal, 90, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth ; George
R. Harvey, to the Royal George, 120, screw steam-ship,
at Sheerness.

Assistant-Surgeon William G. Hill (1853), to the
Saracen brig, at Devonport.
Naval Cadet G. N. Smallpieee, to the Princess Royal.
Assistant-Engineers.—John Forster, Arch. Young,
Walter T. Fry, and Charles Freeburn, to the Cyclops
steam-frigate, at Sheerness, preparing for service on the
Mediterranean station.