The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-01 00:00:00

COVEN T-GARDEN MARKET.

Considerable excitement has existed during the las•
week among the traders at Covent-garden Market, and
the inhabitants residing in the vicinity, in consequence of
certain proceedings said to have been adopted by order of
the Commissioners of Po which it is calculated will
have the effect of curtailing the business transacted there
to a considerable extent, it they do not altogether cause
the market to be closed.
It is a fact well known to the inhabitants of the metro-
polis, that from a very early hour on market mornings,
namely, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, the influx of
carts and waggons conveying to, and conveying goods from,
the market, is so great as to render the thoroughfare totally
impassable for vehicles ; the inconvenience, however, tothe
public is very trifling, inasmuch as there arc other streets
and thoroughfares through which vehicles can pass without
much inconvenience. Such has been the state of the
neighbourhood and the market since its establishment ;
and as it is the same in every other market, it is quite im-
possible, from the nature and extent of the business trans.
acted, that it should be otherwise. In consequence, how.
ever, of some representations, the Commissioners of Police
resolved to carry into effect the 47th clause of the New
l'olice Act, which prohibits persons from causing carts,
trucks, &c., to stand longer in the streets than may be ne-
cessary for loading or unloading.
On the following market-day it was found impossible to
carry the intentions of the circular into effect, the conse-
quence of which was that two or three tradesmen, whose
carts, as usual, were in the market, were summoned to
Bow-street Police Court, and fined in small penalties for
infringing the regulations prescribed by the circular. The
result has been that the lessees of Hungerford and Port-
man markets have offered the traders the use of their
markets free of toll for one year, in order to counteract
the great inconveniences likely to arise from the carrying
out of the above enactment. Since the convictions which
have taken place at Bow-street, a great number of traders
have attended the other markets, where they can carry on
their business without interruption ; and, in Ldlition to the
markets already mentioned, that of Farriogdon may also
be mentioned, in which the business hitherto transacted has
most materially increased: _

Yesterday evening a public meeting of the inhabitants of
the parish was held in the vestry-room of St. Paul, for
the purpose of taking into consideration the better regu-
lations of the approaches of the market. The Rev. Dr.
Bowers, the Rector, in the Chair.

The Rev. CHAIRMAN having briefly stated the object
of the meeting,
Mr. WALKER rose to propose the first resolution. He
said it required but little on his part to convince every
person but sceptics that it was true. There could be no
doubt that the course pursued by the police was one of the
greatest injuries that could be inflicted on the trades-
men in the neighbourhood. The speaker then showed
clearly that the regulations would operate wish grtat
partiality, and could not properly be carried into effect.
The streets leading to the market must be considered
a 'part of the market itself; still regulations existed
by which some of the principal thoroughfares were left
clear. He then argued that the continuance of the mar-
ket would, as it always had done, confer not only a benefit
upon the public at large, but particularly upon the inhabi-
tants of the parish. The market had existed for 200
years, the same course of business had been pursued during
onlywhe had complained had come to
fair and just that it should
ctheanttipneurci.od,Tahned
persons t
was
the market, the market had not come to them. The mar-
ket was not a general thoroughfare to every part of the
i
metropolis, and if any person Wanted to pass near it there
were streets running parallel in every direction. After
some further observations the speaker moved the following
resolution :

_
That the regulafons acted on by the police in the
market and streets adjoining are injurious to the inhabitants
of this parish, the market-gardeners, and to the public at
large."

Mr. COOPER seconded the resolution.
Mr. JUGGINS, checsemonger in James-street, opposed
the resolution, and moved as an amendment—
" That a vote of thanks be given to the police for estab-
lishing the present regulations."
After some discussion the original motion was put and
carried almost unanimously.
Mr. KEY said he considered the interference of the po-
lice with respect to the market a species of vandalism
which he little expected to find in the present day, and
would therefore propose the following resolution :
" That no cart, waggon, &c., be allowed ro remain
alongside any other cart, waggon, &c., in Covent-garden
market, for the purpose of loading or unloading, for such
works to be fairlyidone, except in front of the church be-
tween King-street and Henrietta-street, wherein a single
row of carts, waggons, &c., and no more, laden with
goods for sale, may be allowed to stand with their side
wheels to the kerb, and that a clear footpath, not less than
four feet in width, shall be kept by the side of the church
railings, between the above-named streets, and that no cart,
waggons, &c. be allowed, upon any terms, to stand in that
rpat.,,
rt of the market known as the Piazza and Tavistock-
ov

At this stage of the proceedings the vestry became so
crowded it was necessary to adjottrn to the vestibule of the
cbu,el3, there being nearly 500 persons present.
Mr. Salter, of the Russell Hotel, Piazza, cordially se-
conded the resolution.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Two other resolutions of a similar tendency were also
carried; and ets the motion of Mr. Dennison, of Covent-
garden, a Committee was appointed to:draw up a petition,
founded on the foregoing resolutions, to be presented to the
Cummiss!oners of Police.

EPREsEN
addressed a large
re-
quisition has ENTION oF ROCIIDALE.—A re-
been presented to Mr. S. Crauford, inviting
him to stand for the borough on the retirement of the pre-
sent Nlember.
sen-
timents, and On Wednesday evening that Gentleman
expressive of perfect satisfaction with Mr. Crauford's sen-
meeting there, after which a resolution,
Rochdale, was
unanimously adopted. A public dinner was afterwards
of his fitness to
given to Mr. Crauford.
MtpsummEtt NIGHT's DREAM.--The first
adaptation of this play was by Colman and Garrick, in
represent
1763, but on the second night, the house being so thin,
that when Dernetr.us, Helena, Lysander, and Hermia fell
asleep on the stage, the whole pit (another quartetto)
nodded and dozed in sympathetic accordance. The next
adaptation was by Frederick Reynolds, in 1813, when,
owing to its strong cast, the present Countesses of Essex
and llarringten performing Hermia and Helena, and Listen
and Emery Bottom and Quince, and the omission of the
interlude of Pyramus and Thisbe, this adaptation was per-
formed set enteen n' i
ghrs, and was (according to " Rey..
nolds's Life and '!'lmes") at least thought highly of by Mil-
ler, the bookseller, for he bought the copyright for lOU
We are g
mlad to learn that the name of our re-a.
spected Chid Magistrate, W. Neild, Esq., has just been
added to the Commission of the Peace for this County._
Manchester Guardian.
C 11A FEL BLOWN up By GAS.—A Chapel at
liolmfirth, last Saturday, was blown up by gas. Four in-
dividuals who were in the building at the time of the
casualty, were all
--- more or less injured. One of them, a
little boy, son of the chapel-keeper, was thrown a consi-
derable distance by the force of the gas, and on being
picked up was found to have suffered a severe fracture of
the thigh bone, besides numerous bruises over the body.
The other three persons received various injuries, being
considerably burnt about the face, having the hair singed
off the head, &c. The cause of this terrible catastrophe
was the escape of gas, and the incautious introduction into
the chapel of I lighted candle,

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