The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-09 00:00:00

II sentatives, in favour of the retention of Smithfield Mark et.
T,hla document will speak for itself.

THE DECLARATION IN FAVOUR OF THE RETEN-
TION OF SMITHFIELD MARKET.
Yesterday a letter, of which the following is a copy, was
forwardsd to Lord John Russell, M.P.:—
. Office of the City of London Central
Markets Association. .

"My Lord,--T have the honour of transmitting herewith
tee declaration of 7,363 citizen electors of London to their
representatives in Parliament (your Lordship being one) ex-
pressive of their opinions against the Government proposal to
extinguish Smithfield Market, and their earnest hope that
your Lordship and your colleagues will energetically support
the corporate scheme for constructing an unobjectionable
cattle market in or near the present central position of Smith-
field. In forwarding this complete list, I beg leave to assure
your Lordship, that it will be found to avoid the errors which
..li3tigure the several instalments previously transmitted. The
.I.uplicates which abound in the City Register have been de-
tected and corrected, and all names to which any doubt
may have attached from the disgraceful conduct of one of
the clerks in my employ have been expunged. Large as is
the number of the names appended to this document, I
would state for your Lordship's information that yesterday
upwards of 200 signatures were added ; and that more than
30 have been received this forenoon, since the completion of
th list. No: is there any question that, if time permitted,
ocher thOusands would yet desire so to express their deep
interest in the trade and prosperity of the City, and their
creditabfe indignation at so unprecedented an attack upon
corporate rights, trading interests, and personal property. i
lint this were surely needless, since the list shows a majority
of 226 electors over the triumphant number which placed
your Lordship at the head of the poll for the City, in 1847.
Your Lordship will, I am sure, admit that your constituents
then nobly responded to your appeals; and I hope I shall
not offend by the expression of my hope and my conviction
that their present appeal to your Lordship will be neither
unheard nor unheeded.—l have the honour to subscribe my-
self, my Lord, your Lordship's humble servant, &c.,
(Signed) " JAMSCS ACLAND.
if The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M-P.,
April 8, 1E51."

—
The humble petition of the Lord Ma— yor, Aldermen, and
Commons of the city of London, in Common Council al.
sembled,

Sheweth,
That a Bill has been introduced into your Honourable
House as a public Bill, intituled " A Bill for providing a
Metropolitan Market and Conveniences connected therewith
in lieu of the Cattle Market at Smithfield."
That such Bill, as your petitioners are advised and believe,
is in the nature of a private Bill, being a Bill for the erect-
ing, improving, repairing, maintaining, or regulating of a
market ,g to authorize the levying of tolls, rates, and du-
ties; fo ich and other reasons such Bill comes within the
description of a Bill to which your Honourable House has
ruled that your Standing Orders are applicable, and that the
Standing Ords Committee of your Honourable House hav
accordingly resolved, " That in the case of the Smithfield•e
market Removal Bill the Standing Orders ought to be dis-
pensed with ; that the parties be permitted to proceed with
their Bill on inserting the notices once in the London Ga-
zette, and for three successive weeks in the newspaper; and
that the Committee of Selection be instructed n- :t to appoint
the first meeting of the Committee on the Bill for an earlier
day than Thursday the first day of May," which resolution
has been reported to your Honourable House, and agreed to.
That the said Bill seriously affects the interests of the citi-
zens of London, who are represented by your petitioners, as
also those of all persons using and frequenting the said
market of Smithfield and the neighbourhood thereof; and
that the said Bill infringes and abrogates certain of the pre-
scriptive rights which your petitioners have had and enjoyed
from tine whereof the memory of man runneth not to the
contrary," which have been confirmed by charters granted
by successive sovereigns, from the time of King Edward the
Third, and which have received further and recent confirma-
tion by the opinions of the judges, given in the House of
Lords,upon questions submitted to them in the progress of a
Bill for establishing a market for the sale of cattle; in the
parish of St. Mary, Islington, in one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-five, and by the provisions which, in pursuance of
such opinions, were inserted in the Act fifth and sixth
William the Fourth, chapter
That your petitioners are advised and believe that the plan
proposed by the saidßill is not adapted to effect the purposes
intended.
That it is further proposed by the said Bill to invest certain
Commissioners, to be created by the said Bill, with extraordi-
nary and unprecedented powers.
That your petitioners are the promoters of a Bill, intituled
A Bill for Enlarging the Site of Smithfield-market, and
Improving the Approaches thereto," with respect to which
tb's Standing Orders of your Honourable House have been
declared to be complied with, and which your petitioners are
prepared to prove is far more suitable for the objects contem-
plated than the Bill so introduced as aforesaid.
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your Honourable
House that, in the event of the said first-mentionel Bill
being proceeded with, it may be referred to the same Com-
mittee which shall be appointed to consider the Bill pro-
moted by your petitioners; or that you will otherwise
permit your petitioners to al-pear by themselves, their coun-
sel, or agents, and to be heard with their witnesses at the bar
of your Honourable House against the second reading of the
said Smithfield Removal Bill, and generally in support of the
allegations herein contained.
Signed by order of the Court,
HENRY A LIVORTII MERZWEVIER.