The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-30 00:00:00

LOSS OF TWO BRITISH SHIPS.

Advices have been received from Valparaiso, com-
municating the total loss of two British vessels, the
Glocester and Prince Albert, both of 300 tons burden'
the property of Mr. Glendenning, of Stamford-hill.
The Glocester left London for Batavia with a cargo of
coals about two years ago, and information having
been received that she was seized at San Francisco
for debts alleged to have been incurred by the master,
the Prince Albert was sent out in order to recover the
seized vessel, the master, Mr. Rossiter, being armed
with the necessary legal authority. Nothing further
was heard of the ships until tidings were received that
both had been lost. The Glocester was overtaken by
a storm near San Francisco, was driven ashore, and be-
came a total wreck. The Prince Albert arrived in
Magellan's Straits on the 2d of October, and was
driven ashore by a violent gale. The ship being left
high and dry upon the beach, some of the crew left
her to procure fresh water. During their absence
the wreck was surrounded by the natives (Patago-
nians), who made an attack upon the captain and
crew. Mr. Rossiter was knocked down, and a portion
of the assailants stood over him with long knives in
their hands, while another party ransacked the
ship. Two of the crew, R. M. Barnaby and James
Atkins, were murdered, and an apprentice, Henry
Hoskins, was also stretched bleeding upon the deck.
The rest of the crew were secured by the natives,
who presently became like maniacs from drinking the
spirits on board. Mr. Rossiter with the surviving
seamen managed to get clear of the ship, leaving the
wounded apprentice and the mate, George Badstock,
on board prisoners. After six days' suffering, during
which time they subsisted entirely upon raw shellfish
and water, they succeeded in reaching Sandy-point,
about 150 miles from the wreck. Here they pro-
cured the assistance of an American steamer, the G.
W. Hunt, the commander of which proceeded to the
wreck, in the hope of rescuing the two men left in her.
The natives still held possession of the Prince Albert,
perceiving which the steamer opened its fire upon
them, and compelled the natives to abandon their prize
and escape into the country. They found the mate
and the apprentice both alive ; the latter fast sinking,
however, from the effects of his wounds. The captain
of the American vessel returned to Sandy-point, and
subsequently conveyed the crew to Valparaiso. After
the departure of the steamer the natives set fire to the
wreck. The loss of the vessels, which, it is said, ex-
ceeds 20,0001., is, we believe, covered by insurance.

THE UCKFIELD BURGLARS.
SUPPOSED RECEIVERS TO THE UCKFIELD BUR-
GLARS.-At the Town-hall, Tonbridge Wells, on the
25th inst., the man named James Edwards and his
wife, who were remanded on Saturday last, charged
with having in their possession a large quantity of
linendrapery, supposed to be the produce of several
robberies in which Brooks and others of the Uck-
field gang were concerned, were placed at the bar,
and again remanded till Saturday next, in conse-
quence of a telegraphic message, which was received
a few minutes prior to their being brought up, stat-
ing that if a remand were granted, parties would be
forthcoming to identify a portion of the property.
From private information we have received, we have
every reason to believe that the authorities are in pos-
session of information which is likely to bring to jus-
tice the perpetrators of a diabolical deed, which has
been enveloped in mystery for a considerable time
past. Maidstone Journal.

The desperate character of this gang of burglars is
further illustrated by the following particulars of
their conduct after committal :

During the journey from Tonbridge Wells to
Lewes, after passing over Crowborough-common, the
prisoners became exceedingly violent, using the most
brutal and disgusting expressions to pedestrians and
others travelling along the road. Near Uckfield they
so frightened a horse which was being led by a boy,
that the animal set off at a furious gallop. At an-
other portion of the road, Brooks, the desperado, we
understand, who made an attack upon police-consta-
ble Pocock some time ago, and left him for dead,
near Hayward's Heath, seeing a number of Irish
labourers approaching, and calculating, most proba-
bly, on their sympathy, raised his heavy manacled
hands, and aimed a blow at Dadson, knocking
off his hat, but happily doing no injury; at the
same time he called upon his fellow-prisoners to leap
from the van. Hillyer instantly responded to this
daring proposal by dashing his handcuffs against the
side of the vehicle, with the view, no doubt, to snap
them, but failing in that, he attempted to throw him-
self en to the road. The officers, with the quickness
of thought, presented their pistols, and threatened
promptthreaten and
edto
shoot the first man who moved. This
decisive conduct had the desired effect,
noteffec caret,aithfoourgba
Brooks with an oath said be ,
bullet."

On the arrival of the prisoners in front of the
county gaol, the ruffian Brooks held up a loaf of
bread, with menacing gestures, a manifestation which
caused many of the crowd to fall hack. A young girl
cried out, " give it to me," which appeared to divert
his attention, as he quietly placed the loaf under his
arm, saying to the girl, "thy teeth's too big for this ;
I'll keep it myself.' —Sussex Express.

GREAT ROBBERY OF MUTTON.--The farm of Mr.
Thomas, Boot and Shoe Inn, Aberdare, was visited one night
last week by some miscreants, who left behind them as
tokens of their visit the skins and heads of nine prime sheep.
The carcases had all been carried off, but the skins being
marked were left, for fear of their being traced.---Cumbrian,
The total population of the kingdom of Sweden is
estimated at 3,533,200, viz.:.-1,842,400 males, and 1,090,800
females. On the let January, 1846, the population was
3,316,902, so that the increase in the last five years has been
216,258, or 6 per cent.

GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
1
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---- - : --
British ••••••• • • • • • • • 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 13
Ditto Provincial- - 11. Bs. 20 0 0 20 0 0 18%
Brighton •• • ... •• - - 51. 20 0 0 - -
City of London .. •• .. 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 -
Continental Consolidat. 928. 75 0 0 31 5 0 -
Equitable .• ...... • ... 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
imperial .• ....•. .. - 31. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70
Independent ......... 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Parl. Preference 61. 25 0 0 210 0 -.
Phoenix . .......... ~, 4%1. 50 0 0 49 0 0 28%
Ratcliff .... • ........ 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 -
United General ...... 11. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1538
Westminster Chartered 3/. 50 0 0 - 46
Ditto, New .... - -12 s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 9%
LIST 01' SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-------- -- -.
X a. d. Z s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 199
Jaledonlan Bank
City of Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 12
Clydesdale Bank •• -•• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13%
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 171%
Eastern Bank.. -•• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 91. Is.
Edinb.&Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 50 0 5 0 0 454
Exehangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 15
National Bank 6% per cent. '5O 0 0 10 0 0 t 5
North of Scotland Bank 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 21.115.
Royal hank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 130%
Unionßank Of Scotland SI. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 89
Western Bank. •••• • •• 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70
Alliance Fire and Life 8341. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20%
British Guarantee
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
City of Glasgow Life 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 31. 03
Colonial Life - 50 0 0 1 0 0 11.155.
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 I I 21
Eng. 85 Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 p 2%
Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 i 21. Os
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1245.6 d
North British Insur. - 61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 , 26
Scottish Union Inarnce. 6%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 23s 6d
Standard Life ...... - 51-per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 10
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 175 6d
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-----
--...-
Z. e. 4.
Assam Tea ••.. • • .... - 20 Od.A. a. 0
20 0 0 5
kuctien Mart •••• • • • • 21. 51. 50 0 0 - 28
Australian Agricalturl 11. 100 0030 0 0 15%
Australian Trust •• .. 61. per cent. - 35 0 0 20%
Luglo-Mexlcan Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 2054
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 53(
British American Land - - 38 10 0 -
Canada ......... •• .. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 45
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per'cent. - - -
Ditto ditto .... 61. per cent. - - 108
City Navigation Bonds 31 per cent. - - 96
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.&bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 91%
Equitable Reversienry 5 p.c. &bs. 5/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 109
Ditto New ........ - 50 0 0 - 50%
Gen.SteamNavigation 11.85. 15 0 0 14 0 0 28%
Hudson's Bay.. .... • • - Stock. - 204
Hungerford ...... •• .. 21. ss. - 100 0 0 47
London Institution . - - - 78 15 0 7
New Zealand Company - 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New ........ - 25 0 0 12 10 0 -
Russell Institution •• .. - - 26 5 0 -
Peninslr & Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 99%
Royal Mail Steam.. •• 1 4/. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 72
South Australian ....• 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 24
Van Dieman's Land.. - 100 0 0 29 0 0 -

PARENTAGE AND BIRTH OF A BAD SHILLING.-
I believe I may state with confidence that my parents were
respectable, notwithstanding that one belonged to the law—
being the zinc door-plate of a solicitor. The other was a
pewter flagon, residing at a very excellent hotel, and mov-
ing in distinguished society, for it assisted almost daily at
convivial parties in the Temple. It fell a victim at last to a
person belonging to the lower orders, who seized it, one fine
morning, while hanging upon some railings to dry, and con-
veyed it to a Jew, who—l blush to record the insult offered
to a respected member of my family—melted it down. My
first-mentioned parent—the zinc plate—was not enabled to
move much in society, owing to its very close connexion
with the street door. It occupied, however, a very con-
spicuous position in a leading thoroughfare, and was the
means of diffusing more useful instruction, perhaps, than
many a quarto; for it informed the running as well as the
reading public that Messrs. Snapples and Son resided within,
and that their office hours were from ten till four. In order
to become my progenitor it fell a victim to dishonest prac-
tices. A" fast" man unscrewed it one night, and bore it off
in triumph to his chambers. Here it was included by "the
boy" among his numerous" perquisites," and, by an easy
transition, soon found its way to the Hebrew gentleman
above mentioned. The first meeting between my parents
took place in the melting pot of this ingenious person, and
the result of their subsequent union was mutually adyan-
tageous. The one gained by the alliance that strength and
solidity which is not possessed by even the purest pewter;
while to the solid qualities of th,s other were added a white-
nessdisplay. From the Jew my parents were transferred—mys-
teriouly and bynight—to
and brilliancy that unadulterateidnd zivinidcuaclouilrdlanneo
vb
c-
r
scure quarter of the
metropolis,
aowbu,shcerr,ein
seervey
and silence,
I was cast, to use an appropriate metaphor, upon the
world. Dickens's Household Words.

GRAY'S INN, JAN. 29 —At a pension of the Hon.
Society of Gray's Inn holden this day, Alexander. Cheyne,
18g, 13. A., was called to the degree of barrister-at-law.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
-VICE-CHANCERY COURT. Jan. 29.
(Bcfure S r J. L. KNIGHT BRUCE.)

The Court was occupied nearly al! day in disposing of
short causes and claims, and in hearing arguments in a
case the details of which related Solely to a technical
question of title in a suit for specific performance.
(Before Lord CRANWORTH.)
TALUS V. STIFF.

Mr. Lovell applied for a special injunction to restrain
the proprietors of tie London Journal from printing or
selling any copies of their journal containing certain
matter transcribed from the plaintiffs' magazine, called
Tallis's Dramatic Mzgazine and General Theatrical and
Musical Review. Tie affidavit stated that the plaintiffs
employed certain writers to compose original articles for
their magazine, and among others employed a person to
write the life of an actress ;named Miss Isabela Glyn,
the particulars of which were supplied by Miss Glyn,
and that there was in the number of the magazine which
contained such life a daguerreotype portrait of Miss
Glyn, taken by her permission. The defendants had
applied to Miss Glyn for leave to copy the portait, but
that lady refused to grant it on the grounds that the
plaintiffs had already copied the portrait. The defend-
ants had since coped the articles in question and the
plate, and under those circumstances this application was
made.
His LORDSHIP wide the order.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 29.
(sittings in Banco.)
THE QUEEN AT THE INSTANCE OF THE EARL OF DART..

MOUTH V. HARTNELL.

A rule had been recently obtained in this case, calling
on the defendant, the proprietor of the Kentish Mercury,
to show cause why a criminal information should not be
filed against him for an alleged libel against the plaintiff,
in imputing to him the non-payment of a stipend to the
vicar of Lewisham, for reading prayers in a chapel at
Blackheath, with the payment of which the Earl of
Dartmouth was charged.

Mr. CHAMBERS, this afternoon, on the part of the de-
fendant expressed his regret that the alleged libel in
question should have appeared in his newspaper, and
that it was written and published on an imperfect informa-
tion of the facts.

Sir F. THEiIGER, on behalf of the Earl of Dartmouth,
expressed his entire satisfaction with the retractation
which had been made by the defendant, and consented
to the rule being discharged.

Lord CA➢IPBELL was glad that the matter had been
80 satisfactorily arrangPd, and ordored the rule to bto
discharged.—Rule discharged accordingly.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Angela Donohoe was brought before the Lord
Mayor upon suspicion of having been concerned in a
burglary and robbery in Barge-yard, Bucklersbury.
Mr. Hobler appeared for the prisoner.
' George Tree, the cfficer, said—l went with Fun-
• nell and other officers to a beer-shop called the Hope,
in Hope-street, Spitalfields, at eight o'clock yesterday
evening, and saw the prisoner standing near the bar-
parlour. When she saw me, she went to the other
end of the room. I went inside, and she was stand-
, ing by herself, and I told her I wished to speak to
' her, and told her to step outside. She did so; and I
then asked her what she had been doing with another
- female on Saturday morning at seven o'clock, in
. Charlotte-roe.' ? She replied, "I was not there, I
was in bed." I said, I shall apprehend you upon
• suspicion of being concerned with others in breaking
into a warehouse in Barge-yard. She said she knew
nothing about it, and requested that I would let her
see her husband, who was in the tap-room. I
consented, and she called out her husband, and told
him I bed taken her into custody for a robbery in
the City. She then said she wished to go for her
child, and Funnell and I accompanied her and her
husband to No. 34, Anchor-street, Shoreditch, where
they lived. Her husband got a light, and we began
to search the place ; when I put my hand to a little
basket which was hanging up, her husband leaped
'from the top to the bottom of the stairs, and escaped
through a trap door into a cellar. n the basket
we found seventeen skeleton keys, a picklock, a pair
of files, a pair of nippers, two saddler's needles, such
as are used by thieves in breaking windows, an old
very sharp knife, several other housebreaking imple-
ments, and a piece of rope which was no doubt used
in scaling walls.
The prisoner—lt never was.
The LORD MAYOR—Did the man escape ? Trew
• —He did. The man had not been identified, and he
did not attempt to go before I put my hand to the
basket.
George Ayling, an officer—On Saturday morning
last, when I went on duty at six o'clock, I saw the
prisoner in the neighbourhood of Charlotte-row, and
she seemed to shun me. At a quarter to seven
o'clock I again saw her. She was with another wo-
man at the coroner of Bucklersbury and Charlotte-row,
at that time, and I questioned them as to why they
were there. The prisoner said she was waiting for a
friend, that she had waited until she got so cold she
could not stay soy longer. Last night I accompanied
the first witness, and saw her at the Hope beer-shop,
in the tap-room, where there were four men playing
cards. She was laughing, and had what appeared to
; be the " crib" in her hand. When she saw me she
put down the cards, took up an umbrella, and walked
out. I followed, and she stopped to talk to the land-
lady. I accompanied Trew and Funnell to her resi-
dence in Anchor-street, Spitalfields. One of the men
who had been playing cards was her husband. I kept
the door at their house.
Another officer, who had been on duty in the
neighbourhood of Bucklersbury, stated that he had
seen the prisoner and another woman at half-past four
o'clock, going down Bucklersbury. They stopped at
the corner of Charlotte-row and looked back, and
they then went along Charlotte-row towards the
Poultry. At half-past six o'clock witness again saw
them. They were going down Bucklersbury again,
and they stopped several minutes at the corner of
Charlotte-row and Bucklersbury. He did not speak
to them. He saw them about twenty yards from
Barge-yard.
Mr. Gabriel G. Webb, one of the Society of
Friends, said, I have a warehouse in Barge-yard. It
was broken open between Friday night and Saturday
morning. I left the warehouse at about half-past four
o'clock on Friday, and during the night I lost cloth
from the warehouse to the value of 901. It was prin-
cipally the best sort of cloth. This cloth (pointing to
a small sample which had been found in the basket
with the house-breaking implements) is not any part
of what was stolen.
Cross-examined by Mr. Hobler—l never saw the
prisoner befor the present moment.
Funnell said he found in the prisoner's possession
several duplicates, but they did not relate to the
robbery.
In answer to a question from the LORD MAYOR,
Trew said he was in possession of information
which justified him in stating that he had every
reason to believe that he could bring forward addi-
tional evidence against the prisoner and others who
were suspected of having been concerned in i the
burglary.
Mr. Eobler submitted that there was not sufficient
ground for detaining the woman ; and that, whatever
might be inferred against her husband from the cir-
cumstance of his sudden disappearance, she could not
be looked upon as a responsible agent.
The LORD MAYOR said, that putting the conduct of
the husband wholly out of the question, that of the
prisoner, who had been seen so frequently in the im-
mediate neighbourhood in which the depredation had
been committed, was attended with quite suspicion
enough to authorise a remand.
The prisoner was then remanded.
GUILDHALL.
A little girl, about fifteen years of age, and who gave
her name Mary Matthews, was placed at the bar before
Alderman Kelly, charged with having in her posses-
sion a suit of prison clothes, value 10s., without being
able to render a satisfactorily account of the same.
It appeared from the statement of George Devereux,
the principal turnkey of Bridewell, that on Tuesday
morning, about four o'clock, a young man about 18
years of age, of the name of William Holloway, be-
ing an inmate of the prison, was allowed to go to
work in the labour-yard, when by some extraordinary
means, as yet unaccounted for, he made his escape by
the back premises. As soon as he was missed a de-
scription was sent to the Fleet-street station, and
Inspector Scott, who was on duty there, at once for-
warded information to all the City and Metropolitan
stations. In the course of the afternoon prisoner
came to the prison, bringing with her Holloway's
clothes, which he had sent back, fearing that if he
were taken again be would be charged with the felony.
Prisoner, was closely questioned, and she said she
knew nothing of Holloway; a boy met her in the
street and gave her the clothes to bring to the prison.
She lived, she said, at 5, Charles-street, Euston-place,
Somer's Town. On making inquiries in the neigh-
bourhood it was found that nothing was known of her.
She could not have lived there, as they are all large
gentlemen's houses. Devereux said he was particular
in questioning the girl on account of the great resem-
blance she bore to the prisoner who had escaped,
which led him to suppose that they were brother and
sister.
The girl was sentenced to two months' imprison-
ment in the House of Correction for unlawful pos-
session.

HUNTING ACCIDENT.-O❑ Thursday a serious, if
not fatal, accident befel the Bev. R. Thorp, rector of Burton
Overy, near Illston-on-the- Hill, while enjoying a run with
Sir R. Sutton's hounds. Mr. Thorp was cantering along at
an easy pace over the turf, within two fields of the fox, when
his horse suddenly fell and rolled completely over him.
Several gentlemen hastened to his assistance, but found him
quite insensible. Medical aid having been:procured, it was
ascertained that there was little hope of Mr. Thorp's re.
covery, so severe was the cJilcussion and pressure tram the
horse that he iad sustained. Mr. Thorp was alive on Friday
morning, but was still considered to be in a very precarious
condition.—Leicestershire Mercury.

CITY OF LONDON CENTRAL CATTLE
MARKET.

A conversazione was held at the London Coffee-
house, Ludgate-hill, last evening, for the purpose of
hearing an explanatory lecture by Mr. James Adana
upon the " corporate model" of the proposed new
Central Cattle-market. The model of the contem-
plated improvements is the same which has for some
time past been exhibited for the inspection of the
public at Guildhall, and previously at King-street
Bazaar, during the Smithfield cattle show; and the
lecture was illustrated by elaborately-executed plans
and some beautifully tinted lithographic views.
Sir James Duke, M.P., Mr. Charles Pearson, the
City solicitor; Mr. D. W. Harvey, Mr. Loran Tay-
lor, chairman of the markets' committee; Mr. George
Walter, Mr. Seele, and several of the most extensive
butchers and salesmen were present ; Mr. James
Blackett presiding as chairman.
Mr. BLACXETT opened the proceedings by calling
attention to the model, as showing what the City
corporation proposed with regard to the new market.
The object of the Central Market Association was
above everything else to diffuse correct information
upon this important matter, that the public might be
in a position to judge for themselves upon the merits
of the plan now submitted to them. The inhabitants
of the metropolis could not exist without a good
supply of food, and he felt confident that the plan
contemplated would enable them to obtain it with
the least possible inconvenience.—(Hear, hear.) Mr.
Blackett concluded by introducing Mr. Acland, the
secretary to the Central Markets' Association, to the
meeting.

Mr. ACLAND then said that the Central Markets'
Association was formed at the commencement of
September last; that it comprised graziers, salesmen
and their drovers, butchers and their drovers, and the
proprietors and occupiers of houses and property
likely to be affected by any alteration in the existing
markets in the city of London ; and that for five
months the association had been engaged in taking
steps calculated to maintain the central position of the
existing live-cattle market in Smithfield.—(Hear,
hear.) The necessity for such an association would
be obvious, when he stated that now, for many,
months, a portion of the press had been laudably en-
gaged in denouncing abuses which no one could ques-
tion the existence of; and that the effect of its de-
nunciations had been to excite a very general and very
proper prejudice, so to call it, against the nuisance.
Application would be made to Parliament by parties
who were desirous of winning from the city of Lon •
don its live-cattle market, and to obtain a profit which
was at present enjoyed by the trustees of the citizens
of London.—(Hear, hear.) The corporation of the
city of London also proposed to apply to Par •
liament for leave to erect a new live-cattle market,
and for power to abate the existing nuisance in
connexion with Smithfield.—(Hear, hear.) The
parties who formed the Central Markets' Associa-
tion were interested, and directly interested, in the
maintenance of the central live-cattle market of
London ; and they were anxious to support the efforts
of the corporation for the maintenance of the central
position of that market, and, of course, to oppose any
attempt that might be made to remove that market.
But, on the other hand, they were not so wedded to,
or connected with, the corporation as to accept the
proposal of the corporation as a whole. In form, they
had approved the principles of the corporation Bill ;
but, in fact, and in action, they had objected to cer-
tain details of that measure. They had, by deputa-
tion, waited upon the Markets' Improvement Com-
mittee of the city of London, had mooted their ob-
jections to these details, had had those details recon-
sidered by the committee, and many of their sugges-
tions promptly and handsomely accepted and adopted
by that committee.—(Hear.) Already, therefore, the
association had done good service to the public.—
(Hear.) Knowing that the corporation were in ear-
nest in the prosecution of their measure, and that they
desired only to do that which was right, and at the
same time most conducive to the suppression of the
existing nuisance, to the extension of the accommo-
dation in the central cattle market, and in general to
meet the views, and so far as they might with pro-
priety, even the prejudices of the public, the association
were now prepared to advocate the proposal of the
corporation for the construction of a new market.—
(Cheers.) Mr. Acland then proceeded to combat the
various objections which had been raised to the cor-
poration plan, and first that it was the establishment
of a monopoly. This, he said, it could not be, inas-
much as Smithfield was not the only cattle market
in the metropolis, though it was the only one which
was frequented for trade. Have as many markets as
we would, so long as they were inconvenient to the
trade, as that at Islington was, and so long as there
was a market which was convenient to the trade, as
that at Smithfield was, the latter would be the only
market, yet not a monopoly market. The fact was,
the Central Market Association was opposing a mo-
nopoly; for the proposal of the opponents of the cen-
tral market was that there should no longer be a
central market—in short, that there should be no mar-
ket in the place which was most convenient to those
concerned in it; that a monopoly market should be
, created at a distance from the centre, inconvenient to
all concerned in it, multiplying the nuisance to a
great extent, and establishing itself not upon its
merits, but upon the despotic act of tearing the
existing charters, flinging defiance in the
fece of the corporation, and riding upon the
storm of prejudice which bad been excited by the
iniquitous means of connecting the existing nuisance
of Smithfield with the proposed new cattle-market
devoid of this nuisance.—(Cheers.) The corporation
had done all they could to reduce the nuisance ; they
admitted that they had not been able to abate it to
their satisfaction ; and they proposed to ask power of
the Legislature to accomplish that desirable object.—
(Hear' hear.) They proposed that the new market
should be an enclosed market, and that no thorough-
fares should intersect it.—(Hear, hear.) They pro-
posed to say to the butchers, "You must get up
earlier, begin business sooner, and get your cattle out
of the market by nine o'clock !"—(Hear, hear.) If
not, the gates would be shut, and they would not be
able to remove them until late in the evening.—
(Cheers.) Thus, by closing the market from nine in
the morning till eight in the evening, the great objec-
tion of cattle passing through the streets by day
would at once be done away with.—(Hear.) Sales-
men would have to come to market earlier, and
butchers to go earlier, in order to meet the prejudices
—the just prejudices—of the community to the inter-
ruption of the traffic by the passage of cattle through
the streets during the hours of business by day. But
the corporation also proposed to abolish some existing
nuisances as well as to abate others. At present there
was to be found, immediately adjacent to Smith-
field-market, a clump of buildings, comprising
the lanes and alleys to the south and west of the Ram
Inn—he alluded particularly to Cow-cross and
Sharp's-alley, where abounded knackers' yards, com-
mon slaughter-houses, manufacturers of neat's-foot oil,
rabbit and cats' skin dressers, bone collectors, and,
in the aggregate, 57 distinct nuisances. It was this
site which the corporation now proposed to Parlia-
ment should be cleared for the purpose of erecting
their new, cleanly, well-planned, and well-ordered
live-cattle market.—(Loud cheers.) Smithfield-
market was charged as the scene of the perpetration of
much cruelty, and much cruelty did take place,
though unavoidably; and being unavoidable, it was
not in fact cruelty.—(Hear and a laugh.) Coercion
which was unavoidable was not cruelty, for cruelty
was needless coercion. If cruelty were practised it
was the result of the present confined area of the
market. It had never been denied that the space was
not large enough, and the corporation, in proposing to
remedy that evil, said, " Give us power and we will
make a market large enough, so that every ox that
comes into the market shall be tied up in such a manner
that there will be no occasion even for this unavoid-
ble' coercion." He held in his hand an official list of the
number of cattle which had been brought to the market
for a series of years past ; and he observed that the
largest number was 6,300 oxen on the occasion of the
great market at Christmas last. Had the new market
been in existence at that period, those 6,300 beasts
would have been, every one of them, tied by the rails,
and a large space of ground left still unoccupied.—
Hear.)
i It was not correct to aav that the contem-
plated improvements would not admit of accommoda-
tion for the increased supply which increased popula-
tion rendered necessary. The fact was, that the
supply of live cattle had not hitherto kept pace with
the advance of population, but the supply of dead
meat had.—(Hear, hear.) The corporation proposed
to leave the present market an open area ; but de-
stroying the habitations of thieves, prostitutes, and
other " innocent" persons in its neighbourhood, they
would erect upon what was now the sheep market a
range of model lodging-houses to accommodate a
thousand families. These would be built upon the
most approved plan, so that the thousand families
should no longer live in the midst of the abomina-
tions which now surrounded them, and should not
continue to be themselves a nuisance to the commu-
nity. Opposite to St. Bartholomew's Hospital they
also proposed to erect a set of baths and washhouses.
The market would be upon an inclined plane, for
which they had full scope, inasmuch as the Fleet
ditch lay forty feet below the level of Smithfield;
and, by constructing a reservoir and fountain,
they could at any time flush the entire market, cleanse
it of its filth, and at the same time supply the cattle
and sheep with water.—(Cheers.) To the objection
that the market at Smithfield was prejudicial to
health, he answered that it was contrary to the re-
corded opinion of the medical staff of St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital, to the sanitary condition of Christs's
Hospital, the Charter House, and the City gaol, and
to the evidence of the registrar of the district, the re-
ports of Committees of the House of Commons and
the Royal Commissioners. It had been stated in the
public press, as an objection to the scheme, that it
would 0)4 a half million of moiley, to he levied as a
toll upon the cattle coming to the market. It was
not so. A quarter of a million would be laid out in