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CATHOLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
8, NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON.
The FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie-
tors of this Company took place on the 25th instant, at the Head
Office, at One o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from the
report, which is too lengthy for publication :
During the past year no claims have arisen from deaths in England.
and but two in Ireland—one for 5001. and the other for 2001.—making
together 7001., which have been paid. This is far below the expected
mortality, and is especially favourable, when it is remembered how
severely the life offices generally suffered from the epidemic of last
year.
The number of lives assured between the let of June, 1249, and
the 31st of May, 1850, was more than double the number issues in
the twelve months preceding.
Proposals were made for 138 Policies, amounting to 52,9631.25. 6d.:
of these 123, comprising 106 lives, were accepted for 45,1251. 6s.
sixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,0481., upon which 3201. 3s.
was received by the Company in the shape of premiums.
Since the commencement of the Company to the Ist of June last,
assurances were effected to the extent of 110,9721. 125 6d., pro-
ducing in annual premiums 3,7321. Us. 6d. Of these 54 lapsed.
amounting to 23,9901. 16s. 6d., of which the annual premiums were
7411. is., leaving the yearly income on the Ist of June last equal to
2,9911. 15s. 11d.
Since last meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,7001.,
but 1,1831. 112. 10.1. only was advanced.
The Directors were also highly gratified to report that within the
last four months they had considerably extended their business on
the Continent, having appointed, as Head Agent in France, Monsieur
de l'Etang, a gentleman of high standing in Paris, distinguished for
his integrity and ability in financial and in all assurance matters,
who, under the sanction and patronage of the Archbishop of Paris,
the Cardinal Archbish p of Lyons, and Monseigneur Parisis, Eveque
de Langres, has already within the last three months effected a con-
siderable amount of business, not only in Life Assurances, but in An-
nuities both Immediate and Deferred.

After various resolutions, approving of the Report, and returning
thanks to the Right Reverend Chairman, Bishop Morris, the Vice-
Chairman, Actuary, Secretary, and Medical Officers of the establish-
ment, the meeting separated, highly gratified at its present results
and future prospects.

MUTUAL ASSURANCE WITHOUT ANY PERSONAL
LIABILITY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
Established in 1837.

NATIONAL MEttCANTILE (MUTUAL)
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
POULTRY, MANSION-HOUSE, LONDON.
DIRECTORS.
ROBERT WILCOXON, Esq., Chairman,
JAMES PEEK, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Edward Baker, Esq., (Gale, Baker, Warde, and Co.)
George Cursham, M.D., S.tville-row.
William Lawson, Esq., (Trower, Lawson, and Trower.)
William Nicholson, Esq., (I. and W. Nicholson and Co.)
Giles Redmayne Esq., New Bond-street.
W. S. Hodgkinson, Eso., (Hodgkinson and Burnside.)
ADVANTAGES.

The following advantages are offered by this Society :
PROFITS.—AnnuaI division of profits. The whole of the profits
belong io the Assured
ASSIGNMENT OF POLlClES.—Assignments recognised, and
cerNficates given free of expense, admitting the assignees as pro
prielNrs of the original Policies.
LOANS UPON POLICIES.—Money advanced upon the security
of Policies upon which five or more premiums have been paid.
CLAIM.; —All claims promptly paid. No claim has ever been
disputed by this Society.
Is 0 FlNES.—Pasties omitting to pay their premiums when due
are allowed, if in good health, to revive their Policies without the
payment of a fine.
MANAGEMENT.—The office is conducted with great economy,
and the ent re management Is subject to the control of the Policy-
holders in general meeting.

EXAMPLE OF LAST BONUS DECLARED.

Age on
Ye Age
effecting Sum Original
m ssur- Assured. Premium.
force. Aance.

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Reduction obtainable
In by redLc- tion
Premium. tion of per
Premium. cent.

£ £ s. d. s. d. £
7 60 l,OOO 62 15 0 24 15 5 248

SECURITY OF POLICY-HOLDERS.—The Policy-holders, in
addition to a large amount of realised property in reserve, have an
annual income equal in present value to nearly three-quarters of a
million

JENKIN JONES, F.1.A., Actuary and Secretary.

ONE PAYMENT FOR THE WHOLE OF LIFE.
THE RAILWAY ASSURANCE COMPANY,
for granting Assurances upon Payment of a Single Premium,
against Loss of Lffe or other Personal Injury arising from Railway
Accidents. Incorporated under the Act of Parliament, 7 and 8 Vic.,
cap. 110. Capital - One Hundred Thousand Pounds. Offices, No. 5,
St. James's•street, London.

TRUSTEES.
The Right Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam. I The Common Sergeant.
The Hon. Henry G. Spencer. Charles Hopkinson, Esq.
TheoN EdisrtiAncy3
distinctive feature
to cover an Assurance for the WHOLE OFture of this Company consists in the sufficiency
of
LIFE.
thßosye
n eTwhae loafs ptreismtihuemo.nly expense and trouble, there being no annual re-
grpearrisotninagirL,lLSllereallinevelosytoof
Railway Pas s Passengers e rcs 0
monly, 1 e ands
or
excluding all
Contractors
among whom the heavier risks occur, the Directors of this Com-
pany are enabled to issue Policies at a lower rate of premium than
is offered by any existing Company.
Upon proof being given that a party assured has met with his
death by 1
-way accident, the Company will pay to his representa-
tives the r -
full amount of his Policy.
If the accident shall result in personal injury only, the Company
will pay to the assured a fair compensation for such injury.
Assurers have the option of travelling in carriages of any class, and
on any railway in the United Kingdom.
The Directors are now granting assurances upon the following
terms, viz.:—

For every Policy of 100/. 01. ss. I For every Policy of 1,000/. 21. 2s.
~ 5001 11. as. „
„ 2,0001. 41. 4s.
Agents are appointed in all the pri'n'clpal towns of the United
Kingdom, through whom Assurances may be effected.
W. W. WILLIAMS, Secretary.

!stOrLeeltCirandCO2M4,PCAorna.ught-terrace.
T" LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
1 James Fuller Madox, Es
William Wilberforce, Esq.
TRUSTEES.
No. 72, Lombard
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P•
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C.
The POLICIES are INDIAPUTABLE, in terms of the Deed of
Settlement of the Company, duly registered, and are not, therefore,
dependent for their validity on the construction to be put upon pre-
♦ious statements or the official papers which preceded them, or upon
reports, prospectuses, or other varying documents. They are thus
rendered CERTAIN FAMILY PROVISIONS, AND NEGOTIABLE
DOCUMENTS OF SECURITY.
Owing to this important improvement in the practice of life
assurance, the progress of this company has been rapid from the
cQuunencement of Ito business, and is steadily advancing.
ALEXANDER RQBERT6QN, Manager,

FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND POUNDS.
All the most stupendous projects of this and any age owe their
birth and maintenance to capital. Where there is only limited
capital, man's best schemes are stultified, and cannot develop any
maturity of growth. A cessation of capital would result in a com-
mercial paralysis, and a disorganization of the social system would
necessarily follow, Capital is the creative power which sets in
motion the machinery of the mercantile world ; and when properly
employed and regulatcd, is productive of mighty results.
In no country is the power of capital more prominently brought
to view than Britain, where its wonderful effects are everywhere ap-
parent.
The innumerable intersections of railways, the launching of enor-
mous vessels, the erection of vast factories and other giant projects,
may be cited as triumphant instances of the power of British capital.
Perhaps, there was never an age in whicu the agency of capital
was so abundantly employed as the present ; and, without query,
there certainly never existed such vast proofs of its workings.
The last quarter of a century (which has, happily been a period of
comparative peace to England) has witnessed an investiture of
capital in trade never before known ; and the result is gloriously
manifest.

It is the pride of Hyam and Co. to know that they Itave applied
their capital to so essential a purpose ; and it is their satlsfactton
further to know that capital thus employed has been productive of
such astonishing results.
The amount quoted at the heading of this advertisement is an ac-
curate quotation of the sum total which Hyam and Co. annually em-
ploy in carrying on their various and vast Establishments in the
principal towns of the three kingdoms. The proprietors do not pub-
lish this with a view of astounding, or falsely captivating ; but they
make it known as a trading statistic—a fact not to he controverted.
_ _

The employment of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds as ca-
pital must, of necessity, operate in favour of the public. Such an
euormous capital brings the markets within the command of the pro-
prietors.
The largest capitalists and the largest buyers in the world are
Hyam and Co., and when the reader takes into consideration the va-
rious channels through which this immense amount is circulated,
he will not for a moment question the statement. The capital of
Hyam and Co. has planted vast Tailoring Emporiums in all the first
towns of the kingdom (as seen in the subjoined list), and has given
employment for 25 years to thousands of artizans. . .

It need scarcely be stated that this capital is expended, not only
In buying favourably the best specimens of materials, but in securing
the best artistes and work for the purposes of manufacture. This is
evident in the present spring stock, and let it be understood that
quality and cl.eapness are " inoculated" at the various Establish-
ments of Hyam and Co., the current capital of which amounts annu-
ally to 550,0001.

_ .
HYAM and CO., Tailors, Clothiers, and Manufacturers.
West-end Establishment ........86, Oxford-street.
City Establishment ... ..... ....36, Gracechurch-street.
Provincial Establishments of Hyam. and Co.
Manchester-63, King-street. Hull-17, Market-place.
Manchester —26, Market-street, Bristol-42, Wine-street.
Liverpool-63 & 65, Lord-street. Glasgow-48, Argyll-street.
Birmingham-23, New-street. Dublin-30, Dame-street.
Leeds-42, Briggate.

DEL CULVERWELL'S NEW WOtUiS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho;
4i, fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or direct from the author,
,rice One shilling each ; by post, is. 6d.

ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time."
COMMITS :—Early Rising—Spring and Bummer Merninge—Ex-
.ursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills,
•rorests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
rrlps and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evening., at Home
-lilusio—TheDrama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping,Bathing, Air►
test, Ease, Occupation, &c., &o._

n.
FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAIN. Two Vo!IL
Vol I.
t VISIT TO THE LAKES; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, 60.

Vol. 11.

ffIE LAKES 0i KILLA'RNEY ; REMINISCENCES 01'
DUBLIN, &c.
111.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
"That three score years and ten oar course may run."
A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
ionsly-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
he yonng, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em-
)itters old age, with tables and rules for the diet and physical rega-
ation of every-day life.

THE PASSIONS.
" What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
gIIBTECT : -Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent
aftho passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties o.
mentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
cd remediative. Advocacy of early marriages.

THE MARRIAGE STATE.
" To be or not to be, that is the question."
UMIAK= I—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re-
leen regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion,
Oases, &e.
By R. J. CIILVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
1g24). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
xv., to*. Roiortior hours ?ally till flva ihroningi. woven till Mlle
10 trull-place. Regent-street.

IN SIX LANGUAGES-FORTIETH EDITION.
'ONTALNING THE REMEDY FOR THE PREVENTION OF

DISEASE.

Itluatrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravingi on

titeel.

0:1 PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA-
PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
A. New and Improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, price 2s. 6d.
by post, direct from the Establishment. 3s. 6d. in postage stamps,
All Communications being strictly con'idential, the Authors have
discontinued the publishing of Cases.
THE'SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by
ex,:essive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of
mercury, with explicit directions for the use of the preventive lotion,
followed by observations en the Married State, and the disqualiflca-
Cons which prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By
R. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Lon-
don. Published by the Authors ; and sold by Strange, 21, Pater-
noster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; and Gor-
don, 146, Leadenhall-street, London.

PART 1. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings.
PART I[. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in-
dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing
mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings.
Pawl' 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engi Ew-
ing&
PART Ilr. contains a Remedy far the Prevention of Disease by a
simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated.
This important part of the Work should not escape the reader's
notice.
PART V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its du-
ties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the
whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
Tau CORDIAL BALM OF STRIACUM is exclusively employed in
treating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., Ils. and 335.
par bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic
remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary
age,be
had habits,at
the and
jcp:ts posi-
tion. symptoms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 1 ls. and 335. per
bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 45. 6d., and 1 ls.
per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and
chronic Inflammation of the bladder.. Consultation fee, if by letter,
lqtair.,edist°:saved. Messrs. Perry,
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Eleven to One
don, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight; en Sunday, from

EXCURSION TRAINS.—Most of the companies are
this season taking time by the forelock, in reference to run-
ning excursion trains. They are, in some instances, to com-
mence the campaign on Good Friday, and in others on
Easter Monday. We understand that all the Leviathan
companies leading out of London mean to push the excursion
principle te 411 @goat nem drool* ef Wu.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the purpose of receiv-
ing a report of the Markets Improvement Committee
with the draught of a petition to the House of Commons
against the Smithfield Market Removal Bill. A great
deal of excitement prevailed during the day.
The Tows CLERK stated, that a copy of resolutions
of thanks had been received from the Fishermen's
Widows' Relief Fund for the donation of 50 guineas
presented by the corporation.
SMITRFIELD MARKET REMOVAL RILL.
_ _ _

Mr. 11. L. TAYLOR brought up the report of the Mar-
kets Improv;Jznent Committee, which WAS in substance
as follows:

" That since our report agreed to by this Court on the
13th of last month, we have taken measures to inform

the public and Members of the House of Commons of

the advantages of the plan agreed to by this Court for
improving and enlarging Smithfield Market, and that it
would obviate any objection which could be made to the
present market; that the Metropolitan Cattle Market
Bill, the Smithfield Enlargement Bill, and the Smithfield
Market Removal Bill, came on for second reading in the
House of Commons on Wednesday, the 9th inst.; that
the Metropolitan Cattle Market Bill was negatived with-
out a division, the Smithfield Enlargement Bill, although
supported by numerous petitions and by several influen-
tial Members of Parliament, including 10 of the Metro-
politan Members, was lost on the motion for the second
reading, and the second reading of the Smithfield Mar-
ket Removal Bill was carried; that the Smithfield
Market Removal Bill was referred to a Committee of
Members to be nominated by the Committee of Selection.
" That your committee, being of opinion that the
Smithfield Market Removal Bill should be opposed in
every stage, have directed the Remembrancer to prepare
a draught of a petition to the House of Commons, to be
heard before the Committee to whom that Bill is referred;
and having approved the form theree we submit the same
to this Hon. Court."

The following is a copy of the petition, which was
greatly cheered by the supporters of the corporation
Bill:

.6 That a Bill is before your Hon. House, under the title
of A Bill for Providing a Metropolitan Market and con'
veniences connected therewith in lieu of the Cattle Market
at Smithfield.' That the mayor and commonalty and
citizens of the city of London, from time whereof the
memory of man runneth not to the contrary, have been
and now are seised in fee of the ancient market for the
sale of live cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, hay, straw, and
other commodities in Smithfield, and have from time to
time received and do now receive the ancient and
accustomed toils, dues, and profits from such sale.
" That a charter granted by his late majesty King
Edward 111., bearing date the 6th day of March in the
first year of his reign, and made and passed with the
concurrence of Parliament, did grant and confirm unto
the citizens of the city of London, that no market from
thenceforth should be granted by his said Majesty or his
heirs within seven miles' circuit of the said city.
" That the said charter has been confirmed by divers
other charters and by Acts of Parliament, and espe-
cially by the Act sth and 6th of William IV., chap. 3,
commonly called the Islington Market Act, which, after
reciting the aforesaid charters and particulars, declares
that it is expedient that the rights of the mayor and
commonalty and citizens, and the tolls, dues, and profits
received and taken by them in respect of their said
market, should not be infringed or impaired,' and which
accordingly charged all tolls, rents, dues, and profits
arising from any market at Islington with payment of
an annual sum or compensation to the mayor and com-
monalty and citizens of London as a compensation for
loss and injury to be sustained by them by the diminu-
tion of the tolls and dues of Smithfield.

' That the rights of your petitioners in respect to the
said market have been further and remarkably confirmed
by an opinion of the judges, pronotkuced upon questions
submitted to them by the House of Lords in 1835, during
the progress of a Bill for establishing the said cattle
market at Islington, which declared unanimously that
the 'King would have no right to grant a market to be
held within seven miles under any circumstances what-
ever, but an application must be made to Parliament to
repeal that Act which has embraced and confirmed the
charter;' and further, that 'in whatever form any pro-
ceedings are taken for a new market, they were of opi-
nion that the new market can only be legally granted to
such an extent as to provide for what may he called the
surplus accommodation of the public beyond what the
market of Smithfield can afford, and that the market of
Smithfield is not to be affected by the new market.'
" That your petitioners have expended from time to
time large sums of money in enlarging and improving
Smithfield Market. and aro in the annual net receipt of
upwards of 5,0001., arising from the tolls of the said
market. _

‘• That the said Bill proposes to abolish the said
cient market of Smithfield, in direct violation of t
chartered rights of your petitioners, so recently and dis-
tinctly affirmed by the opinion of the judges; that never-
theless the said Bill contains no clause or provision what-
soever for securing any compensation to your petitioners
for the serious loss which would be thereby inflicted on
them.

" That the preamble of the said 'Bill sets forth ' that
for preventing the evils attendant on the holding of the
market now holden at Smithfield, it is desirable that in
lieu thereof a more spacious cattle market, with a meat
market and premises connected therewith, should be pro-
vided in a suitable place more distant from the centre of
the metropolis,' which allegation is wholly denied by your
petitioners and is incapable of proof.
" That your petitioners are prepared to prove that
Smithfield, from its central position, is best adapted for
the purposes of a cattle market for the metropolis.
" That the said Bill proposes to establish a body
politic and corporate by the name of the Metropolitan
Cattle Market Commissioners,' who are by that name to
have permanent succession and a common seal, and who,
while they are wholly irresponsible to• Parliament or to
the country, are' to be invested with the extraordinary
and arbitrary powers, including the power of imposing
tolls and fines upon the subject, of making rules and re,
gulations, having the effect and force of law, and of
levying a distress, without resort to any of the ordinary
tribunals of adjudication, upon any individual who may
incur debts to them for tolls.
" That although it is provided by the said Bill that the
heavy expense of the proposed Commission, and the
salaries and wages of all the officers to be appointed
under the Act, and all other expenses of the Commis-
sioners whatsoever, are to be charged upon and paid out
of the tolls, rents, and payments of the market, yet the
said Bill contains no table of the tolls intended to be taken
in the market to be established under the authority of
the said Bill.

" That the Commissioners are to be enabled to borrow
and take up at interest any sum of money not exceeding
200,000/., and to mortgage and assign over all or any of
the tolls, rents, and payments of the market which may
be hereafter authorised to be received. And further,
that they are enabled to borrow such moneys from the
Commissioners of Public Works, acting under the Act
sth and 6th Victoria, chap. 9, so that should the Metro-
politan Cattle Market Commissioners be enabled to re-
deem the said sums by means of the said tolls, the en-
tire charge of the money raised for this local object
would fall as a permanent burden on tha Consolidation
Fund.

" That it is further proposed by the 10th clause of this
Bill, that after the opening of the new cattle market, no
other market for the sale of cattle or horses shall be
opened within five miles of a straight line from St.
Paul's cathedral, thus securing to the said Commissioners
a market monopoly without any reference to reasonable
considerations of public convenience, and without im-
posing any condition or restriction whatever as to the
place at which the market shall be held or the accom-
modation which it shall afford.
" That the removal of Smithfield market, as proposed
by this Bill, would be a mere experiment already un-
successful in other instances, and be ruinous to a large.
number of traders and other citizens of London who
have iuveatutl their capital in the locality, and for whose
inevitable losses this Bill dues not propose to provide
any compensation.
" That the removal of the market would seriously
interfere with the regular supply of meat to the inhabi-
tants of the metropolis; that many butchers and dealers
in meat would be unable to resort to a market situate in
any suburb and distant from their dwellings; and that
the consequence would be the creation and encourage-
ment of a class of middle men, who would raise the price
of meat by purchasing cattle, not for the supply of the
public requirements, but to resell at a prat at other and
more convenient places of sale.

" That the esttiblishment of a great cattle market in
any suburb of Loudon is already fully deprecated by the
owners of property and residents in those vicinities in
which it has been anticipated the intended market might
be located. That great inconvenience would be occa-
sioned by the traversing of cattle through the streets to
and from such suburb—a necessary evil which would be
greatly aggravated if the market were placed at any
distance from the centre.

That, although the said Bill has been declared by
the Committee of Standing Orders of your Honourable
House to be a private Bill, it is, in fact, promoted only
by the officers of the Crown as a public measure with all
the influence of the Government and at the expense of
the public.
tt That it is against the principles of the Constitution
and the practice of your Hon. House that such a Bill
should be so promoted, especially when it is directed to
the abolition of rights held under charters of the Crown,
affirmed by the judges of the land, and confirmed by
Parliament. That the said Bill is submitted to your Hon.
House under circumstances which peculiarly require the
careful attention of Parliament, inasmuch as it is founded
upon the report of a commission appointed by the sole
authority of the Crown, and it is contrary to the first
principles of the Constitution, that any authority direct,
or indirect, should be attributed to such a commission to
affect rights of private property and privileges long es-
tablished and recognised by law.
Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your Hon.
House that the said Bill may not pass into a law, and
that they may be hoard by themselves, their counsel,
agents, and witnesses before the Committee on the said
Bill against the preamble of the said Bill, and such of
the clauses of the said Bill, as affect the rights, interests,
and privileges of your petitioners, and that proper
clauses for the purposes aforesaid may be inserted in the
said Bill, and that such other relief may be given to
your petitioners in the premises as your Lion. House may
deem meet."

. ,
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR (Chairman of the Markets Improve-
ment Committee) said, that he felt that in bringing up the
report a most important task devolved upon him. This
was a matter affecting the interests of the citizens of
London, and they, as members of the Corporation,
could not do less than feel that in opposing the removal
of the market they had resting upon them great re-
sponsibility. He ( elr. Taylor) believed that the reten-
tion of the market would be of the utmost advantage to
the whole of the community. The question for them
to consider was, whether it was right for them to de-
prive the citizens of London of one of its chief and best
privileges, that which had been granted to them by
charter and secured by subsequent ratification. It was
their duty, as the representatives of the citizens, to take
care that their ancient rights were not taken from them,
and also to take care that the Government should not do
so. He admitted that at the division upon their Smith.
field Enlargement Bill there was a large majority
against the measure, but that fact ought not to deter
them from adopting the propositions contained in the
report which had just been brought up.—( Hear, hear.)
0 ie of the chief arguments respecting the holding of a
live cattle market in the City had been, that the driving
of the cattle through the streets in the daytime was a
great nuisance; and so it was. No one would deny that;
but was it not also the fact, that the Corporation had
been blamed for this, when in truth they could not help
it, as they were denied the opportunity of amending
the practice because the Act of Parliament under which
they acted restricted them? Many parties, he regretted,
in order to bring the Corporation into disrepute, had per-
verted the facts of the case, when better things might
have been expected from them. So it was with all the
objections which had been raised, and by which Smith-
field had been made notorious. He was not prepared,
he admitted, for so large a majority as appeared against
the Enlargement Bill of the Corporation, but since
he had understood more of the matter he no longer
wondered.—(Hear, hear.) The minority in favour of
the corporate measure it must be remembered, however,
was composed of men connected with the most influen-
tial families in the land—men who were well able to
judge of the value of vested rights and privileges.—
(Hear, hear.) He could not let that opportunity pass,
however, without alluding to the debt of gratitude they
owed to Sir J. Duke for his zeal and industry in for-
warding the interests of the citizens, and especially of
those who had so numerously signed the " declaration."
There were other members of whom he (Mr. Taylor)
wished to take especial notice. Mr. Stafford had nobly
supported their Bill, and so had Mr. Ker Seymer, Sir H.
Willoughby, and Alderman Sidney. One of the remarks
of an Hon. Member of the House of Commons (Sir H.
Willoughby) had been made in the hearing of himself
(Mr. Taylor), a remark which fully expressed a great
fact. That lion. Gentleman said that to take away the
market as proposed was neither more nor less than a
robbery.—(Hear, hear.) The scheme proposed by the
Government he (Mr. Taylor) could not designate by
any other name than a gross job—(Hear, hear)—a gross
job proposed to be perpetuated by the present Ministry.
—(Hear, and " No.") Why, in the first place, there
was to be a paid commission.—(Hear, hear.) Ay, and
there was no doubt in his mind that some parties who
were not far from him at that moment were looking out
for such appointments. If such parties, while members
of that Court did so, be thought their acts reflected
eternal disgrace upon such men.—(Clamour, and cries of
" Order.")
The Lora) MAYOR, having ruled that Mr. Taylor was
in order, though Mr. Anderton alluded to the name of a
gentleman present,
Mr. TAYLOR continued—There were some parties in
the Court who appeared to think they had been referred
to. Surely, the parties who were so uneasy felt that the
cap fitted them.—(Laughter.)
Mr. NORRIS said, that his name had been mentioned.
Mr. TAYLOR replied, that he had not named Mr. Nor-
ris, though he would then inform the Court that he (Mr.
Taylor) bad read a document signed by the name of
that gentleman and also by Mr. Bennoch and Mr.
White, two other members of the Court, which he (Mr.
Taylor) regarded as being a most injudicious document.
No doubt every member of that Court had an undoubted
right to:entertain whatever opinion he chose upon any
question. This was a privilege he claimed for himself,
and which he was willing to accede to other parties; but
it was not right that the small minority should state in
effect in a circular that the majority of that Court were
scarcely to be considered, and thus attempt by their
puny influence to mislead the public. The conse-
quence of these misrepresentations had subsequently
led to an interview with Sir G. Grey, when certain mis-
representations were made which he (Kr. Taylor) begged
to refer to. Mr. Norris had stated that all the great mer-
chants, bankers, and tradesmen were opposed W Smith-
fi d-neyrket and in favour of the Government plan; that
..s.a thenstrousemtrath.—(Hear, and order, and much
sequent confusion.) The question was an extraor-
, and he (Mr. Taylor) felt strongly upon it.—
( . ow, he knew that a large number of the
principal men in the city were opposed to the removal of
Smithfield—Mr. Raikes Currie was with them, and he
(Mr. Taylor) could name hundreds more. This he said
with perfect truth, while be defied contradiction at the
same time.—(Cheers.) It had been said that the oppo-
sition to the Government Bill came from the Corporation
and this had been said derisively. Now, from whom, he
would like to know, should it come or would it come,
better than from the men who by virtue of their office
were the trustees of the public? Was it not right
that they should thus stand by and assert the rights of
their fellow-citizens? He felt it right for them to fight
for such privileges to the very utmost of their power—
ay, and with a firm determination to win.—(Cheers and
laughter.) He (Mr. Taylor) observed that laugh, but he
would prophesy to the parties who thus derisively
cheered that very shortly the laughter would be on the
other side, and that they should have no paid commis-
sioners.—(Hear.) Mr. Taylor having commented upon
some of the articles in the morning journals adverse to
the corporate scheme, and predicted that if the applica-
tion of the Court failed in the House of Commons the
Lords would throw out the Government Bill through
their attachment to " vested rights," proceeded still fur-
ther to condemn the measure for tho removal of the
market, on the ground of its site being unknown, and the
difficulties which would be experienced in carrying out
the measure if it were agreed to by the Legislature. He
concluded a long speech by moving the adoption of the
report and the petition thereto annexed.—(Cheers.)
Mr. ANDEILTON seconded the motion. He contended
that the course proposed by the Government could not
be sustained, as it was contrary to the Act of Magna
Charts, upon which all their liberties and customs were
based. The Corporation had been denominated " stub-
born," and so they ought to be when their privileges
and immunities were infringed upon; and he hoped
they always would be so.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped the
blood and sinews, spirit, and " stubborn" strength of
the Corporation and the citizens, would be found to be
the same in 1851 as it was in the reign of Edward I.
Talk about removing the market! Why, who was to
compensate the parties who would be injured?—(Hear,
hear.) Then they had been blamed for not proposing
other sites. Had they not made attempts, years ago,
to get to Spa-fields and to King's-cross? What pre-
vented them? The strong opposition they met with
from all parties.—(Hear, hear.) It was said that the
market was a nuisance. The "smoke nuisance" was
much greater; and if Mr. Mackinnon had only confined
himself to the removal of that he would have done far
greater service to the City than meddling with the pre-
sent question. The fact was this opposition to Smith-
field was one of the humbugs of the day, which was got
up for interested purposes.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. NORRIS observed, that in discussing this matter he
did not wish to enter into any personal controversy, but
he would state honestly and fearlessly what lie meant.
He thought Mr. Taylor had lavished some most unwel-
come and fulsome praise upon some parties who had
supported the views of those who wished to retain the
market, while he had abused other parties. He (Mr.
Norris) must express his conviction that he believed a
suburban market would be best both for vendor and
purchaser, and also for the public at large.—(Hear,
hear, and No.) He did not think that the course which
had been pursued by his opponents was either wise, pru-
dent, or honourable. Dictation had been attempted by
the mover of the report, but that dictation would not in.
finance him (Mr. Norris). As to what he had said be-
fore Lord Grey, that he was not ashamed nor afraid
of. It was said it was not true. Ho would tell the
Court what he did say, and the members might decide
if he was not right.—(Hear, hear.) He had told Lord
Grey that he believed he might fearlessly say that the
wealthy bankers, merchants, and traders were to a very
large majority of the same opinion as the de-
putation were—namely, in favour of the removal of the
market to some suburban part.—(Hear, bear, and
Oh, oh.) He believed that he was justified in saying
so.—(Hear, hear.) The chairman of the Market
..s
Im-
provement Committee, in struggling to make oat his
case had named the name of one banker—no doubt a
most respectable man—namely, Mr. Raikes Currie, but
he (Mr. Taylor) got no further.—(Laughter.) Now he
(Mr. Norris) had been requested by a large number of
bankers to say that they were in favour of the removal.
He would mention the names of some
Co.,omeof ,
Rogers,
G them:—Jones
rote
Loyd and Co., Smith, Payne, and
Olding, Atwood, and a long list besides, ending with Mr.
Samuel Gurney.—Gurney.—(Loud uproar.) He (Mr. Norris)
would take no notice of that interruption; the truth was
not always palatable.
He had, however, other names of
merchants. There were Palmer,
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i othersl
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Co., Crawford and Colvin, and m
name. Mr. Norris proceeded to point
connected with the various arguments in favour of the
retention of the market. He then contended that the pre-
sent market was lamentably insufficient in space, and he
argued that the large majority in favour of the Govern-
ment scheme on a Wednesday sitting was conclusive as
to the fate of the market. They might struggle on as
they liked ; fight they might as they pleased ; they
might employ corrupt agents, but if they continued to
do so they would lose their present opportunity, and all
their efforts would end in dishonour, disgrace, and de-
feat.—(Cheers, and much confusion.) As to their
charter, upon which some stress had been laid, why, the
fitty they held were only theirs so long as they per-
formed due "suit and service" to the public.—(Hear,
hear.) If they did not perform their public duty pro-
perly, as they were now called upon to do, they would
become as "sounding brass and tinkling cymbals." In
the words of Holy Writ " Ichabod" would be written
1 upon them, and the people would see that " the glory

was departed" from them, and they would become a
byword in the mouths of the populace.—(Hear, hear,
and much confusion.) After many further remarks
Mr. Norris concluded by moving an amendment to the
effect that the Markets Improvement Committee be in-
structed to watch the new Markets Bill, and to use their
best endeavours to secure equitable compensation to all
parties who may be injured by its establishment.
Mr. W. A. ROSE seconded the amendment.
Sir J. DEICE supported the motion of Mr. Taylor,
claiming for the public residing in the neighbourhood of
Smithfield ample compensation in the event of the market
being removed. In conclusion, Sir James called upon
all parties manfully tr) resist the Government proposal,
promising to do all in his power to at•sM them in their
efforts to maintain their rights and privileges.
Mr. Deputy Harrison, Mr. Dakin, Mr. De Jersey, and
other gentlemen, warmly supported the motion, Mr.
Bennoch, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Clark, Mr. Brook, and others
opposing it, amid a scene of confusion seldom witnessed
when point o
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within the wails of the Council Chamber. At length,
after the Lord Mayor bad been repeatedly called upon
Mr. TAYLOR replied very briefly, seeing the lateness
numbers were as follow:-- called for, and the
For the motion
For the amendment.......... 8
•• ••• •••
Majority in favour of petitioning• azainst the Bill —6B
The Court shortly afterwards adjourned.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
TATTERSALL'S---MONDAY.
It will be seen, on reference to our quotations, that
Grecian, who for some time has held a questionable posi-
tion in the betting, has been sent to the right about. That
he is lame, if he has not altogether broken down, does
not admit of a doubt, in proof whereof 50 to 1 was
offered against him either for the 2,000 Guineas Stakes
or the Derby. The sensation created by his " decline
and fall" almost paralysed business yesterday; we have,
therefore, but a short list to present, and, in the shape of
preface, have only to remark that the Mountain Sylph
colt and Exeter became the lions of the 2,000 Guineas
Stakes, and that Theseus was in considerable force for
the Derby; Newminster was not at all in favour. Latest
prices:—