The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

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(From the illornitig Herald.)
We have obscrv-d, in vaiions companie.,, and un
many occasions, of late, that the plan of the Corpo-
ration of London for estThlishing a itcw Smithfield-
market is iihnost entirely unknown. It will be our
duty, therefore, as far as we are able, to make it
known ; end though this cannot be done in a few
minutes, or by a few lines, we do not despair of
causing it to be thoroughly understood by a large pro-
portion of the higher and middle classes, in the course
of an article or two.

The plan of the Corporation, then, for effecting
which a Bill is now actually prepared and ready for
Parliament, must he thus described :-
1. It is not a Bill for perpetuating the present
Smithfield. market.
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It it not a Bill for abolishing, and removing to
a riistanco, the present Sinithfiehl-inurket. But
3. It is a Bill for establiihing a new Snatk field •
market.

And this is precisely what the necessities of the
case point out as the thing which ought to be done.
Nobody defends the market is it now stands. Nobody
that is rational (except the Times and Punch claim to
be so considered) would incur the desperate and
needless risk of carrying, or attempting to carry, the
market three or four miles away from London. What
remains, then, but to try to make the present market
what it ought to be, or rather, to construct a new
market near the present site, but freed from all the
evils of Smithfield as it now exists.

Adopting these common-sense views of the nutter,
and acting with its usual vigour, the Corporation has
prepared and lodged a Bill, the leading features of
which may he thus described

The new market, proposed to be established, is to
be placed between the present Smithfield-market and
the new street now making, called Victoria-street,
which is to lead from Holborn-bridge to Clerkenwell-
green. Of the present site, a small portion only, at
the top of West-street, will be included. The new
site will be obtained by taking down part of King-
street, part of West-street, and the courts and alleys
adjoining. It will be, of course, far larger than the
site of the present market. It will possess, like the
present market, the advantage of being out of the
way, and interfering in no degree with the great
thoroughfares, or the other business of the metro-
polis.
It will be gained by the removal of property and
premises of a bad and worthless kind—" knackers'
yards," and places of that description.
It will also possess the great advantage of being
placed on the side of a hill, so as to facilitate to the
utmost degree a thorough and rapid drainage.
Connected with this it should be stated that, ac-
cording to the new plan for the general drainage of
London, the main sewer for conveying all the soil of
the metropolis into the marshes of Essex will pass by
Holborn-bridge, within 100 yards of the proposed
new market, thus affording means for the effectual
drainage of the whole establishment, to the full extent
of the utmost wishes that could be formed.

That portion of the market which immediately ad-
joins Victoria-street will be allotted to the purposes
of a meat market ; thus superseding entirely the pre-
sent Newgate-market. In this manner the proximity
of the two markets—the importence of which is stated
by all the witnesses to be very great—will be pre-
served, while the live cattle, instead of proving any
annoyance to the passengers in Victoria-street, will
be kept entirely out of sight.
Still the proximity to Victoria-street itself will be
an important feature in the case. This street, when
completed, as it will now be by the Corporation, will
prove one of the most important thoroughfares in the
whole metropolis; presenting one wide open road
leading from Kent and Surrey, over Blackfriars-
bridge, crossing Fleet-street and Holborn, and then
proceeding straight up to the Great Northern Rail-
way, and opening into the New-road, within a
quarter of a mile of the terminus of the London
and North-Western Railway.
It will be evident, at a glance, to any one acquainted
with the metropolis, that it would he quite impossible
to select any other spot possessing similar advantages.
The southern droves entering London by Blackfriars-
bridge would reach the market in a little more than
a quarter of a mile • the northern would approach by
the northern part oiVictoria-street, through Clerken-
well, without touching either of the great east and
west thoroughfares, Fleet-street or Holborn. Add
to all this, that the Corporation would not dream of
opposing a new police regulation, limiting all cattle-
driving in the metropolis within certain hours, ending
at nine or ten o'clock in the morning, and we are at a
loss to know what further demand any honest oppo-
nent of the present Smithfield-market system can
have to make on the Corporation.
Such is the general outline of the scheme about to
he offered to Parliament. It embraces all the follow-
ing advantages :

1. A central situation : a point dwdt upon by all
the witnesses as of the very first importance.
2. The seclusion of the market from all the other
businesses of London.

3. The most complete and sufficient access from
all the great thoroughfares and approaches of the
metropolis.

4. The most complete and thorough system of
drainage, by which all the filth cf the market will
ba carried away, hour by hour, as fast as it is
created.

This plan, complete in all its parts, the Corporation
is prepared to carry at once into effect. What other
offer is before the public ? Let us not be told of
possible sites at Holloway, llornsey, or Highgate—
sites which will doubtless be sold by their present
owners, if a larger sum be offered than they can
realize elsewhere. The question will still remain—
who is to form the new market? The Corporation
has made the best offer in its power, and no other
proposal can it tender. Private speculators will surely
look at the fate of the new market at Islington, and
tremble. Practically, then, there seems t• be but
little choice, but either to maintain Smithfield-
market ill its present condition, or else to accept
the offer which the Corporation of London is now
making to the public—an offer which unquestion-
ably includes all that any reasonable man can ask or
desire.

FALLACIES OF THE GENTLEMEN.
(From Punch.)
(By a Lady who unfortunately knows them only too
well.)
That women are only born to be their slaves.
That dinner is to be ready for them the very mi-
nute they come into the house.
That a lady's bonnet can be put on as quickly as
a gentleman's hat.
That we can dress in a minute; and that ringing
the bell violently has the effect of making us dress
one bit the quicker.
That they can do everything so much better
than we can, from nursing the baby down to poking
the fire.

That they are " the Lords of the Creation "
(pretty lords, indeed !)
That nothing can be too good for them ; for I am
sure if you were to put a hot joint before them every
day that still they would be dissatisfied, and would be
grumbling that you never gave them cold meat.
That they know our age so much better than we
do ourselves. (It's so very likely !)
That they may invite whom and as many as they
please, but if we only invite our mamma to corn,'
and stop with us, or just ask a dear unmarried sister
or two to stop with us for a month, that there's to
be no peace for us, so long as they remain in the
houie.

That music can be lEarnt without practising, wild
that it is necessary for them to rush out and to ala na
the door violently the very moment we begin to opell
our voices, or to run over the last new Polka.
That sleeping after dinner promotes conversation.
That they know what dress and bonnet becomes us
so much better than we do.
That it is necessary to make a poor woman cry,
because a stupid shirt-button happens to be off. I
tin- buttons must believe that their wives cut
ttons purposely, from the savage
pleasure
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luosiwned t
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smallest fit of hysterics, without being told " not to
make a fool of ourselves."
T hat they
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That housekeeping 'does not require any money,
and if we venture to ask for any, that it is pleasant to
be met with all sorts of black looks and insinuations
as to " what we can do with it all ;" or very
agreeable to be told that we will be " the ruin of him
some day"—(l should like to see the day !)
That the house never requires cleaning, or the
tables rubbing, or the carpets beating,' or the furni-
ture renewing, or the sofas fresh covers, or, in factr
that anything has a right to wear out, or to be spoilt,
or broken ; and, in short, that everything ought to
last for ever !

That a poor lone woman is never to have any
pleasure, but always, always, to stop at home, and
" mind her children." (I'm tired of such nonsense.)
That the wish to go to the opera is to be the sure
prelude to a quarrel.
That their daughters can learn music, painting,
playing, dancing, and all the accomplishments, with-
out the aid of a single master.
That the expenses of one's household do not in..
crease with one's family, but, rather, that ten children
can be supported for the same cost as one.
That no husband is perfect, like Hercules, without
his club, and that the less a wife sees of her husband
the fonder she actually grows of him.
That it is a pleasure for us to sit up for them.
[Our fair correspondent says she thinks the above
fallacies are enough for the present, and we certainly
agree with her; but if the gentlemen show any more
of their airs, she declares that she wl3l give the m a
lot more.]

ST. GEORGE'S STEAM PACKET COMPANY;—On
Tuesday his Honour Master Farrer appointed Mr, SoUThY
official manager of this compau'd affairs.