The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-04 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET REMOVAL

• BILL.
Tho Com./:dace met yksttrday morning at the umi
bon*.

Th.case 'or the Ci'y in oprsitien to
..the reword-of ri,...v.3co.ititated, and, with - the
view o be: .er expluining sin) ireprovern4nts fropoied to
marl., in. too • Ina[het, x motiet on a lirge scale
was ,201ibite,i to th;Committee. The market, when'
als.ered, would contain 0,057 •bullocks and 40,000 sheep,
with maple space fgr each-Animal.- Tho dead,7ment star-
ket, frentrthe enclosures,. and several bumf-,
tainsi anti lekaretin wee to supply the area. with Vigor.
A eisenlar blinding wlis to be constructed ai a bath and
vr,:shtiouse, nod the market itself would be encircled
will' a iFrrac-, built on arches, with•a•central Inclinrd
planp loading down to the C3ille pens. Near the dead-.
meat masker we're to be übattoirs,-und- at either COrneeof
too market w. re designed calf and pig markets.
M. J. D.,acon, a butcher iding-nt Camberwell, I
state° that he purehasednael-4t-edetir about 3,0c:0 sheep
and 2110 beasts ‘very year: He did not find that; he sus-
tained lay lass freed injury to the animals in Smithfield,
and he Conceived ilia: in general they wero not damaged:
in the market. . It the beass were killed at the northern
eitronity in the t-wn and ti en et:rted home, 'the meat
would be d;sfigured, and would not keep so long. A
leas would be sustai...:ed by the butcher from the more
rapid decay of= his meat eonseerivnt upon its removal'
tram the slaughter-I-waie before it was cooled and set.
The establishment of a market in the north would beef
considerable injury to bir,cers in a small way uf hod-
the accommodation in Smithfield were increased
he should be, very glad of it; but he did *not think
that any better ti:e for a cattle-market could be
selected.

Mr. Lawrenv, q surgeon, >t£l3 thFn examiued as to the
off= nsira n-ture of tEe- -bone-boiling placer, slaughter-
h,uses, and knackers' yards [war Sinithfield.—Tbese oc-
cupations must to a certain extentioiluenca the health of
a loco.iity.

--Mr. Henry Tang, a butcher of - Brighton, in a large
way of buiiinees, also deposed that the beasts oustaintd
much greater injury from travelling by raiiway than
from driving. The quality of the London melt was
very good, it looked brighter than country meat. Did
tn.t believe that a better site could.be sound for a cattle
market than at Smithfield.

Mr. Cooper, a butcher of Great Portman-street, and
Mr. Thorns.: S'lntnonds, butcher of Brompton, both
stated that the present central site of the market was
more convenient to the trace than any site at the
northern end of the to Nn. Beasts were more damaged
by railway travelling than by driving.
Mr: S. Phipps, a butcher in Belgrave-street, near
Belgrave-square, stated that he was in a large way of
business, and purchased his beasts at Smithfield. His
slaughter-house was in Totbill-street, Westminster.
Lie should greatly prefer Smithfield to any market at
the northern extremity of the town. He did not find
that the cattle received any damage of a material nature
in Smithfield. Ho had received beasts by railway, and
had found that they sustained considerable damage: The
proposed northern market would injure the smaller class
of butchers.

Mr. Adams corroborated this testimony.
Mr. Wakefiad, of Maidstone, stated that he always
made his beasts walk to market, as they were very much
-damaged by railway travelling. Any removal of the
market to the north of the metropolis would increase
the price of meat, and interfere with the trade ge-
nerally.
Mr. Bassett, of Woolwich, stated he killed 25 beasts,
and 100 sheep a week. He preferred driving his 'beasts
to sending them by railway. The removal of the market
from its present site to the north of London would
make a difference of 1501. yearly in his expenses. Wit-
ness at present paid ts; per head to the..drovers for
driving his cattle from Smithfield to Woolwich; bat if
the market were removed to the north they would
charge au extra 63.—not so much because of the differ-
ence in the distance, as from the necesifty of driving the
cattle quite through the City, and the increased re-
sponsibility consequent upon it.
Sir C. Keighttey stated that he had been in the
habit for many years of sending beasts for sale in
Smithfield. Atzhough he resided in Northamptonshire,
and cut:l44lm ntly his cattle arrived at the northern end
of the metropolis, be_did not think that a market there
would be beneficial. , .He preferred SmithfitAd from its
central position, and should of course send 'there, as the
greatest numb. r- of buyers were found there. Almost
the whole of his prop,,rty was derived trc.m grazing, and
some of his tenants were very large graziers. He never
heard any of them express a wisti to* hive Smithfield
market removed. _

Mr. Banning stated that he was architect to the cOr-
porttlion of London, who were in the habit of consulting
him on all their improvements and general,works.
Mr. Sergeant WRANORAN stopped the witness, and
asked him whether any plan to which he was about to
speak would require an Act of Parliament to carry it
into effect?

The witness said that the plan he proposOd would cer-
tainly rtquire au Act.

M. Sergeant WRANGIIIAK objected to the testimony
of the witness. It' scteenses, which of themselves re-
quired separate Acts, were to be made the subject of in-
quiry before a Committee) engaged in a totally different
investigation, there was no saying where:the evidence
would end.

Mr. TALLUoT said, that no one knew better than Ser-
geant Wranghatu that such en objection was at variance
with the general practice before theConitnittees of the
House ot Commons. The city of London appeared
before the Committee as landowners, holding property
upon which it had pleased former Sovereigns. to confer
certain privileges. It was proposed by this measure to
shut up their property, to suspend their privileges,- and
certainly to entail serious loss upon them-by the viola-
tion of their ancient rights and cherters.. The ground
on which this was sought to
,he done was the ihconve-
nience and risk attendant upon the existenoe of a large
cattle market in the centre of a crowded city, and when
he attempted to show that the evils eomplained of
would be remedied by the'plan proposed-by the corpo-
ration, and the necessity for theabolition ot the market
removed, he was met by it technical objettion, by which
his right of evidence was denied. Heeeentended that
the scheme proposed by the corporation was far better.
than the violent and cruse measure .'proposed by his
Learned Friend, and he thought that their scheme,
therefore, had a perfect right to be entertained by the
committee. The practice to be observed in this particu-
lar case ought to be the same as that pursued in any other
Committee on a private Bill; and it could not be con-
tended that in another Committee on a railway Bill such
an objection would be tenable.
Mr. Sergeant WRANGRAM stated, thatrthe argument
of Mr. Talbot, that the City corporation were land.
owners, was one to which he did not subseribe. Rwould
be seen, when the charters were referred to; whether the
corporation of the city of London everortho owners of
the land in Smithfield. He (Mr. Sergeant,Wranghatn)
believed that the corporation appeared the owners of
ProP--"etorteol: certain tolls.
a certain tranchise—as the
At ail event:, he w. uld leave that part Of ,the case, and
urge upon the Committee the fact thatthe proposition
which was itlustrated by
the mole' osiers Ahem', had
been made to the House ot Commons V, ' asseasion,- and
rejected by sa very large majority. His -Learned Friend
would surely not contend that it was thevractioe of Corn.
mimes to allow an opposing scheme toluny project to be
brought before them after it had bete:rejected by the
House of Commons.
Mr. TALBOT bad only attempted to Uphold a proposi-
tion which bore upon the question before the Committee.
viz., the propriety or necessity of rerntfeink the market
from its present site. If he could shops; tnerally that
such a plan could be adopted us would ,remove the evils
complained of wi:hcu taking away the iharket he appre-
hended that a reference to that plan w9llid'not be objec-
ti.inable. s .
Mr. Sergeant Pir
teasel:tax did not oil
Pt to the plan
being referred to generally, but his LdeltAoo, Friend bad
eta right to go into details on a echeraealready decided
by tee House.
The room was then cleared. ShortlYaktr the exclu-
sion of strangers, the noois were re7opeced and the
Committee was declared adjourned.
.„
It was understood that this •adjournment without
coming to a decision on the point arose fgom the fact
that the Chairman had retired to consult 1114 Speaker,
but found that there was "no House :'rhe point was,
therefore reserved. A question arose as to the power
,
of the Committee to adjourn, under the circumstances,
but the Chairman declared that, in his opinion, the ad-
journment was perfectly in accor dance With the rules of
the House.

THE BALLOON ASCENT FROM
BATTY'S HIPPODROME,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE sux
Sul,--Vi ill you aliow use to wake a few remarks re-
si..eeting my ascent on the 2 inst., from Mr. Batty's
Hippodrome. The day was exceedingl, ane and cairn—
indeed, the weather was so still that we were almost
stationary for nearly one hour. I was accompanied by
two gentlemen and Mr. Grey, architect And !.: surveyor,
of Cainden Town, and Mr. Wittaker, tli,j,,
architect and
Af .
builder of Mr. Batty's Hippodrome.
er
17. remaining
up one hour and three •quarters we safelyflescended close
to the New•closs Railway station, and Werte,most kindly
assisted by Mr. Hawkins and other p4riies connected
with the station. My supply of
gas ivSl (* , client from
the London Company.-1
. rim, Sir, yourN 4.,
JOHN BAmPTO4, Aeronaut.

UNIVERSITYINTELLIOENcE
OXFORD,- JUNE st,Convocation'holden this day
the Rev George Sparkes, late curate of Liansantfraid,
in Monmouthshire, was elected to that tentfice, the pa-
tronage of which tor this turn is vested' Pin this Uni-
versity.
M. Le)n Foucault's experiment of the 4otatory mo-
flat of the earth by means of the pendulum is now in
course of trial in the Ridctitfe Library, Utidtr the dirt c•
lion of eniinent scientific men.

se.fiEW STEAM-
AERIVAL'OV THE UNITED STATES
SHIP 1 FAYEITE.,—,.I,IVEEPOOL, MONDAY. +s-Tit,. day, shortly.
be!oro noon, the United litates screw steam-ship Lafayette,
under the command of Captain Stoddard, late, of the. Am-
erican steam-ship Crescent City, arrived in ,the,,A.lerf:ey from
Queenstown, where she bad be'en compelled
put in for a
supply of c0a1... Oa rounding t 1153 lock she steamed very
ISOt up. the river, and presented rather .a. Striking appear-
ance. Ller hull is constructed s,unewhat ,att.e.r the style
which the.Aiii,ric,,os have recently adoptect their clipper
vessels, being very sharp fore.and aft. Sbe,iajharci„, rigged,
carries a large spread of canvass, and from lierAne propor-
tion?, even without her steam power, lant‘•be very fast.
Owing to the...brealcage of the air pump tiwhi-h-
-b pressure
plan was adopted, and the waste steam eloepea by a pipe
`placed on the quarter-deck. . o
v4PRICES OF WHEAT AND OATS IN IIELAND.—We
learn from returns before us that during thalatit twelve years
the priot,of wheat in Ireland has varied from 39a. Sd. per
barrel iu tB4O, to 21s. 9d. in 1850: the average price for
seven yearsiheing 30s. -.9d. The rates of, oats have been
11s.. 4d. in 14193:auc1 10s• in ISb 1; aMigq.tricl4.l4 64.•.