The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-04 00:00:00

TEE roLUNTEER MOPEMENT.

The anniversary meeting of the Admiralty Com-
pany of the Civil Service Rifle Corps was held yes-
terday evening in their drill-room at head-quarters,
Somerset-house, when the prizes which were com-
peted for at the practice-ground of the corps at
Wimbledon in October last were presented to the

winners. The match consisted of 5 shots at each o.

the ranges of 300, 500, and 600 yards; the first
prize, a silver cup, being won by Mr. S. S. Lewes,
who scored 17 points, and the second, a field-glass,
by Mr. Noel Smith, who scored 12 points. Mr.
Lewes's score was the same as the highest made at
Wimbledon in July last in the competition for the
Whitworth rifles, given by the National Rifle Asso•
eiatiom, and exceeded the score made in 12 matches
recently shot, at the same ranges, in various parts
of the country, in which the average points made
by the winners were only 13. The meeting was
presided over by Rear-Admiral Lord C. Paget, and
was attended by Sir R. Bromley, Sir John Liddel,
Col. Greene, Major Graham, Mr. Richards, and a
numerous body of the gentlemen of the Admiralty
and visitors, among whom were several ladies.
Capt, Willis's report of the progress made by the
company during the first year of its enrolment was
received with marked satisfaction, and the members
separated with three hearty cheers for Lord C.
Paget and their visitors.
Oa Saturday evening about 80 members of the
7th 'Middlesex (Islington) Rifle Volunteers as-
sembled at their head-quarters, Bird's-buildings,
Islington, for parade in review order. Having been
formed four Seep they marched out, preceded by
0
their band, and
accompanied by some of the cadets
of the regiment, the
whole under the command of
Capt. Ebsworth, the captain-commandant. They
proceeded through the High
the Holloway road and street, Islington, along
Seven Sisters-road to the
Manor-house, and, after halting
there a short time
for refreshment, returned by the same route. The
strength of this corps now amounts to 100 men, all
of whom have been unremitting in their attention
to drill, and, considering the comparatively short
time they have been formed, they are a very effi-
cient body of men. The cadet corps n.
ambers about
40 boys from 10 to 15 years of age, who
have been
t
well drilled by Sergeant Hornby, an old India,
soldier.

The additional company for the 2d Tower Ham-
lets Regiment, which has lately been formed in the
districts of Clapton and Stamford-hill, is rapidly
augmenting, and already numbers 50 effectives.
The Rev. C. L. Mercier has kindly allowed the com-
pany to have the use of a large room in the
grounds attached to St. John's Foundation School,
Lower Clapton, and drill takes place on Monday,
Wednesday, and Saturday evenings, under the
instruction of competent sergeants.
The 11th Hants Rifles, under the command of
Capt. Henderson, were inspected at Romsey on
Friday by Lieut.-Colonel Luard, Assistant Inspec-
tor of Volunteers for the South-Western District.
The weather was very unfavourable, but at the
conclusion of the inspection Col. Luard addressed
the corps, expressing great satisfaction with their
appearance and efficiency.
On Friday last the Crickhowell, or 3d Company
of the Breconshire Rifle Volunteers, marched up to
their range under the command ofCapt. Owynne,for ,

the purpose of contending fora handsome silver cup,
presented to the corps by Lady Malden, and other
prizes subscribed for by the members of the corps. The
cup was won by Corporal Ramsey, scoring 17 points;
second and third prizes by privates Ramsey and
W. Lewis, making 16 points each. Ihe ranges were
200, 300, and 400 yards, five roun at each range.
The open prize was won by Private Hall, of the 2d
or Brynmaur Company, scoring 4 points ; 2d and
3d prizes by Privates Ramsey and Richards, 5
points, 500 and 600 yards, five rounds at each range.
The consolation prize, won by Private M. Prossor,
scoring 13 points; 2d and 3d prizes by Privates P.
Lewis and H. Williams, 12 points each, at 150 and
200 yards, five rounds each range.

The various volunteer corps in the county of Mon-
month are steadily increasing in strength and effi-
ciency, and many of the corps having been united
for administrative and review purposes, are nume-
rically very effective. The 2d Monmouthshire forms
a battalion nearly 600 strong, Ebbw Vale and Sir-
howy having joined it. The 3d Monmouthshire
Rifles have so increased by the accession -of 100
volunteers from Risca and 50 from Tredegar, that
the commanding officer is to be colonel in rank.
The ith Monmouthshire Rifles now number 300
men, and brigade with the Monmouth and Ponty-
pool. It is in contemplation to unite all the New-
port bodies into one battalion, which will then
number some hundreds. The artillery corps have
secured a practice ground at the month of the river
Usk, the Rev. J. Nicholls having liberaiiy granted
the use of his ground at Nash for the purpose.

TIM PROPOSED METROPOLITAN
MEAT-MARKET.

A question more or less interesting to the whole
metropolitan community, is now under considera-
tion by the corporation of London, the Dean and
Chapter of St. Paul's, and the meat salesmen and
slaughtermen in and about Newgate-market. Dur-
ing last session of Parliament the corporation, at
great cost and trouble, promoted a measure which
eventually passed into law, for the establishment of
a grand public market for the sale of meat, provisions
and poultry of all kinds, on part of the site of old
Smithfield, and on a scale commensurate with the
requirements in these respects of the metropolis
at large. It was part of the project t• connect the
market with the abattoirs at Copenhagen-fields, and
with the provincial railways, by a communication
with the Metropolitan Railway, now being con-
structed, and to which the corporatioa has sub-
scribed £200,000. Regard was at the same time
had for the public health by preserving in perpe-
tuity the ground between Long-lane and St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital as an open space for the free
diffusion of light and air; for the market itself a
small three-cornered piece of the ancient site of
Smithfield was proposed to be used ; a 50-feet car-
riage way on three sides of the market was secured
to the public ; room for the hay and straw market
was preserved ; and even considerations of taste
were consulted by the appropriation of a space, 130
feet in diameter, for the erection of a fountain or
some other ornamental object. The bill empowered
the corporation to charge upon certain tolls to be
taken in the market a sum not exceeding £235,000
for the purchase of the site and approaches, and for
improvements; and also on the rents to be received
not more than £200,000 for the erection of the
necessary buildings. A toll of a farthing per stone
was to be levied on the meat, poultry, and other
provisions brought into the market, to go towards
payment of the interest of the £235,000,
and the gradual extinction of the principal ;
and a rent not exceeding three-halfpence per week
for every superficial foot was to be paid by the occu-
pier of ever shop, stall, or standing-place. The bill
substantially passed into a law in this shape, the
only material alteration being a reduction of 33 per
cent. of the proposed rent and toll, in deference to
the wishes of the meat salesmen and traders in
Newgate-market, by whom it was opposed before a
Select Committee of the House of Commons, chiefly
on the ground of rent and toll. Such was the pro-
ject conceived entirely in the public interest by the
corporation, sanctioned and supported by the Go-
vernment, approved by the Legislature, and receiv-
ing eventually the Royal assent ; but difficulties
altogether unanticipated and comparatively trivial
in themselves, though sufficient for purposes of ob-
struction, have arisen to impede for some consider.
able time the realisation of this great scheme for
supplying an urgent public want, and the corpora-
tion has been compelled to give notice of their inten-
tion to apply again to Parliament for powers
enabling them to overcome the opposition in ques-
tion. Circumstances have occurred which, in the
opinion of the Markets Improvement Committee,
who have had the sole management of this matter,
render it absolutely necessary to abolish Newgate-
market simultaneously with the establishment of
the new market. On obtaining a reduction in the
rent and toll before the Select Committee the sales-
men and slaughtermen of Newgate-market appeared
satisfied. Their advocates in the Commons did not
oppose the bill, nor did they appear to oppose it
before the Lords' Select Committee, and the mea-
sure passed in that form, on the understanding, as
between the Home Secretary and the corporation,
that full inquiries shonld be instituted respecting
certain statements made by the salesmen before the
Commons' Committee as to the quantity of accommo-
dation required by them, with the view to an
application to Parliament to restore the original
charges, if the allegations upon which they had
been based should prove untrue. On the faith
of this understanding an application was made,
on the Ist of August last, to the Association of
Meat Salesmen an Carcass Butchers, to learn
what was the precise amount and description
of accommodation they would require in the
new market. To this an answer was received a
few days afterwards, declining to give any infor-
mation, and intimating their intention to remain
in the present position, and to treat the proposed
market as a competing and antagonistic establish-
ment. Thus the matter rests for the present, as
between the corporation and the salesmen and car-
cass butchers ; but, in addition to that, a new ob-
stacle stands in the way of the corporation pro-
ceeding to give practical effect to the Act of last
session. The corporation hold the present site of
Newgate-market, which covers 28,000 superficial
feet, on a lease granted by the Dean and Chapter
of St. Paul's, made under the authority of an Act
passed in the reign of Charles IL, renewable in
perpetuity every 40 years on payment of the small
fine of £4, and an annual ground rent of another
£4. The condition of the lease is that the ground
and buildings upon it shall always be used as a
market unless with the consent to the contrary of
the Dean and Chapter. From the property in
Newgate-market the corporation, under this lease,
derive a net profit of £3,000 per annum, and they
now propose, with the sanction of the Dean and
Chapter, to abolish the market, and still to hold
the ground, but upon trust, to apply the rents to
buy the slaughter houses and other nuisances in
connection with the market, which, having been
established before the passing of the Building Act
in 1844, cannot be removed except upon payment
of compensation milder the compulsory powers of
the Nuisances Removal Act of 1855, which it is
proposed to incorporate in the Bill for which the
corporation are now applying to Parliament. Ne-
gotiations are now pending between the Markets
Improvement Committee, the Dean and Chapter,
and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are
contingently interested, with the view to give effect
to this proposal. At a meeting of the Chapters held
on the 15th ult., after discussing with the Markets
Improvement Committee and several of the princi-
pal officers of the corporation, the subject of abo-
lishing Newgate-market, they (the Chapter) passed
a resolution that in their opinion the measure
could not be carried out without injustice to their
kssees, unless by an Act of Parliament on the prin-
ciple of Acts which have been passed for city im-
provements, with powers of compensation to all
parties interested. At the same time the Chapter
say, "they are most desirous, to see the nuisances
and the crying evil existing in and about the mar-
ket abated, and wi.rt readily give their consent to
such an Act of Parliament for the purpose, if the
provisions thereof are drawn up satisfactorily to
then, and shall be approved by the Ecclesiastical
Cwwnissioners who are contingently interested in
the ewgate-m' arket Estate." At an interview
ar
which the
few days Markets Improvement Committee had a
Secret
Ynowl
,te ago with Sir George Lewis, the Home
have ack
right hon. baronet is understood to
the proposal of
ged the fairness and moderation of
the corporation.

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