The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-15 00:00:00

Billingsgate Market.

Yesterday, at a meeting of the city magistrates
held at the Guildhall, including the Lord Mayor,
a report was brought up from the General Purposes
Committee of the Court of Aldermen by Mr. Alder-
man Rose, with suggestions for facilitating the traffic
in connection with Billingsgate Market, which has
long been in an unsatisfactory state from over-
crowding, and had at length become intolerably
vexatious to all persons concerned in taking fish to
and from the market. When the Thames was the
only highway for conveying fish to Billingsgate the
approaches to the market by water were compara-
tively easy, as, indeed, they still are, but of late years
enormous quantities of fish have been brought to the
market from places all along the sea coast by railway,
and especially by the Great Northern Railway. These,
on their arrival at the railway termini, are conveyed
in vans to Billingsgate early in the morning by way
of Lower Thames-street, a narrow old-fashioned
thoroughfare, as most Londoners know, and on
every !market day great delay and confusion take
place in the approaches to the market, consequent
upon the tardy manner in which the fish is unloaded,
and upon much of it never being unloaded at all, the
fish salesmen there having fallen into the habit of
selling fish by sample, and so detaining the vans
containing it and the men and horses for often as
much as four hours at a time. The confusion is vastly
increased by the simultaneous rush of carts and
trucks to the market to convey away the fish when
sold. The existing state of things was recently
brought to a crisis by the city magistrates fining
some of the great railway carriers for obstructing
the approaches to the market. That, however, did
not remedy the evil, and lately Messrs. Chaplin and
Horne, the railway carriers, Mr. Thorne, the traffic
manager of the Great Northern Railway Company,
and many of the principal inhabitants of the Ward
of Billingsgate, memorialised the Court of Alder-
men on the subject. Yesterday, accordingly, the
Court was occupied with the consideration of the
matter. The report of their committee, presented
by Mr. Alderman Rose, stated that they had been
attended by the memorialists, and also by Colo-
nel Fraser, the Commissioner of City Police,
with the latter of whom they had conferred as
to the practicability of carrying out certain sug-
gestions for facilitating the traffic, without inter-
fering with other branches of trade conducted in
the neighbourhood of Billingsgate. The result was
that yesterday, on the recommendation of the com-
mittee and of the City Commissioner of Police, the
Court of Aldermen adopted a regulation for the
future management of the market traffic, to the effect
that vans arriving at Billingsgate before half-past
7 in the morning will not be permitted to remain
in the street after 8 o'clock, but at that hour, whether
;hey will be unloaded or not, they will be removed
by the police ; and that vans with fish arriving after
8, and between that hour and 9, shall be allowed
half an hour for unloading, at the expiration of which
they will likewise be removed by the police, notice
in each case being first given to the consignee of the
fish. The Court also passed some subsidiary regu-
lations with the same view, and empowered the City
Commissioner of Police to carry them into practical
effect. It was stated incidentally by Alderman Rose
that much of the present confusion and delay in
approaches to the market was attributable to the
practice of keeping back the inferior kinds of fish
on their arrival at Billingsgate in order to enhance
the price of the better sorts, and especially was it
attributable to the practice, adopted of late years
by fish salesmen in the market of selling their fish
by samples, and thus, instead of emptying the vans
of the fish consigned to them, converting them for
hours into depots for the sale of it.

PARLIAMENTARY REGISTERS.—Lord Amberley
has laid before the House of Commons a bill declaring that
no person shall be entitled to have his name inserted more
than once upon a register of persons entitled to vote for
members of Parliament ; and that if from any cause the
name of any voter shall appear more than once the revis-
ing barrister, upon proof of notice having been sent to such
voter by some person on the list requiring him to attend
and elect in respect of which qualification he will be upon
the register, shall, unless such voter attend before him and
make his election, strike off from the register every repeti-
tion of the name after the first entry of it. But if he at-
tends ho may make his election.
DEATHS FROM SUNSTROKE.--0a Friday Dr. Lan-
kester held inquests upon two persons who died very sud-
denly without apparent reason. The first was hel dat Horn sey
on the body of a police-constable of the N division, who,
after having been exposed to the sun the whole of the pre-
vious day, suddenly fell dead upon his beat. It was found
that death resulted from sunstroke. A constable's hat was
weighed anel found to b 3 10 ounces in weight. The jury
expressed an opinion that this was too heavy. The second
inquest was held at the T wyford Arms, T wyford-street,
Islington, on the body of Josiah. Butternattt, aged 25.
The deceased was engaged at the Imperial Gasworks
to convey coals by means of a hand-waggon from the
store to the retort. In doing this he repeatedly passed
under a skylight through which the sun came very power-
fully. Suddenly he became very giddy, and reeled about
like a drunken man. As he was being led from the top of
the building where he was working he attempted to jump
over the rails, but he was restrained. Before a doctor could
be fetched he expired. Death in this case also was caused
by sunstroke. The juries returned verdicts accordingly.
—Express.

GREAT NORTHERN llosmAL, Caledonian-road.
—Her Grace the Dowager-Duchess of Sutherland
and the Right Hon. Earl Grosvenor, M.P., have just en-
rolled their names amongst the patronesses and vice-pre-
sidents of this charity, and sent liberal donations. Two
thousand pounds is all that is now due for the purchase of
the new hospital, with treble the number of beds for the

sick poor.
- THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.—At the
meeting of the members of this body yesterday the pre-
sident, Mr. John Fowler, announced that the late Mrs.
Locke, the widow of Mr. Joseph Locke, M.P., past presi-
dent, had bequeathed to the Institution of Civil Engineers
the full-length portrait, by Grant, of her late husband,
to ether with a §thu 91 42,000, foo of legacy duty.

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

OSBORNE, May 14.

The Queen drove out ydsterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Louise, and her Majesty
walked in the grounds this morning with Prince
Leopold.
Princess Louise drove out this morning, attended
by the lion. Mrs. Gordon.
Princess Beatrice went out aLo.

His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen
visited her Majesty yesterday, and remained to

luncheon.
The Rev. George Prothero had the honour of
dining with the Queen and the Royal family yester-
day.

Colonel Maude left Osborne to-day.
The Hon. Emily Cathcart has succeeded the lion.
Flora Macdonald as Maid of Honour in Waiting.

The marriage of the King of Bavaria has just
been fixed for the 12th October, the anniversary of that of
his father, Maximilian 1., in 1842, and of his grandfather,
Louis 1., in 1810.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAX 14.

At a meeting of the Hebdomadal Council in the dele-
gates' room on Monday, May 13, it was agreed that the
proctors forthe year 1868-69 be admitted to office on Wed-
nesday, Aprills, and that the Encmaia of the year 1868 do
take place on Wednesday, June 17.
In a Convocation to be holden on Tuesday, the 21st inst.'
at 2 o'clock, the forms of statute on the subject of the
Poetry Professorship and of Professors' Fees, which were
accepted by Congregation on Tuesday, the 7th inst., will
be submitted to the House.

In a Congregation to be held immediately after, the sta-
tute on tho subject of " The Parks," which was promul-
gated in Congregation on Tuesday, May 7, will be sub-
mitted to the house in two votes.
The Professor of Music (Sir F. A. Gore Ouseley) will
give his terminal lecture in the Music School, on Wednes-
day, June 5, at 2 o'clock.
The Public Examination of Candidates for degrees in
music will be held on Thursday, June 6, in the Music
School. Candidate! are to be there at 10 a.m.

CAMBRIDGE, MAY 14.
The Board of Classical Studies give notice that the sub-
jects appointed by them for the previous examination in the
Michaelmas Term, 1868, are—St. Matthew's Gospel, Iso-
crates ad Demonicum and Panegyrieus, Virgil's "Georgics,'
books 111. and IV.; and that the subjects appointed by.
them for the general examination to be held in 1868 for
ordinary degrees are—Plato's " Protagoras ;" Horace,
"Epistles," book I.