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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1868.

INDIA-OFFICE, 27TH JULY, 1868.
rriHE SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA in
1 COUNCIL having confirmed the following RULES
pomulgated by the Governor-General of India in Council,
regarding LEAVE of ABSENCE to COVENANTED
CIVIL SERVANTS, publishes the same in supersession
of all previous Rules and Orders on the subject.
These Rules will take effect from the Ist July, 1868, and
are not intended to apply to Covenanted Civil Servants,
who are Members of the Councils of the Governor-General,
or of the Governors of Bombay and Madras, or who aro

the first 2,000 rs., and 20 per cent. °fillip remainder of the
pay of the appointment iu which he is officiating.
Provided that, if the acting allowance so calculated do
not amount to two-thirds of the difference between the
pay of the two appointments, it shall be raised to two-
thirds.
Provided further, that in no case shall the whole salary
so drawn exceed the pay of the appointment iu which the
officer is officiating.
11. An officer haling no substantive, but only an offi-
ciating, appointment, shall, subject to the provisoes in
Rule 1., draw, in addition to the subsistence allowance of
his rank, 50 per cent. of the pay of the appointment in
which ho is officiating.
111. In the case of an officer officiating in an appoint-
ment the pay of which is progressive, his acting allow-
ances shall be calculated on the moan pay of the .said
appointment, provided that the whole salary so drawn
shall not exceed the minimum pay of the said appoint-
'rent. OLIN TON.

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RULES REGARDING LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO
COVENANTED CIVIL SERVANTS.
DEFINITIONS.

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I. In the following Rules—
" Actual Service" includes the period during which an
officer is on duty, also periods spent on privilege and sub-
sidiary leave, and periods during which an officer, not on
leave, may be out of employ on subsistence allowance in
India.
"Extraordinary Leave" moans any leave granted other-
wise than under these Rules.
" Long Extraordinary Leave" moans extraordinary
leave extending beyond a period of three months.
" Long Furlough" means furlough extending beyond a
period of three months.
" Salary" includes acting allowances.
An Officer's "Station" means that.station to which he
stands appointed, or such other place as the Government
'to which he is subordinate may determine.
CHAPTER I.
FURLOUGH.
11. The maximum period of furlough, which can bo
granted to any officer during the whole period of his ser-
vice is limited to six years.
111. Subject to the above limit, ono year's furlough shall
be placed to the credit of each officer for every four years
of actual service.
IV. No furlough shall be taken before the completion
of eight years' actual service; except under Rule VIM
V. Furlough shall not be repeated until three years from
the date of the last return from long extraordinary leave,
or long furlough, except under Rule VIII. Leave taken
under Chapters 11. and 111., but no other leave, shall be
reckoned as part of the said three years.
VI. The maximum term of furlough to be taken at any
one time shall be two years.
VII. Except as hereinafter provided, an officer when on
furlough shall retain a lien on his substantive appoint-
ment, or on an appointment of similar character and not
less salary, and he shall be granted allowances at the rate
of 50 per cent. of his average salary for the previous three
years, or for the period which has elapsed since his last
return from long furlough, or long extraordinary leave, if
that period be less than three years.
In calculating such average, the time spent and the
allowances drawn under any leave, excepting privilege
leave under Chapter 11., shall be omitted.
Provided that no officer on furlough shall draw more
than £1,200 or less than £3OO per annum.
VIII. Under Medical Certificate—
(a.) Furlough may be taken on the above-mentioned
conditions, without reference to the amount at credit under

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CONTRACTS FOR SUGAR, TOBACCO, AND PORT
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CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY,
Somerset House, 6th August, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDIRM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice. that on Thursday, the 20th
instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be ready to
treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT
for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling
Stores at Deptford, the undermentioned Articles, viz :
To be ten-
dered

DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY,
BELFAST,
regularly supplied to the House of Lords.
" V.R." IRISH WHISKY.

Rule 111.
(b.) Furlough for a period not exceeding one year my
be taken, even if less than three years have elapsed since
the last return from long extraordinary leave or long fur-
lough. When on furlcugh under this clause an officer
will not retain a lien on his appointment, and will be en-
titled only to subsistence allowance, unless ho has com-
pleted six months actual service since his last return from
long extraordinary leave or long furlough, and thew re-
main some leave to his credit under Rule 111., in which
case the officer will retain a lien on his appointment, and
will draw allowances as calculated under Rule VII., until
that credit be exhausted, but in no case for a period ex-
ceeding one year.
(c.) Furlough taken without medical certificate, or under
clause (a) of this Rule, may bo extended beyond fwo
years for a period not exceeding one year. When on fur-
lough under this clause an officer will not retain a lien on
his appointment, and will be entitled only to subsistence
allowance.
IX. Furlough taken or extended under Rule VIII. Is
subject to the provision of Rule 11.
X. Furlough taken in India will be reckoned from the
date of the officer quitting his station to the date of his
return thereto. Furlough taken out of India will be
reckoned from the date of embarkation to the date of
return.
In the event of the furlough being taken partly inlndia,
and partly out of India, the commencement and termina-
tion of the furlough will be determined by the above Rules,
according as the furlough begins or ends in or out of
India.
XI. For the interval elapsing between departure from
his station and the commencement of furlough, and be-
tween the termination of furlough and the re-arrival at his
station, an officer shall be allowed subsidiary leave not
ordinarily exceeding in each case thirty days. During
those periods his allowances, will be calculated in the same
way as his furlough allowances, but without limitation as
to maximum and minimum. Provided that, if the officer
has, under these Rules, lost his lien on his appointment, ho
shall draw subsistence allowance of his rank. Subsidiary
leave shall count as service and residence.
XII. Applications for furlough will in all cases be sub-
mitted to the Government to which the applicant is sub-
ordinate, and will be dealt with in such manner as the
Governor-General of India in Council may from time to
time prescribe.
XIII. Subject to the exigencies of the service, both as
regards the number of furloughs available at any one time,
and as regards individual applications, of ii hich exigencies
the Government of India, Madras, or Bombay, as the case
may be, shall be exclusively the judge, furloughs will be
granted under these Rules.
XIV. All applications for furlough under medical certi-
ficate, in accordance with these Rules, will be granted
without restriction.
XV. lf, owing to the exigencies of the service, it may
be necessary to place any limit on the number of officers
who may be absent on furlough at the same time, applica-
tions not supported by medical certificate will be granted
in the following order:—
The applicant to whose credit the greatest amount of
furlough remains under Rule 111. shall have the preference.
If two or more applicants are en an equality in this
respect, the preference shall be given to the applicant,
whose actual service in India is longest, reckoning, in the
case of an officer who has not taken long extraordinary
leave or long furlough, from the date of arrival in India,
and in the case of an officer who has taken long extraor-
dinary leave or long furlough, from the date of his last
return from such leave or furlough.
If two or more applicants are equal in both respects,
the preference shall be given to the senior in the Grada-
tion List.
XVI. The term of residence qualifying for pension shall
be 21 years, but no leave, except privilege leave and sub-
sidiary leave, shall count as residence.
XVII. The term of service qualifying for pension shall
be 20 years.

Quantities.

for at rates
SUGAR 500,000 Pounds t per 100
TOBACCO lOO,OOO f Pounds
PORT WINE 2,000 Gallons per Gal.
When to be Delivered.
One half of each quantity in three weeks from date of
Contract-, and the remainder thereof in three weeks after-
wards, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the
Articles.
Separate Tenders are to be made for each Article.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole,
or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a
greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an
unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders.
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they are lying.
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ing number of each cask or package, the ship in which ha-
ported, and tLe coLutry or place of its growth or produce ;
and an average sample (not less than 21b ler each import
mark) must be produced by the parties tendering, and not
an average of different marks or several imports ; and any
parcel that is found not to be of the same mark or average
quality as the samples .tendered and accepted will be re-
jected by the OffieerS.'
Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several trade
mark and numbers, and the countries or places of its growth
or produce, and a fresh-drawn dock sample of each cask
or package must be produced by the parties tendering ; and
any cask or package that is found not to be of the same
mark, number, or quality as the sample tendered and ac-
cepted, will be rejected by the officers.
Samples of the Wine (two pints) for each import mark
must be produced by the parties tendering.
No Tender will be received unless_ made on the printed
form proVided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-.
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, somerset louse, where
the conditions of the Contracts may be seen.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at
Noon on the day of treaty ; and it will not be required
that the party tendering or an agent on his behalf should
attend at the office on the day of contract, as the result
of the offer reejivod from each person will be communi-
cated to him and to his proposed sureties in writing,
when, but not before, the rejected samples aro to be re-

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ITOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
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clothing for the
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150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing;

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Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank
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A'FIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Ll Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861.
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
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The Committee estnestly appeal for support. The Charity is
entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.
HENRY KINGSCOTE, Treasurer.
W H. WA.FIVICK Secretary.
Office, 121, Pall-mall, S„W

CHAPTER 11.
PRIVILEGE LEAVE.
XVIII. Subject to the exigencies of the State, an officer
who has completed eleven months' continuous duty may
take privilege leave for one month without deduction from
his salary, retaining a lien an his appointment, whether
substantive or officiating. Provided that, in the case of
his holding an officiating appointment, such lien and his
acting allowance will cease on the resumption of charge by
the officer to whom the substantive appointment belongs.
XIX. In the same manner, and under the same condi-
tions, two or three months' privilege leave may be taken
when an officer has completed continuous duty of twenty-
two or twenty-three months respectively.
XX. Privilege leave may, at the discretion of the local
Government, be taken in separate instalments. No second
instalment shall be taken until after the completion of six
months' continuous duty from the expiry of the first in-
stalment. In this case the eleven months qualifying for
fresh privilege leave will be reckoned from the expiry of
the first instalment, the period of the second instalment
being omitted from the calculation.
Provided that the whole privilege leave taken at any
one time shall not exceed three months, and that no
accumulation of privilege leave beyond that period shall
be admitted.
XXI. If an officer shall over-stay his privilege leave, he
shall forfeit all salary during the time of his remaining so
absent; and, if he shall so continue abieit for more than
one week, his office shall I)ecome vacant.
XXII. Privilege leave shall be reckoned as residence
and service.

CHAPTER 111.
SPECIAL LEAVE.

XXIII. Special leave, on urgent private affairs, may be
granted at the discretion of the local Government for a
period not exceeding six months. In respect of retention
of a lieu on appointment, of allowances drawn during the
leave, and of subsidiary leave, the conditions of special
leave shall be the same as those prescribed for furlough.
Special leave shall not be reckoned as residence.
XXIV. Rule XXI. shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to an
officer overstaying spacial leave.
XXV. Special leave may be repeated without allow-
ances after Intervals of. at least six years' actual service.

CHAPTER IV.
GENERAL.

moved.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of
the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for ," and must also be delivered at the
Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

By order,
ANTONIO BR A.DY, Registrar of Contracts
and Public Securitica.

CONTRACT FOR VEGETABLES AT PORTS-
MOUTH.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, July 31, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
17th August next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will
be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing
to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at Gosport all such quantities of
VEGETABLES
as may be demanded for the use of her Majesty's Ships
and Vessels from Ist October, 1868, to the 30th Septem-
ber, 1871, both days included.
The Contractor is to reside on the spot or to have an
agent resident there.
Tenders are to be made at a rate per 100 lb., and not at
per cwt., and no attention will be paid to offers not so
made. The Contractor, in claiming payment for vege-
table supplied, is to make out his invoices in pounds at per
1001 b.
Tho Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, and
also by applying to the Captain Superintendent of her
Majesty's Victualling Yard at Gosport. The conditions
of the Contract may also be seen at the above places.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the
party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend
at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and to his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must he addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
"Tender for Vegetables at Gosport," and must also be
delivered at the Department of the Controller of Victual-
ling, Admiralty, Somerset House, signed by two respon-
sible persons, engaging to become bound with the person
tendering in tho sum of £lOO for the due performance
of the Contract.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Groat Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—
Hi; Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of froo admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, iu
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destiLuto sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee
.earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital aro capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Mossrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co, •,
lorries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams,
D3aCOD, and Co.; nsbet and Co., Butlers-street ; and at
the hospital, from 10 till 5

XXVI. Furlough, privilege, leave, and special leave
shall not be taken as such in continuation of each other;
but, if an officer absent on one of these classes of leave be
allowed to change it for another, the whole period of his
absence shall be held to be under the class of leave for
which it was changed.
XXVII. Subject to considerations of State, there will
be no restriction as to the places whore an officer may
reside when on leave.
XXVIII. Leave allowance shall be payable monthly, if
payment is taken in India, and quarterly if payment is
taken in England.

:CHAPTER V.
TEMPORARY RULES.

XXIX. Whatever aggregate amount out of the three
years' furlough and three years' sick leave, under the
Rules until now in force, at present remains to be taken by
an officer under the said Rules, shall remain to be taken by
him under Rules now-promulgated. •
XXX. Any officer now in the service shall, when nest
proceeding on furlough. idect whether he will draw allow-
ances at the higher minimum rate of £5OO per annum (not
exceeding his total salary at the time). If ho shall so
elect, he will, in any future furlough, be limited, as to
allowance, to the lower maxi:nu:a rate of £l,OOO per

By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

SCIENTIFIC, AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.
ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant as-
sortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe-
lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights,
&c., in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze' Derby-
shire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES
TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand,
W.C., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collectiolis of ROCKS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the now edition
of Lyon's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facili-
tate the interesting: study of MINERALOGY and
GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500
guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and
MINERALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S• , at
149, Strand.

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.

President—Rev. CANON DALE.
CONTRIBUTIONS f.,r the support of the Homes in 18G8 arc ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. B1on•
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, KO.; Francis Nicholls
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road,

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
9.re as follows :
For Fallon Women.
28, Church-row, floral).- 150, New Rent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden-
Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland- street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home--St. James's- street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. Tho committee are deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.i
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 521 appli-
cants' whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. CWPER, Soc.
85 Queen-street, Cheapside.

annum.
XXXI. Any officer now absent on leave, who has no
appointment, may, on his return, and until ho again holds
an appointment carrying equal pay to that of tho substan-
tive appointment which he last held, draw tlm subsistence
allowance of his rank, together with 75 pm- cent. of tho
pay of any appointment iu which he shall officiate. Pro-
vided that the total salary so drawn by him shall not ex-
ceed the pay of the appointment in which ho is officiating.
This Rule shall apply to any officer who may have already
returned from furlough.
XXXII. Any officer now absent on furlough, or under
medical certificate, may elect whether the remainder of his
leave shall be taken under those Rules from the date of
their promulgation. If he shall so elect, Rule XXX. shall
not apply to him.
RULES REGARDING ACTING ALLOWANCES.
I. An officer holding a substantive appointment, and
officiating in an appointment of a higher grade or class,
shall draw acting allowance calculated at 30 per cent. ou

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There is probably no great city in the United
kingdom which is so ill supplied with markets as
London. It is all very well to point with sleek
complacency to Billingsgate, Leadenhall, or Covent-
garden. The excellence of what is to be bought at
these marts is not to be denied, but, on the other
hand, also, it cannot be denied that their space is
so inadequate to their traffic that ou market days
they are little less than public obstructions. Who
that has ever had to catch an early southern or nor-
thern train through Covent-garden on a market-
day has not anathematized its very exis-
tence, even when he had contrived to drive
through its block of waggons ? Asfor the Borough
Market, it simply means closing the southern
approach to London-bridge till nearly nine in the
morning on market days. Yet these with other
markets are all inadequate to their purpose, though
the profits derived from their use are so large that
the most exorbitant rentals are derived from the
wholesale and retail dealers who use them. The
public in these days of political economy are not
weak enough to suppose that this heavy rent is not
estimated in the prices which tradesmen charge ;
or, to put it in plain English, it comes out of the
consumers' own pockets. The want of markets
has fostered this state of things to the utmost.
Of late years markets have actually diminished
in number, though the population of the metropolis
has continued to increase, and to this evil we
must add that of the minor markets, the retail
shops having been almost extirpated in districts
by metropolitan railways and improvements. What
is wanted is not one or two great centres, but mar-
kets of a moderate siz3 dispersed over different
quarters of the town. The beautiful new Smith-
field Market, when completed, will no doubt be a
great boon, but a market in the City is not of much
use to residents in the West, or even in the East of
London. Markets should be established in the
vicinity of the chief railway stations, and then the
produce of the district through which the line
passes might be offered to the public every morning,
with the least possible expense of carriage and the
least possible injury by packing and travelling. The
want of proper markets in London has, in fact, ren-
dered due competition almost imprac.icablo. This is
au evil which, like that of growing old, gets worse
every day, for the demand in London increases as
the supply gets less, and the want of good general
markets is now getting seriously felt. This is evi-
dently shown by the fact of three private indi-
' victuals having combined of themselves to build the
new King's-cross Market, which was yesterday
opened. Of course, at first, the great dealers were
opposed to it, but the plan went on nevertheless,
and now the names of the chief dealers of Newgate,
Billingsgate, and Leadenhall are over some of the
stalls. We confess to being in favour of markets
managed by private individuals, provided they are
not monopolies. If several markets compete, the
price is sure not to range above the fair average,
I but where there is but one central establishment
combinations for raising the cost of provisions are
very easily effected.
Any one, however, who visits the New Market at
King's-cross, and expects to find a magnificent
sducture like the Hanes of Paris, or the markets of
Vienna, or to find the spires and stained glass,
coloured marble, and rich carving which is decorat-
ing the great market Miss Coutts is building at Beth-
nal-green, will be much disappointed. There is
nothing artistic about it. It is a large building,
which has been partly adapted and partly built, but
has a plain work-a-day, practical air about it which
is very reassuring. The new station of the Mid-
land Railway, which is nearly finished, is at one
side of it, and the Great Northern Terminus at
the other. These with the Underground Railway
place the market in direct communication with
literally almost all parts of the kingdom.
Of the architectural parts of the building itself
there is little to say. It is plain, homely, and
strong, and above all, thoroughly well adapted to
its purpose. Its entrance is from the St. Pancras-
road, where there are shops now, but on which is
hereafter to be built a market hotel, beneath the
archways of which the public will pass into the
market. This market occupies an acre and a quar-
ter in extent, or about double the area of Billings-
gate. It is built in the plainest style, with a broad
ridge and furrow roof, well lit, well sheltered, and
amply ventilated. On one side is the block for the
wholesale meat and wholesale vegetable markets ; on
the other side are the stalls for the wholesale and
retail provision dealers of every kind, the fish shops,
and the wholesale fish market. The centre space
between these two is set apart as a general re-
tail market for anything and everything. Each of
the stalls or shops, if we may so call them, is open
to the roof, and each is 14ft. wide by 10ft. deep.
There are 86 of these, and all are let already. It
will surprise no one to hear of this successful result
to the enterprise so soon, when we state that the
rent of each stall is only 14s. a week, without rates
or taxes, or any extra charge whatever beyond that
for the gas, which each individual stall-keeper con-
sumes. No rents or tolls of any kinds are exacted,
and when we remember that a waggon standing
for a few hours in Covent-garden would have to
pay more tolls to the Duke of Bedford than one
of the stalls in the New Market cost for a week, it
is no wonder that they have all been let before the
opening. The term " stalls," however, scarcely con-
veys an idea of these holdings. They are, in fact,
each a little shop, which every holder is at liberty
to decorate or fit up as he likes, and when he leaves
it close it in with its wooden gates at night. After
a certain time of night the whole market will be
shut, and night watchmen left in the charge of the
premises. Behind the fishmongers' shops are ice
cellars, and above them are ranges of offices where
those who choose may carry on their bookkeeping,
or keep their clerks. The rate at which all these
spaces are let is about One-tenth of the prices
charged in the great markets of London, and not
much more than a twentieth of what is often
charged in Covent-garden. To sum up, there are
conveniences for boiling shell-fish, which with all
other fish pass the the market from the north on its
way to Billingsgate ; there is an ample supply of
water and plenty of shade and ventilation. The
whole structure has cost £41,000, and is let already
at annual rental of about £5,500. If this will not
prove an encouragement to founders of public mar-
kets, it is hard to say what will. New markets
used to be said proverbially to be dangerous experi-
ments, but with the growth of their want in Lon-
don it seems hard to see how they can prove so
now. At any rate, the new m trket at King's-
cross has begun its career with every pros-
pect of success, and a twelvemonth or so will
show how far the expectations have been rea-
lised. The ceremony of opening yesterday was
very simple, but very significant of the useful-
ness'of the new market. It consisted mainly of the
public sale of a large parcel of fish, brought by the
Great Northern Railway. at four o'clock in the
afternoon, and which had been alive at Hull the
same morning. These consignments, which were
mostly of salmon, soles, &e., brought MO prices,
and the bidding was rather more spirited than is

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usual at fist► sales. After the sales the company of
visitors adjeurned to luncheon, which was admir-
ably served by Messrs. Spiers and Pond. At the
lunch Mr. Thomas Chambers, M.P., occupied the
chair, and at the end of the repast the toasts of
" Success to the Market," " Success to the Stall-
keepers," "The Bailders," &c., were given, and of
course were responded to enthusiastically with more
than three times three. The market will be opened
for ordinary business this day, though it will pro-
bably be a week or two before it gets into its full
working order.

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