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In addition to this area there would be a certain space
appropriated to alaughter-hon3es. The projected market
would provide room fir tying 5,000 cattle, and also for
36,000 .heep: 500 calves, and 1,000 pigs. The ap-
proaches and thoroughfares would be far more spacious
and commodious than rhoie leading to the existing mar.
ket, and there would be lairage for 1,000 bullocks and
5,000 sheep. -
In order to effect this great improvement and enlarge-
ment of the existing markets, the Markets Committee
propose that the City should mike a considerable 'pe-
cuniary sacrifice, and that additional charges in the shape
of.tolls should be levied on the animals sold: The excess
of revenue over expenditure for Smithfield-market
in tha year ending 31st of December, 1848, was 4,6411.
9s. 10i.; the similar excess fir Newgate-market was
3,0341. Ils. 5d , making together a clear incense of
7.6761. Is. 3d., which the corporation of London received
in that year from these two markets._ The gross revenue
from Smithfield-market in the same year was 8,02219 a.
10:1. The Markets Committee estimate that this amount
would be increased by changes in the rates of tolls to
20,6271.135. 4d. per annum. It is supposed that the
whole of this sum, together with the whole of the im-
proved rents t) be derived from the new meat market,
should be appropriated to defraying the expenses of
the new market. These expenses aro estimated as fol-
lows:

Live cattle market to be provided for by a
loan extinguishable by annual payments in
thirty years ... ..•
Dead meat market and buildings, to be pro-
vided for by the rent of the houses and the
charge for shops, stallage, tolls, &c.
Slaughter-houses

... £245,000

... 177,000
... 45,000

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Total proposed expenditue ... ... £467,000
Connected with this improvement is the plan of a new
communication from Lang-lane to Holborn, at an addi-
tioaal cost of 60,0001. This sugeestien, however; is
only incidental to the improvements of the market.
It is further proposed that, the area of Smithfield-
, market, which, according to this plan would be aban-
doned, consisting of five acres, should be appropriated
far the creation of baths and wash houses, and fur the
accommodation of the hay-market, leaving an open
space opposite St. Birtholomee's Hospital and next the
entrance from Long-lane. I; is also proposed to pro-
vide model lodging-houses adjoining for the accommoda-
tion of those who would be displaced by the alteration.
The plea which we have described has b-en conceived
in a liberal said comprehensive spirit, and it has been
prspaeel with a !s.n,:ere view of removing all the evils
in Scnitlsfiekl-market which are not inseparable from a
situ ition within the City. It •ippears also to us, so far
as we ere competent judges up in such a (nerter, to be
fsamed with much practical skill and ingenuity in its
sits- oti s
arraseserneet. It proposes entirely to change the
Neweate-re irket, and also, with the exception of one
acre. to chaego the site of Smithfield-markett substan-
tially, therefore, it provider two new markers. The
Net area of the two existing markets is 6 sores 3 roods.
The area of the proposed rna-ket, including both the
live stock and the meat market, as well as a prevision
for" liiirage, is 124 acres 1e alditien to thie the plan
contemplates the eree•ion of public slaughterhouses on
• an adjoining site. The entire outlay f.,r these purpos, s
would amount to 467,0.00/e and the City would be re•quired to appropriate 8,0221. 9s led. of their net re-
. venue, besides raising an alditional sum by tolls.
There is no doubt that the plan which the Markets
Committee have, deliberately, tied after a careful consi-
. deretion of all the circumstances of the case, proposed,
. would effect a great improvement, as compared with the
• existing market, and if the changes which they rscona
thend were adopted, a decided amelioration in the ap-
proaches to both markets, in the accommodation for the
sale both of the animals and the dead market, and in
the general facilities fe• traffic, would be effected. Ac-
"dingllyeYeess aif the only alternatives which presented
their
them;retto uswere the retention of the markets in
sites, andi the adeption of the pies) recom m -
mended by the ar ssti Committee,
hesi-
tate to advise the eheice of the latterw.e sAhgeureledinngo
hew
avar, with the Markets Committee in their conclusion,
. that the existing sites of hoth mrna'r
.ets are.quite inade-
yefreepures our con-
crete, we think that a third alte
. sideration, namely, the expediencayttiohli3tsengaging the
market for live stock_ from the lie
48, and of recnov-
urhoo of the
thickly inhabited paiis of the metro
lux it to asi nation in the suburbs.• _
'Practical question '
• - Prodeeding; therefote, from the asatunption that the existing site is to be abandoned,. the.'
which We -now have to consider is, whether the plan re-
commended by the Markets Committee shall be
adopted,'
•
or whether the market far live et )nk shaft be removed
outskirts of the metropolis.
to some convenient site in the
proposed on behalf of of the
City have considered the plan
it.
.e
disposition to view in afavourable
City with every
d not hesitate to recommend it for
light, and we shout
hve satisfied ourselves that such a
adoption if we could
have
with the public interests; but after
course was consistent
II
having examined it car..tu y with the utmost care, and
weighed it in all its bearings,
nsurmountable objections. we have come to the
Conclusion that it is subject to 1
These objections may
be briefly summed up under the
heads of—
. 1, The situation of the projected market.
2. Its estimated expense.
3. Its want of capacity for. future enlargement.
"Upon each of these heads we will make a few ob3er-
vations;—,
1. Although the proposed plan multiplies and widens
the approaches to the cattle-market, and enlarges its area,
it does not provide a space which appears to us really
adequate for its purpose. It will be considerably larger
than the existing market, but still, in our opinion, not
sufficiently large ; moreover, the standing place for
calves and pigs will be upon a terrace forming the roofs
of the lairs; while the lairs themselves would, on ac-
count of the difference of 'level, Probably be imperfectly
lighted and ventilated. The latter arrangements, though
indicating ingenuity and practical resource on the part
of the arehitect, prove that in Cruising this portion or I
• his plan be was cramped by want of spies,.
The provision for lairase, thnneh in itself very de-
.
sirable, would produce the effect of kei a large
number of cattle and sheep (amountine. if the;ira were
fully occupied, to 1 000 C3'tb. end 5 000 sheep) stallsd
clo-e to the crowded thote.eghf tres of the City arid the
adjoining habita.ione The ons for ; provis. ,
siaughter-
'louses would likewise fix the permanent and moat con-
aiderelele extabliehaients fort slanelvering in a similsr
r' \ -1' L''' eiciattaft 1 sad it it to be observed that the. City seems
_i
"s-r ' -..'• AM Wits - with -JO • little "favour upon , Ile ir-slaugfiter, ,
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