The Sun.
London, England, 1810-04-13 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET.

Sif_C. PRICE moved the second reading of the
Smithfield Market Bill. He stated the long consi.
deration which the inconveniences of the preset-a.
Market had•endergone•by the Corporation of Lon.
don, who had at length decided tha; a removal was
indispensable, and had. seleaed a situation for the
new Market, which, under all the
,circutpstaOces
of the case, appeared to them to he the least ob-
jeCtibnable. If any clause could be introduced by
which the neighbourhood of the intended new Mar-
ket could be benefited, the Corporation would by
happy to avail themselves of it.

Mr. Alderman COMBE opposed the Bill as violnt—
ing the Charter of London, and calculated to in-
jure a number of inhabitants. He moved as an
amendment, that the Bill be read a second time this
day six months.-
Mr. Rose supported the Bill. The extension of
the Market had been rendered indispensable, as many
I,ersons were prevented from sending their eatile
thither and it could not be sufficiently extended on

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the spot upon which it was now held, without
incurring an expellee too enormous to be thougll
of.

Mr. MARTIN contended, that although .it might
be cie-ir.,ble to remove the Market, it by no to a!
follotced that it ought to be removed to,.the plate
fixed upon. In his minion, a more c.-,nvenient si-
tuation-might be found very near the present Miit'ket.
the .throwing out of the last Bill many new
houses had ',een ereoed on the spot to which tit was
now proposed to remove the Market ; and, to r;le
Owners of these it would be difficult to aTi6cl,l::
compensation. It would be impossible to prc»
vent the cattle from being driven through cert4in
streets, whatever prohibitory penalties the Bill
contain. • •

Mr. WILBERFORCE supported the Bill.. He de-
nied that it would be itnpo,,siblc to prevent tti.,?
,beasts from beitig driven through any streets fro.o
which it wa< desirable to keep !hem. Adverting • o
the former proposal of erecting Penitentiary Housts,
he observed that the public had been deprived of
the advantages which expected from that vcry
ingenious plan by an argument similar to that of
his Learned Friend, namely, that some otherspot
might he discovered f",,r their ere'lion instead, of
that originally suggested. This watt a pubic ohjod,.
and one of the utmost importance. The injury
which the cattle sustained from the crowded ~tare of
the Market, had induced many great breeders not
to send their cattle to Smitbfi id any longer. The
sufferings of the animals themselves atst-i ought to
be asubjeet of serious inducement to a re .oval of
the cause.

Mr. Lra KECK remarked, that he himself
every year sustained grievobs lo,ses from tne
state of Smithfield Market. Among the numerous
obje&ions to it were the -Avant of room, and
Market being a thoroughfare, .by -the bass
were frequently much injured. It was neceis:,ry
to ere& a Market which should cotnprize twelve
acres, and that was not possible to be done in
the immediate neighbourhood of Smithfield.
Mr. SIMEON opposed the Bill, and expatiated en
the evils which would result from the establishment
of a Market on the projected site.
Mr. JACOB would vote for the Bill going into
a Committee, in the hope that the evils 'which
his Hon. Friend near hiin had deprecated, might be
corrected.

Sir J. SHAW argued that sufficient ground might
be obtained for the evension of the present Mar-
ket, without a removal. Both the inhabitants of
the neighbourhood of the present Market, and the
inhabitant of the place to which it was propose) to-
be removed, as also. the butchers of the Metropolis,
were averse fi oin the removal. The Governors of
St. Bartholomew's Hospital were .also of opinion
that the interests of the Hospital would suffer by
the removal:

Mr. W. SMITH contended, that the Bill ought
to go into a Committee, in which a clause mighir
be introduced to obviate the evils apprehended..
M:. 11. IlitowNs expressed hiniseif in filv,ur of
the removal.
The House then divided. •

For the amendment
Agatust it

Majority

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The rci is consquen tly
Mr. D. GIDDY obtaithxl leave to hang in a 13ill to
regulate th- mode of. allowing aecowns of Overseers.
of the Pour .by Justices of the Pe.iee.