Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-12-14

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be read from the Committee the Croton Aqaedae',
which, il is whispe red contain some curious disclo-
sures in relation to the Loeofoco mode Of laying
| pipe We hope the Committee will be able Ia re-
pudiate the charges whc h have got abroad in rela
tion 10 certain me mbers of the Corporation supply
ing lead for the public service under the shallow
subterfuse of its being for the sole benefit OF my
mariner" We read the Wing Commissioners Of the
Aims Honse pretty severe lecture about two years
| AGO for their corruption permitting "my partners
| TO supply the public with meal bacon, and potatoes,
at rbitant rates, and shall not permit the To-
cofocos 10 escape if they follow in the footsteps OF
their illustrious predecessors"
The Fra Department and the rowdies, that under
the cloak of the volunteer system, seek to follow cut
the practices of the soaplock, also needs the bosom
of reform, and IT must be applied, notwithstanding
the influence which the Grcnen bring to bear
the next election. II the present Csmmon Council
have not the moral courage TO apply the proper
NEEDY to these evils trust that the electors will
relieve them from further trouble and take the re-
spnnsibility on themselves.
Lastly comes the Meat Tax There are at this
present time some half dozen honest ind cit
liens confined in "the tomDs' for the monstreus
bad crime Of selling beef steaks in Centre street at
one half penny per- und less than the standard pri
ces in Centre Market! A vote taken in the
Boa I'd of Assistants, last Monday, the liberation
of one OF these pri.oners-a minor-when eleven
members voted for his Imprisonment, and only four
for his Lbs ration. Now, every one Of these eleven
learned legislators would deem il insult were it
said that he not perfect enthusiast ia favor Of
the largest liberty, and if any presumpuous travel
Ter were TO assert in the preseace of either ofthem
that less practical liberty enjoyed in this model
r.
vernment either THE aforesaid legislators would be
ready to convict such of I" fiat burglary - yet
strange to say such an assertion is quite capable Of
proof We will take the two largest and best gov
erned cities-n the matter of police regulations-in
Europe, and see how far they permit the trade of
meat to be free.
In London there arc butchers shops in every
street from Hyde Park corner to Blickwall-over
seven milcs-and one of the largest Avenues leading
to the great eastern outlet of the metropolis, is
market and contains hume rous daughter houses
There are no licensed butchers, nor is there any
municipal regulations that apply to that trade any
more than others. The supply of live cattle to the
London market averages from 25 TO 80 900 shee and
lambs weekly about 5000 oxen; with calves, and pigs
in proportion. The Corporation Of London own the
f. simple Of one market for the sale Of live cattle
three for dead ea two for fruit and vegetables, and
one for n exclusively There four other public
markets in the metropolis, 'ne held by the Duke Of
Bedford on perpetual lease from the Priors of Gem
vent Garden two by publie companies, and one by
q private individual, a Mr.. Portman. Severa, in
ouries have been instituted by Parliamentary com.
mtees of late years, into the possibility of cxciu
ding the slaug entering Of meat from the METROPOLIS
Az those enquiries not only butchers, farmers gra-
ziers but number Of the most scientific medica men
assisted; and it was not merely given cut as piece
of mere spec uaton, but one committee actually
ported that the saugherng of lie and the sale Of
dead meat was beneficial to the public health, inaf
much as no human being engaged in that business
ever died prenaaturely of pulmonary complaint.
In Paris there are butchers shops IN all the best
streets save on the Bouierards, and there the rent
is the only preventive law. In the Chausse d. IN
fin Rue 81 Honore and Rue Fieisnne, there are
butchers shops, and we confidently appeal to any
Anne rio an traveller who has visited Pars, if those
streets are not quite healthy, quite cleanly,
and quite as fashionably attended, as our Centre,
Broome and Grand streets. IL is true that the En-
gish and the Frcach differ in their prac ice respect
ing the yhterng and the sale q cattle. TheFrench
,ermit no live cattle to pass the Barrier OF Paris,
and all the ugh,erng is dcue at the Abbato,rs -
To describe these es,ablishncn,s would occupy too
muCn space OF yet, W GIVE even Assetcn VI the
rules by which the butchers Of Paris have Zach
right to kill there on payment Of certain rate
Their introduction Into London has been mxch con-
tended for Of late years, bat invariably opposed be-
cause restrictive of that freedom Of trade which the
Englishman deems his brthright Their argument
is that every man hasa right to kill or sell meat
where he peases, provided his business is no; nri
sance TO his neigtbors, and to prove that he says
he must be Indicted and tried for the offence by
jury.
Let, therefore, the Cooperation Of New York
throw open the trade in meat; if shop becomes a
Nuisance, public opinion, aad the care which the
owners of houses always evihee for their property
will supply the corrective, and we shsli no longer
have bear the reproach Of boasting Of the largest
theoretical liberty, but hist possessing the smallest
fraction Of il in that point, where IL is most wanted,
viz: the permitting Of monopoly to a few, which
amounts to taxing the many for one of the first
ncees.aries of life