The Sun. — 1867-06-06 (London, England)

THE NEW METROPOLITAN MEAT AND POULTRY-MARKET.  Yesterday the Corporation of London, through their Markets Improvement Committee, of which Mr. H. Lowman Taylor is chairman, laid the foundation stone of a new meat and poultry-market for the whole metropolis, for which purpose they have been empowered by Act of Parliament to raise a sum of £235,000, and an additional sum of £70,000 for the coast of a new street connecting the market with Victoria-street. The site of the market now in course of erection is on the north side of Long-lane, partly on ancient Smithfield itself, and partly on land purchased for the purpose, and over the goods depot of the Great Western and Metropolitan Railways. The building, which has been designed by Mr. Horace Jones, the City architect, will be 631 feet long from east to west, and 246 feet wide from north to south, the area enclosed being somewhat more than 3j acres. The preliminary work of clearing the ground has been of a formidable kind. Before any part of the superstructure could be begun upwards of 300,000 cubic yards of earth had to be removed about 2,000 rods of brickwork executed in vaults,' arches, and retaining walls, and 3,000 tons of wrought iron formed into 240 columns. More than five miles length in all of wrought-iron girders had to be prepared and placed in position, and upwards of five acres of brickwork have been covered with asphalte or concrete. A new _road, 60 feet wide, will be formed on the north side of the market building, and continued westward to a junction with Farringdon-road. New roads of the same width will also be constructed on the east and west sides, Longlane will be widened to 60 feet, and a public roadway, 50 feet wide, will pass through the centre of the building from north to south, thus connecting Smithfield with St. John-street-road. A central avenue 25 feet wide, with shops facing each other, will run through the entire length of the market from cast to west, with side passages and shops branching off to the north and south, and the whole building will be well ventilated. Refreshment rooms will be provided at its four corners, as will also post and telegraph offices in central and convenient places. The position of the market directly over the railway depot will afford great facilities for the direct transfer of the meat from the vans to the shops by means of hoists placed at various convenient points throughout the building, and there will be for passengers a staircase communicating with the railway below. The roof of the building will be carried on wrought-iron plate girders, supported by 240 cast-iron columns 26 feet high, and it has been so designed as to combine the utmost amount of ventilation and light with the effectual exclusion of the weather and sunshine: The part of the roof immediately over the central avenue especially, will, in its semicircular ribs and ornamental spandrils, give a pleasing architectural appearance to the interior. The roof over the roadway, with similar arrangements for light and heat, will be elliptical in form, of wrought iron, and filled in with light ornamental ironwork. Externally the market building will present an arcaded screened wall 33 feet high, in the style of the cinque-cents or Renaissance, and the four angles of the structure will be marked by towers 00 feet high and octagonal at the tops. The entrances to the main road way will be ornamented with arched pediments and abutments of clustered pilasters. The gateways at intervals in the fronts leading to the side passages will be of rich, open, cast-iron scrollwork, and the elevations of the east and west ends will have their central features in the gateways to the central avenue rising boldly above  the general line of front. The Corporation have been authorised to impose a light toll of a farthing for every 211 b. on all meat conveyed to the market by rail or otherwise, with a view to the gradual liquidation of those sums of £235,000 and £70,000, with interest, and upon that liquidation the toll will cease. After the ceremony of laying the chief cornerstone, which was performed by Mr. Lowman Taylor, the Markets Improvement Committee, with a limited number of guests, dined together at the Trafalgar at Greenwich in honour of the occasion.  Republican newspapers have been established at Nowburn (North Carolina) and at Selma (Alabama). The following are the incomes of some of the ia Nyman,r so n s. 511,858. literary notables of Cambridge : —Professor Agassiz, $3,262; R. IL Dana, $1,958; Professor Wolcott Gibbs, 53,178 ; James Russell Lowell, $2,812 ; Henry W. Long_ , 8, 1 Of r 7 e 6 ; Professor s ; r o DTr. . h e lorpohr rilulls Parsons, $11,204 ; Professor Benjamin Peirce, $2,603 sll3,enBroyB ; WJr.oPlmainGe' li G. pay, !f A Mr. Calver, of Boston, recently addressed 1 meeting of freedmen in Richmond. He told them that if one of those mad-caps from the North came down there and counselled violence and bloodshed to turn a deaf ear to him.  Louisa Little, a Philadelphia danseuse, committed suicide in New Orleans recently. Professor Blot is teaching the fair ones of Newark, N.J., how to cook.  lion. George Bancroft, formerly Secretary of the Navy, and once Inflicter to England, has been appointed United States Minister to Berlin, in place of Governor Wright, deceased, It is reported that kr. Jefferson Davis may be esooted to arrive in this country in the mouth of June,