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unfortunately, the too general characteristic of the tradesmen and 
labourers in this department of commerce ; it becomes doubly desirable 
that the markets should be removed from public thoroughfares, and have 
places set apart for their separate reception. 
Amidst the general cry for improvement in the metropolis we are 
glad to find that the removal of these inconveniences has found many 
advocates, and that attempts are making in different directions to destroy 
such nuisances. 
Smithfield is already, we believe, condemned; and, we trust, that 
some future attempt to remove that extraordinary nuisance, the Haye 
market, will be more successful than the last that was made. 
People seem to forget that when these privileges were first granted, 
that the places were then the suburbs, instead of the centre, of the 
metropolis; and legislation should take care that they are always 
kept in the suburbs, where they may be held without that dreadful in- 
convenience which they are to the neighbourhood in which they are 
situated. 
Improvements in the markets of London are now, however, gra- 
dually taking place; the old lumbering building, so long used as the 
Corn Market, in Mark-lane; has been taken down, and has given place 
to one of the most elegant buildings in the city, from the designs of Mr. 
George Smith, the architect to the new St. Paul’s school. His new Corn 
Exchange does credit to his talent as an architect, and to the liberality of 
the directors of the establishment. It is replete with every convenience 
for the purposes of its peculiar commerce—contains a superb subscription 
room, and a handsome and commodious coffee room, and presents, 
towards Mark-lane, a part of Grecian doric architecture, than which we 
cannot call to mind any building in the metropolis which surpasses it of 
this simple style. : 
We trust that this spirited example, on the part of the directors of this 
establishment, will be followed by the directors of other great com- 
mercial marts ; and that the exterior of our buildings, devoted to that 
pursuit which forms our greatness, will be in some measure commensu- 
rate with the importance of the business which is done within their walls. 
At the other end of the town that long-continued nuisance, though 
very great convenience, Covent Garden, has at length become the object 
of improvement. This has, indeed, been long called for, on many 
account ; not only from the dreadful state of dilapidation of its wretched 
buildings, and for the quantity of filth, partly the consequence of the 
nature and disposition of these buildings, and partly of the want of 
proper regulations, but, also, for the numerous and perpetual disputes, 
as to the boundaries and dues of the market. Many an hour of their wor- 
ships of Bow-street, and the judges of Westminster Hall, has been obliged 
to be bestowed upon the tediousness of an argument, as to the right of 
paying two-pence for a load of potatoes, or the exact and proper extent 
of the denter stones. While, however, a certain income was produced, the 
ery for improvement was in vain ; at length Mr. Fowler, the architect to 
market now building, hit wpon an expedient that was sure to lure 
the Duke of Bedford into the long-wished for improvement ; and this 
was a plan by which the income would be increased considerably, by 
extending the convenience of the market. Additional income is of great 
import, where fortunes must be saved out of the surplus for younger 
children ; and the Duchess, having no small quantity of them to provide 
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