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“ On the top of his head was his wig 
“ On the top of his wig was his hat.” 
The opposite side of the quadrangle will, of course, we imagine, cor- 
respond with this, but we shall look, with much anxiety to the con- 
necting ones, and to the centre building, for something to which we can 
give more unqualified praise. 
New Fleet Market is also now rapidly in progress, and will no longer 
be the dreadful nuisance that it has so long proved in one of the most 
crowded thoroughfares of the metropolis. Of the style of architecture 
of this building we are yet in ignorance; but from the able hand to which 
the management of this great improvement is consigned, we have the 
best hopes. : 
Gentlemen engaged in concerns of this kind should recollect that taste 
must be mingled with utility, and they should select men of taste as well 
as men of business, on all committees connected with carrying public 
works into execution. 
Much of the beauty of the metropolis has been sacrificed to mere men 
of business—men who think only on pounds, shillings, and pence, and 
the mere utility of a thing; not considering that beauty has its useful- 
ness by the instruction it imparts, the example it affords, and the 
emulation it creates. 
The same architect has, we understand, submitted a new design for 
Hungerford Market, which we consider, from the model which we have 
seen, far superior to Covent Garden ; but the project for its erection has 
been arrested by the Woods and Forests, who have some idea of adopting 
Mr. Burton’s plan of converting this market into a grand mews, and ap- 
propriating a portion of it to the stabling, &c., of the Golden Cross, 
which must be taken down in the progress of the present contemplated 
improvements in that quarter. 
There is likewise some intention of constructing a market in the rapidly 
rising and increasing neighbourhood of Pimlico, for the purpose of 
affording accommodation to Belgrave and Eaton Squares, and their vicinity. 
Should this be the case, and Mr. Porden inherit the talent and taste of 
his uncle, along with his employment as the architect to Lord Grosvenor, 
we have little doubt of seeing something worthy of the splendid 
neighbourhood in which it is to be erected. 
We cannot conclude this article better, than by earnestly calling the 
attention of the proprietors of markets towards making them rather em- 
bellishments than nuisances to our metropolis; and we trust that the 
general spirit of improvement will not stop till these disgraces are 
reformed altogether. 
Ss. S. 
