656 
MISCELLANEA. 
shaped, leather-coloured horse, called “Tappin;” with small star, 
and swift, square bodied, slender-shouldered, sharp-sighted, and 
steps stately ; free from strain, sprain, spasms, spavin, stringhalt, 
staggers, strangles, seeling, sallenders, surfeit, seams, strumous 
swellings, sorrances, scratches, splint, squint, scarf, sores, shuf- 
fling, shambling gait, or symptoms of sickness of any sort. He is 
neither stiff-mouthed, shabby-coated, sinew-shrunk, spurgalled, 
saddle-backed, shell-toothed, slim-gutted, surbated, skin-scabbed, 
short-winded, splay-footed, or shoulder-slipped ; and is sound in 
the sword point and stifle joint. Has neither sick-spleen, sleep- 
ing evil, sitfast, snaggle-tooth, sandcrack, subcutaneous sores, or 
shattered hoofs ; nor is sour, sulky, stubborn, surly, or sullen in 
temper ; neither shy nor skittish, slow, sluggish, nor stupid ; he 
never slips, trips, strays, stalks, starts, stops, shakes, snivels, snuf- 
fles, snorts, stumbles, and seldom sweats; has a showy, stylish 
switch-tail, and a safe set of shoes on : can feed on stubs, straw, 
seage, corn, or Scotch grass ; can carry TEN STONE with great 
speed and long strokes. — Upset price low. 
S. G. JACOBS, Auctioneer , 
Aug. 25th, 1846. 
Abolition of Smithfield Market. 
• [From the “ Daily News.”] 
SINCE the laws against forestalling and regrating have been 
repealed, the proposed enlargement of Smithfield Market is per- 
fectly unnecessary ; at least, half London might be supplied with 
meat by railway from the country, where the cattle may be killed 
and sent up. The loss occasioned by the driving of cattle to mar- 
ket is immense. A correspondent of the Times writes, that a 
fine bullock sometimes loses eight stone, more or less; and a sheep 
about a stone in quantity, besides injury to the quality of the meat, 
and to the hides and wool. There being frequently 1000 head of 
beasts and 6000 sheep and lambs at market, besides pigs and 
calves, it follows that the loss is great in the extreme. Even tak- 
ing it at half, the amount would be 6000 stone of meat lost in one 
market, which would feed, at half-a-pound each, 96,000 persons ; 
and this, repeated market after market, would sustain seven mil- 
lions in the course of the year. Add to this, the driving of beasts 
through the crowded thoroughfares of London is both inconve- 
nient and dangerous. That a market for the abundant supply 
of the metropolis should exist, independent of country supply, no 
one can doubt ; but it should be placed in the suburbs. Energy 
should, therefore, be directed to the abolition instead of to the en- 
largement of so great a public nuisance as Smithfield Market. ... 
