a
market-place suitable to its commercial consequence. Hence,
Smithfield market is almost a public nuisance, while its extensive
business is settled in public-houses in the neighbourhood; and the
hay market, held in the fine broad street of that name, but ill
accords with the courtly vicinity of Pall Mall and St. James's.
It is, however, to _fruit and vegetable markets_ that this
observation is particularly applicable: for instance, what a
miserable scene is the area of _Covent Garden market_. The
non-completion of the piazza square is much to be lamented, while
splendid streets and towns are erecting on every side of the
metropolis. How unworthy, too, is the market, of association with
Inigo Jones's noble Tuscan church of St. Paul, "the handsomest
barn in Europe." To quote Sterne, we must say "they manage these
things better in France," where the _halles_, or markets are among
the noblest of the public buildings. Neither can any Englishman,
who has seen the markets of Paris, but regret the absence of
fountains from the markets of London. They are among the most
tasteful embellishments of Paris, and their presence in the
markets cannot be too much admired. Water is, unquestionably, the
most salutary and effective cleanser of vegetable filth which is
necessarily generated on the sites of markets; but in London its
useful introduction is limited to a few pumps, and its ornamental
to one or two solitary _jets d'eau_ in almost unfrequented
places. It should be added, that in Southwark, an extensive and
commodious market-place is just completed, and the tolls are
proportionally increasing. A similar improvement is much wanted in
Covent Garden, by which means many of the evils of that spot would
be abated, and instead of seeing Nature's choicest productions
huddled together, and being ourselves tortured in the scramble and
confusion of a crowd, we might then range through the avenues of
Covent Garden with all the comfort which our forefathers were wont
to enjoy on this spot, or certainly with comparative ease.--ED.

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