is
bare,
And the Knight, in mazy circles, is flying thro' the air!

The runt tears on, the rout is gone, the street is calm once more,
And to Bartlemy's they bear him, extended on a door;
Now, gramercy, good SIR CALIPEE, to the turtle and the haunch,
That padded out thy civic ribs, and lined thy stately paunch.

No ribs are broke, but a shattering stroke thy system has sustain'd;
Any other than an alderman had certainly been brained.
And, soon as he had breath to swear, the Knight right roundly swore
That, straight, he'd put down Smithfield, and set up an _abattoir_.

In this year there were sold at Smithfield 226,132 beasts, 1,593,270
sheep and lambs, 26,356 calves, and 33,531 pigs--to deal with which there
were about 160 salesmen. Things went on very much in the same style as
described in _Punch_ until 1851, when the contracted space of the market,
the slaughtering places adjoining, and many other nuisances, gave grounds
for general dissatisfaction, and after an investigation, an Act (14-15
Vic., c. 61) was passed on 1 Aug. "For providing a Metropolitan Market,
and conveniences therewith, in lieu of the Cattle Market at Smithfield."
A suitable site was found in Copenhagen Fields, Islington; the last
market at Smithfield was held on 11 June, and the first at the new one on
13 June, 1855.

The _Hampshire Guardian_, copied into the _Times_ of 12 Dec., gives us
the story of the first submarine Telegraph: "We are enabled to supply the
following additional particulars respecting the submarine Telegraph laid
down across our harbour. It is now about three years since the telegraph
from the Nine Elms terminus to the terminus at Gosport was first
established. Subsequently, from the inconvenience experienced at the
Admiralty Office here, because of the distance to the telegraph station,
the wires were continued from that place to the Royal Clarence Yard.
With this addition, although the inconvenience was lessened, it was far
from being removed, the harbour intervening, leaving a distance of
upwards of a mile, to the Admiral's house, unconnected; and,
notwithstanding the wish of the authorities, both here and in London,
that the telegraph should be carried to the Dockyard, no attempt has,
hitherto, been made to do so, because it has been considered almost
impossible to convey it under water. An offer, indeed, was made to the
Admiralty, to lay down a telegraph enclosed in metallic p