CAPTAIN FITZROYwished to know if the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary for the Home Department could state what proceedings were intended to be taken under the Act of last Session, in reference to the construction of a new cattle market for the metropolis in place of Smithfield? He believed that the interval of six months allowed by the Act of last Session before the choice should be made, had now expired?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYbegged to state that, on the 29th of January, the day before the expiration of the six months allowed by law, he had received formal notice from the Corporation of London that they desired to undertake the formation of a new metropolitan market, and to defray the expenses incidental to such formation out of their corporate funds.
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, he had no reason to believe that the Corporation would apply for any new Bill, so far at least as powers for holding the new market were concerned. The Act gave certain powers to the Commissioners that Her 161 Majesty was empowered to appoint, and it was provided that, if the Corporation accepted the option of carrying it out themselves, those powers should be transferred to them. Of course an Act would be necessary for the purchase of a site for the market, because the late Act did not provide for that.