on this subject as he conceives to be most interesting and consistent with the objects of the Institution. The Paper is illustrated by an engraving of the Abattoir Montmartre, impressions of which, (Plate 4,) are permitted to be taken for the use of the Minutes of Proceedings, and by four drawings, (Nos. 4,399 to 4,404.)
__Mr. CIrADwIcK said he had listened to the Paper with great satisfaction, as it was connected with a subject to which he had devoted his most anxious attention.The evils of this kind which Napoleoit removed in Paris, still remained in great force in London, and he feared it would need a power as absolute as that of the Emperor to eradicate them.T h e subject had attracted the attention of Mr. Chadwick's colleagues on the Sanitary Commission, and its consideration had only been postponed, on account of other, though not more important inquiries. The chief difficulty, both in the Metropolis, and in other parts of England, was, he believed, rather administrative, than arising from a want of perception of the great convenience which abattoirs would offer in avoiding dirt and filth, disturbance in the streets, scenes of brutality, and the existence of a number of ill-conditioned places where the present system was perpetuated. The great evil, however, connected with the actual existence of slaughterhouses in the interim of towns, was that arising from the various offensive trades, such as tallow-melting, cat-gut making, &c, which were necessarily established in the immediate vicinity, and which eventually became more objectionable than the slaughter-houses themselves. One of the most importaut effects to be antieipated froln the removal of the slaughter-house$, would evidently be the transfer of all the trades connected with them to some less densely populated neighbourhoods.The objection of the butchers in England, (who, as a body, Were not so united as in France,) to such an establishment as that atIslington was, that they were only exchanging the control of one irresponsihle body for another, namely, from the Corporation of the City to a Joint-stock Company. Now the real danger to the public, might be in trusting the butchers themselves with too much power; but that objection could be removed by legislative enactments, and an adaptation of the foreign system to the English trade, which would no doubt take place.I t had been expected, that the railways rvould bring a large quantity of killed meat to the London market; hitherto, however,
