Queen's Head, Borough. Ram, Smithfield. Spread Eagle, Gracechurch Street, Coffee-Room, Hotel, and Tavern Swan-with-two-necks, Lad Lane, Coffee-Room, Hotel, and Tavern. Spur, Borough, Coffee-Room, and Hotel. Talbot, Southwark. Three Cups, Aldersgate Street, Coffee-Room, Hotel, and Tavern. White Bear, Piccadilly. White Hart, Borough. White Horse, Friday Street. White Horse, Fetter Lane, Coffee-Room, Hotel, and Tavern. Fly Boats from the Canal Basin, City Road, and from Paddington, daily, to all parts of England and Wales. Goods sent to Pickford's Warehouse, Wood Street, Cheapside, will be forwarded to Paddington Wharf. Steam Yachts, or Packets. —To Richmond, Gravesend, and Margate, daily, during the summer months. The recent introduction of the power of Steam has been so much extended and improved, that the Steam packets between London and Margate, always perform their voyage within the day, and often in Eight hours. Being provided with low pressure engines, regulated by proper valves, nothing can be more secure, or pleasant, than such a day's voyage. The vessels are elegantly fitted up, the fare is moderate; and, besides music, several kinds of refreshment are to be had on board. The packets for Richmond go from Queenhithe, and Hungerford stairs; those for Gravesend, Margate, &c., from the Tower and the Custom House Quay, below Billingsgate. Repositories for the weekly Sale of Horses and Carriages. Alridge's, St. Martin's Lane, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Dixon's, formerly Sadler and Son's, Goswell Street, Tuesdays and Fridays. Maberly's Horse Bazaar, Portman Square. Markets. Those for Hay and Straw are held three times a week, in the street called the Haymarket, near Piccadilly; in Smithfield, in Whitechapel, at Paddington, and in Southwark. Oats and beans are sold, with all other grain, at the Corn Exchange, in Mark Lane, at which the market days are, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Smithfield is famous for the sale of bullocks, sheep, lambs, calves, and hogs, every Monday; and, likewise, though not to so great an extent, on Fridays; on the latter days, there is also, in the afternoon, a market for ordinary horses. Leadenhall Market is the greatest in London for the sale of country killed meat; and is the only skin and leather market within the bills of mortality. Newgate Market is the second great place for country killed meat; and, at both Leadenhall and Newgate markets, are sold pigs and poultry killed in the country, together with fresh butter, eggs, &c. to an astonishing amount. The three last markets almost entirely supply the butchers of London and its vicinity, to the distance of twelve miles and upwards, it being a current opinion that live cattle can be bought cheaper at Smithfield than at any other place. At Billingsgate is the fish market, which is principally supplied by fishing-smacks and boats coming from the sea up the river Thames, and partly with fresh fish, by land carriage, from every distance within the limits of England, and part of Wales: this market is held daily. Various other Markets for butchers' meat, vegetables, &c., are held in different parts of the metropolis; making a total of sixteen flesh-markets, and twenty-five markets for corn, coals, hay, vegetables, and other principal necessaries. Of late years, however, the population of London has so greatly increased, that there is now an absolute want of new markets in almost every part of the suburbs. New shops, it is true, continue to be opened in almost every new street, but in these, from the distance of the great markets of supply, the prices of provison are much enhanced to the consumer. CHAP. XIII. Principal Manufacturing and Trading Establishments ; including Bazaars, Water and Gas-Light Companies, Insurance Offices, and Fire Offices. BAZAARS. Numerous establishments for the exhibition and sale of goods, similar to those called by the East Indians, Bazaars, or collections of small shops in one place, sprung up in London a few years ago. That in Soho Square, belonging to John Trotter, Esq., who has the merit of being the first who attempted such an establishment, consists of a ground story, and two large floors, in which upwards of 400 female dealers are daily occupied in the sale of fancy articles of every kind,-jewellery, watches, optical instruments, perfumery, stationery, books, prints, pictures, female dress, toys, &c. and even pastry may be had here. This Bazaar, notwithstanding it had, in the beginning, to encounter much of that prejudice and consequent opposition by which the most useful inventions and discoveries are frequently attempted to be decried, has continued to flourish with increased and deserved reputation. It is open every day except Sundays, Christmas-day, and GoodFriday, from 10 o'clock till 5 o'clock, in the winter season, and till 6 o'clock in the summer season, which commences the first of May, and terminates about the middle of September. The rooms and galleries are hung with red cloth, and fitted up with mahogany counters, ranging in continuity across each apartment. What is called a counter, in the Bazaar, is a part of the above, measuring four feet in length, for which every tenant pays 3d. per day; but two, three, or more counters, are generally hired by the same person. Young single women are mostly employed, though married females are not excluded. An upper floor was first opened on the 2d of May, 1825.—There is another Bazaar in Bond Street, called the Western Mart, consisting of only one room, well fitted up, and equally well furnished with commodities. The Burlington Arcade, in Piccadilly, is another establishment of the same kind, K K |