two Ionic columns, and two pilasters or antaes, 30 ft. high.  In the centre of the front, as well as within the market, it is intended to place a clock.  The outer boundary of the market, which forms three sides of the square, and is separated from the enclosed market by a carriage road, consists of twenty-five shops devoted exclusively to butchers and fishmongers.  At the south-west corner of these is an hotel; at the south-east corner, near Call-lane, are two shops, with offices above; and, in another part, a house for the clerk of the market.  There are four pumps on the premises, and the floor of the interior is so contrived and fitted up with proper drains, that it can be washed down at pleasure.  The whole will be lighted with gas.

The architect of the Central Market is Francis Goodwin, Esq., and it is but justice to say, that it is highly creditable to his taste and skill.  The front is of the Grecian order, and perhaps the largest piece of masonry in the county of York, with the fewest observable joints.  It is expected to prove an advantageous investment.

    [2] Too much praise cannot be conferred on this and similar instances
        of provincial improvement; while it is much to be regretted
        that such praise cannot be extended to the metropolis of
        England; for, strange to say, LONDON is still without 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