Our correspondent "J. B." sends us a second letter this
week, for which, however, as the subject is not one to which we can devote much space, we cannot find room. In substance it says that the document from which we quoted in our last issue is not what it purports to be—a return by the Markets' Committee of the Fish supply of the Metropolis—but a statement by a private compiler of the quantity of fish received at Billingsgate ; and further, that the Corporation is most anxious to carry out Lady Burdett Coutts's intention with respect to Columbia Market, but cannot. If it cannot, we are unable to conceive a more signal proof of incompetence. Thousands of tons of fish are annually wasted as manure, and we are asked to believe that those who catch them cannot be induced to send them to London. They prefer to waste rather than sell.
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