"the handsome building erected by the city corporation, known as the eastern market, does not appear up to the present time to have answered the purpose for which it was intended. the market gardeners will not come there, but still prefer to go to the victoria market, and the tenants of the stalls inside the building complain that they are doing so little business that they cannot pay their rents. this complaint is certainly borne out by the appearance of things, for out of the 51 stalls round the sides of the building, no less than 24 are vacant, and during the day not more than a dozen persons are to be seen in the building."