Our author, who was one of the committee, observes, that from this society may be seen the great business that may be done for a trifling expence; for the Treasurer, Commissioners, Secretary, and Clerks; the house-rent and entertainments; the fire and candle, paper, pens and ink, do not all together cost the society an hundred pounds _per annum_; and if, by an additional Clerk, he adds, it should happen to swell to 150l. “greater good with less money, I will be bold to say, is not done by any society in this kingdom: for exclusive of the charge of cloathing, feeding, and sending boys to Portsmouth, the expence is very little more than the rent of two rooms at about 25l. _per annum_, the salary of a secretary, not exceeding 50l. _per annum_, and a Porter 10l. _per annum_.” There is a general meeting every three months, viz. the first Thursday in January, the first in April, the first in July, and the first in October, or oftener, if the committee desire it; when an account of receipts and disbursements are laid before the subscribers under the direction of the committee, which consists of a considerable number of them. Of this committee not less than three persons act, who meet every Thursday at eleven o’clock at the Merchants Seamens office over the Royal Exchange; and any other day, if necessary, at the Secretary’s house in Prince’s street, where any two of the committee may transact the business when it is very urgent. MARINERS _alley_, Fore street, Lambeth. MARINERS _street_, Shadwell. MARK _lane_, extends from Fenchurch street to Tower street, and is chiefly inhabited by merchants. Maitland says it was originally called Mart lane, it being once used as a public mart. On the east side of this lane is the Corn Exchange. MARKET _court_, 1. By Oxford market. 2. By Shepherd’s market. MARKET _hill_, Upper Shadwell. MARKET _lane_, Pallmall. MARKET _passage_, 1. Lime street, leading into Leadenhall market. 2. Oxford street, leading into Oxford market. 3. Paternoster row, leading into Newgate market. MARKET _street_, 1. Jermain street. 2. Newport street. 3. Millbank, Westminster. MARKETS. As one of the principal advantages of a city are commodious markets, this metropolis may, in this particular, be said to exceed most, if not all the cities in Europe: some account of these is dispersed through this work; notwithstanding which, it may be proper, under this article, to gratify the reader’s curiosity, by giving a list of them, that the whole may be seen at one view. Bear Key, the great corn market. Billingsgate, the great fish, and coal market. Bishopsgate street market, for hay. Blackwell hall, the great cloth market. Bloomsbury market, for meat, &c. Borough market, a new market for meat and greens. Brook’s market, for meat. Carnaby market, for meat, &c. Clare market, for meat, &c. Covent Garden market, for herbs and fruit. Fleet market, for meat, fruit, herbs, &c.