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The AVKRAGE Prices of Consols, of ^V^leat, of Meat, and of Potatoes; also the 

 AVERAGE Number of Paupers relieved on the last day of each Week ; and the 

 Mean Temperature ; in each of the Nine Quarters ending December 31st, 1866. 



Quarters 

 euding 



Average Prices. 



Dec. 31 



1865 

 Mar. 31 



June 30 



Sept. 30 j 



Dec. 31 



1866 

 Mar. 31 



June 30 



Sept. 30 



Dec. 31 



Meat per lb. at IjCadenhall 



and Newgate Markets 



(by the Carcase). 



4§d. — id. 

 Mean 5frf. 



^ld.—-jd. 

 Mean 5 ft?. 



4frf.-6fcZ. 

 Mean 5frf. 



4jtZ. — 7c?. 

 Mean 5frf. 



Ald.— -]d. 

 Mean 5|£?. 



Aid.~(,id. 

 Mean 5|(i. 



4frf. — 7c?. 

 Mean 5^rf. 



Mutton. 



5H-7Jrf. 

 Mean b^d. 



5H-7H 

 Mean 63(/. 



(,\d.—ild. 

 Mean 7|s?. 



6id.— 8frf. 

 Mean -j^d. 



Shd.—^d. 

 Mean 6Jrf. 



5i<f.— 7|c?. 

 Mean 6|<f. 



5irf.-8H 

 Mean 7rf. 



5K— 7H 5^'^.— 8H 

 Mean 6Jrf. Mean 6f tf. 



4frf.-7</. I 5^-7^*^. 

 Mean 5^rf. Mean 6grf. 



Best 

 Potatoes 

 per Ton 



at Waterside 

 Market, 



Southwark. 



80s. — 95 s. 

 Mean 87s. 6(Z. 



85s. — 97s. 

 Mean 91s. 



90s. — 115s. 

 Mean 102s. bd. 



65s. — lOOS. 

 Mean 85s. 



60s. — 90s. 

 Mean 75 s. 



55s. — 90s. 

 Mean 72s. 6cZ. 



60s. — 95s. 

 Mean 77s. kd. 



75s. — 120S. 

 Mean 97s. kd. 



85 s. — 1 3 OS. 



Mean 107s. 6c?, 



Patjpekism. 



Quarterly Average of the 

 Number of Paupers re- 

 lieved on the lait day of 

 each week. 



Mean 

 Tempe- 

 rature at 

 Green- 

 wich. 



128,322 



142,329 

 125,846 

 117,172 

 129,036 



139.546 

 123,657 

 120,955 



133,979 



Out-door. 



771.879 



813,371 

 776,016 



719,589 

 725,259 

 759,402 

 734,139 

 717,553 

 734,312 



43*7 

 36-5 

 56-2 

 62-5 

 46*0 



41-2 



53-0 

 58-9 

 46*2 



Of the 204,882 emigrants who left the country in 1866, 58,856 

 were of English origin; 12,307 were Scotch; 98,890 were Irish, 

 26,691 foreigners, 8138 of country not distinguished. About a 

 fourth part of the total emigration consisted of " general labourers." 

 The number specially described as " agricultural labourers " was 

 less than 2000. 



Messrs. Home and Co. of London write as follows : — 

 " With the exception of the last fortnight in June, the weather in 

 1866 was, upon the whole, unseasonably wet and mild, just when it 

 would have been desirable to be dry and cold, and vice versa. A 

 snov^less winter, a chilly spring, a sunless summer, and a weeping- 

 autumn. The grain crops were, in many instances, cut before they 

 were ripe, or carried from the fields too quickly, while in the North 

 of England and in Scotland the harvests were protracted to an 

 unusually late period, in some cases even in November ; but fortu- 



