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tioned day, accompanied "by a fearful gale, acting with ruinous effects 

 on both land and sea. The reading of the barometer was very 

 unsettled during the remainder of the month. 



December opened with light south-east winds, the air mild and 

 warm. The reading increased by the 11th day to 30-8 in. About 

 the middle of the month trees budded and daisies were in blossom. 

 Towards the end of the month the mercury fell quickly till it was 

 29-0 in. by the 29th. Frequent and violent gales occurred, causing 

 many shipwrecks. The force of the wind on the last day reached 

 2-i lbs. on the square foot, both at Greenwich and at Liverpool. The 

 temperature during the whole quarter, with the exception of a few 

 days about the middle of October, the beginning of November, and 

 the middle of December, was in excess of the average, to the daily 

 amount of lf°. 



The fall of rain in the whole year (1865) was 29 in., and was 

 about 3i in. above the average. 



PEICES OF PEOVISIONS.* 



Third Quarter. — The average price of wheat was 43s. 3d. a quarter 

 during the three months ending with September 30th; thus it was a 

 shilling a quarter higher than in the corresponding season of 1864, 

 and 2s. 4c/. lower than in that of 1863. The price of wheat was 

 remarkably steady during the two years, the three months' average 

 ranging little above or below the average (40s. 9f/.) of the whole 

 period. The best potatoes at the Waterside Market, Southwark, 

 sold on an average at 85s. a ton ; so the price was lower by 15s. than 

 it was in the corresponding quarter of 1864, and somewhat lower 

 than the price of the same season in 1863. 



Fourth Quarter. — The best potatoes at the Waterside Market, 

 Southwark, sold at prices ranging from 60s. to 90s. a ton. The 

 prices were much lower than in the autumn of 1864. The average 

 price of wheat was 44s. lOd. a quarter. 



PAUPEEISM. 



T7drd Quarter. — A gratifying reduction of pauperism was observ- 

 able ; during the last three siimmers the numbers of in-door and out- 

 door poor fell from 939,984 to 855,039 and to 836,761. 



Fourth Quarter. — On an average 129,036 paupers received complete 

 relief in the workhouses; 725,259 paupers out of doors received 

 relief sufficient to supply some of their wants, but not enough for 

 subsistence. The numbers relieved in the woi-khouses scarcely 

 varied; the numbers out of doors fell from 804,941 to 771,879, and 

 to 725,259 in the last three autumnal quarters. 



* For prices of meat, see Mr. Herbert's Eeport. 



