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county households, 43s. to 46s.; Norfolk and Suffolk, 36s. to 41s.; Ameri- 
ean, (per barrel,) 26s. to 29s.; extra, 30s. to 31s. 
In Liverpool, per 280 pounds, English and Irish superfines brought 
40s. to 42s.; extra do., 43s. to d1s.; French, 48s. to 53s. 6d.; Spanish, 446, 
to 46s.; Trieste and Hungarian, 64s. to 76s.s 4 Chilian and California, 42s, 
to 48s.; American, western State, (per barrel,) 28s. to 31s.; extra State, 
30s. to 348.5 Baltimore and Philadelphia, 30s. to 35s.; Ohio, 31s. to 35s. 
Canadian, 32s. to 34s. 
In Paris prices tended upward during the first half of the month, and 
ranged from 44s. 10d. to 49s. 4d. 
Marzu.—London. White, per quarter, 31s. to 33s.; yellow, 27s. to 29s. 
Liverpool. American white, per quarter, 31s. to 33s.; do. yellow, 27s. 
6d. to 28s.; Trieste, 27s. 6d. to 28s.; Danubian, 27s. 6d. to 29s.; Galatz, 
28s. Gd. to 29s. 6d. 
Woou.—The wool trade exhibited no special activity. At the regu- 
lar sales of colonial wool Australian was in good request, and brought 
steady prices. The uniform quotations of the first three weeks of May 
were as follows: Southdown hoggets, 1s, 10d. to 1s. 11d. per pound; 
half-breed do., the same; Kent fleeces went a half-penny higher ; South: 
down ewes and wethers, 1s. 5d. to 1s. 6d.; Leicester, 1s. 9d. to 1s. 10d. 
The month closed with a general reduction of half- “penny upon the above 
prices. 
- Burtrer.—Dorset, 120s. to 124s. per cwt.; Friesland, 98s. to 106s.; 
Jersey, 88s. to 98s. 
CHEESE.—Cheshire, 80s. to 90s. per ewt.; double Gloucester, (new,) 
70s. to 82s.; Chedder, 80s. to 94s.: . American, 60s. to 80s. 
LIVE- STOCK. —During the last week in May the total imports of for- 
eign live-stock into London amounted to 16,147 head; the receipts of 
the corresponding week of several previous ea were as follows: 1871, 
17,195 ; 1870, 17,868 ; 1869, 16,637 ; 1868, 5,907. Of the receipts of the 
week ending May 31, 1873, 1,109 were cattle, 13,556, sheep and lambs, 
788 calves, 694 pigs. The prices during that week ranged as follows: 
Coarse and inferior beasts, (per 8 pounds,) 5s. 4d. to 5s. 8d.; second 
quality, 5s. 10d. to 6s.; prime large oxen, 6s. 2d. to 6s. 4d.; prime Scots, 
short-horns, &c., 6s. 6d. to 6s. Sd.s coarse and inferior sheep, 5s. to 5s. 
6d.; second quality, 5s. 8d. to 68. prime coarse wooled, 6s. to 6s. 2d.; 
prime Southdowns, 6s. 2d. to 6s. 4d.; large coarse calves, 5s. to 5s. 8d.: 
prime small do., 6s. to 6s. 6d.; large hogs, 4s. 4d. to 4s. 10d.; small 
porkers, 5s. to 5s. 6d.; lambs, 8s..to 8s. 6d. 
