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PRICE OF PROVISIONS. 
Ist Quarter. — The prices of provisions have been high during iho 
thirteen weeks. Taking the corresponding weeks of 1859 as the 
starting point, the price of wheat rose 34 per cent., beef 7 per cent., 
mutton 11 per cent., potatoes 59 jier cent. The average prices 
during the thirteen weeks were : wheat 52s. Id. a quarter, beef 5^d., 
mutton G^. a pound by the carcase in the Leadenhall and Newgate 
Markets; York Regent potatoes 135.s. a ton at Waterside Market, 
South wark. The prices of the lower qualities of beef were stationary 
(4J(/.), and the prices of the higher qualities rose from 6id. to Id. a 
pound. The prices of the lower and higher qualities of mutton rose 
hd. and f c7. in the pound in the twelvemonth, and were respectively 
5ji?. and 7hd. a pound durijig the thirteen weeks. 
2nd Quarter. — Wheat was 56s. 9d, a quarter, or 31 per cent, higher 
in price than it was in the corresponding quarter of 1859. Beef at 
the Leadenhall and Newgate Markets was sold, by the carcase, at 
i^d. a pound, or nearly ^d. less. Mutton was, on an average, 5fc?. 
a pound, and remained the same as in the last months of 1859. The 
potato crop partially failed, and York Regents, at the Waterside 
Market, were sold at 122s. 6d. a ton, or at the rate of H lb. for a 
penny. The price of this universal article of food rose progi'essively 
in the last three months of the three years 1858-59-60 from 87s. 6d. 
to 102s. 6d. and 122s. 6d. a ton. To supply its deficiency other anti- 
•scorbutic vegetables, fruit, or herbs are required. 
