for Consumption in the Metropolis. 
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figfiue mo.'it will unquestionably be dear in price ; but much will 
depend upon tlie ability ot the speculators to hold tallow, and the 
value of money in the discount market. 
Supplies, Demand, axd Value, during the fast 
Six Months. 
Notwithstanding that the total number of beasts exhibited and 
dispose<l of in the metropolitan cattle-market in the last six 
months has been a full average one, viz. — -114,702 head against 
113,373 head in the corresponding period in 1859, and 111,5U2 
in 1858, prices, from causes to which we have already alluded, 
have ruled unusually high. The average value of the best Scots 
has been 5,s". GfZ., against 5s. in the previous six months, and 
4.<J. Qd. in 1858. 13ut here we may observe that at least a moiety 
of the various breeds has been disposed of in little more than a 
half-fat state, and hence the actual supply of meat has been trifling. 
The same remark may be applied to sheep, especially to the 
long-woolled qualities. Compared with last year — taking the 
average of the six months — the value of that description of stock 
has advanced from id. to 6d. per 8 lbs., though at one period the 
rise was much greater, viz., Is. to Is. Ad. per 8 lbs. The annexed 
returns show the total supplies exhibited, the quarters from 
whence they were derived, and the prices at which they were 
disposed of: — 
Supplies of each Mnd of Stock Exhibited and Sold durivg the first Six 
Months of the folloicii/g Years : — 
1855. 
1856. 
1857. 
1858. 
1809. 
1860. 
Sheep and Lambs 
Pigs 
113,089 
2,440 
6')l,600 
8,f;iO 
16,590 
115,115 
2,977 
036,030 
6,125 
15,344 
112,309 
2,682 
536,790 
8,420 
13,240 
111,592 
2,917 
588,758 
8,878 
13,096 
113,373 
2,977 
668,702 
7 272 
14 ',869 
114, 7Q2 
2,904 
662,0.30 
9,515 
14,201 
" District " Bidloch Supplies. 
1855. 
1856. 
1857. 
1858. 
1859. 
1860. 
Northern Districts 
600 
900 
4,000 
4,000 
4,000 
Eastern Districts .. .. 
54,089 
51,700 
60 , .500 
66,890 
67,460 
68,520 
Other parts of England 
12,530 
13,850 
14,490 
14,560 
19,090 
21 ,420 
Scotland 
9,827 
10,008 
8,860 
8,456 
10,030 
5,033 
4,000 
3,400 
2,700 
4,820 
2,217 
1,477 
13,612 
7,830 
9,2.38 
5,649 
7^580 
9,058 
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