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PKICE OF PROVISIONS. 
1st Quarter. — The average price of wheat per quarter for tlie 
throe months ending September 30, was 52s. Id., which is less by 
7s. than it was in the corresponding quarter of the year 18G0, but 
higher by 8s. than in that of 1859. Both beef and mutton were 
cheaper than they were in the same period of 18G0: the mean 
price of beef in the metropolitan markets being id., of miitton id., 
per pound lower. The average price per ton of the best potatoes at 
the Waterside Market, Southwark, was 97s. Gd. ; being 37s. 6d. per 
ton cheaper than in the same quarter of 1860, and 12s. 6d. dearer 
than in that of 1859. 
2nd Quarter.— The average price of wheat for the three months 
ending December 31, was 59s. 3d. per quarter; thus, it was dearer 
by 2s. 6d. a quarter than in the same period of the year 1860, and 
dearer by 16s. a quarter than in that of 1859. The means of the 
highest and the lowest weekly prices of mutton in Leadenhall 
and Newgate markets have not varied in the last three December 
quarters ; but beef of the inferior quality was dearer by id. per lb. 
than in the corresponding quarter of 1860. The mean price 
of the best potatoes at the Waterside Market, Southwark, was 
120s. per ton, being 2s. 6d. a ton less than in the corresponding 
period of 1860, and 17s. 6d. a ton dearer than in the same period of 
1859. 
