for Consumption in the Metropolis. 
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yet prices rule as high or higher than ever. Holland, Denmark, 
Spain, Portugal, Germany, and — last, though not least — Ireland, 
are competing with the English grazier, but with what success 
is shown by our tabular statement of prices. But how can we 
anticipate low currencies for either beasts or sheep whilst the 
trade and commerce of the country are in so flourishing a con- 
dition, and whilst, consequently, the consuming powers of the 
people are rapidly increasing? 
In this age of railways and steamboats, in which great com- 
petition for freights exists, both as respects land and water- 
carriage, it would be a mistake to suppose that the consumption 
of London, with its 2,400,000 inhabitants, is solely represented 
by the Metropolitan, or live-stock, market. There are other 
influences at work, which, if not taken into account, would 
vitiate any estimate of the actual quantity of meat consumed 
in the metropolis in any given year or series of years. We refer 
to the dead-meat markets, which, for importance, are second 
to none in the kingdom. Having been furnished with statistics 
by those upon whom we may place reliance, we have no hesi- 
tation in laying before our readers the following figures. We 
find that, during the year ending June 30, 1859, the following 
quantities of meat were received from various distant sources 
of supply up to Newgate and Leadenhall markets : — ■ 
Beef. srutton. Lamb. Veal. Pork." 
No. of carcasses 22,000 98,700 34,500 3,250 227,200 
It must be understood, that in the above figures are not in- 
cluded the supplies sent in by the metropolitan slaughtermen, 
or the purchases of live stock made by the butchers residing in 
Newgate and Leadenhall. The quarters from whence the bulk 
of these receipts were derived are Scotland, Yorkshire, and the 
West of England, from which latter district about 90,000 car- 
casses of pigs, chiefly imported from Ireland alive, have been 
derived. Twenty years since the quantities of dead meat received 
from Scotland, and different parts of England, were nearly as 
follows :— Beef, 9,500 ; sheep, 70,000 ; lambs, 22,000 ; calves, 
3,100 ; and pigs, 147,000 carcasses. It follows, therefore, that 
increased consumption has been steadily met by increased 
supplies of food. 
Supplies of Live Stock exhibited in the Metropolitan Cattle Market. 
Beasts. Sheep and Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 
259,491 1,415,551 22,456 34,310 
Supplies of Scotch and Country Meat sold in Newgate and Leadenhall. 
Beef. Mutton and Lamb. Veal. Pork. 
Carcasses. Carcasses. Carcasses. Carcasses. 
22,000 133,200 3,250 227,200 
