246 Statistics of Live Stock and Dead Meat 
Mutton. 
1849. 
1850. 
1851. 
1852. 
1853. 
s. d. 
s. rf. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
S. (/. 
3 4 
2 10 
2 8 
2 10 
2 10 
Middling . . 
3 10 
3 4 
3 10 
4 4 
4 4 
4 2 
4 0 
4 8 
5 2 
1854. 
1855. 
1856. 
1857. 
1858. 
s. d. 
s. cf. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
*. rf. 
3 2 
3 6 
3 6 
3 0 
2 10 
Middling 
4 0 
4 2 
4 4 
4 2 
4 0 
5 0 
5 0 
% 4 
5 4 
5 2 
1859. 
1860. 
1861. 
1862. 
1863. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
s. rf. 
s. d. 
s. tt 
3 0 
3 2 
3 2 
3 8 
4 0 
4 2 
4 6 
4 6 
4 8 
5 0 
5 2 
5 10 
5 8 
5 6 
5 10 
Owing to the fine condition in which both beasts and sheep 
have come to hand, the supply of rough fat has considerably 
increased, and the price has fallen to 2s. Id. per 8 lbs. against 
2s. 3jrf. in 1862. If we may judge from the quality of the stock 
in the hands of the Norfolk graziers, and the present state of 
the tallow market, there is very little prospect of fat becoming 
dearer. 
Advices from Holland and Denmark state that in all pro- 
bability increased shipments of stock will be made to this country 
in 1864. But they probably will not more than balance our 
increasing consumption. The steady increase in our home pro- 
duction of really consumable meat will, however, prevent any 
decided advance in prices. 
Newgate and Leadenhall markets have been heavily supplied 
with each kind of meat — the arrivals from Scotland and the 
north of England having been very large — yet the trade has 
been firm. 
The state of the wool trade during the last six months may be 
briefly referred to. The unusually high prices demanded for 
cotton, arising from its scarcity, and the active inquiry for 
woollen goods for export, produced a firm market for all descrip- 
tions of wool, and a rise in the quotations of 2d. per lb. on tjie 
average sales. The quantity of English wool taken by con- 
tinental houses exhibited a deficiency when compared with 
some former periods ; but their purchases of colonial were on an 
extensive scale. The market was, therefore, relieved of any excess 
in the supplies arriving from our colonies, and the bulk of our 
