THE FOREIGN CATTLE MARKET. 
521 
✓ 
1 
Cardiff, 
1872. 
Wolverhampton, 
1871. 
Oxford, 
1870. 
Manchester, 
1869. 
Horses 
314 
246 
203 
384 
Cattle 
406 
399 
435 
338 
Sheep 
383 
444 
548 
461 
Pigs . 
190 
178 
199 
132 
Total . 
1293 
1267 
1385 
1315 
THE FOREIGN CATTLE MARKET. 
At a meeting of the Court of Common Council at Dept¬ 
ford, on Thursday, May 16th, at which Mr. Alderman Besley 
presided, 
Mr. Elias Davis called attention to a letter which had appeared 
in the Times, in which it was stated that the Corporation had a 
bill in Parliament for the purpose of compelling all foreign cattle 
to be sent to Deptford Market, and he asked the Remembrancer 
if that statement was true. 
Mr. Lawley said that the Daily News on Monday also con¬ 
tained an article on this subject, which he believed consisted of a 
great many misstatements. He wished to know if it was true, as 
was alleged, that the charges at Deptford Market were higher 
than at other landing-places for foreign cattle. 
The Remembrancer said there was not a word of truth in the 
statement that a bill such as that referred to was being promoted 
by the Corporation. He thought he could tell whence the rumour 
originated. 
Mr. Rudkin, a member of the Cattle Markets' Committee, 
said there was no doubt where the report came from. An attempt 
was being made, and possibly a justifiable one, to set free the 
animals that under the schedule of the Act of Parliament were 
required to go to Deptford Market. Last year there were some¬ 
thing like 56,000 beasts that came from Germany, and these, 
under the existing law, would go to Deptford Market. Some 
34,000 of them came from Schleswig-Holstein. The season for 
these beasts coming to London had not yet arrived; it com¬ 
menced about the beginning of July, and the arrivals numbered 
about 2000 or 3000 a week. There had been a strong attempt 
made in this country and abroad to get Schleswig-Holstein 
