The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-18 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

The supply of foreign stock cn sale in our own market
to-day was very large. Generally speaking, the quality
both of beasts and sheep was inferior. The trade was
quiet at about last Monday's currency. There were some
good Normandy beasts on offer.

Fresh up from our grazing districts the arrivals of
beasts were very limited. Tho supply from Ireland was
but moderate, whilst the receipts from Scotland were con-
fined to 18 head. There was a great scarcity of prime
stock on offer, and the very few choice breeds exhibited
for sale changed hands at full prices; otherwise, the beef
trade was dull, and the quotations ruled somewhat irre-
gular. The top price was 5s 4d, but this value was rea-
lis©d in only a few instances, the bulk of the primes t
breeds on offer, which was really of only secondary qua-
lity, having sold at 5s and 5s 2d per Blbs.

ar. The arrivals from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and
Northamptonshire, comprised 1,100 head ; from other
parts of England, 300 of various breeds ; from Scotland,
18 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland, 200 oxen and
heifers.

Tho supply of sheep on sale was moderate, but the qua-
lity of the stock was very middling. Good and prime
Downs, half-breds, and Lincolns, moved off freely at ex-
treme rates ; otherwise, the mutton trade was steady at
last Monday's quotations. The top price was 6s 8d per
Blbs.

Lambs were in request, and the limited supply on offer
realised higher . prices. A few choice breeds sold at 8s
per Blbs.

There was a fair demand for calves, and prices ruled
firm. The top price was 5s 6d per 81bs.
The pork trade was firm at fully late rates.

Per 81b to sink the offal.

s d
Crse. dr inf. beasts... 3 4 4
Second quality do ..4 2 4
Prime large oxen ..4 10 5
Prime Scuts, Jrc....5 2 5
Crse. and int. sneep.4 6 5
Second quality do ..5 2 5

cl s cl
Pine cra-wool sheep 5 10 6 2
Prime Ythdown .10.6 4 6 8
La ge coarse calvcs.4 4 5 0
Pr me sm4ll d0......5 2 5 6
Large hogs .4 2 4 8
porkers 4 10 5 2

Lambs....oB C.d to 0 Od.
Suckling calves, 196 to ; and quarter-old store pies, 258
to 328 each.

Head of stock on sale.
Total supply. Foreign supply.
Beasts 6,21., Beasts......
Cows .... Cows.
J beep and lambs 28,470 Sheep and lambs 1 i,980
Calves 316 .)a ve,
r'igs 3:2 Pigs
The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week,
amounted to 25,089 head. In the corresponding week in
1864, we received 14,303 ; in 1863, 15,217 ; in 1862
11,620 ; in 1861, 12,148 ; in 1860, 11,722 ; and in 1859,
9,893 head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK.

Beasts,

Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.

Antwerp
Boulogne —
Bremen
Copenhagen-- -- ...
EkTdt.
Dunkirk - ". -- ". -- ._
Gothenburg 3l ... 133
". -- ll ...
Hamburg - ... -- ...1148
Harlingen lBO ". 2228 „. 60 ... 37 ". 271
Medemblik B5 .„ 1932 _. -- _. -- "'--
Oporto
Ostend
Rotterdam ...1242 ". 5674 -- „ 548 ... 358
Tonning 1779 ... , .
.
3357 . 449 ". --
Vigo 202 ~ -- --
-- —.

200 ... -
262
110
528

- • t•

Total 4376 ...17,799 509 597 ...1808
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
1864
1863
1862
A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of
fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan
Cattle Market on Monday, Sept. 19, 1864, and this day,
Monday, Sept. 18, 1865.

Per 81bs. to sink the offal.
Sept. 19,
1864.
sd s d
Coarse and inferior beasts 3 4to 3 8
Second quality do.
Prime large oxen 4 6 410
Prime Scots, &c.
Coarse and inferior sheep
Second quality do.
Prime coarse-woolled do. 5 0 5 2
Prime Southdown do. 5 4 5 6
Lambs
Large coarse calves 4 0 4 8
Prime small do.
Large hogs
Neat small porkers 4 2 4 8
Beasts 6,690
Sheep 24,230
Calves
Pigs
SUPPLIES Os SALE, Sept. 21, 1863.—Beasts, 6,650_
sheep, 27,180—calves, 390—pigs, 440.
Sept. 22, 1862—Beasts, s,96o—sheep, 25,370—calves, 342
—pigs, 480.

Sept. 18,
1865.
s d sd
3 4to 4 0
42 4 8
410 5 0
52 5 4
46 5 0
52 5 8
510 6 2
64 6 8
00 0 0
44 5 0
52 5 6
42 4 8
410 5 2