The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-22 00:00:00

IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN TIIE PAST WEEK.

From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pig°'
Hamburgh 65 ...
Harlingen 138 ... 979 .. 9 36
Bremen 179 ...
Tonningen 706 ... 77 ---
Nieu Diep
Rotterdam
Antwerp .....
Ostend... — .. 127 •••

Total 1,479 ... 2,870 '69
Corresponding
.. 69
Corresponding
week in 1848 855 ... 4,0t6 150 ... 6
Same week in
1847 661 .. 2,579 .. ... 185 46
The arrivals of stock at the northern outports 07,
amounted to about 1,600 head, mostly from Hollao.
At Southampton ten Oxen have been landed from 5PA1.,13.
With foreign stock we were again well supplied to-dill;
but its general quality was inferior. From our WWI%
grazing districts the Bullock droves, fresh up for tith;
morning's market, were unusually large even for 1,,
time of year (the total supply being upwards of .5,0uv0
head); but their general quality was very superior t
that of Monday last. The dead markets were largl
supplied with each kind of meat, owing to which,
to many of the great butchers having large numbers v
beasts on hand purchased here last week, the Beef trade(
was dull in the extreme, and prices suffered a decline 00,
quite 2d per 81bs. The highest figure for the best Sc°o,
was only 3s 8d per 81bs., and a large number of Betilir
left the market unsold. From Lincolnshire, Leicr,stete
shire, and Northamptonshire, we received 2,600 Sb°'
horns; from the eastern, western, and midland clistricha
700 Herefords, Runts, Devons, &c.; from. °T be
parts of England 800 of various breeds.
remainder of the supply was chiefly derived from sbroso
The numbers of Sheep were decidedly less than tbn°o..
exhibited on this day se'nnight ; nevertheless, they "Oia
ceeded the wants of the buyers. The was
Downs, however—the supply of which was striall
—4O
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heavy, at a deco s;
in the quotations of quite 2d per 81bs. 'The PrinitecP
wmeorederaterequ request, at full
ewere Ssetc",'";
rateCa Calves es
qualities were i n
prices.9o-0
supplied with Pigs, the sale for which ruled heavy'
barely stationary prices. extremely dull.
3s 10d to,:no

Per Sibs. to s
s. . e
Inferior Beasts— .. 2 d 0
to
2. Bet
.
Second quality .... 210 3 0
Prime large Oxen.. 3 2 3 4
Prime Scots ...• .. 3 6 3 8
Largo coarse Calves 3 0 3 2
Primesmall ditto .. 3 4 3 6
Suckling Calves ..18 0 24 0
Inferior Sheep .. 210 3 0
TOTAL SUPPLY
Beasts. I Sheet).
8,283 29,260
FOREIGN
Beasts. I Sheep.
1,114 5,090

6.
3. d• to 4
Second qual. Sheep 3 2 3 8
Coarse-woolled ditto 3 8 4
it:
Southdown Wether 310 0
Dittoeutof the woolo 0 3 6
Large Hogs ...... 3 2 4
Small P 2 orkers •• •• 3 8 0
Quartar old Pigs —l6
Lambs •• • .... 0 0 0
AT MARKET. )
I Calves. 32.
120

ink tho offal.

SUPPLY.
I Calves.
6 /

rio•
36

WOOL.
The imports of Wool, into London, last wee"' Ant
confined to 97 bases from Harnburgh ; 7 ditto fr°l32,Th'on
werp; and 21 ditto from Ostend. Since the conclish'its,
of the public sales, the private contract deinalw ;es,
ruled extremely inactive, at almost nominal currene"
The
In British Wools only a limited business is doing•
ahoof
stocks of Colonial, in warehouse, are now only
17,099 bales.
ram i;VGATZ AND LEADZNlLlllaiiii"tb
The cold weather prevailing in the early s".