The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-18 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

The total imports of foreign stock into London last week
amounted to 9,764 head. In the corresponding week in
1859 wo received 4,574; in lisB, 5,229; in 1857, 4,432;
in 1856, 3,680 ; in 1855, 4,659 ; and in 1854, 5,452 head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK.
From. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
Rotterdam
Harlingen
Hlamburgh
Bremen
Tonning... . 306 ..
Calais
Amsterdam
Dordt . l9 ..
0p0rt0....... .

-- •• - ••
91 .. - ..
300 .. 26 ..

'"'" • • ••-••

Total . 906 7,492 601

The yearly comparison of weeldy imports is as follows:
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves Pigs.
1859 303 .. 3,257 .. 632 .. 359 .. 17
1853 426 .. 3,417 .. 742 .. 546 .. 68
1857 347 .. 2,982 .. 358 .. 692 .. 53
1856 568 .. 2,068 .. 498 .. 407 .. 37
1855 5ll .. 3,363 .. 159 .. 653 .. 66
1854 837 .. 3,032 .. 379 .. 258 .. 9:6
There.was a fair average show of foreign stock here to-
day in very middling condition.

From our own grazing districts the arrivals of beasts
fresh up this morning were limited as to number, and very
deficient in quality. The high quotations demanded by the
salesmen checked business, hence nearly all breeds moved
off slowly at irregular quotations. The best Scots were
mostly sold at 5s 8d per 81bs.
The supplies of beasts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and
Cambridgeshire amounted to 2,000 Scots, crosses, and short-
horns ; from other parts of England 500 various breeds, and
from Scotland 30 Scots and crosses.
Compared with Monday last there was a considerable
falling off in the show of sheep. Most prime breeds changed
hands steadily at full prices, the best Downs having sold at
5s Gd per 81bs ; otherwise the mutton trade was in a slug.
gish state on former terms.

There was a moderate inquiry for lambs—the supply of
which was tolerably good—at late rates, via., from 58 4d to
78 per 81bs.
Although the supply of calves was extensive the veal
trade ruled firm at 2d to 4d per 81bs above the currencies
realised on this day se'nnight.
We had a slow inquiry for pigs, yet prices ruled firm.
Per 81bs to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d.
erse. &inf. beasts 4 4 4 6

5, d. s. d.
Primeers-wool do. 6 0 5 2
Pole, S'thdown do. 5 4 5 6
Large orse. calves 4 6 5 0
Prime small do 5 2 6 8
Large hogs 4 0 4 6
Small porkers
kl to 7s Od.

Second quality do. 4 10 6 2
Prime large oxen 5 4 5 6
Prime Scots, &c. 5 6 5 8
erse. & inf. sheep 4 0 4 4
Second quality do. 4 6 4 10

Lambs, 5s
Suckling calves, 19s to 234

and quarter .old store pigs,

23* to 30g.

TOTAL SUPPLY. POREION SUPPLY.
Beasts 3,780 Beasts 340
Sheep and lambs 25,080 Sheep
Calves
Pigs
A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of
fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan
Cattle Market on Monday, Juie 20, 1859, and this day,
Monday, June 18, 1860 :

Per 81b8, sinking the offal.

June2o, 1859. June 18, 1860.
Coarse and inferior beasts . d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
3 oto 3 4 4 4to 4 6
Prime large oxen ..
Second quality ditto .. ..
3 6 3 8 10 5 2
Prime Scots, &c. . ... 3 1
44 0 4
6, 4 2,1
8 510
54 5 8
. .. .
.5
Coarse and inferior sheep . . 3 4 3 8 0 4 4
Second quality ditto
Prime coarse-woolled ditto . • . 4 4 4 6 5 0 5 2
Prime Southdown ditto . . .4 10 6 0 5 4 5 6
Lambs .... ... .5 0 60 5 4 7 0
Large coarse Nitres .
. • . 310 4 6 4 4 410
Prime small ditto
.... 4 8 5 0 5 0 5 4
Large hogs . ..... 3 0 364 0 4 6
Neat small porkers . .. 3 8 4 2'4 8 5 0
Beasts
• Sheep and lambs • • • . 3,670 3,780
. • 30,540 25,080
Pigs
Calves ...... 312 319
..... .
SUPPLIES ON SALT:, J. 300 620
une 21, 1858.---Beasts, 3,788 ;
sheep and lambs, 28,390 ; calves, 499 ; pigs, 430.
June 22, 1857—Beasts, 4'240' sheep and lambs, 27,600;
calves, 402; pig; 230.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHA.LL.
Very limited supplies of beef are still on offer, and the
trade rules steady, at very high rates. Other kinds of
meates,t, th
wi p
e ir th afa suply of w
uirhich is moderate, command previous
ra i
Pern 81bs by the carcase.
s. d. s. d.
Inferior beef 4 0 4 4 Middlin mutton
Middling d 0.... 4 4 4 6 Prime do ..
Prime large do.. 4 6 4 8 Veal .••••
Do. small d 0.... 4 8 4 10 Small p0rk......
Large pork 4 4 4 81: arab....
•
Inferior mutton 3 10 4 21 •.•••

a. d. s. d
4 44 8
4 10 5 2
4 45 0
4105 2
60 G 2

BOROUGH RID?.
Our market is still fairly supplied with most kinds of
hops. Good and useful qualities aro in fair request, at full
prices ; otherwise the trade is somewhat heavy, on former
terms. The duty is called £170,000 to £lBO,OOO.
Mid and East Kent pockets... • 80s to 140 s per cwt.
Weald of Kent
Sussex

BOROUGH AND SPITA.LPIELDS.
For the time of year our markets are well supplied with
old potatoes, in fair average condition.
There is only a
moderate sale for them, at from 80s to 120 s per ton. New
potatoes are coming forward freely, and the
quotations
range from 8s to 108 per cwt. The imports last week were
four tons from Konigsberg, and four bags from Harburg.
York Regents.
Do Flukes t
110----S 8 o 140 s „
Kent and Essex
Scotch
Do Cups
Dunham llos to 1403
Rocks

Mr. Selfe—You have done quite right in coming here,
and it will save a great many men from breaking up their
homes and borrowing money to enable them to proceed to
Cherbourg. I shall not grant any more passports to work-
men to proceed to Cherbourg. Will you be so kind as to
leave your name and address ?
" I Jones—Certainly, sir.

The magistrate took down the man's name and address,
and he then left the court.

THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The recent dreadful
loss of fishing boats belonging to Yarmouth and Lowestoft
has cast a great gloom over the eastern Fisheries. Several
boats have, however, succeeded during the past week in
taking 600 to 700 mackerel each, and these have been sold
at 40s. to 455. per 100. The late awful destruction of fish-
ing boats was attended with the loss of about 200 men, and
meetings have been held at both Yarmouth and Lowestoft
to promote subscriptions in aid of their destitute widows
and orphans.
MRS. PROUDIE'S CONVERSAZIONR:Her plan
was to set the people by the ears talking, if tbey would, or
to induce them to show themselves there inert if no more
could be got from them. To accommodate with chairs and
sofas as many as the furniture of her noble suite of rooms
would allow, especially with the two chairs and padded
bench against the wall in the back closet—the small inner
drawing-room, as she would call it to the clergymen's
wives from Barsetahire—and to let the others stand
about upright, or " group themselves," as she des-
cribed it. Then four times during the two hours'
period of her conversazione tea and cake was to be
handed round on salvers. It is astonishing how far a very
little cake will go in this way, particularly if administered
tolerably early after dinner. The men can't eat it, and the
women, having no plates and no table, are obliged to abstain.
Mrs. Jones knows that she cannot hold a piece of crumbly
cake in her hand till it be consumed without doing serious
injury to her best dress. When Mrs, Proudie, with her
weekly books before her, looked into the financial upshot of
her conversazione, her conscience told her that she had
done the right thlag,—Cornhill Magnin.,