Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-05-22
LONDON MARKETS.
The Enormous Quantity of Food Require
to supply the Wants of Londoners.

The Enormous Quantity Of Food Required
to supply the Wants of Londoners.
Last year in Billingsgate alone and
its naighboring streets over LAG, 900
tons of fish were landed. In much less
time than it would take lady to fix
herself for an afternoon cal I have
seen the contents of fields and fields OF
potatoes and cabbages unloaded in
Coyent Garden. The Monday before
Christmas 2, 139 tons of beef, represent
ing herd of about 6.519 bullocks. were
hooked in the Smithfeld market, and
on the following day, Tuesday, / had
a capital luncheon on board the Elder
sIie, steamship just arrived from New
Zealand th 5000 carcasses of prime
mutton. The day before Christmas /
was loafing in the Leadenhall market.
an ungrudging bazaar, where. accord
ing to your fancy. you can get as little
as dead lark or as much as living
tiger. The place was SO encumbered
with poultry, meat, game and other
prov IONS that the difficulty Of the
BUYERS to get at the sellers was only
equalled by the impossib lily of the lat
ter to sally on the former. A Spanish
Ambassador once told Charles III. that
more provisions were sold in that mart
than in all Spain. bet that if the
Queen would kindly take the present
Spanish representative round the same
place her Majesty would probably hear
the same speech.
The Englishman lives very well when
he can. and ALWAYS wastes. | specu-
late that tw.ee the actual population of
London, if it were Dutch, would live
here luxur. ously on what is hardly suffi-
cient for its present inhabitants.
Long has England ceased to produce
enough food for her children. In an
average year. say 1883, the London
central markets sold 191, ,029 tons of
English meat and as much as AZ, ,584
which were from the United States.
Each year the proportion of fore on
meat landed here increases. The full
official report for the year 1884 has not
been published. but I know that Aus
tralia and dNewZealand have, during that
year, sent over here no less than 6S6,-
l}183 careasses of mutton. The Ameri-
can trade. which has been dull for a
little while, IS looking up again, and
those interested Will no doubt hear with
pleasure that the private company,
| principally composed of statesmen hay
ing Their stores at Smithfield Market
which had built hard by some coId-air
stores for the keeping of all perishable
provisions, are considerably extending
| them. These stores can already take
in from 800 to 900 tons of meat, and
will soon be capable of shelter ng
double that quantity. Statesmen will
| therefore be able to keep the meat as
long as they can get a remunerativep price
for it, instead of having to throw it
away after a certain time regardless of
| loss. | have visited these stores. Their
temperature, kept down by splendid
| Hazlam engines, was almost S berian
The charges for renting them is two
and one half pence per week for e ght
| pounds, which is cheap, and lower
rates are granted for larger quantities.
In one week only, the week ending
| January 25, 1855. the United States
and Canada had landed Is, 220 sacks of
| -four in London. In the week ending
January %. 1885. 500 cwts of Amer
can cheese were uashipped in the port
| Of London, exclusive of consignments
| BY rail. The American cheese is in
great favor in this country. No can
tankerous gourmet is able now to point
to the least difference between the for
eign art Gle and the best English Cred
dar, and it is just three pence cheaper
per pound. Many London houses take
moth NC but amer can cheese. fhe
nat.oEaI product is losing much ground.
In one week a'one in July last. Mr..
| Lowell, of the great finn of Lowell,
& Christmas, West SIN thtield. te Is me
that he has sod 1000 Amer c IN
chceses. He kindly takes me into hi,
| enormous cellars, VIII cil can cas- IL ac-
commoiate 10000 boxes of the article
and explains thai he never procu es any
| other. LoH.lou CIR. ". !. Sten.