But this is far from giving a true idea of the whole amount brought into London. Much stock arrives in the capital which never enters the great mart. For example, Mr. Slater, who kills per week, on the average, 200 sheep and from 20 to 25 oxen, says, in his evidence before the Smithfield Commission, that he buys a great deal of his stock from the graziers in Norfolk and Essex. Again, "town" pigs are slaughtered and sent direct to the meat market, while many sheep are bought from the parks, where they have been temporarily placed till they find a purchaser. A much more correct estimate of the flocks and herds which are annually consumed in London may be gathered from a report of the numbers transmitted by the different lines of railway, compiled from official sources by Mr. Ormandy, the cattle-traffic manager of the North-Western Railway. From this able pamphlet we extract the following table:-- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | Oxen. | Sheep. |Calves.| Pigs. | Total | | | | | | |for 1853.| | |-------|---------|-------|-------|---------| |By Eastern Counties | 81,744| 277,735| 3,492| 23,427| 386,398| | " L. & N. Western | 70,435| 248,445| 5,113| 24,287| 348,280| | " Great Northern | 15,439| 120,333| 563| 8,973| 145,308| | " Great Western | 6,813| 104,607| 2,320| 2,909| 116,649| | " L. & S. Western | 4,885| 100,960| 1,781| 516| 108,142| | " South Eastern | 875| 58,320| 114| 142| 59,451| | " L. & B. & S. Coast | 863| 13,690| 117| 54| 14,724| | " Sea from North of | | | | | | | England and Scotland | 14,662| 11,141| 421| 3,672| 29,896| | " Sea from Ireland | 2,311| 3,472| 21| 5,476| 11,280| |Imported from the Continent| 55,065| 229,918| 25,720| 10,131| 320,834| |Driven in by road, and from| | | | | | | the neighbourhood of the | 69,096| 462,172| 62,114| 48,295| 641,647| | metropolis (obtained from| | | | | | | the toll-gate lessees) | | | | | | | |-------|---------|-------|-------|---------| |Total |322,188|1,630,793|101,776|127,852|2,182,609| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+