These numbers show at a glance what a part the railway plays in supplying animal food to the metropolis, and how trifling in comparison is the amount that travels up on foot. The Eastern Counties lines, penetrating and monopolizing the rich breeding and fattening districts of Norfolk and Essex, bring up the largest share. Many of the little black cattle, that tourists see in Scotland climbing the hills like cats, come directly from these counties, having some months before been sent thither from their native north to clothe their bones with English substance. By the same line we receive a fair portion of that great foreign contribution to our larders, the mere shadow of which so frightened our graziers some years ago, principally Danish stock, which finds its way from Tonning to Lowestoff, a route newly opened up by the North of Europe Steam-ship Company. The North-Western is next in rank as a carrier of live stock. This line takes in the contributions from the Midland Counties, and, by way of Liverpool, abundance of Irish and Scotch cattle. The Great Northern is perhaps destined to surpass both in the quantities of food it will eventually pour into London, running as it does through the northern breeding districts, and receiving at its extremity the herds which come from Aberdeen and its neighbourhood. The foreign supply last year of cattle, sheep, pigs, and calves, was more than a seventh of the entire number sent to London. The daily bills of entries at the Custom House furnishes us with a valuable indication of the fields from which we have already received, and may in future expect to receive still further additions of what Englishmen greatly covet--good beef and mutton at a moderate price. The arrivals by steam in the port of London in 1853 were as follows:-- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | _From_ |_Oxen._| _Sheep._ | _Calves._|_Pigs._|_Total._| |-----------------|-------|----------|----------|-------|--------| |Holland | 40,538| 172,730| 24,280| 9,370| 246,918| |Denmark | 9,487| 7,515| 60| .. | 17,062| |Hanseatic Towns | 4,366| 37,443| 1| 632| 42,442| |Belgium | 449| 12,006| 1,244| .. | 13,699| |France | 105| 224| 135| 129| 593| |Portugal | 100| .. | .. | .. | 100| |Spain | 17| .. | .. | .. | 17| |Russia | 3| .. | .. | .. | 3| | |-------|----------|----------|-------|--------| |Total | 55,065| 229,918| 25,720| 10,131| 320,834| -----------------------------------------------------------------+