They act as middlemen between the importers and the tribe of peripatetics who, at certain times of the day, resort hither to fill their baskets and barrows. Covent Garden also supplies retailers with oranges and nuts, especially on Sunday mornings, when the place is sometimes crowded like a fair. The following bill of quantities, drawn up by Mr. Keeling, is derived, we believe, from the Custom House returns:-- _Fruit._ Apples 39,561 bushels. Pears 19,742 " Cherries 264,240 lbs. Grapes 1,328,190 Pine-apples 200,000 Oranges 61,635,146 Lemons 15,408,789 _Nuts._ Spanish nuts} 72,509 bushels Barcolena } Brazil 11,700 " Chestnuts 26,250 " Walnuts 36,088 " Cocoa-nuts 1,255,009 " Of the amount of bread consumed in London we have no specific information, but there are data which enable us to approximate to the truth. Porter, in his "Progress of the Nation," gives us the returns of eight schools, families, and institutions, containing 1,902 men, women, and children, each of whom ate on the average 331-1/16 lbs. of bread per annum. Now if we multiply this quantity by the number of the inhabitants of the metropolis--2,500,000, or thereabouts--we have a total of 413,700,000 half-quartern loaves of 2 lbs. weight each. The flour used in puddings, pies, &c., we throw in as a kind of offset against the London babies under one year old. Some of this bread is a contribution from the country, and one Railway--the Eastern Counties--brought last year 237 tons 12 cwts. to town.