During the war it was found expedient by the civil authorities to interfere, in some degree, with the law of supply and demand. The Magistrates, in Quarter Sessions assembled, agreed, in 1814, upon the following prices, as in their opinion fair and equitable to be paid by the military authorities for provisions:--Flour, per barrel, £3 10_s._ Wheat, per bushel, 10_s._ Pease, per bushel, 7_s._ 6_d._ Barley and Rye, the same. Oats, per bushel, 5_s._ Hay, per ton, £5. Straw, £3. Beef, on foot, per cwt. £2 5_s._; slaughtered, per lb., 7½_d._ Pork, salted, per barrel, £7 10_s._; per carcass, 7½_d._ Mutton, per lb., 9_d._ Veal, 8_d._ Butter, 1_s._ 3_d._ Bread, per loaf of 4 lb_s._, 1_s._ 6_d._ In April, 1822, peace then reigning, York prices were:--Beef, per lb., 2_d._ _a_ 4_d._ Mutton, 4_d._ _a_ 5_d._ Veal, 4_d. a_ 5_d._ Pork, 2_d._ _a_ 2½_d._ Fowls, per pair, 1_s._ 3_d._ Turkeys, each, 3_s._ 9_d._ Geese, 2_s._ 6_d._ Ducks, per pair, 1_s._ 10_d._ Cheese, per lb., 5_d._ Butter, 7½_d._ Eggs, per doz., 5_d._ Wheat, per bushel, 2_s._ 6_d._ Barley, 48 lbs., 2_s._ Oats, 1_s._ Pease, 1_s._ 1½_d._ Potatoes, per bushel, 1_s._ 3_d._ Turnips, 1_s._ Cabbages, per head, 2_d._ Flour, per cwt., 6_s._ 3_d._ Flour, per barrel, 12_s._ 6_d._ Tallow, per lb., 5_d._ Lard, per lb., 5_d._ Hay, per ton, £2 10_s._ Pork, per barrel, £2 10_s._ Wood, per cord, 10_s._ As allied to the subject of early prices at York, we add some excerpts from the day-book of Mr. Abner Miles, conductor of the chief hotel of the place, in 1798. It would appear that the resident gentry and others occasionally gave and partook of little dinners at Mr. Miles', for which the charges are roughly minuted on some long, narrow pages of folded foolscap now lying before us. It will be seen from the record that the local "table-traits," as Dr. Doran would speak, were, as nearly as practicable those of the rest of the Empire at the period. At the new capital, however, in 1798, hosts and guests must have laboured under serious difficulties.