THE EGG MARKET IN ENGLAND.
A wholesale dealer gives us the following items as to the consumption of eggs in London: When eggs are 16 for a shilling the sale amongst the working classes is enormous. When they are 12 a shilling it falls at once 40 per cent., and when only 8 it drops very low. The bulk of London eggs are imported; Italy supplies many, France many, and some even come from Turkey. They will travel from Trebizond and be perfectly fresh when they arrive in London. We are assured that most of the new-laid eggs consumed in Haslemere come from Italy, and this at all periods of the year. Our English housewives are not clever at preserving eggs, and the witty classification of eggs into new-laid eggs, fresh eggs, and eggs, is but too often illustrated.