Importation of meat. Returns showing the quantity and value of fresh beef and of meat preserved otherwise than by salting, not otherwise described in the trade and navigation accounts, imported into the United Kingdom in each month of the year 1876; and, of the average wholesale price of the principal descriptions of meat at the chief ports of shipment of the United States and of Northern Europe, and the average rate of freight for fresh meat from these ports to Great Britain and Ireland during the same period [electronic resource].