The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-14 00:00:00

IMPORTATIONS OF TVLIEA7.

The wheat market continues to be affected by the
heavy and uninterrupted character of the foreign
arrivals, abbough the receipts in the month of Sep-
tember, as shown by the last official returns, wele
larger than on any previous occasion, and repre-
sented, reckoning wheat and flour together, a value
of about three millions sterling. The supplies from
America must soon diminish from the closing of the
Western canals, but it is an important feature of the
present season that Prussia appears to be capable of
sending us large quantities, since even in the face of •
the American competition she consigned to us
during September 17 per cent. of our total importa-
tions. France also seems again to have a surplus,
although not of such extent as to cause any im-
portant quantity to be attracted by our present
prices. Annexed is a table showing the toted re-
ceipts in September compared with those in the
same month of the two preceding years, and also
the proportions contributed by each foreign country

MONTH OF SEPTEMBER.
WHEAT.

tepm ber,
Total Importations. 1860. Se
1861.
Quarters .................. 653,443 302,877
Per Cent.
16t
131
1

1862.
1,073,10

From Russsia ......
,I Prussia ............
• Denmark ....... • •
„ Mecklenburg,
„ Hanse Towns .......
„ France .
~ Turkey, Wallachia,
and Moldavia
„ Egypt
„ United States
„ British Nth. America
„ Other countries

2
2
44
18
1

••••• ......
......
Total
FLOUR.
Cwts.
Per Cent.

From Hanse Towns
„ France
„ United States
„ British Nth. America 9 25 18
„ Other countries lO 7 4

For the nine months ending the 30th of Septem-
ber the total importations of grain and flour show
an increase of about 22 per cent. on the unprece-
dented total of the same period of 1861, while they
have been more than twice as large as in 1860. The
percentage contributed by the United States this
year has been about the same as that of last year,
but as this percentage is upon a much heavier aggre-
gate quantity, there has been an actual increase of
arrivals thence of wheat and flour of about 740,000
qrs. Annexed are the general figures :
NINE MONTHS, JANUARY TO SiPTEMBER.
WHEAT.

Nine months.
Total importations. 1860. 1861. 1862.
Quarters ...L 3,182,083 5,211,085 6,587,002
Per. Cent.

From Russia.
„ Prussia
„ Denmark
„ Mecklenburgh
„ Hanso Towns
„ France .
„ Turkey and Wallachia
and Moldavia ..
yt Egypt •
„ United States
„ British N. AmErica
„ Other countries

4 4 5
3 5 9
18 37 36
2 7 8
3 9 5

Total

---
100

FLOUR.
Cwts
Per Lent.
61 31 3
391 9 7
38 61 69
7 12 13
9 141 8

From House Towns
„ France ..
„ United States ..
„ British N. America...
„ Other countries

Total

100

100 100

7HE FREIGHT ON GRAIN.

A very influential and crowded meeting of mer-
chants, corn factors, shipowners, and brokers en-
gaged in trade with the ports of the Mediterranean
and Black Sea, took place yesterday in the sale-room
of the Baltic Coffee-house, Mr. W. S. Lindsay,
M.P., in the chair. The object was to adopt measures
for altering the present system of -paying freight
on grain by measure to that of paying on weight.
After an address by the chairman, an amendment
was put forward by Mr. Join) Glover, seconded by
Mr. Norman, of Hull. Iyir. Stephen Ralli and others
addressed the meeting in reply, and the amend-
ment was subsequently withdrawn, the following,
together with same other formal resolutions, being
unanimously agreed to :

Moved by Mr. Major Osborne, firm of Usborne and Sons ;
seconded by Mr. D. P. Scararaanga, firm Ralli Brothers :
" That this meeting is of opinion that the present mode
of chartering ships to lcad grain and seeds leads to many
abuses and ought to be altered." Moved by Mr. M. E. Ro-
docanachi, firm Rodocanachi, Sons, and Co. ; seconded by
Mr. Ycames, firm eamos, Lander, and Co. :—.That the fol-
lowing gentlemen, with power to add to their number, be
requested to act as a committee to consider the matter
fully, and to propose a form of charterparty which shall be
equitable and fair to shipowners and merchants, and to re-
port the same to another meeting to be called for an early
date ; and that Mr. Tiacks, of the firm of J. Henry Schroder
and Co., and Mr. Albert Kahl, firm Kahl Brothers, act as
honorary and joint secretaries :—Proposed Committee—D.
P. Scaramanga, firm Ralli Brothers ; A. P. Petrocochino
firm Rodocanachi, Sons, and Co.; Henry Yeames, firm
Yeames, Lander, and Co. ; M. Usborne, firm Usborne and
Son ; A. Mangredien, firm H. and J. Johnston and Co. ; J.
Eastty, firm Edwards and Eastty ; B. Pembroke, firm W.
S. Lindsay and Co. ; L. Serena, firm L. Serena and Co. ;
John Glover, firm Glover Brothers ; Leon Benham, firm
11. Clarkson and Co.; John Dryden, shipowner, North
Shields; Peter Dale, shipowner, North Shields; John Clay,
shipowner, Sunderland ; John Marwood, shipowner, Lon-
don,"

ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.

(From the Lancet.)

If the Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital permit the
Grand Committee to transplant into the country the insti-
tution which they administer in trust for the poor of South-
wark, the job will be effected in open defiance of justice, and
in wilful contempt of facts and reason. The medical staff,
not negligent of their duty, have again put on record the
arguments in favour of maintaining the hospital in a cen-
tral site. The necessary length of this unanswerable
document precludes us from printing it in full. It sums
up with convincing force the case of the labouring poor
in the Borough. It reminds the Governors that in
proportion as St. Thomas's is moved away from the
densely inhabited central districts, it must cease to
relieve those cases of urgent suffering which are universally
recognised as having the first claim for hospital treatment.
If the hospital is transported six miles away, what, for ex•
ample, is to become of the following class of cases : wounds,
fractures, dislocations, burns, scalds, and poisonings; ease:
of dangerous continued fever; of strangulated hernia, and
other intestinal obstructions ; croup and, other kinds of suf-
focation ; retention of urine; choleraic attack; honr-
hage ; apoplectic and epileptic seizure ; acute inflawma"°a
in the chest, head, or abdomen ; misadventure in Pirtl nancy or childbirth P Most of such cases must find
re-
lief near the spot, and within a few minutes, or--die.
A great general hospital, the Governors ought
_ta. know,
is an imperative necessity for the enorinousowl
stands.
population in whose midst St. Thomas'sh now
If the Governors take away that upon whin
ared, by popula-
tionpri-
vate has been accustomed to rely, are they pr P. P. its
place
vate or public subscriptions, to raise athneomth.
It cannot be
The duty presses inalienably upon
evaded. It is not probable that othersrawis
funds to support
ion step in to supply
the void; and it is no easy matter t:.
Yet if St. Thomas's
an hospital of 500 or even of 200
done.
be removed, the thing must baetisfac
tion, that the local yes •
We observe, with muohhso
feel for the necessities of
tries, and other bodies
are bestirring themselves to
those whom they
ch the constituted authorities
protect those
ten'inteeresPtsrewhi
bent upon violating. A meeting
of St. Thomas's m°nod for Tuesday next. The body
of Governors is
consists of about twro
ohfulnederveidngmtehmobecrhss.ioeTohfe
amsajitoerittyo
who voted
Committeefavour
consisted of twenty-one persons. Is
the Grand these twenty-one persons represent the
it a fact that
of the two hundred ? Or are the two hundred
opinions t under the imputation that they are indiffe-
rent res
content
t to the great issue at stake, that they care not how the
ren the rights they have undertaken to protect
property and
are squandered and contemned ? Not a Governor ought to
except on the gravotesGt
Tuesday
be absent,
prepared to
nest. Unless the entire. body
take an active part in the affairs now pending' an
irresisti-
ble case will be made out for the interposition of a highe authority, and for supplanting them in the discharge of
neglected and mismanaged duties. The Charity Commis-
sioners, or Parliament itself,
may yet find occasion to
intervene.

-
THE FOG.—From an early hour yesterday morn-
ing a very dense fog has hung over the metropolis, render-
ing the ordinary street traffic so difficult and dangerous
that in many places it had to be almost suspended. The
weather, too, was very cold during the night and the streets,
especially in the suburbs, were glazed by the frost, to the
great distress of the horses engaged in the traffic. The
navigation of the river by the steamers was suspended.
Several accidents occurred, but we have not heard that
any of them were of a serious character. Tho fog in-
creased in density up to 4 o'clock, when daylight was en-
tirolY obscured.