The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-11 00:00:00

FOREIGN CORN.

The accounts from the Baltic are of much the same cha-
racter this a 3 the preceding' week. Prices of wheat have
risen so rapidly there that few of the orders from hence to
purchase wheat have been executed, higher rates having
been paid by speculators than the limits of the British orders
have admitted.

Letters from Dantzic, of the Ist instant, state that about
16,000 quarters of wheat had changed hands during the week
almost entirely on speculation. There was not much being
shipped to England; but vesels being very scarce, high
freights had been paid Gm the few ships engaged to load
wheat; ss. 6d. to Gs. had been paid for London, ss. 3d. to
ss. 9d. for the East Coast, and 6s. to 7s. per quarter for Liver
pool.

At Hamburg, on Tuesday last, there was not much doing,
the very high prices asked for wheat having checked the dis-
position to buy.
From the south and east the reports also represent the
value of wheat as rising rapidly, and a letter from Mar-
seilles states that it was the belief there that the exporta-
tion of grain would be prohibited in the Ottoman empire;
and a similar step would, it was thought, be adopted by
the Neapolitan Government. In consequence of these ru-.
mours, and the lively advices from Great Britain, a good
deal of speculation hail taken place in wheat at high prices,
say 50s. to 525. for fine Polish Odessa and Marianoplo, and
from 455. to 48s. per quarter for secondary qualities.
From Leghorn we learn, under date of 31st October, that
a brisk inquiry had been experienced there for wheat for
export, and that equal to 495. Gd. had been paid for Polish
Odessa.

At Trieste, on the 30th ult., the greatest excitement pre-
vailed, and rather large sales appear to have been made there
at prices varying from 365. 9d. to 40s. per quarter free on
board, according to quality.
At Odessa, according to the most recent accounts, prices
of wheat were also moving up, as much as 31s. per quarter,
having been paid there for the best Polish.—Mark-lone
Express.

MILEAGE OF A MAx.— The number of square
inches of surface in a man of ordinary height and bulk is 2,500 ;
the number of pores, therefore, 7,000,000 ; and the number of
inches of perspiratory tubes is 1,750,000; that is, 145,833 feet,
or 46,600 yards, or nearly twenty-eight miles.— Wilson.
DEATH OF THE REV. DR. SMART.—This esteemed
minister died on Tuesday last, in the house of his son, Campbell
Smart, Esq., Elm-row, Edinburgh. He was the senior minister of
the first United Secession Church, Stirling, in which he laboured
for the long period of 57 years, and was only the fourth minister
who has presided over this congregation since the famous disrup-
tion in 1732, when the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine left the Established
Church with hls congregation. Dr. Smart was, we believe, in the
84th year of his age.—Scotsman.

ROCHESTER.—The staunch: Conservatives of this
ancient city diced together last evening at the Crown Inn, to cele-
brate the election of Robert Clements, Esq., to the civic chair,
which he so ably tilled to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens a
few years since His known integrity and kindness of manners,
accompanied by an indefatigable disposition to uphold and secure
the rights of Ws fellow-citizens, shows the esteem he must be held
in by their again placing him at the head of their corporation.
The dinner and wines were of first-rate character, the whole well
served under the superintendence of Mr. Calder.
ROBBING A UNION WORKHOUSE.—On Monday a
man named George Green, was; finally examined before the Bench
of Magistrates, at Brentford, on a charge of having stolen a dial
clock from the board-room of the Staines union workhouse. It
appeared from the evidence, that sometime between Monday, the
3d instant, and Wednesday, the sth, the eight-day dial clock was
found to have been stolen from its place in the beard-room of the
Staines union workhouse, between Bedfout and Staines, an entry
having been effected by the thief breaking a square of glass in the
window of the ante.rooni leading to the board.room. Immediate
information of the robbery was forwarded to the police, but no
trace of the thief was obtained until about' noon on Friday last,
when the prisoner entered the shop of Mr. Upjohn, olock and
watch-maker, New Brentford, and offered an eight-day dial, with.
out a face, for sale. The prisoner was fully committed to New-
gate for trial

FAILURE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR AMALGAMA-
noN.—The long pending treaty for an amalgamation cf the
Leeds and Dewsbury, the Leeds and Tbirslt, and the Hud-
dersfield and Manchester Railways, although at one time
promising so favourable a result, and which would have
been beneficial to the West Riding of the county of York,
from the combination of the interests of these important lines
of communication, and their contemplate' branches, have
entirely failed, at least for the present,—we wish we could
add, with a reasonable hope of their renewal at some future
time,—Leeds Mercury,