The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-06 00:00:00

WOOL,

Very little change has taken place in the state of the
wool trade since we last wrote. Both in home-grown
and colonial descriptions the amount of business doing
is very moderate, but the washed must be considered
steady, at the prices of last week. Tho public sales of
colonial wool will be commenced on Thursday, the 16th
inst., the arrivals, since the close of last sales, being about
50,000 bales.
Current prices of English wool per lb.
s d
Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 8
Half-bred do 2 0
Kent fleeces 2 0

s d
1 9
2 1
2 Oi
1 9
2 0
1 11
2 0

South Down ewes and wethers 1 81
Leicestor do
Sorts—Clothing
Combing

SEEDS.
Canary cod i* firm, but all other agricultural seeds aro

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING-THIS DAY.

LIVEERPOOL 'HANDICAP.
4to 1 agst Bendigo (taken and offered)
9to 1 agst I%ju(taken_and offered)
10 to 1 agst Dalby (offered)
12 to 1 agst Valliant (taken)
100 to 7 agst Accident (taken)
16 to 1 agst The Eland (taken)
100 to 8 agst Windham (offered)
20 to 1 agst Moldavia (taken)
20 to 1 agst Elland (taken)
25 to 1 agst Blithfield (taken)
100 to 3 agst Farce (offered)
50 to 1 ugst Buckfoot

Fatal Accident on the Metropolitan Railway.

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aged 35, engaged on the works of the Ken-
sington Extension of the Metropolitan Railway. On
the 16th of October last deceased was engaged in
sinking a pit of considerable depth. To raise the
clay which was being dug from the bottom a large
skip or bucket was used, being raised to the surface
by steam power. This was being raised, and had
got 20ft. up, with about three-quarters of a ton of
clay in it, when suddenly the iron hoop handle broke
on both sides, and the skip was dashed to the bot-
tom of the pit, striking deceased on the head and
chest, and inflicting a fearful wound on the temple.
He was at once conveyed to St. George's Hospital,
where he expired.
Henry F. Perley, civil engineer, and agent for the
contractors for the works, stated that the iron handle
was an inch and half in thickness, and if it had been
of good material ought to have borne a weight of
27 tons. He had examined it and found that it was
made of crystalised iron, with a short grain, a very
inferior. manufacture. It was not the practice to
test bought materials. The skips were supplied by
a firm in Thames-street.
The medical evidence showed, that beside the in-
jury to the head, the deceased had'sustained a frac-
ture of the chest bone. Death was caused by
pyzemia; or blood poisoning through the fracture of
the skull.

Verdict_ That the deceased met his death through
an accident, but the jury were of opinion that the
iron used for lifting weights should be of greater
strength than that used, and ought to be properly
tested.

Oppressive Monopoly of Railwa,y Companies.

TO TILE EDITOIt OR THE SUN;

perhaps but uatndlittiZuknr;oo7-:
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and interests is the gigantic
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power possessed by railway
companies, who, acting under the sanction of Parliament,
think themselves authori9acl to invade every kind of landed
hoSwir;
or household property, regardless of the loss and, in many
instances, ruin to the rightful owners. We have cases of
suicide committed under the strong feeling and smart of this
power. A man who, after labouring for years to support
himself and family, but who not having a lease, and the
promisee being required by some company, is most unjustly
andunceremoniously ejectedwithout:consideration or apenny
compensation, and who unable to obtain premises in the
locality where ho had established himself, suddenly finds
himself and family reduced to abject poverty, and without
the prospect of recovery, surely such a case, and there are
many of them, should be provided against by Parliament
requiring a clause in the Railway Act for such contingencies
before arming the company with their authority. Again, it
frequently occurs that a widow is left with a young family
to educate and support and thought to be comfortably pro-
vided for, her husband having carefully laid out his means
for that purpose in the purchase of reversionary property,
and to place his children in due time in good positions ; but
this property being within the bounds for some new line of
one of those great monopolising companies, is demanded and
taken possession of for a small sum based upon its present
value regardless of the reversion which in a few years would
treble its present worth, and upon which tho whole family
had placed their reliance for establishing themselves at a
proper time according to the views and intentions of the
testator. This should be a case for which the railway com-
ld of their own accord make ample compensation,
pony should
and not force the owners or trustees to seek redress, at
great cost, at the hands of 12 of their countrymen who too
often unfortunately are led to give an unequal verdict by
the low figure prepared and sworn to by the paid officials
of the company.—l am, sir, yours, &C.
Nov. 4, 1865. A SUFFERER.

SECRETARY OF TIIE LONDON AND NoRTII-
WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—Mr. R. S. Reay, the pre-
sent chief of the audit department of the company at
Euston Station, is; we aro given to understand, to ho the
new secretary.