The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-09 00:00:00

woollen trade in this county. Tao woolcombers are but pa"
I t ally employed. Sheep shearing has commenced, and in the
e eurse of a f w days it will become gereral.
PONTEFRACT ‘VOOL.—Thp: e was a large supply of wool
this ouy, and a ready sale at List wtt k's quotation, viz., 141.
ler rone of 141 b :. for mixed hug and ewe. A few parcels of
I line hog rea!ized 1.5 s 6d.
HOWDEN WOOL, JUNE 4.—There was a fair supply of
wool at the fist market this season, and a numerous attend-
ance of buyers from the west. of Yorkshire. All descriptione
of wool met wi; h a ready sale at the following prices
viot hogs, is to is Old; hog and ewts, 11d to Hid; Masbate,
10d to lOid per lb. The next wool market will be held eis
'Wednesday, the Itith of June.
ENGLISH Woor.. LEEDS, JUNE 6 —There is no change
this week. Sales have been to a moderate eztent, and prices
are the same.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, JUNE 6.—There has been only
a quiet market for f, 'reign wools this week, buyers belt/
anxious to learn how prises are likelv be at the pending
German fairs before operating to any extent.
BRADFORD, JrNE 5.--Wools—The spirit evinced in every
quarter of the wool trade (except here) is one of cheerfulness
and animation, and prices commanded are not at all coalmen'
curate with the current rates of this market : noils and broke.
are as we have noticed for several weeks back. Yarns—The
state of the yarn market is most gloomy. The otening
mar-
kets for wool are at prices far beyond anything the spinners eSn_
afford to give, and instead of better
prices being realized fort
yarns, they continue dull sale at rates that must have the 14't
of inducing the spit ners to curtail their production, for to
sales of tnany kinds the prices of spinning wakes
most
wholly sacr ficed. At no period. even in thetime of the
greatest distress in 18.7 and 1848, has the margin betwee°
the cost of wool and the price of yarns been so small, or the po'
salon of the spinners so ruinous as at present. Pieces—There
has been part doing by some of the home houses, and
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prices at which they are laying in their stocks are such as -iv
only entail a great loss upon the manufactur, rs ; for, ruin' {
low as yarns a: e selling, we regret to say that the prices Di
goods are quail; depressed, and the whole trade is full!
gloominess and murmuring. The position of the trade in tie,
branch in June, 1850 and 1851, is without a parallel at the
same period of previous years, and yet the increase in the pro'
duction by additional machinery has kept the demand for !
boor active, and the wages paid are much higher now than in
former periods of manufacturing distress.
TRADE OF MANCHESTER, JUNE s.—The Arctic's a-
(ivies
have not much affected our market but there is still some lit'
lt
distrust of the cotton market, and though the sales of yo,rri,
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and goo.'s have been to a fair extent, they are not so consm!',f
able as might have been expected. There was a great desluvt
inquiry on the Exchange, xhich did not lead to business, u
prices were generally maintained with firmness,though searceiv
so steady or regular as last week. Our spinners are suPPlYlhnis
themselves more freely with cotton, and the demand fronYine
cause has kept up prices at Liverpnol, and this re-acts to .0.0
extent upon our own market, and tends to support the ic
of yarns and cloth, in the face of the impression naturallYV Pro.
duced by the later advices from the United States.
TRADE 07 LEEDS.—There has been some ltttle
ment in our cloth markets, 4oth on Saturday and Tuesday, sea
also more goods have been delivered ofl the market days t for
has been the case for many weeks. Stocks are very lowil
the season, and prices are steady. Few buyers have been d 5,,
during the week, and business has been dull in the warehouse'
The foreign houses are doing more than of late.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.
COPPER ORES SOLD AT CAMBORNE, JUNE - Tools
4,575 tons ; average produce, 7 ; quantity of fine copy;
' 321 tons 7 cwt; amount of sale, 20,8631 12s Od; averrs
standard, 1041 I s Od. Last Sale- Standard, 10316 s 04:1; Pta
duce, Average price per 21 cwt, 41 Its Od.
COPPER ORES SOLD AT SWANSEA, JUNE "°01)3
1,779 tons; average produce, 11 ; quantity of fine coppers "
tons 14 cwt; amount of sale, 15,5:19/ is 6d.
COPPER ORES FOR SALE AT SWANSEA, JUNE ":4;
Cohn: 1,429-Bearhaven 350-Knockrnahon 111-KaPu"til,
82- Cuba b5-Port Lincoln 42-Glo'sters Slag 13-I°
2,092 tons.
COPPER ORES FOR SALE AT REDRUTH, JUNE Irb,
Cam Brea t313-Tywarnhayle and Nancekuke 62;!--vm
Buller 441-Par Consols 3'7-Alfred Consols 963--"'„13:
herrow 181- Levant 155-. West Wh. Treasury 142--•`„;
Agar 11'-Wellington Mines 103-Providence Mines 10(_,
Botallack 81- West Wh. Seton 81-South Wh. Speed 4.,7,11,
St. Autsyn and Grylls 3i- West Alfred Consols 37-"'
Friendship 14-Relistian 7 South Wh. Fortune 6-,,."', ,8,) Wh. Tieasury 5 -Wh. Tehidy
-Spearn Moor 4 - ,62". "3, st.',4 tons 2 cwts.

HAILIVA Y SHARE IVIARKETS.
BRISTOL, JUNE 7,
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were ai
low : Great Western, 8 ,'/4 itto, 171. Shares, 1414---.&
land, 53:4—Suulh-Eastern arcl Dover, ,f 4.

JUNE 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market opened dull to-day, bat
prices were higher before the close. The transactions were
as follow East Lancashire, 15- Kendal and Windermere'
Preference, 6 per Cent., 134 p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
55:ki • Ditto, 6 per cent. Preferecce, 131,4 London and North'
Western, New Quarters, 334 p.—Midland,
Halves, 16 di......—North Union, Preston and Wire, Pre"
ference Shares (No. 3), 7 Ditto, Halves (No. 4), 814 ll'
South- bwerts anti Dover, 23k, -- Great Southern and Western
( Ireland), Preference, Eighths, 13.16 p.—York and 'Sort"
Midland, 22,/5.53t4 -Ditto'

MANCHESTER, JUNE 7.
STOCK ExciteNom.— The share market was worse to-diqf
with prices tending downwards. The transactions were al
follow : East Lancashire, 1514—Edinburgh and Glasgow'
30—Lancashire and Yorkshi,e, 551 Ditto, Fifths, 71/2 cll5.
p.—.Manchester!
Sheffield, and Wyre, Halves (A), 8149
.—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 29—South-Eastern and Dover, s
BIRMINGHAM. JUNE 7.
STOCB. Excifaxaß. The share market during the greater,
part of the week has been apriritless and depressed, 111;
prices generally, it they have not absolutely fallen, have be"
a downward tendency. London and North-Western to-del
were done at 124, being a shade better than the doll
prices in London ; and Midland (New) were transacted
16% dis. Shrewsbury and Birmingham, after the recent
rejection of the Bills for the joint occupation of the Louder and North-Western station, have still further declined. The
following were among the closing prices reported 00
'Change :—Birmingharn, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley'
1034—Coventry and Nuneaton, 214 p. Caledonian, Prefer'
ence, 7—London and North-Western, Quarter., 414 p.r
London and Brighton, 6 per cent., 1361,2—Midland (1311.-
mingham and Derby), 16 - Ditto (Bristol and Birming"
ham), 133 - North British, 714—Shrewsbury and fir:
mingbam (A), 5 dis.—Ditto dis—Ditto, Preference,
- Shropshire Unions, 3,e dis.—South Staffordshire, 3 dis''
York and North Midland, Preference (Hull and
par), 1 die.

DREADFUL BOILER EXPLOSION.
BRISTOL, JUNE S.—Yesterday morning, a little after
seven o'clock, the boiler of a steam-engine erected oa
the premises of the Starveall Colliery, at liing'eewoOdt
Gloucestershire, and situate about five miles from W.
city, burst with a fearful explosion, involving a large ea'
crifice of human life. The utmost consternation was ex-
cited is the neighbourhood, and several of the sufferers
were promptly conveyed to the Royal Bristol Infirmarie
while others were so severely injured that they could not
ne moved. On proceeding to the spot we gathered the
fallowing details of this distressing occurrence:—lt ap-
pears that the engine in question has now been at worki
for a very considerable period, and the proprietor,•lNlr;
Brain, had determined on taking out the old boiler sou
substituting a new ono iu its place; yesterday morning
was the last time it was intended that the old boiler
,huuld be used, as it was arranged that the new boiler
should be put up to•morrow (Whit Monday). As, bow'
ever, that day is usually kept as a holiday by the col-
hers, in miler to get torward, it was determine d yester-
day morning to teke down the brickwork from the old
atler, and es the men were in the act of removing it
the boiler exploded, it jaring severely, if out fittallY9
fifteen of tne men. Three have since died at the
3ristol Infirmary, and it is stated on good auiho"
that whets are also dead at Kingew• od. The
whole of the poor fellows were ereaufully scalded
iici ()thins severely injured, the copper being torn
its bed, and a qusnnty of the machinery, with
tenting coals, &c., being scattered in every direction.
Ar. theta was pre sent at the ',erne the accident occurred.
And immediately dispatched messengers for medical as-
istunce, and in n abort time Mr. isiggs, of Kangswood.
:`~lt. Grace. of Duweend, and Mr. Waddle, of Fishponds,
.ere on the spot, and did all in their power to alleviate
the euffeiitigs of the uubappy men. Some of them were
placed on beds in carts and dispatched to the Bristol
litfirmary; but the majority, at their own request, were
taken to their own homes. Mr. Brain himeelt bad a
;arrow escepe—his hat was knocked off, he was throws
:o the ground betheleas, and rti,,
ht hand much in-
tired. The engineer and his son were also dangerously
ettunded, the skin being lit& rally torn from their bodies.
['he meierity of the buff rers, we regret to state, are
,earried men with large families. A coroner's inquest
will b held on the bodies of the deceased men, and
ull investigation be mode into the circumstances attend" ant en this cata,trophe,
plete engine, rk—that he had •
gine at the colliery had com Mr. Brain states that the en.
a-tiered a man to shut down the end had sent the
.nko to another Pit to go up, when his bailiff reqaested
dm to wait a few minims, and he would send a messen*
ger to the men to come up, and so prevent the men from
sieving to go a dietacce of Vat. e-quarters of a mile
tin"'
ler ground; and there were 25 men and buys altogether
eta sent when the boiler explode d. The explosion is bur'
posed to be owing to an accumulation of steam while the
engine was standing still. l'he utmost excitement exists
at Kiogswood consequent upon this calamity; and so far
as yet has been aaiertained, the following is a correct list •
of the killed and wounded:—Dead—Daniel Mountain.
John Burchell, jun., and 51 illiam Burchell. Dangerously
-calded—Francis Bryant, James Long, James Ricketts, • .
John Burchell, sen., Samuel Bryant, Abraham Golding,
and Joseph Wiltshire.

Dispatches were received on Saturday from the Go-
vernor of South Australia.

BIRTHS.
OF A SON.
On the 4th inst., at Waterloo, near Liverpool, the wife of
W. Richmond, Esq.
On the Ist inst., at Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire, the
wife of Captain Weare, 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment. •
OF A pauwiTEß.
On the sth inst., at I3yecroft, Herefordshire, the lady of
Henry Oakeley, Esq., R.N.
On he 2d inst., at the Master's-lodge, Marlborough Col-
lege, the wife of the Rev. M. 1V ilkinson.