The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-19 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE,

TRADE OF LEEDS.—There is still a fair business doing in the
woollen cloth trade; both the markets since our last have been
very brisk, and prices fully sustained. The principal demand
is understood to be for the American market.
BRADFORD M A liKET.—There was a good demand for manu-
factured stuffs at our market, on Thursday, which encouraged
the manufacturers to ask higher prices for their commodities.
This was, of course. resisted by the merchants, and had, no
doubt, considerable effect in limiting the amount of sales, but,
nevertheless, there was a fair business done, and improved prices
were generally obtained. The sales of, yarns were extensive,
the prices looking up. The transactions in the wool market
were not commensurate with the dealings in the manufactured
article, both staplers and spinners being desirous of ascertaining
the quality and extent of the new clip before entering into any
large contracts.
HALIFAX MARKET--Our market, on Saturday, was very
dull, the attendance of buyers being very limited, and prices in
consequence, not being very firm.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—Our market here, on Tuesdays
was rather flat, especially for plain clothes. Fancy woollen
were in some request, and novel patterns sold readily at firm
prices.
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BARNSLEY.—There is no visible improvement in the linen
trade in this town, but as the drill sea.on is commencing, it is
hoped that an improvement will shortly be experienced.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, JUNE' It.—We have had a
good inquiry for all wools this week; in short wool at stationary,
and in long wool at rather Unproved prices. It is thought the
present advance may be maintained, but that any further ad-
vance would check the trade and cause a reaction.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, JUNE 11.—The market has
been rather dull to-day, and not so well attended as for two 0r
three weeks past; but those who have bold have obtained the
last weeks prices. Wool has undergone no change of price
to-day.
lioitic Woor. MARKET, JUNK 14.—We have had a large and
influential number of buyers in attendance. and but a moderate
supply of wool In the early part oft he day exorbitant prices
were asked by the sellers, but about mid-day a retrogade move-
ment was preceptable, as the buyers made a bold stand, to resist
the prices demanded. The consequences were, lower prices were
submitted to by the sellers, and the market ended with a deduc-
tion from our last weeks quotation, of at least Id, per lb. For
super, super hog, 18d. to 19d. super hog', 16d. to 17d.; half hog
and ewe, 15d. to 154 d.; ewe, 12d. to 13d. ; locks an cots, 7d.
to 94d.,per lb.

SELBY WooL MARKET, JUNE 15.—Our fair of to-dav has
been very fully supplied, and sales readily effected at the follow-
ing prices :—Melrose 225. per stone, y hogs 17s. 6d. to 18s. 6d.
per stone, ewes 16s. to 17s. per stone.
RIPON WOOL FAIR, JUNE 14th.—There was a very good
supply of wool at the fair this day, and a good attendance of
buyers ; nearly the whole was taken off at 14d. and 15d. per lb.
These fairs will be a great convenience to the farmers in the
neighbourhood of Ripon, in having a market so near for the
sale of their wool.

DONCASTER WOOL MARKET, JUNE 9.—Our first wool mar-
ket for the season was held this day, awl presented only a very
small quantity of ewe and hog and ewe wool, there being no
entire hog wool nor locks shewn. The coldness of the season
has no 'doubt retarded the cliliping of sheep in this neighbour-
hood. The attendance of buyers from the ma'nufacturing
tricts was rather numerous. in the morning ; but the market was
any thing but brisk. The wluile (with the exception of one large
pack) was sold at the following prices ;—Hog and ewe 18s.6tr. '
ewe 14s. per stone.
Busy.—Trade is still in a very precarious state, hut an amend
ment is pretty confidently expected. A few of the printing
establishments are busy, but others are very slack; the spinning
and power-loom mills afford the most certain employment tothe
workpeople, as they are now running runtime. Out door labour
there is an increased demand for.
THE ROCHDALE HAND-LOOM WEAVERS.—An afflicting pic-
ture of the distressed condition of the hand-locm weavers in
this town, was again exhibited before the magistrates ou Friday,
in the number of persons who appeared to answer summonses
obtained against them for arrears of poor-rates. Their squalid
appearance and the detail of the wretched situation of their
fam►lies were truly heart-rending. The magistrates acted with
great lenity towards the poor creatures, and in must instances
discharged them front payment of all arrears.

SHOCKING MATRICIDE-A WOMAN MURDERED

BY' 1-IF,It SON

It is our most painful duty to lay before the public the details
of a shocking murder perpetrated m the neii,hbonrltood of Mal-
ton, and which has created a more than ordinary interest and
excitement. The unfortunate victim of this appalling outrage
was an old infirm woman, of the age of 74. years. named Fran-
ces Seller, who resides with her family at a place called the
.Rainbow I louse, situate a short distance from New Mahon and
Old. Mahon, and being in the parish of the latter. Her family
consisted of two sons, an idiot daughter and other branches,
and though not in the best of circumstances, they had con-
trived to procure an honest livelihood by gardening. and
from the produce of a garden attached to the house, which was
a place of resort in the summer months to the inhabitants of
Witten. One of these sons, William Seller, aged about 46
Years. has been the perpetrator of this lamentable murder, and-
what is most singular is the fact, that he was always noted for
his great affection for his mother, always paying her the great-
est attention. It would appear that he has been in an erratic
and unsound state of mind for some time past. On Tuesday
evening, the 6th inst., we have been informed,. he accompanied
his mot het to the Methodist Chapel, at Old Mahon, which was
an unsual circumstance. and when there he betrayed evident
symptoms of great mental excitement, by his loud ejaculations,
and otherwise extraordinary conduct. On Thursday Morning,
however, all doubts of the man's insanity should have vanished,'
as we are informed that he was seen anti heard in the streets of •
Old Morton iu a raving and alarming state of excitement.
After raving fur some time through Old Malton, he called on.
Mr. George Anderson, tailor, of that place. He was accent-
{mulled home by Anderson 'down'to the Rainbow, and there left
by him in the keeping of his brother. It appears about half-
past twelve o'clock, his brother having left him for a shot t time,
to go into the garden, and no one being present in the house
but the old woman ( his mother,) and a person of the name of
Robert Craven, of Old Mahon. who is an old man, he asked
for a razor to shave himself with, and had made one or two
strokes, • when, as we are informed, his mother requested.
him -to desist, on account of his nand not being steady, and
she feared he might cut himself. This it seems had an—
noyed him, for he immediately got the old woman ilown,
with her head on the- bars of the range, and actually raked
the burning coals out of the fire upon , her, and not con-
tent with this brutal conduct, got upon her with his knees,
and severely kicked her on different parts of .the body,,
which blows are supposed to have occasioned Tier death rather
than the fire. The old _man, Craven, was so terrified and asto-
nished, as to be utterly unable to render any assistance, and
was fortunate m escaping to the door, or he might have fallen
another victim to the maniac's fury. The old woman's cries
and shrieks soon brought in the brother, and an alarm soon
spread, and numbers of persons came in from their employment
in the neighbouring fields, and succeeded in securing the offen-
der, hut not before he had inflicted such injuries on.his mother
as to cause her death, which happened on Friday night. She
was attended by Mr. George Davye, surgeon. Mahon, but
medical assistance was of no avail. Seller was immediately
taken into custody by Mr. Joseph Hardcastle, constable of Old
Mahon, and lodged in his house, two men having the charge of
him night and day. On Monday last, Mr.. Harrison, surgeon,
of Kirhymoor-side, coroner for the North-Riding, attended,
and a most respectable and intelligent jury having been sum-
moned, an inquest was held at the house of Mr. Hardcastle,
the Wentworth Arms Inn, Old Mahon. The jury proceeded
to the Rainbow House to inspect the body, but it was not thought
necessary to open it, as they were unanimously of opinion that
the wornan had come to her death front the blows and burns she
had received. The prisoner was examined, and seemed to be
in a very composed state of mind, giving very rational answers
to the questions asked him, and appearing to he much grieved
that he had committed the act, but he declined saving any thing
in his defence. The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder
against Wm. Sellers," whose commitment was made out and
signed, and on Tuesday morning the prisoner was conveyed to
York Castle.—Leeds Intaligencer.

No fewer than three of her Majesty's maids of honour are, it
is said, about to enter the holy state of matrimony.
The strange attempt which has been made bv. Lord Brougham
to bolster up his education bill, by the outbreak of Courtenav
and the delusions of his associates, is one of those eccentric
inferences which belong to the peculiar constitution and idio-
syncracy of his extraordinary intellect. It affords a fine illus-
tration of the homceptithic practice—for it is no other than a
project to expel madness and folly by folly and madness,

A PEDESTRIAN 'TOUR THROUGH NORTH WALES

NO. I.

Though Liverpool, with its vast population, is so close upon
the borders of Wales,—though the principality abounds with all
that which to a townsman is exhilarating, joyous, and delight-
ful; fine and expansive scenery; refreshing, delightful breezes.
and the greatest and most permanent charm, continual noveits• ;
where nature's mountains meet the townsman'sese in the place
of hills of ware ',muses—where the natural volley, carpetted. by
nature's luxuriant verdure greets him instead of the busy tho-
roughfare, the valley of art—where the pure mountain breeze
artenalizes his blood, and.sends it galloping through his veins,
making him feel the exuberance of health and spirits, the very
joyousness of animal existence, supplanting the foul products of
the steam-engine chimneys, and the nauseous eructations of
Muspratt's manufactory, to which be is the live-long year in
Liverpool aecustomed;—though that triumph of modern art—
the steam-ship—plies daily from.the piers of the town, ready in
a few hours to convey its inhabitants into the very heart of
Wales, yet, generally speaking, few are they who seem anxious
to change the confinement of toe murky counting-house for the
freedom of the lightsome hill, or who appear to be aware that so
trifling a sacrifice of time and money can afford them a tour su
delightful. It is a fact, that nine-tenths of the travellers into
Wales, "in search of the sublime and bootifet," are.parties from
inland towns, and that but few go there from Liverpool. Whe-
ther it be that, though the principality is near, the plodding in-
habitants of Our town are too much wrapped up in the ennobling
art of what has been called " money grubbing," to waste a
thought on those beauties which the all-bounteous Creator, with
a lavish band, has everywhere; on fair nature's face, spread out
for their enjoyment; or whether there be more real gratification
in wrapping ourselves up in sell, and following the advice of
Shylock, to " put money in thy purse," and in thinking we have
so much more wealth laid by than we can require, or possibly
use or enjoy, or, to be employed, as Pope has it, iu
" Getting wealth and place, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means getting wealth and place"
than there is in listening to the joyous matin song of the lark,
in witnessing bright Phoebus rise from his slumbers in
" One tide of glory, ono unclouded blaze,"
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Gilding the mountains' tops, and snaking to himself a palace of
gorgeousness itnd splendour, in comparison with which the
noblest pageants of pigmy man are ridiculous, I do not pretend
to decide. C/miscue d son gout. For my own part. it is a maxim
to which I shall adhere " never to lose life, and all its enjoy- '
ments, for the sake of getting more than I want to keep it on,•' •
" To purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but, a rage to live."
And what is life in the mill-horse round of daily duty, without
an occasional variation to prove that we are not mill-horses?
Be that as it may however, I and an intelligent friend had de-
termined to prove, that we were not of the mill-horse genus, by
a tour into Wales; and as we were both perfectly of opinioa
that true enjoyment of its scenery did not consist in being
whirled along the road at the rate of eight miles per hour in a
jolting car, or that, to see something of Wales and the manners
of its inhabitants, was not to keep to the high road, and put up
at the principal inns, where everything was either English, or
as like it as could be made, we determined, as .we could see all
these things every day in Liverpool, to make ours a pedestrian
tour—to follow that course which chance directed, and, whenever
we could, to live and be amongst the \Velsh people. I, there-
fore, provided myself with substantial 'walking, half-boots, not
certainly after the style of Bold-street, but such as were fitted
fur the rugged paths of Snowdon, and each of us putting in our
pockets a small parcel containing a very confined wardrobe,
and furnishing the other pocket with a' brandy flask, we were
speedily equipped for uric journey. We left our top-coats and
Macintoshes to take care of themselves, feeling that the more
comforts we provided ourselves with, the more would be our in-
conveniences. Thus equipped on Friday morning, June 8, we
set out, after a hearty breaktast, with light hearts and in high spi-
rits, on our intended tour. My friend by the way replenished his
hat with a goodly store-of cigars; I furnishing myself with Mr.
John Smith's guide to Snowdonia; and soon after 10 o'clock
we started by the steamer " Vale of Clwyd" for Menai Bridge.
The morning was delightful, and we enjoyed to the utmost the
busy river scene, with its numerous steam boats plying to and
from the Cheshire shore, and the lively appearance which every-
thing around presented. It were needless to give mote than a
very brief outline of a steam voyage of six hours; every body
knows what it is ; every body haS felt the pleasure which it at
first inspires; the langour and listlessness which, gradually
steals over one when the voyage is about halt' over, and the
downright weariness of the last. hour, and the ardent wishes fur
the termination of the voyage. We successively passed Sea-
' combe, Egremont, the Magazines, New Bri,ghtdu, and the Fort,
admiring the various pretty cottages which front the River and
Sea -View, and were at length fairly out to sea. We amused
ourselves with reading our guide-book, and determining on the
route we should take; talking to the Welsh women; laughing
at sea-sick gentlemen, with most woe-begone countenances, and
pitying sea-sick ladies; and occasionally replenishing ourinner
man with the good things on board. - When passengers are at
sea, and prospects begin to fail as the shore grows more distant,
nothing is so natural as that they should turn their attention
upon each other, and nothing, we believe, is so universally the
practice. The least incident then excites curiosity; the slight-
est peculiarity draws forth remark. We had scanned over the
passengers pretty well, and, no doubt, had ourselves been scan-
ned over in our turn when we ascended the paddle-box for the pur-
pose of obtaining a view of the Ormshead. near which we were
approaching, and, fur the motneut, of course, we were the "ob-
served of all observers." My friend happening at this instant
to raise his hat for some cause or other, forgetful of his cigars,
they 'Were showered down on all sides of him to the great
amusement of our fellow-passengers. This incident occurred
to him rather frequently before our tour was ended, and some-
times under circumstances ludicrous enough. We now passed
by the rugged sea face of the Ormshead, descending perpendi-
cularly into the water. Its frowns must indeed be terrific to the
mariner approaching it in a storm. At the foot of the rock on
each side were several sweet little spots of.green verdure,
affording pasturage for the sheep, and the blue peat smoke from
a neat white cottage or two might be seen circling its way up
the side. of the rock. As we passed roiled it to the western side,
past the mouth of the Conway estuary, some mining operations
became perceptible in the rock side. We learnt that a very
valuable copper vein has been found there. On looking at this
craggy hill and scores of others iu Wales, we kept surmising on
the vast stores of mineral wealth emboWelled in them; and fre-
quently wondered that this field for speculation and enterprise
has not been more cultivated, mining operations in Wales
being comparatively trilling compared with the apparent oppor-
tunities for them. We attributed it to the general absence of
wealthy inhabitants. Whilst here, au intelligent, or rather
comparatively intelligent, Wetshman was describing to us the
great advantages which would accrue to the shipping interest
by makiug a bay to the east side of the Ormshead, and cutting
a canal through the isthmus, which connects the Ormshead with
the main land, into the Conway estuary. This would enable
vessels close in shore, coining to Liverpool, when a gale is
blowing on the land, to pass through the canal and arrive at Li-
verpool, and frequently save riding out a gale with a lee shore,
as under those circumstances it would be impossible for them to
weather the Ormshead without great peril. From the Ones-
head we passed to Puffin's Island, so called from the numbers
of Puffins which frequent it, and then entered the celebrated bay,
of Beaumaris. It was, indeed, a scene, the varied and surpass-
ing beauties of which it is difficult to describe as felt. You
enter a spacious bay.of several miles in width, which gradually
narrows to a point, and at the point is seen the !Menai Bridge
over the Straits of Menai, the structure of which at this dis-
tance has almost a toy-like appearance, it is so' light and beau.,
tiful. On either side, the shoies-to the water's edge are richly
wooded, whilst here and there are seen some lovely rural re-
treats encircled and almost hidden with the woods ; and we
thought that the height of our ambition would be to have such
a quiet green resting place for our old age when we should have
successfully battled through the toils and troubles of the bus-
tling world. In the distance, a little to the left, was old Snow-
don, rearing his majestic head above the neighbouring moun-
tains, whilst as the back ground of the lovely, peaceful scene
before us—

"Hills peep'd o'er hills, add alps on alps arose."

We landed a few of our passengers at Beaumaris, which from
the river presents the common features of a little watering place
—a few houses built to afford a sea view, and the usual number
of loungers and stragglers on shore. The shore, it being low-
water, appeared to be composed of sand and mill, and therefore
unfavourable for walking on. We should imagine this depriva-
tion of a sea shore amply compensated to the visitors by the
beautiful green walks about. As we steamed up towards the
Menai Bridge, the captain gave us mach information about the
line of country, the conveyances, &c.,"and pointed out to us
several seats atid gentlemen's houses, especially those of R. B.
Williams Bulkeley, Esq., and Sir Robert Williams, Bart.,
both romantic and beautifully situated seats on the Isle of Angle-
sey. We next passed the town of Bangor to the left, about
three miles from.the Menai Bridge, where, also facing the river,
were many picturesque summer residences. It may be imagined
that we enjoyed to the utmost the breezy freshness of the air
and the delightful scenery around, to which a lightsome glad-
ness was given by the afternoon's sun. At length, about five
o'clock we came to an anchor close to the bridge of Menai, and
landed, by means of a boat, on the Auglesey side, where the
first feat of toy friend, after gaining the summit of the landing
steps, was to spring upon a portion of rock, the better to enjoy
The almost fairy-like prospect—the splendid bay before us, with
its verdant and richly-wooded shores, one of the fairest of na-
ture's scenes, and above us the stupendous and almost awe-in-
spiring handywork of man and climax of art, the Menai Bridge.
In doing this, my friend cut open against a piece of rock one of
the knees of his unwhisperables, which caused a hearty laugh at
his expense, and excited his blessings. As we silently gazed
on the bridge, we could not help according in the sentiment
expressed by Mr. John Smith in his Snowdonia, that "when
death should deprive the country of the further services of its
able engineer. Mr. Telford, his epitaph, simple as that upon Sir
Christopher Wren in St. Paul's Cathedral, Si monumentem
qumris, circumspice !' would be abundantly sufficient if it stated,
that his monument was suspended over the Straits of "
We felt as if looking at the mouninent of a master mind, and
while we breathed forth our admiration at his projection it was
mingled almost with a feeling of gratitude for its utility. We
passed on, and turning into the first house that offered accomo-
dation for the stanger, we were greeted with true Welsh civility
by a little Welsh woman, whose stock of gooseberry tarts and
mince pies we demolished, and not feeling disposed to change
our quarters for a neighbouring public-house, we sent our •
obliging hostess for a store of liquids, and turned to at her brown.
/oaf with all the keen relish which health and appetite alone can
give. Here toy friend's equanimity was restored by our obliging
Welsh hostess profering to repair the rent he had just made in
• a portion of his dress, which she speedily accomplished; and by
the fumes of one of his recovered Havanuahs. Having remu-
nerated our hostess, with whom we were as much pleased as
she apparently was with us, we walked on to the bridge, aston-
ished at every footstep at its magnitude and stupendous strength,
and at the same time admiring its elegant construction. The
view from the centre was splendid. We appeared suspended in
mid air : whilst far below us was our steamer at anchor, and
the liana of music on board playing. The swallows were chasing
each other and the flies under our feet, and when we looked
through the wicker work iron railings, which are put up as a
guard, and watched the river eddying l'2o feet below us, italinost
produced giddiness. On looking through some small round
holes in the bottom of the bridge on to the river, it had exactly
the effect of looking through a telescope. Whilst we were si-
lently gazing on the river beneath we were almost startled by
a small object suddenly protruding itself under the bridge, and
an exclamation burst from Incas of us when we discovered its
cockle-shell-like appearance to be a boat containing two indi-
viduals. It was a fairy scene—it was unlike reality—it was
somewhat like the mimic boats which are drawn across a scene
on the stage of a theatre. We were told that the American
jumper, Sam. Scott, who some time ago was exhibiting his feats
at Liverpool, by jumping off mast heads, had, the week before,
jumped off the toirof the suspension chains fora wager, and had
afterwards collected £2O from the crowd that had assembled to
witness his feat. We thought this the extremity of human
daring. We were informed that in a gale of wind it indulates
like the waves of the sea, and that its lateral vibratory motion
is six or seven feet. We remarked that the substance with which
it is paved or covered is precisely similar to the much boasted
of asphalte invention—namely, some kind of pitch mixed with
pounded granite. Having satisfied ourselves with what was to be
seen at the bridge, we held a consultation what should be our next
step. and determined upon ascending the hills on the opposite,
or Bangor side, to have a more extensive view of the country,
and then conclude what to do with ourselves. Bet a that
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