The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-06 00:00:00

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MANUFACTURE OF KELP IN THE HEBRIDES.—KeIp is
being manufactured to a large extent in Uist. 1100 tons
are to be made, and hundreds of the people, with their

whole families, are now living in temporary huts on the
sea shore avid creeks, and busy from morning to night.
Indeed, many of the fires are kept blazing the whole
night. It is a pleasant sight to see vast multitudes, who
for years past have been altogether idle at this season of
the year, busily engaged. It is true that the remunera-
tion may not be so ample as could have been wished ; but
still the people are' meantime receiving supplies of good
oatmeal, and there will, when the work is completed, be a
balance of money to be paid them. Already many hun-
dred tons have been shipped from South Uist, and ship-
ments are now being made from North Uist of the best

kelp ever manufactured on the island.—Glasuow Citizen
SAD CATASTROP E.—ReCeD ly at the village of Purton
Wilts, three children, named Matthews—one ten, another
three years of age, and an infant—were allowed to Wei

or carriage

on the towing-path of the canal, with a small child's cart
The eldest was seated in the vehicle, with
and the other was endeavourini,

the infant in its arms

pull lu along, wnen Lue pule uu emy came out, and the
carriage and two children were precipitated into the
water. The other little creature ran to some haymakers
in a neighbouring field for assistance, but could not make
itself understood for crying, and, strange to say, failed to

follow it back ;

for, on returning alone, it is supposed to
have sat down on the bank and cried itself to sleep, it
being found in that state some time afterwards. The two
children to whom the accident happened were discovered
lying dead at the bottom of the canal, with the little cart
floating over them.

COOKING BY GAS.—Among the novelties produced at
the grand agricultural meeting at Exeter was one which
excited the curiosity of all. It was the cooking of the
monster joint, weighing 5351 b. It wa3 placed in the
centre of the Castle-yard, resting on a dripping-pan with
bricks around, surrounded with 216 jets of gas, and co-
vered with sheet-iron. It took five hours to roast, and.
consumed 700 feet of gas, of the value of 4s. sd. ; it
- being ,

weighed after being cooked 4971 b. ; the dripping, 2311 b. ;
the osmazome, 311 b., thus losing by evaporation only
1l lb. This apparatus was invented and fitted-up by Mr.
Warriner, of London, who was prepared to have roasted
all the dinner by the same means—that is, 400 chickens,
58 quarters of lamb, and 33 ribs of beef, at the cost of
12s. worth of gas.—Times. [This is not such a novelty
as our contemporary imagines. In Mr. Feeney's cuisine
all the multifarious operations of roasting, boiling, stew-
ing, broiling, frying, and braising, are performed by the
aid of gas, the heat from tiny and bright jets of which
supplies all the calorific agency required, not an ounce of
coal, or any other description of fuel, ever being used in
the establishment. As to barons of beef,. Feeney has, at
various times, served up several of the most !ponderous
proportions, and cooked to perfection, as all the gourmets
of the Exchange can testify.]

WESLEYAN tONFERENCE..J —The one hundred and se-
venth annual assembly of the Wesleyan ministers was
opened in the metropolis on Wednesday. The number
present was about 600. The first business is always to
ascertain what vacancies the yearly interval has caused in
the legal senate of Methodism—the " One Hundred"
ministers perpetuated by the " Deed Poll" of Mr. Wes-
ley. It was ascertained that there were seven such va-
cancies. These were supplied as follows :—James Gold-
ing, by seniority, in the place of Edward Batty, deceased;
Charles Prest, by nomination, in the place of John Davis,
superannuated ; Benjamin Hudson, by seniority, in the
place of William France, superannuated ; Hugh Beech,
by seniority, in the place of Richard Reece, deceased ;
William Jackson, Ist, by seniority, in the place of Geo.
H. Rowe, deceased : Samuel D. Waddy, by nomination,
in the place of William Tranter, superannuated ; John
Hobson, by seniority, in the place of Maximilian Wilson,
superannuated. After the customary acknowledgements
by those ministers who had been elected upon nomination,
(Messrs. Prest and Waddy,) the " Hundred" being now
completed, Conference proceeded to the election of its
chief officers—the president and secretary. For the office
of president the principal numbers_ were as follow :

The Rev. Dr. Beecham, 216 ; Joseph Fowler, 143 ; Dr.
Hannah, 14 ; John Lomas, 11. The election was con-
firmed by the unanimous vote of the Legal Hundred.
Dr. Hannah was elected secretary. The following gives
the appointment of ministers for the Liverpool district :
Liverpool, North, (Brunswick Chapel, &c.,): W. W.
Stamp, William Illingwortb, Samuel R. Hall. Liverpool,
South, (Pitt-street, &c.,) : Thomas Stead, Robert New.
ton, D.D., George Roebuck, Thomas Capp. Liverpool,
Welsh, (Benn's Gardens, &c.,) : Thomas Aubery, J. R.
Chambers. Chester : W. B. Thcrneloe, Jos. K. Tucker.
Mold and Buckley Mount: James Faulkner. Carmar-
then and Bangor, (English,): Robert Dyson. Holyhead :
W. T. Nelson. Wrexham : Joseph Burgess, Thomas H.
BrocklAurst. Whitchurch : R. Totherick, Benjamin
Smith. Warrington : S. Broadbent, George Dickenson.
Runcorn : R. H. Hare, John Hanson. St. Helen's and
Prescot : Joshua Hocken, W. H. Lewis. Southport and
Ormskirk : Joseph Sykes, Felix H. Pick. Wigan : Jas.
Miller, Joseph Millar. Preston and Chorley : Thomas
Moss, Joshua Priestley, William Davenport. Garstang
James Eacott, George Mather, Richard Smethem. Lan-
caster : Thomas Haswell, Joseph Sutton. Newton;
Harry Podley, Edward Watson.