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ADELAIDE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 18(10.

THE ELECTOBS OUGHT to be stirring. We ha^e already called attention to the evils of deby and we shall offer no apology for returning io the subject. Thursday's Gazette containa a proclamation, it is true, further proroguing ilie present Parliament to April 3, but long befo.-e April 3 the writs for the new elections will be out. We do not know that the day is fixed ; but we should say that they would be out by the middle of March or thereabouts. Let no one exclaim " This gives six weeks for action ;" we say in the first place, that if the colony is t? be thoroughly roused, canvassed, consulted, and enlightened on the great political questions which now and then, like comets, have swept across the social horizon, -six weeks cannot be too long a period ; nor is the period long enough. Let us remember we ara going to send men to Parliament for three years. Let us remember that many candidates will, in all probability, came forward, avowedly prepared to make new and great experiments. Let us not rush blindfolded upon changes ; let us not fold our arma supinely and refuse to change at all. Our proper course is to meet, to discuss, to argue, to write, to reply ; to bring to bear upon every groat public question the mind, and experience, and statesmanship of the community-to elicit truths- by friendly debate, and to fill the House with, good representatives, by calling into the field immediately the greatest possible number of candidates. lu this way shall- wo elicit that contest of opinion and diversity of view, which, as they prevail amongst the mass of the population, will of necessity be reflected in a numerous body of candidatee. Candidates are bound injustice to themselves and in respect to the electors, at once to come out, and declare their principles, and electors should look with suspicion on that man who shrinks from affording a constituency ample time to discuss, consider, and select.

There will be a great change in the next House of Assembly. A large number of the present members will not stand again, and a considerable proportion of the remainder will probably be rejected on presenting themselves. The " JSew Parliament" will therefore be not only a newljf constituted Parliament, but an Assembly consist- ing, to a great extent, of new, and, many of them, untried men. Let tho electors become^wsll acquainted with them beforehand. Let all the questions left in abeyance by the now moribund

Legislature, and all the questions raised by poli < ticians during the recess, be mooted and dis-

cussed at every political meeting in every dis- j

trict. Let farmers and country settlers meet; let the residents of Adelaide and the suburban localities "show their opinion." It will be too late in a few weeks ; and it will be like hoping to gather grapes_frjomthjstle¿to expect to reap the rich fruits of wise and prudent legisla- tion from a Parliament bundled together, heiter skelter, from amongst the first batch of sena- torial aspirants who-fit or<-uufit-may offer ithemselves to thB country. Perhaps our advice is needless; perhaps a few days would have seen the districts " moving." Well, even sup- posing this, wo shall have done no harm, and shall deserve no blame even if our suggestions, have come, in point of time, between the inten- tions and the actions of the community.

John Bull is proverbially slow to move, but when moved he generally finishes his work. We doubt not our fellow-colonists/will do their work well at the next election, but it is time they commenced operations ; and to stimulate them yet a little more, we now append a list of tho present Parliament, with remarks as to what is ! the probable course pf each member :

District

Adelaide, 1. Ditto, 2 . Ditto, 3 . Ditto, 4 . Ditto, s . Ditto, 6 . Port Adelaide, 1 -, Ditto, 2 . West Torrens, 1 ... Ditto, 2 '. Yatala, 1. Ditto, 2 '-. Gumeracha, I

Ditto, 2 . East Torrens, 1 ... Ditto, 2 . Sturt, 1 . Ditto, 2 .» Noarlunga, 1

Ditto. 2 . Mount Barker, 1 ». Ditto, 2 »

Onkaparinga, 1 ... Ditto, 2 . Encounter Bay, l... Ditto, 2

Barossa, l. Ditto, 2 . Murray, 1 Light, I Ditto, 2

Victoria,. Burra and dare, 1 Ditto, a .» Ditto, 3 ." Flinders, I,..

r, i ».

a, 1.1

Members.

R. D. Hanson«/^

B. T. Finniss «i F. S. Dutton y J. B. Neales J

J. M. Solomon v One vacant J. Hart

Remarks.

E. G. Collinson« L. Scammell J. "V7. Cole./

J. Harvey 4 . R. B. Andrews*/

A. Blythe A- Hay ->.

L. Glyde ?> ,

J. H. Barrow J T. Reynold» v J. Hallett 4

T. Young , H. Mildred V J. Dunn . */ TV*. Rcgera 4

W. Milne * |

W. Townsend « * H. B. T. Strangways»' Ar F. Lindsay. W. Duffield J W. Bakewell J Dr. Wark J

J, T.Bagot J

D. Shannon .*-/

G. C. Hawker » . G.S.Kingston y E. McEUister 4 E. J. Peake

M. McDermott

"Will stand. Will stand. Will stand. Will stand.

Will not stand.

Probably return

in time.

Will not stand. Will not stand. Doubtful.

Will not stawL. Doubtful.

Will stand. .Will stand. Will stand.

Will not Stand. Will not stand. Probably will.

? na.

- We gire the above as political on dits, current in well-informed circles ; in some instances those members who are set down as declining to, again . become candidates have already advertised their decision ; in other cases we.have been personally informed by them to the same effect ; and in a, third class of cases we give the current public opinion. AU must, however» he soon, definitively

settled.

Taking the above list as conjectural, there ajo 15 members who will not stand, and one. vacant

seat, making 16 new members to be chosen out ] of arouse of 36, even supposing that all the remainder were re-elected-which it<is certain

tiley jHH not be, at least by their former con- stituencies. But it must also be acknowledged that there are two or three on the negative Uat

which may yet appear on the opposite side?-for c^rph?, Mr. T. lleyno'uli (who has been spoken of for the city); aku -Mr. Shannon; nor are we sure whether Mr. Dunn and Mr. Kogew might -hot be prevailed upon to " think again." Pro- bably some hon^ members might change their seats; and in this category WJ have heard Messrs. Neales, Dutton, Andrews, and Mildred placed." But~"whatever may be the elements of the ParliaiT'sn'-ary changes about to take place, there will-be great changes; and-no time ought to be lost in preparatioj. for tli9 forthcoming important exercisa of our political rights-*

Btrjipxioirs AND INFLATED."-Sach were the terms in which the Melbourne Argus, a short time ago, described the " usual style" of the Register ¿ and if to a " bumptious and inflated" style, the Argus had added a " moan and un- generous" spirit, the description would have been nearly complete. We have not troubled ourselves much about the numerous petty at- tacks lately made upon us by our " bumptious" neighbour, who evidently feels it difficult to reflect the glories of his architectural metamor- phosis in the cramped and narrow columns of his daily pro3er ; but on the 2nd inst. he -went so egregiously out of his way to make himself readable, that even contempt itself could not overlook the effusion. On Nov. 8th last w© wrote an article on the then depressed state of trade, and on February 2nd-exactly eighty* seven days afterwards-we find an extract 'from our article occupying a conspicuous place ia on© of our contemporary's "bumptious" produc- tions ! Hard up, indeed, must the Segisier be to have recourse to an article of ours 87 days old as the topic on which to dilate. Why, another article upon " Civil Uniforms," or even a couple of columns more about " ozone" would have been less ridiculous Î Our contemporary, in his eighty-seven-days'-old critique, says that he noticed our article at the time of its first ap- pearance, though he refrained from commenting upon it ; but he now finds that it was reprinted in Melbourne ; and that a j orfcion of it was'ci ft out of a Melbourne paper, and forwarded to au Adelaide merchant with the brief but signifi- cant request, " Tell me if it is'true." Of cours© it Will bs supposed that this paragraph, which so astonished somebody in Melbourne, has only just arrived in Adelaide, and that even at 87 days after date the Begister feels called upon to say something to neutralise its effect. Nothing of the sort ; the extract said to be forwarded to an " Adelaide merchant" commences as foi lows :

" Adelaide papers to 17th inst, are to hand by the Omeo, but they contain little extractabi© matter. The following from the South Austra- lian Advertiser does not read very lively."

Our readers will observe the date is-to 17th inst." .That is, the 17th of November last. on. which day the Omeo sailed for Melbourne, taking files to that date, our article-being copied by the Melbourne papers and brought back by the return mail. The papers containing the extract (which the Register now parades as having been received through an Adelaide mer- chant) reached this colony by the Omeo, on the 29th of November; and the Register contrives to come up with it on the 2nd of February ! Ife is scarcely credible, however," that the Register did not see, until the month of February, a paragraph in, a Melbourne paper of the preceding November, although our contem- porary is sometimes a long while after the rest of the world in getting his information; for-ex- ample, when on the 31st of January he- said, "We learn from *the Melbourne Journals' that the Victorians intend to invite Major Warbur- ton to take-the command of their exploring" expedition"-this information having been pub- lished by us, and referred to editorially oa January 28th. Still, although our contemporary might possibiy be in ignora:i2e~for three days of wLat was known through our columns all over the colony, it could scarcely have taken him more than two whole months to discover what he has just given from an old Melbourne paper. As to an " Adelaide merchant " sending the Rernsler

an Adelaide commerial paragraph eighty-seven

days old, we should like to know that merchant, in ' orderto-avoid him. Our contemporary proceeds to rally us upon having complained of depression of trade because our own business was depressed. We leave him to the full enjoyment of all the credit due to him of making this discovery, and of all the gratification his noble spirit mustrfeel in giving it publicity. One thing is quite certain, namely, that with all our contemporary's anxiety to send out of the colony clieôrlng accounts of its commercial p^rosperity^he jome time3 not only egregiously blunders but obsti- nately persists in his misstatements ; to wit, his sending to England by the last Homeward Mail £151]as the price of Burras, although £154 is the lowest price at which Burra shares can now or then could be bought, at which price, as we afterwards informed him, shares had been actually purchased by one of the proprietors of his "own grêat^commercial regüiatörr "Bñtrto b© sure, if he persists in depreciating Burras, h© more than doubles the price of Boyáis, which h© insists (after correction) in quoting at 26s., although if our contemporary will state his readiness to give half that price for them, we wül tell him where he may go and buy them.

TEÎIPESATUBE OF SOUTH AUSTBALXA iir JANUARY.-The Hon. G-. S. Kingston -has kindly furnished us with tables of the thermo metrical ranges of January, 1858, 1859, and 1860. The-first table is the mean temperature for the daily range, the nightly range, and for the whole month of January in each year re- spectively :

Year.

Daily

Bange.

SSJJ Thearonth.

Jen., 1858 .

" 1859 . " 1860 .

87-22 81-09 88-12

63-32 Î7 67 64-38 72 73 68 35 78-24.

The next table gives the same three ranges for

each week in the month -

DAILY BANOS-(OB MAXIMUM MEAN). Week Ending.

1858

1 " **

18S9. j I860. Jan. 7». .» ' ».

.? w... s va (...

82-14 82-14

"--76 14

^102-83»

Sï 57 ^JT 97-14

.73 14 f 7848

Ï9 43 92-42

-_?LÜr 85 u

T-*=

'»f? " 1

- -,1" 'llx"^'"" ~

I ' It will be seen from the preceding that the mean heat of thjgdagt week in January, 1858, was much highia^^afil^hat of the last week ia January, 18G0. *We now give table 3 :-^

JUOHTiV BAXOS- (Ott ailNEtfuJI MEAN).

Week Ending.

185S.

C3 71 64-28 62 42 78-71

1859.

1860.

Jan. 7.

" 14. " 21. - 23.

70 00 69 42 63 14 67 71

76-71 62 42 67 71 6614

HEAN OF WEEKS (DAT AM> NICHT).

EBAL PBOPEBÏX ACT.4-Memorandum'show- ing the number of transactions in the^Lands Titles Office, with the amount of fees received during January 1859, aud 1860 :- X

- January, 1859. - January, Ï8M. Applications ,., ... 20 ... 77

Transféra ,." . 10 ... 391 Leases .,.»:, 13 ... 68 Waeharge of Mortgage K.^ a ». f

0 .. ,lv

45

Itegiatratlon-fces .»-£64 1-0

Assurance.« 38 4 9

£100 S 0 £301

FüETHEB PBOBOGATIOÎÏ OF PABXUITHKT. By Gazette Proclamation, Parliament ^stands further prorogued till April 3. x

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