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Chartist meeting. Mr. Roebuck deprecated any man
setting up for political wisdom there, and we must say
that there was no attempt at showing such offensiye
superiority. The gentlemen of more moderate
views scented to have come simply to sacrifice
those views on the altar of submissive coalition
with pure democracy. The Leeds Coryplimus
of Household Suffrage, Mr. Hamer Stansfeld, kept
his peace altogether. Sir William Molesworth, Mr.
Grote, Mr. Duncombv, and almost all the other gen-
tlemen who are called Radicals in the House of Com-
mons, chose to be absent. The one or two other sup-
posed advocates of something short of Chartism proper
regularly threw down their brief's, and at most adven-
tured a petition for mercy. The Chronicle says—" The
meeting at Leeds, were it to have had no other effect
than the bringing together the middle and working
classes, who have for some time been neutralising the
efforts of each other, will have been productive of great
good." We cannot agree with the Chronicle. The
middle classes (in any influential representation of their
bode) may be said to have been as absent as the higher
ones. This was acknowledged by the Chairman, Mr.
J. G. M irshall (the spirit of whose speech, we must
say, i.itsfraltted from the opinions, we like better than
atx,, other)—who observed-
- " If the middle classes in this town have not yet come
forward so largely as might have been wishod and ex.
pected to join us, we may, I believe, attribute that to a
cause not, I firmly hope, like to influence them perma-
nently. They have been misled ani deterred by the hos-
tility to the prirciples of our Association of some leading
Reformers amongst ur.—l mean the editors of the Leeds
Mercury."

To this the Leeds Mercury answers very conclu-
sively
"Mr. Marshall pays us the compliment to suppose that
the middle classes of Leeds, have held aloof from the
Association merely owing to our influence. But this is a
very great mistake. The middle classes undoubtedly
think with U 3 as to the Household and Universal Suffrage,
but they held aloof from the Association for months before
we said a word on tile subject."
This double demonstration, as we have called it, was
a double fizilure. The Chartist part of it was, in the
first place, a total failure, as a display of numbers. The
non-Chartist equally was a failure, as a display of poli-
tical knowledge or principle.
(From the Courier.)
On Friday we gave the resolutions which were passed
at the Railway Conference held at Birmingham on
Tuesday last. The wording of the resolution evinces a
strong impression on the part of the various Companies
as to the responsibility of their duties to the public, a
due discharge of which are essential to the interests of
the railways themselves. If steam•vessels had not
been made as safe as they are expeditious and commo-
dious, they would not have become the general means
of mariue transit, and if the Railway Companies
do not act up to their professions of anxiety for the pub-
lic safety and convenience, they will fail in making
than a profitable investment for capital ; and it is
not alone in professions or signals that this is to be
attained, but in the appointment of able and judi-
cious disciplinarians as superintendents on each line,
independent of engineers and contractors, and of every
interest save that of duty to the public under the
control of the Boards of Directors. It would perhaps
be as well that the Directors themselves should never
meddle out of the board-room with the detail or
working of the line, and after such a code of signals
shall have been estahlished •as experience and a know •
ledge of the subject shall select, we sincerely trust to
see them fall hack into their original places, as mem-
bers •of a board or committee, and not act in their in-
dividual capacities. This has been the cause of much
mischief on many lines ; upon none perhaps worse than
the South Western, where the late chairman arrogated
to himself every office in the Company. We hope the
Brighton will not follow so bad an example. The two
greatest evils that can attach to a railway arc being a
Stock Exchange line, or under the exclusive manage-
ment of the engineer. Oa the fifth resolution we
should moon refer seeing the various Companies
manage well their own servants, by a proper selection
in the first instance, and by judicious rules and regula-
tions, positively, and without favour adhered to, with,
at the same time, every encouragement, to having re-
course to Lord Seymour's Act for protection and as-
istance.

THE WEATHER.

ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE.

STREET.

NOON JAN. 25.
13arometer 3O 354 In.

Thermometer ; 55 Deg.
highest G I .2
Lowest
Wind N. N. \V.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

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From the late Henry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen
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39, Albemarle-street, opposite the York hotel, and 76,1 a
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We beg the attention of our readers to two coin-
munications inserted in this day's paper, on the subject of
capital punishments. The one which refers to the past
conduct and judicial character of Lord Meadowbank, the
Judge who sentenced M'Rae to a public execution, is par..
ocularly deserving of consideration. NVe do most ear-
nestlyi entreat the attention of the Marquis of Normatiby
to the facts it embodies; and we do feel
assured that if the
Noble Marquis only bestows his calm consideration on those
facts, he will not hesitate a moment in commuting the
sentence of
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death passed on the miserable even
had no petitions b,:r
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NUMBER OF SUDDEN
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CAPE OP GOOD HOPE.

The barque Mercury, of Greenock, arrived at Falmouth from
the Cape of Good flow in fifty-two days, 11.. s furnished us with
advic,s of a much later date than we were already in possession of.
The British Government has consented to make Port Beaufort the
mouth of the river Brede, a free port, on the suggestion of the
Civil (7ommissicner of the district of Swellentlam, but the final
arrangement of the matter has been left to Mr. Field. It was
supposed that from the capabilities of this district, in the course
of fifteen or twenty years it would become one of the most wealthy
of the colony; and Port Beaufort, for exports, be second only to
Cape Town. Letters are received from Port Natal to Nov. 3,
front one of which we extract the following

" Umpanda has broken a part of his treaty with us by treacher-
ously murdering a great number of men, women, and children of
the tribe of Awl) (I believe out of an old revenge). Our Volksraad
is greatly dissatisfied with such conduct. The majority of the
members ascribe it to the natural barbarity of Panda, whom, as
Christians, they are obliged to try to reform through soft Inca
sures; in consequence Messrs. C. I'. Landman and Joachim Prem.
100, two members of the Council, have be n chosen to proceod to
Panda, at the expense of the Government of Natal, for a close in-
vestigation into the case and to give report thereof to the yolks.
raad. When the American missionaries shall have settled amoligst
them there are hopos for a gradual diminishing of their barbarous
customs. The Rev. Mr. Growth, lately arrived from Ame-
rica, has accompanied Messrs. Landman and Prensloa to
Panda, and will soon take up his station at Panda's
chief town. The Volksraad h ive at the same time reque.,ted
that Panda's successor should be put at school with Dr.
Adams, so as to have him instructed in the Christian religion.
The Vulksraad have likewise granted a place here and another at
Lorroo fur the establishment of institutions for the preaching of
the Gospel to the Bushmen Kaifers. It is known that there was
cxistinga misunderstanding between our company of Natal and of
Hendrik Potgieter of the Vaal River over the Draak Bergen. In
consequence of a petition of Potgieter to the Volksraad at this place
for a reconciliation they appointed a commission to the Vaal River,
with the object of removing all the existing differences. These
gentlemen returned last night, bringing with them the most favour-
able accounts. Potgieter has acknowledged that he was in the
wrong In the presence of 500 of his men and gave himself willingly
over to the commission. It is astonishing how fast our population
is increasing. From reports received by me the whole road from
the Orange River to this place is covered with the waggons of new
comers. In short, according to the return of Mr. Van Rooyen, we
may calculate the number of fighting men from Port Natal to the
Vaal River, at 5,000." .

Sir George Napier, who was sent to the Cape by Lord Glenelg
to uphold the Catfer treaties, had expressed himself as follows, in
reply to an address on the subject by the inhabitants of Port Eli-
zabeth, which exhibits a great change in his mind in relation to
these treaties. His Excellency says : _ .

" In common with, I believe, the great body of the inhabitants
of the eastern districts and the colony at large, I am strongly at.
tached to the leading principles of those trea:ie4, and consider them
to be well calculated to secure the peace, and by that means pro.
mote the prosperity of the entire frontier. lam constrained,
ever, to admit, that in certain of their details they have been proved
by experience to have disappointed, to some extent, the expectations
and intention of the framers, awl to have left property, in instances
of frequent occurrence, without its just and adequate protec-
tion. The inability (for example) of a party plundered to re-
ceive compensation, in case his cattle were not guarded by an
arme.t herdsman, appears to me to tend but little to the protec-
tion of tbe cattle whilst it endangers greatly the safety of the
herdsman. And the provisions, which defeat the claims of per-
sons chargeable with negligence in the keeping of the cattle, as
well as that of persons who, without being chargeable with any
negligence, are unable, from accidental circumstances, to trace
the spoor over any particular point in the colonial Vundary, al.
though in both the cases last supposed, the stolen cattle are actu-
ally found in Catrerland, anti can be identified beyond all dispute,
seem to shock our sense of natural justice, and to be unsupported
by any considerations of sound policy. To these points, and any
other of a like nature, in which the treaties may be susceptible of
Improvement, I shall give the fullest consideration, with an anxious
desire to remove, Uhl my power, every welhgrounded reason of
complaint, whether on the part of the colonists or the Coffer chiefs."

TILE LATE ALEXANDER GRANT, ESQ.—
On Friday we noticed the melancholy suicide of tliia gen-
tleman at his residence in Banffshire, Scotland, supposed
to have arisen from the failure of some speculations in tea.
The Observer supplies the following additional particu-
lars :—Mr. Grant was upwards of fifty years of age, and
had spent the greater part of his life, after reaching the
years of maturity, at sea. He was for many years cap-
tain of a ship trading between India and China. He had
retired from the naval profession about two or three years
years ago, when he purchased the estate of Carnousie, in
the county of Banff. The price was somewhere about
30,0001., and he wise supposed to have retired with a for-
tune of from 50,0004 to 60,000/. For the last two or three
years he spent a considerable ortion of his time in Lender,
having been employed in prosecuting a suit of di-
vorce in the Consistorial Court against his wife, who, it
will be remembered, appeared a few years ago unfavour.
ably before the public, in consequence of an action for
criminal intercourse with her, brought by Mr. Grant
against the captain of the ship in which she was brought
from India to this country, prior to her husband's arrival.
Mr. Grant became a candidate for the El;in district of
burghs IS or 20 months ago, and was oppos d by the
former representative, Sir Andrew Leith flay, and by
Mr. Duff, of fladdo, the latter gentleman appearing in
the. Conservative cause. So late as the Ist of the pre-
sent month Mr. Grant gave nine bolls of oatmeal to the
poor on his estates, and no one was led, from any alters-
t:oa in his appearance or otherwise, to appreheni any such
unfortunate catastrophe as has occurred.
A letter from Chalons sur-Saone, of 17th inst.,
gives the following account of a lamentable event which
had just occurred near that place. It appears that tho
Citis steamer had arrived there with the boilers which were
made at Pont ( Haute-Saone), end a portion of tire steam-
engine, to receive the remainder from the establishment
of Creuzot, one of the chiefs of which, M. E. Schneider,
was on board with M. Bourdon, the engineer, M. Pognon,
the Mayer of Cretiz,t, M. Bresson, the captain of another
steamer, and several mechanicians and workmen to assist
in the experiments. All the usual precautions had, it is
said, been taken, when suddenly a boiler burst, and a ter-
rible explosion took place, which carried away the stern
of the steamer. Seven or eight persons, amongst whom
aro mentioned Messrs. Pognon and Decagon, are said to
have been either drowned or scalded to death ; the others
escaped as by miracle. M. E. Schneider received no in-
jury, and M. Bourdon had only a slight contusion on the
heed. The account adds that it was impossible at the
moment, owing to the sudden submersion of the vessel,
and the great height of the river, to ascertain correctly the
extent of the accident.
The following rash expression in the London
Times, of the 15th inst., shows exactly what state of feel-
ing they aro now in. In declaiming against the appear-
ance of the missionaries of the Anti-Corn-law League in
Walsall, our Contemporary thus expresses himself :—" It
may be a question fit for the Legislature to consider,
whether individuals shell be permitted to combine, in an
organized society, ft* the purpose of influencing elections
in so shameless and unconstitutional a manner as this."
Yes, yes ! put the rr uzzls on all those who dare to pro-
test against the doings of their high mightinesses, the
aristocratic bread-taxers of the country. Gag the rogues
without delay : silerce, punish, imprison them, by all
re cans. —Liverpool Albion.
NEWPORT (ISLE o IVIGIIT).—A public
dinner was hell at the Green Dragon Hotel on Wednts-
i'ay, to celebrate the anniversary ut the first open election,
when both of our highly respectable and talented Members,
M‘ ssrs. Hawkins and Blake, were present, and addressed
their constituents, greatly to the satisfaction of all reason-
able and right-thinking men. C. Day, Esq., of West
Cowes, wins unanimously called to the chair, and presided
with considerable ability. The room was decorated with
evergreens, arid the ladies' blue silk banner was uncurled
at the cast side of the room, with " Purity of Electio ."o r
it, in large gold letters; and another blue silk banner
waved over the head of the Chairman, with a ciic
Garter and Buckle, on Which Was written " This Borough
Emancipated December, 1832," and in the centre " Union
is Strength," and " Knowledge is Power."
YORK.—The York Liberal Association dined
at Lockwood's Hotel, on Saturday. The Hon. J. C.
Dundas, the Liberal Nleraber for this city, occupied the
chair, and was sum orted on his right by thin Right Hon.
Lord Wenlcck, Henry Redhead Yorke, Esq., Mr. Alder.
man Wilson, Alfred li. Darley, Esq., Baader), Esq. ;
on the left by Sir Geo. Strickland, Bart., NI. P., Sir J.
Worslcy, Dart., I'. Laycock, Esq., Leonard Simpson,
Esq , and Henry Smalvs, Esq. Mr. Bell and Mr. Hard.
man were the Vice. Chairmen. The room was crowded.
At Walsall the .prospects brighten as the canvass
narrows. Mr. Smith has already the promise of more
votes th.in carried Mr. Finch at the last election. The
enemy is alarmed, and Gladstone has brought his brother
(the Duke of Nswcastic's own) to the rescue. We pre.
sumo he will tell the electors that his inexperienced junior
will do as he bids him. Nothing but an enorenatta expendi-
ture on the pat of the Tory can give him any chance, and
bribery wiil not be practised easily where the popular feel-
ing in favour of the anti. bread-tax is so strong. On Thurs.
dry M. Cobilea and Mr. Rawson, u hon p ssing slung the
street, were loudly cheered, while the opponent canvassers
vest.° his .ed and pe'ted=Manclscsler Times.

, .
EAST SUrtHEY ELECTION.—No candidate In
the Liberal interest has yet appeared, but a public meeting
of the electors will be held this evening, at the Bridge-
house lintel, Southwark, whin it is the intention of some
of the etcetera to propose Thomas Alcock, Esq., of
Kingswood Warren, Surrey, in opposition to Mr. Antro.
bus, the young Tory candidate. Mr. Alcock'a political
opinions arc of the most liberal order ; ha is an advocate
of the Ballot, for which ho voted during the short
time he sat for Ludlow, and also for the Educa-
tion Grant, and although his large property consists
almost entirely of land, he is a firm supporter of the re-
peal of the Corn-laws. Mr. Alcock is the second son of
the late Joseph Alcock, Esq. of Itoehampton, and through
his family connections possesses cot.siderable claims to the
attention of the county electors. He is a lineal descendant
of Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bart., who represented the
borough of Southwark on the popular side from 1761
till 1774, and the county of Surrey from 1775 till 1790,
and at that early period was an advocate for reform
in Parliament. Mr. Alccck's uncle, the late Colonel
John Alcock, must still be remr inhered in the
borough of Southwark, where ho was the leader of the
Liberal interest, and in 1802 rescued one of the seats for
that borough from the Tory party, by bringing in the late
Gorge 'riot ney, Esq., and in 1812 Mr. Chalice Calvert.
Ile was Colonel of the Princess Charlotte's regiment of
Loynl Sunt!le.tk Volunteers, and treaiurer of the county.
Mr. Alcock is cousin to Mr'. Briscoe, the wife of John
Ivatt Briscoe, late Men.hor fur Surrey, who was
the surviving daughter of the last Sir Joseph Mawbey.
Mr. Alcock's estate of Kingswood Warren is in the
eastern division of the county, between Banstead and
gate, where be has recently erected, at his own expense a
neat and commodious church and school We heartily
wish him success in the ensuing contest. which will un-
doubtedly be an 'arduous one, but many of tho old sup.
cploerrtke,rs of
who Mr.
have volunteered
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which have been lost tehtrioteurgtahinapnioaldiyouabntdofla'ors
successful
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result. We that the last year's registration
was very much in of the Liberal interest.-11./orn-
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