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Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 89, 19 August 1846, Page 4

A monument to the memory of Southey, the poet, is in course of erection <in the Cathedral of Bristol, his native city. It consists of a bust, in white marble, placed on a pedestal of grey marble, and executed in the best style of Bailey, R.A., also a native of that city. Wool, being the staple of the colony, he who in any way furthers its production is a public benefactor; he who interferes to check the flow of labour into the colony, to meddle with the cheep-runs. or in any other way whatsoever impede the operations of the stockholder, strikes a death blow at our possessions in Australia. Whether or no our possessions in Australia may become the seat of manufactures, is a question for our grand children to solve. The colony must be whealthier in population as well as capital before there will be any means of establishing them ; besides the abseace of water communication is a serious item in the calculation. The rice, the mulberry, the silk-worm, tobacco, the sugar-cane, all thrive to a certain extent ; bnt compare the progress they have made wtih that of the article which uature has pointed out as the staple of the colony ?—London Morning Chronicle. An American scientific gentleman offers for thirty thousand dollars, to sink an Artesian well in Boston, United State, to the depth of 1700 feet, by which it is estimated that more than a million of gallons of the very best water can be thrown into the city every day, and to the height of 100 feet above the surface of the earih. An effort is about to be made to raise the money by subscription. Match against Time.—Mr. Lilly's, for ,£IOO to ride from Newmarket to London and back in twelve hours, was accomplished a few minutes under nine hours. The distance is about 118 miles. —Bell's Mesßenger,