Representative Government. —We have been favored with the following extract from the letter of a most respectable gentleman in London, largely interested in South Australia, addressed to a friend in Adelaide, which gives tbe most direct assurance we have yet had that we are really to have the advantages of a Representative Govern ment:—" London, 3rd August, 1847.—1 have just attended a meeting of the South Australian Society, to receive a communication from Earl Grey, intimating that he bad been unable to pro pose, during the last session, a measure to grant a Representative Constitution to South Australia, but that he hoped it would be .undertaken during the ensuing session."—S. A. Gazette. South Australian Silk.—We had the plea sure, on Thursday last, of examining a very beau titul specimen of silk of this produce, worms reared by Mr. E. Rowlands. We under, stand that the insect thrives excellently in ihis country, and this new branch of profitable industry, is likely to form one of those resources upon which the supply of labour may be directed when its io crease overruns the demand. In the meantime our cottagers would do well to keep a look-out i-head. The mulberry, the chief food of the silkworm, grows here with a luxuriance altogether itnex ampled ; but it takes six or seven years before tha leaves can be freely used for food, regard being had to the preservation of ths tree. Plantations, there lore, cannot be too soon begun. Most persons have a f«w grape vines and figs—a dcz?u or two mul berries, would be, in the end, probably as valmb c. It is not, we believe, generally known that our expected Governor is a son of the lite Sir Aretas Young, who died when Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward's Island. The Times mentions Sir Henry was connected with the Civil Service of the West Indian Colonies for nearly twenty years, and filled (to quote our authority verbatim) 'during the last eleven years, the office of Government Secretary in British Guiaoa, a post in which he had the rare good fortune of uniting the confidence of the Government with the respscc and good will of the colonists.'—South Australian. The same ship that conveys Sir Harry Smith, the successor of Sir Henry Pottinger to the Cape' will probably bring on Sir H. E. F. 