Although we have advices from East and West, neither sends-us
intelligence of any very eventful character. Political discussion in the United States, even over the ceaseless quarrel on the Slavery question is merged in the social gossip about the hanging of Pro- fessor Webster for murder, and the arrival of Jenny Lind at the
land where her contractor, Mr. Barnum, is one of "the aristo- cracy." The most digmffied intelligence respecting the East is that which London sends to India—that ffw William Gomm, after being once so unceremoniously deprived of the military command in chief to which he had been nonnnated, le now to. succeed the able and impracticable Sir Charles Napier. Still more important to us who care for the march of practical science, is the fact that the telegraph has curtailed the passage of news from India, in the stage between Trieste and London, to two days.
