The _nines- Zeitung has a telegraphic despatch, dated Cassel, Thursday
the 19th September, stating that an ordinance had just been published transferring the sea of government to Wilhemsbad. Other accounts, not so late, however, state that the Elector had arrived at Wilhemsbad, and had been received at the Chateau of Philippsrate ; and that Mr. Hassenpfiug was in his suite.
It is said that Austria is urging the Elector to abdicate in favour of the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt.
A despatch, partly conveyed by the channel of electric telegraph from Trieste, arrived in town on Wednesday, with the substance of the Bom- bay mail a the 7th August; and the bulk of the intelligence has now been received ; but the fullest accounts are barren of political news. The only incident worth mention is the murderous assault on "Mr. S.," "head of the Baule-ah concern," and his assistant, Mr. G.," who had gone out with two hundred men "to settle with a Tillage but too well prepared to meet them," and had been so beaten that Mr. G. died: "from the continual stretching of the rope, it has broke."
The mail-steamer Atlantic arrived at LI% elpvol yesterday, svith advices from New York to the fith instant. The Texas Boundary Bill passed the House of Representatives on the 6th, by a final majority of 106 to 97: the bill provided for the territorial. government of NewTiexiop." without any restxiction for or against slavery." Jenny Lind was all the -rage. "Our gravest citizens rush to her apart- ments to pay their respects.' Mr. Barnum has modified his contract—
"She is {now) engaged for two years, and is to sing both in- the United States and Europe. He has agreed to pay her 1000 dollars per night for every concert, and give her besides half of the profits nightly beyond that sum. It is expected that her concerta in this city alone [New York] will produce on an average 12,000 dollars per night less expenses, and that these receipts may be expected for twenty or thirty nights in succession."
There had been three arrivela frani.California, bringing a total of five millions and a half of dollars in gold und,goId-dust.
The Gaceta del Salvador (Nicaragua) contains a despatch from Lord Palmerston to the Nicaraguan Secretary for 'oreign Affairs, stating that "the Government of her Britannic Majesty ,is desirous of cultivating the most friendly relations with the State of Nicaragua; but that her Ma- jesty's Government is incapable of doing anything which shall be inter- preted as admitting a doubt that Greytown belongs exclusively- to the Mosquito territory."
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