Arttscellantous.

Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge visited the exhibition of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours yesterday.

Sir Robert Peel, it is stated, has given instructions for the rent of his Staffordshire tenantry to be reduced 20 per cent.—Courier. The Aylesbury News says-0 It can no longer be denied, the Duke of Buckingham has compelled his tenants to sign notices warning Baron Rothschild off their farms," on his sporting excursions : "it is well known that the Rothschilds are tainted with Liberalism."

The Duke of Marlborough has been appointed Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotalornm of Oxfordshire, in the room of the late Earl of Macclesfield.

Letters have recently been received from Lord Morpeth, dated from Charlestown in North America ; whence he intends to proceed to Cuba, and after visiting the West Indies, proposed to return to New York. July is named as the probable period for his Lordship's return home.—Morning Post.

We regret to state that Lord Abinger is suffering under indisposi-

tion, which prevents the learned Judge from taking his seat in the Court of Exchequer this term. We understand his Lordship is going to Brighton for a short time.—Standard, April 15. A report was circulated on Thursday evening, that Prince George of Cambridge had met with a bad accident in Hyde Park, and had been taken to St. George's Hospital. Mr. Burton, a young gentleman of fortune, fell from his horse in the Ride, and suffered a concussion of the brain, from the consequences of which he died. He was a personal friend of Prince George, who followed him to the Hospital to make in- quiries; and hence the rumour.

Mr. Yates, the manager of the Adelphi, is recovering from the effects of breaking a blood-vessel on the passage from Liverpool to Dublin. The Russian Ambassador and Baroness Branow gave a sumptuous banquet, at Ashburnham House, on Wednesday. Among the company were the Count and Countess St. Aulaire, Baron Nieumann, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Haddington, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Lady Peel, and Lady Graham. In the evening, the Baroness received nearly four hundred of the leading members of the Corps Diplomatique and the nobility ; the Dutchess of Gloucester and Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Marquis of Normanby, and the Marquis of Anglesey, being present.

A letter, dated Bombay, March 1st, from a General Officer to a rela- tive in this country, communicates the following intelligence. "Ac- counts have come, that Gbuzni has been taken, and the garrison, 1,000 strong, put to the sword. General Nott, it is also said, is preparing to retreat ; although in Candahar, at the head of 12,000 men, he ought to hold good his position for years, as with such a force he might com- mand the country round." We cannot, of course, vouch for this intel- ligence; but it comes to us with considerable appearance of authen- ticity—Times, April 15.

Today, the Times says that the writer of the letter was General Brooke ; and that it has reason to believe that the intelligence was only an exaggeration of the news last received.

Troops for India, in considerable numbers, are assembling at Can- terbury, Gravesend, and Tilbury Fort, and the embarkation of the men is going on with activity. Three additional regiments have been or- dered to that country—the Seventy-Eighth Highlanders, the Tenth Foot, and the Ninth Lancers.

A communication received in the City states that the ship Beulah, with troops on board for India, was aground at Dungeness Point on Thursday. Two steamers went to her assistance.

The French Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, postponed sine die the proposition of M. Golbery to print reports of its debates at its own expense, to be distributed in Paris and the provinces. The pro- ject is virtually rejected.

A trial of some interest in this country came before the Court of First Instance at Boulogne, on the 6th instant ; was adjourned, and con- tinued on the 13th. It was the prosecution of Vivier, the courier em- ployed by the Morning Chronicle, Morning Post, and Morning Herald, to convey the intelligence received by the Calcutta mail from Paris to Boulogne ; the charge being, that he had defrauded the Post-office. When it was known that M. Berryer was to conduct the defence on the part of the English journals, who did not abandon their servant in his extremity, a great number of persons crowded the court on Wednesday last. During the Syrian war, the Alexandrian mail excited great interest, and Government had its estafettes from Marseilles, capitalists and journals their couriers, who performed the journey from Marseilles to Calais in sixty-four instead of one hundred and four hours. Certain capitalists, said M. Berryer, became jealous of the fleeter intelligence conveyed to the papers, and they complained to the French Govern- ment, insinuating that the revenue was defrauded. In order to prevent that, M. Thiers, then in the Ministry, ordered that those who despatched couriers should first send their communications to the Post-office, and pay the postage on them. The wars in Afghanistan and China revived the interest in the mail from Marseilles, and certain speculators made a new attempt to impede the couriers employed by the journals : at the r instigation, M. Hamann absolutely required that all letters should be sent through the post. The agents of the journals remonstrated ; and 51. Hamann then allowed them to employ couriers, but required that they should travel in post-chaises instead of on horseback. The corre- spondents of the English papers appealed to M. Gnizot ; and, to remove the embarrassment created by his colleague, he allowed the correspond- ence to pass through the French Foreign Office. On the 2d of April, a letter bearing M. Guizot's seal was forwarded by way of Boulogne, and at the same time an intimation was sent to the agent of the papers that it would arrive : instead of being delivered on the 3d, the Boulogne Post-office detained it till the 4th. Such was the spirit manifested by the functionaries, who caused a courier employed by the English jour- nals in February last to be seized and the despatches detained. M. Berryer contended, that as the expense of sending an express was far greater than that of sending letters through the Post-office, the doing so could not be regarded in the light of a fraud or rivalry of the Govern- ment despatches. The Procurenr du Roi adhered to the letter of the law, which, he said, forbids the transmission of letters except through the Post-office : but he ascribed the detention of the letters on the 9d of April to the carelessness of a postman. Judgment was deferred for eight days.

The Paris correspondent of the Times denies the statement of the Morning Post, that Louis Philippe has agreed to the marriage of Isa- bella the Second with a Bavarian Prince he has given up claims on the part of his own family, but he will not consent to the marriage of the Queen with any but a Bourbon—a son of Carlos, of Francisco de Paula, a Prince of Naples, or of Lucca. The British Government re- fuse to interfere with the desire of the Queen berselE Madrid papers of the 6th mention that M. Zerman, who was regarded as an agent of Prince Metternich, had received notice to quit the Spanish capital.

The Paris correspondent of the Times avers that the preliminaries of a marriage between the Duke of Bordeaux and the Emperor of Ras- sia's second daughter have been concluded.

The Brussels papers contain this statement—" Letters from Odessa announce that a revolution had broken out in Persia ; that the Shah was dethroned ; and that thirty thousand insurgents were on their march to Teheran. This seems to need confirmation."

The packet-ship North America brings intelligence from New York to the 19th March. The news is wholly unimportant. The excite- ment about the Creole had died away ; and Lord Ashburton's arrival was looked for with some impatience. An elegant suite of apartments had been engaged for him at Astor House, by the British Consul at New York, The Pennsylvania Banks were carrying out, with some difficulty, the State law which compelled the resumption of specie pay- ments. A new steam-boat explosion had occasioned the loss of fifteen lives. Exchange on London stood at 74 to 7- premium, with very little business doing.

The amended Tariff was laid on the table of the House of Commons .on Monday night. The alterations, though numerous, prove to be more formal than substantial : such, for instance, as the removal of differential duties in favour of the Colonies, on articles not produced in the Colonies. All the essentials of the scheme remain intact ; in- cluding that part which was suspected to be in most jeopardy, the por- tion relating to live cattle and provisions. The Times gives a fair and succinct account of the general nature of the changes ; which we bor- row for the present,—postponing any more elaborate expose till those items of the Tariff still under consideration shall be finally settled by the Government.

"In the case of a few manufactured articles, in which it appeared that a sud- den removal of protection to the whole extent proposed would have a fatal effect on certain branches of domestic industry, without procuring any great amount of benefit to the community at large, we arc not sorry that some con- cession should have been made. For instance, the duties on women's gloves, habit-gloves, and men's gloves, will be reduced from 7s., 5s., and 4s. per dozen pair respectively, to 4s. 6d., 38. 6d., and 2s. 6d., not to 5s., 2s. 6d., and 28.: the duty on straw-plait will be reduced to 7s. 6d., not to 5s. per pound. " The Tariff, as it now stands, has been considerably simplified, by the re- moval of a vast number of differential duties, whirls stood in the original scheme, for the purpose of favouring the produce of the Colonies. Many of these dif- ferential duties were to have been levied on articles which none of the Colo- nies produce ; and they might have had the bad effect of encouraging, by new protection, certain branches of unprofitable or unnatural cultivation and in- dustry. But the preference justly given to the trade and produce of the British Colonies has been retained in favour of all those articles which are, or may soon become, important and natural portions of our colonial and national wealth.

" The duties on provisions remain as they were in the original scheme, ex- cept that the admission of foreign beef and pork to the English market is post- poned to the 10th October 1842. "The admission of foreign fish is subjected to the condition that it cannot be imported in fishing-vessels, because by the various treaties with Foreign Powers which regulate the home fisheries, it is stipulated that the fishing-boats of one nation shall not fish or trade within three miles of the coasts of another country. The trade in fresh fish will consequently be limited to such fish as may be conveyed to this country in cargoes of a certain size; as, for example, salmon from Norway and eels from Holland.

" The duties on linseed, flax-seed, and mustard-seed, &c. will be reduced considerably more than was proposed in the original schedule of the Tariff.

" In the duties on the metals no very important departure from the former plan is now suggested, except in the case of that on rolled spelter, which will be reduced, not to 1/. per ton, but to 4/. per ton. Some alteration is also pro- posed in the adjustment of the duty of 5 per cent ad valorem on copper ores. Copper ores containing not more than fourteen parts copper will pay 2/. 10s. per 100/. value of metal, and ores containing more than fourteen parts copper will pay 5/. The duty on tin ore remains as proposed, at 1/. per ton ; regains of tin at 21.; and tin in blocks, ingots, &c. 6/. the ton. " With regard to the mode of adjusting the timber-duties, it has been found that the original plan for sweeping away all the clumsy and complicated dis- tinctions of sizes and lengths, hy reducing all the imports of foreign timber to one head in the Tariff, would have been unfair in its operation on unhewn wood ; by the final arrangement, it is proposed to lay the following duties on certain kinds of hewn wood, for the purpose of carrying into effect with greater accuracy the principle of the reduction on this important article.

PROPOSED RATES Or DITTY.

Of ur from Of and from ARTISTES. Foreign British Countries. Possessions.

Timber, or Wood—not being deals, battens, boards, X. s. d. X. S. d.

staves, handspikes, oars, lathwre,d, leers, or j 1 10 0 other timber or wood, sawed, split or otherwise) From and after

dressed, except hewed, and not being timber or the 10th of ' • • wood otherwise charged with duty, the load of I Oct. 1843,

50 cubic feet 1 5 0 1 18 0

deals, battens, boards, staves, ufers, or other From and after

timber or wood, sawed or split, and not otherwise the 10thOct. ... 0 2 0 charged with duty, the load 01'50 cubic feet 1843, 1 12 0

firewood, the fathom of 216 cubic feet 0 10 0 Free. — handspikes, not exceeding 7 feet in length, the 120 1 0 0 0 0 6 exceeding 7 feet in length, ditto 2 0 0 0 1 0

-- hoops, not exceeding 9 feet in length, the 1,000.,.. 0 3 0 0 0 6 exceeding 9 feet in length, the 1,000 0 5 0 0 1 0 — Knees, under 5 inches square. the 120 0 10 0 0 0 3 5 inches, and under 8 inches square, the 120 2 0 0 0 1 0 Lathwood, the fathom of 216 cubic feet 2 0 0 0 1 0

Oars, the 120 710 0 0 3 9

Spars or poles. under 22 feet in length, and under 4 inches in diameter, the 120 1 0 0 0 0 6 29 feet in length aud upwards, and under 4 inches in diameter, the 120 2 0 0 0 1 0 of all lengths, 4 inches and under 6 inches in diameter, ditto 4 0 0 • • • ..... 0 2 0 Spokes for wheels, not exceeding 2 feet in length, the 1,000 2 0 0 0 1 0 exceeding 2 feet in length, ditto 4 0 0 0 2 0 Teak, the load of 50 cubic feet 0 10 0 0 1 0 Wastewood, viz. biltetwood, or brushwood. used for the purposes of stowage, for every 1001. value

"The change in the timber•duties a ill come into operation on the 10th Oc- tober 1842.

"Without pursuing these details any further, we believe we have pointed out the principal alterations in the original plan : they leave the general chancier of this great measure wholly untouched."

0 1 0 5 o 0 0 5 0 The pressure of the Debates vain compels us to omit all Letters, together with several Book-notices and other articles.