_Miscellaneous.

Tuesday's Gazette announced that Prince Albert had been appointed Warden of the Stannaries and Chief Steward of the Dutchy in Cornwall and Devon. It is said that the salary and emoluments hitherto attached to the office have been abolished, by his Royal Highness's desire.

A report that Lord Mahon is to be Ambassador to Spain is contra- dicted by the Standard.

There is no foundation whatever, says the same paper, for the state- ment that has appeared in the newspapers that Sir Robert Peel has recently given directions for the reduction of rents to the extent of 20 per cent.

The Globe contradicts the statement of the Morning Post and Morning Herald, that Lord John Russell has lately joined a cougregra- don of the Scottish Church. He has only accompanied his lady to a church which she has usually attended.

Mr. Goulburn was knocked down, about a week ago, by a hack-cab, which passed over him. He is recovering.

Lord Stuart de Rothsay, says the Morning Post, has consented to the marriage of his daughter Louisa with the Marquis of Waterford.

The Earl of Ludlow, who died at his seat in Bedfordshire on Saturday last, bad been sixty-four years in the Army. He served in the Ameri- can war, was wounded at Flanders, and lost an arm near Roubaix : he subsequently commanded in Egypt, Hanover, and at the capture of Co- penhagen. The title is extinct.

The Post contradicts, on authority, the statement that Mr. Burton, who was killed by a fall from his horse, in Hyde Park, last week, was a personal friend of Prince George of Cambridge. He was an entire stranger to the Prince ; who was near at the time of the accident, and humanely assisted in removing the wounded youth to St. George's Hospital : hence the report.

We are sorry to learn that a son of the poet Moore, aged nineteen, has just returned to his father's residence, Sloperton Cottage, Bromham, from the East Indies, in the last stage of rapid consumption.—Bath Chronicle.

The Marquis of Bute will be appointed her Majesty's Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.—Times. Mr. Joseph Hume was elected for the Montrose Burghs, on Saturday last, without opposition.

The following paragraph appears in the papers-

" The Chancellor of the Exchequer begs to acknowledge the receipt of 500/., transmitted to him (under cover to Mrs. Goulbam) by one who styles himself a sincere admirer of the manly spirit in which you have met the difficulties of your position by a direct taxation,' and to acquaint him that the said sum will be paid into the Exchequer.—Downing Street, 18th April 1842."

Two Theological Professorships have been recently instituted by the Crown in the University of Oxford ; and a temporary endowment of the Professors, until Canonries of Christ Church shall fall vacant, to be permanently attached to the Professorships, has been provided by the University. We understand that Sir Robert Peel has presented the Professorship of Ecclesiastical History to the Reverend Mr. Hussey, of Christ Church, late Censor of this college ; and the Professorship of Pastoral Theology to the Reverend Mr. Ogilvie, of Balliol College, Rector of Ross.— Times.

It is said that the Duke d'Aumale and the Prince De Joinville are shortly to leave the French capital on a visit to her Majesty, and will make a general tour to visit the public establishments in this country.— Standard.

The nuptials of the Prince Royal of Sardinia with the Archdutchess Maria Adelaide of Austria were celebrated on the 12th instant, in the chapel of the château of Stopinigi, near Turin, in the presence of the King, Queen, and other members of the Royal Family of Sardinia, and of the Viceroy and Vice-Queen of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. The Count of Nassau, the abdicated King of Holland, is so ill with inflammation of the lungs, at Berlin, that his life is thought to be in danger.

The mail-steamer Columbia arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday, having sailed from Halifax on the 4th instant. The steamer left Liver- pool for the outward voyage on the 4th of March, and encountered a series of terrific gales. On the 18th, a shaft broke and the engines stopped. The rest of the voyage was made under canvass ; and the ship reached Halifax on the 25th. There were no means of repair at Halifax ; and she sailed back, with but little assistance from the only serviceable engine, and against the easterly gales, in less than seven- teen days. The intelligence from New York is to the 1st instant.

On that day Lord Ashburton arrived in the Warspite frigate.

The President had transmitted a message to Congress recommending a repeal, or suspension tantamount to a repeal, of the law passed at the extra session, for dividing among the States the proceeds of the sales of public lands, on the ground that the lands would constitute a specific and valuable pledge for the loans required by the Government. The message had been taken into consideration by both Houses; which, by

decisive votes, had decided that the Distribution Bill should not be re- pealed.

A strange proceeding had taken place in the House of Representa- tives. Mr. Giddings, of Ohio, moved a series of argumentative resolu- tions, declaring slavery to be a municipal regulation of the separate States, and, as an abridgment of the natural right of man, to be con- strued strictly as to the law ; while foreign affairs are within the pro- vince of the Federal Government ; and so it was inferred, that the Black passengers in the Creole having infringed no law of the United States, the Government could not seek to punish or to reinslave them. Mr. Giddings withdrew his resolutions ; but the House immediately passed a vote of censure on him ; the mover at the same time moving the previous question, which the House took to deprive Mr. Giddings of the right to reply. He intimated the intention of resigning his seat.

In the Senate, Mr. Clay incidentally alluded to Lord Ashburton-

" He regretted to see the assaults made by the partisan press on the distin- guished individual who had been sent to us with the olive -branch of peace. Nothing was so unmanly or so indecent as those attacks. He had the good fortune, when in England, to know Lord Ashburton ; and he bore the highest character in his own country both for wisdom and integrity. The statement that he was still connected with the banking-house which he had established was a mistake : he had not been connected with that House for twenty years. However the hospitalities of the land might be violated by a licentious press, he hoped that the American people would greet the arrival of this gentleman as a messenger of peace. There is no danger of any rapture with Great Britain, if proper ability is employed in the management of the controversy."

The intelligence from Texas is important. The Mexicans, with a strong force, the estimates of it varying from 8,000 to 14,000, had in- vaded Texas. They had occupied, at the first irruption, Sant' Antonia and Goliad. The Texans, who mustered about 4,000, were concentrat- ing on Victoria, Gonzales,'and Austin ; at which places desperate resist- ance would be made. Reinforcements of " Sympathizers " were ex- pected from the United States ; whose Government had, it is said, ordered a squadron into the Gulf of Mexico to protect American inte- rests.

The Times of yesterday publishes a letter written in January last by General Hamilton, as an American citizen acting on behalf of the new republic of Texas, to the Mexican President Santa Anna ; to whom it was forwarded through the British Consul. The writer offers 5,000,000 dollars as a price for the surrender of Mexico's claim to Texas, and 200,000 more to be placed secretly at the disposal of the Mexican Go- vernment. Santa Anna indignantly spurned the proposal to purchase a province of Mexico and bribe its Government.

Lord Morpeth had arrived at Havannah.