... THa CONiTaovERsY between the Timtes and Standard on the corn-law question has been the source of much amuse. ment to the public. The Standard entered the lists in mortal fear of being roughly handled, deprecating the constitutional irritability of its foe in the following ludicrous terms:- Wve have one consolation, and we confess it is the only one, in meeting the Times as an adversary, and ...

... CIr. ?? EsE.NI:NG, 1FED. 2. As there was no account of the Royal William steamer when the second Railway train left Liverpool, it is concluded that she did not leave Newv York on the 15th ult., the period first fixed for her departure. It is very probable the return letters from Canada would not reach New York by the 15th, and that may be one cause of delay. Not one incident of the slightest ...

... Silt F. HEAD AND LOaD DuRHAIM.-Sir F. Head has rrittcn a letter to Lord Melbourne, in which Sir Franc15 says- I have the honour to state to your eI (1slip that, in glancing over that portion of Lord muem',ms Report to her Majesty on the Affairs of Bri- ti1hh North America, I have just observed three para- ,crpls. described in the margin as ' Proceedings of Sir Frlci's I-lead-Failure of Result ...

... I HOUSE QFiLORDS-MOKDky. * The Earl of Shaftesbury'took his seat on the woolsack, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor. Lord WYNFORD presented a petition against the operation of the new pdbr-law. *.TaEATY WrvI TH''tmEy.-Thc Earl of RlroiN after aliud- ing .tothe sixth article of the treaty vith Turkey, which stipulates that all monopolies shall be put an end to in the Turkish dominions, ...

... For the real wealth of England-for those who produce-for the mighty MANY-this Paper is started. It is set on foot by men who well know what the wants and privations of their labouring fellow-men are, and it will be con- ducted by men who have inquired perseveringly and reflected most anxiously how to supply those wants, and how to remove those privations. It is a bold and hazardous enterprise, ...

... De'ptford, Jan. 29, 1839. SIeR,-THE CHARTERL I consider as the fulcrum by which the Archimedean powers of the people may be brought into play. By its publication you have given them facility of communication and the means of unity of action; for want of these they have hitherto been de- feated; in the attainment of these, their just objects, they have reached the high road to speedy and ...

... CORN-LAW MEBITINGS IN LONDON. Since the Birmingham meeting on the corn-laws, and since we expressed, as above, our anticipations of the good effect of it, *two miost important meetings on the same question have been held in London j ohe in At. Pancras, the other in Finsbury. At each an amend-' ment was moved in favour qf.the charter. At Finshury, it is admitted, the amendment was carried by a ...

... The delegates assembled yesterday at the customary hour, J. B. SMITH, Esq., In the Chair. The undernmentioned delegates arrived in the course of the ?? Longdon and Johnstousn, from Derby; Mr. Close, from Nottinghm te ayr, from Birmingham; Mr. Alderman Wilsoni, trom Kendal ; the Mayor, from Lan- caster, and Mr. Martineau, from the Tower Hamlets. The most gratifying Jnnirrmatlon was ...

... AFFAIRS OF HOLLAND AND BELGIT X AMSTERDAM, FEn..10.-Tbe Avonodbode ham a tibt from the Hague, dated Feb. 16, which says-` Ml )O I*t perhaps already avware, our government continue, to ttl such measures that we maintain the attitude towards lk~ ginlm which alone is calculated to keep ta awethos may have any hostile intentions against i ur froutitT9 ?? measures for the calling out inediately, if ...

... The LOINDON GAZ-BTI,'oJ TUESDA Y, Feb. ]9. 6-4 WHITEHALL, FEB. 1. The Queen hba been pleased to direct letters pattnt to be passed ucder the Great Seal of tbe United Kingdon, grant- i'g thm office and place of Advocato General or JudgoI Mar- titl of her MaiJtl '6 F}rce6 to Sir George G rey, Bart. DOWINING-STREET, FEn. 18. The Queen haJs* bsen pleased to appoint Edward Hay Drummond Hay, Esq., ...

... CORON7R3I FOR JIDDLESEX. This contests which from the flrst day was as hopeless to Mr. Adey'as vexatious to Mr. Wakley, has virtually ter- minsated. At the close of thc poll last evening, Mr. Adey withdrew sl preteostoas to the office; but the Iig Sherift; acting uinder legal advice, declared that the poll should be kept open till Monday next, tea days being the term pre- scribed bytho Act ...

... ANTI-CORN-LAW fEETING MEETING OF THE DELgseGdatES. ir ~ho delvegates appointed at thle mfeetnshl a h l Feri nt great funinul'actuiriing towns, to consider the ?? of the repeal of the, corn. laws, met yesterdy, Pursuiant to a resa~ntiofl pa~sed at the Chamber of Coinier~,C yloerich; tea rowin's Hotel, P'alieeyard, to take Stage fut unr, ging the question at' the total and immn-diit reel thle ...