30 SEPTEMBER 1837, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE political calm continues. But little attention is paid to the proceedings in the Revising Barristers' Courts ; and we verily believe that the " thinking public " care more about roast goose for dinner to-morrow than for the fate of the MELBOURNE Minis- try. Excepting' Whig placeholders who are troubled with ad- monitory fits of shivering, and Tory placebunters who flatter themselves with the hope of paying their Christmas bills with Treasury checks, few plague themselves with party politics. In the manufacturing districts, men have something better to do ; for we are happy to see that trade is reviving and prospects are good. The country gentlemen and farmers must be somewhat alarmed at the declining price of wheat, and the quantity of bonded corn which is thrown upon the market; but it is a consolation that the harvest has been fruitful, and lowness of price is but the consequence of abundant quantity ; while to all other classes the advantage of a plentiful supply of wheat is incalculable. Sportsmen have nothing to desire ; for pheasants may now be bagged as freely as partridges, and finer weather cannot be ex- pected. So much for the country. In London, Septembrian dulness was dethroned last night: the Theatres reopened for what is called the winter season, though scarcely a leaf on the trees in the Cockney's Park of St. James has begun to change colour. Multitudes, no doubt, are cheering themselves with the expecta- tion of that rarity a busy and gay November, when the Queen will meet her Parliament, and Westminster be thronged with the "chivalry of Rotten Row." Then will come Christmas; and after that Parliament again, and " the season." What a prospect of profit and pleasure! Who would not be a Londoner from October to July?