3 JULY 1830, Page 15

THE SEASON.

THE London season may now be considered as closed ; and of a season of more dulness and gloom we have no recollection. From the period when serious apprel tensions were entertained for his late Majesty's life, people prepared themselves for the absence of the customary pleasures ; and those festivities were consequently omitted which generally enliven the town. With many the state of the King's health was a pretext for not doing what was ex- pected of them in entertainment ; and even to those pertinacious suitors, wives and daughters, it was an unanswerable plea, of infinite convenience to saving husbands and fathers. The races were all ill-attended ; water-parties, except on land, there have been none ; breakfasts and fetes-champiltres also have been want- ing, and not wanted, for lawns, marquees, and fields, have no charm under pouring skies and roaring winds. The Theatres have shared in the general dulness, or contributed their part to it. LABLACHE made a noise at the Opera for a night or two ; but attention lapsed into languor the moment he ceased to roar at the top of his voice. TAGLIONI'S attitudes drew some apathetic crowds, who praised without being pleased; and site joyfully flew from us on the termination of her short engagement. There has been as little to enliven in literature as in the shies or houses. Mr. BULWER'S novel is not a Pelham, but a Part/ Clr(Thrd. Blackwood himself looks grim; and the inferior wits, or would- be- wits, are scarcely equal to the production of an impertinence. No- thing, seems alive and alert but immorality ; winch has fastened on the interesting dramatic situation of Lady W. LENNOX and Mr. Wool), with gluttonous delight.

The excitement of a general election, and a Coronation, will be acceptable and useful, after this season of torpidity and sad- ness.