NEWS OF THE WEEK.
rE week has been singularly dull, and the cannonade of speeches which usually distinguishes the Parliamentary recess has not yet commenced. Dropping shots are heard occasionally from the political rank and file, but the great guns are silent, and will pro- bably remain so until Lord Palmerston, on the 28th instant, opens the ball. He proposes, as Lord Warden, to address the Mayors and Bailiffs of the Cinque Ports at Dover, and to take upon himself the duties of his office ; and from the great interest manifested, the speech is expected. to have a political bearing. Meantime the lovers of oratory are fain to put up with addresses to the electors of South Lancashire, in which Mr. Turner apologizes for being a Tory, and Mr. Cheetham for being a Liberal; a state of affairs tending eminently to good feeling and to flavourless talk.
