NEWS OF THE WEEK.
1-1HERE is always a lull after the elections, and this time it has 1 set in with unusual severity. The politicians have gone abroad or become hoarse, no one is speaking, and it is almost bad taste to make a political allusion. Men of silence and men who bet have talked a little about the Atlantic telegraph cable, Mark Lane and the public have been much interested in the sudden fall of the thermometer some twenty degrees in one day, geographers read attentively the accounts of war on the Plate, and mothers have shuddered a little at the deeds of Charlotte Winsor, but the political world is dull, the most important event recorded being the resolution passed by a Commercial Convention at Detroit in favour of the Reciprocity Treaty, and the most exciting dispute as to the arithmetical capacity of the polling clerks who declared Mr. Pope Hennessy defeated for Queen's County. So complete indeed is the absence of news, that a politi clan is creditably re- ported to have been seen reading the speeches made at an election of proctors for Convocation.
