The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-07-24
ThaDull Times.


TAs COMPLAINT Of dnlI times 10 echoed from tbs
other s,de of the Atlantic. On this eide, business
And p,sssure seem alike 10 move with battling fsoe-
steps. R,en the turbid ssa Of politics 10 quiet %
. Mill pood, its surfacs ouly sgitated nov and
then By the fms of some hungry shark, 10 pursuit
Of spoiis Tho watering places have not regained
their ancient activity. The torpid liver OF the
countrv refuses to avail itself OF those remedial
agents which Nature has so bountifuliy provided
In vain are the gsunt and atteDnated survivors OF
the late financial epidemic Informed that at such
and such places the visitors gaa one or two pounds
of nesh day tits not every man who eau AFFORD
to put pound Of flesh on his body by the loss OF
q pound sterling from his pocket. II the purse
grows lean ~ thu body becomes anthem poor
and practical people will drink water out OF their
own springs and seek refreshment beneath their
own vines and az trees. Consequently, Newport,
Saratoga and all the most famous resorts OF FASH
ioa are now said 10 be almost deserted and as dull
o. ..ths fat weed that rots on Letbe's wharf"
Prom the other side OF the come iusubrious
c complaints of the tiresome and unbroken IN onoto
ny Of all earthly affairs The London correspond
ents are driven to desperation With apopulation
of two millions TO sfford material for local items"
and the whole Of creation pouring its intelligence
a. well a. Its trade into that capital OF the world
they are unable to pick up single exciting topic
This IL the more intolerable because they have
been tantalized from time to time with the pros
pect Of some choice, first class exctements, all OF
which have, however, eluded their grasp. Oos
letter writer says that politics have utterly dried
MP, and even Lord Palmerston has gone
to sleep for the rst time in his Parliamentary Ca
reer Of fifty years, leaving the Derby Disraei Cab
met In secure possession of the government for
another year at least. Such Is the torpor pervad-
ing the public mind that the London Times
10 said to have been hard rum that 1t had to get
up terrific leaders upon the subject OF an early
French invasion aud the probability of the sack OF
London. This helped to keep up the spirits OF the
public for time but it soon died away, as we'll as
the little breeze from the West that for q moment
ruffisd the waters on the search question Bat
there are few emergencies to which the London
Times 10 not equal. The dullest object about all
London is the 7hames, but its very dulness has
generated great variety Of exciting matter, which
the Times 10 working up into guano articles of the
most stimulating character. This great sewer of
two millions Of L,ndcners, and another million Of
outsi iers, being seized with the prevailing torpid
ity, and not being much of river at the best, lie
unable to carry off the enormous mass of foul
substances which London disgorges into it, The
stencil from the stream as he mad the houses OF
Parliament almost ntolerabie, and as If this were
not enough, the Times mathematics the Lords
and Commons for their apathy on the subject, de-
clarng that, by August, unless the Thames can be
thoroughly purified, a new London plague will be
the result. 1t is thus that the Thames and the
Tir,es are rousing John Bull from his spoplectic
sleep, the one dammiug his nose and the other
d-g his eyes, London ought to be very much
Obliged to the Dead Sea upon her borders for the
lively time 1t is creating in the newspapers, though
no doubt the prospect Of paying $5o,Oo00oo to
cleanse the dirty river might almost reconcile some
Of the tax payers to the pestilence.