New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-06
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WV" LONDON. Aug 90, 1894
r.ocial London were not eLt ely out OF town
.ho,ld have had to risk nauseatii gyou by beginning
.b. Litter as have others, with an epstolary echo
Of the drumming shrek" with which John buii no"
scoords a regular weekly welcome TO the news nom
yireinis must, too, have r.sol e. myseh ihto
short-hand-a yey short-hand-ieporter OF Dis 'as'
ssnira-ike predictions, foreb )Cinl ana raViss,
IN re Anericanae. But hapl lily for both writer ana
reader. Bull proper is at the moois, tie seaside III
continental capitals, yachting, shooting, Ualhing'
gambling, "amusing hi sc + "a ly after LlS mar
ner' (which affective might true OF ms ancestor
In Froissarts time, but Certeinly is not aPph-
cable now)-in every locality bat this metTop us
To be- sure there are about couple OF NIL
Mons of people remaining in it, but they are
outsiders, pleoans, &c.-people who can
get away, except very temporarily anu
nom such stray repres entatives OF the class rs
happened to converse with, card less OF Grant
repulse before Petersburg-se di the mgsers ioI-
wards to be lutche ed, Sir, thin l had expected.
l,y the way our English cousins have quite adapted
that cowardly and cruel a. Q. atioa or the cooreo
rsce, while W. @ earni & to spell the WORD COZ
rectly though at the cost of o d. eadful schoolngJ
or course our friends of the press improved the OPP
portunity, really, should be inclined 10 thinA'
eliminating in their objurl atoms of rs, II the Eng
Iish language were not next to inexhaustble. " we
desire the eatre ruin of the North, said the cheer
ful Standard, in an amiable editorial, which ought
20 get reprinted on your side Of the water, While
the afectionate Telegraph INDUCES as follows;
"A morbdy ingenious arithmetician calculates thai
Gtle bodies of the Northern soldiers VINO have Ineh
IN tie civil war laid in one continuous llne tht!
would encirclc the state Of New York thstiftoywe
20 h, apei up form wall that wall o. ing twsh
Ave feet in thickness and thirty In ihtt, wOud 1e
more thtn nile 10 length. Thus far we rave Simply
an e1ag -eration of former horrors The World has
seen pyramid OF skulls which must have been aiAges
q terrible 20 an imaginary wall o. cSrmes' p pl ,
shed vague it is not sufficiently definite ~ SATISFY ms
marvellous statisiician; he determines 70 eompute ex
aoy how much has been shed; and he finds, THIS BAD
bsge Of blood thai seventy five thousand tons have neen
poured out tie Confcdsracy Horrible enugh is this
in is grim cctuaty but he is not coaented even yet
ard So with perhaps the most wonder nly shocking
as citation Of ideas ever yet recorded, he goes on l.
'1 is san GIIsTaeI o. gre "o1 a. M 70
tis get se DO not doubt that the fashion once set
Other ghastly estimates viii be laid before each nge
Nous s way, but ell Of them proving nothing that
could not learnt in easier and less Iepusve
ner The Moth would seem 10 be mad with carnage;
qgig 6m must he floating before IT'S eyes spectral
shspes and dance in the vision OF man whose
reason Is having hin. trans tantic poet IN one OF
hi widest phantasies speaks Of travellers ID ioOMy
valley through red ltteI windows vast forns
that move Enthusiastically To a discordeHt neoes The
dream Of the American poet has possessed Tue soul o.
Tire American people For them the whole horizon has
grown crimson.
Bss,ersd leoky tempest tossed her canvas rent hel
esage torn the ship Of State reels ard plunges taoug
The sea- the waves threaten 70 OverN helm bSr III sAe
escapes tie waves. she must drive upon Tue shining
ssndbanss or the logged rocks; aud NJ this hour " 81
Yrene peril ana ueed whilst the captain mas I'sl nis
Wits and tho hemsman let the helm mere nor eve
nntneer there Ii not man 10 whom the danger II
eef sugeesta way 10 escape it. there MOI one Y plu
ecst against the utter wreck Of noble vessel through
Sne nespaety Of the commander and the frenzy oil the
crew.
And so on. don't think you will care for any
vrore Of IL. The COnfederate cotton loan went up
sympat.izers with the Relies were jubilant, our
friends depressed and we might have made senss-
Zion week Of it, BIT for the aoe-9 entioned fact OF
Bull proper being out Of town. To-day brings us
news OF Farraglt forcing the passage OF Noble Bay,
Of Pe.lezl successes in Western Virginia, of Grants
s.f having abandoned Petersbu e, but repulsing a
Rebel charge ihere-al Of which will probably be
tistrusted and CispIoged on Mo day; and 50 much
for English talk on American Affairs. should ma
Il difficult to ovcrstat, to you & real, heartfelt IN
xredulity Of two-thi.ds Of this pecple-of Britons
who read newspapers, pay taxes and vote-as to the
possibility Of subduing the Rebels, under any CIR
sulnstances whatever. To express that conviction
Though but never SO mildly-s quite fatal to your
pretensions to common sense and undDess Of juds-
tnent Every delay, too, only dCepens this feeling
Bull has quite forgotten Il ioos him. with the as
sstance Of France, quite three ears to capture Sc
bastopol and LOGICALLY expects the subjugstion Of
half continent iness time. Ii you do put down the
rebellion there will be no words which will be capa
BILE of expressing Ii, amazemeis- ~-a ----@-----
SRon
OF essentially Ergish newsI have but little to
send to you, this week, be end what you viii find
q the newspapers. Everybody that is anybody,
xepea.. has gone out of town. There are no politics
sxtsat 70 talk about worth the trouble. Lindsay
y. r., Rebel sympathizer, has been INJECTING upon
his constituents at Sunderland the speech in favor
If recognizing the South which he didn't get off in
the House Of Commons, and Rocbuek the foul
nouthcd has been clarifying himself at Sheffield;
But nobody about either. ] believe that the
advertisement columns of the newspapers, setting
forth the various facilities for ting out of town
Gre those most attractive now to Londoners judy.
ing from my personal experience in the way Of call
ing unsuccessfully friends and acquaintances. |
should say that the annual exodus is extensive
than any have known-in consequence, doubtless |
Of the continued and unexampled fneuess Of the
weather. For five and twenty years there has been
no such summer in England.
word ON a purely METROPOLITAN tonic Verv re-