THE GREAT TALKING NUISANCE.
THE talking nuisance has set in for its six months. What a pest is the Parliament ! The Minister dreads it; the Speaker sinks under it ; the drowsy Listeners tire of it ; the Country disregards its sayings, dislikes its doings: the Fashionable World votes it a bore; the Press loathes it ; the Reporters hate it ; the Pennya-liners curse it ; Editors sicken of its absurdities ; Readers east their eyes over the close columns of verbiage in despair. Tue King's Speech has now set the leaden seal of dulness on the press. Instead of the various types and topics of a newspaper, we have a broad sheet presenting one impact mass of small type, garnished only by a few advertisements and putting paragraphs, for which a shilling a line is received instead of a penny a line paid. Thme is a complete bhickade of news. The channels of intelligenet: are frozen up. Correspondents are sent to Coventry. The facetious concoeters of Police reports are employed in condensing the diffuse eloquence of oratorical M. P.s. The Senate out-talks the Bar ; and the grand theatre where the actors in the political drama " hammer and stammer their hours upon the floor, awl then are heard no more of,eclipses every other, no matter how amusing its performances. Talk of the liberty of the press! A f; 'Feigner, judging from the appearance of the papers, would dpose there was a censorship in active operation. The misyel:aneous reader gets through a Morning Paper in two minutes ; and is kept absolutely starving for newspaper gossip. Ile takes up the Times or Chronicle, and glances at its contents"Advertisements—London Gazette—Price of Stocks—Imperial Parliament—House a Lords—House of Commons—adjourned at two o'clock—Leading article—Summary of the Debates—Births, Deaths, and Marriages—What! no news?—Yes, here are two lines : this must be something worth hearing, however: 'We are con: pelted by press of matter to omit all articles of news ; and the lateness of the hour at which the debate ended precludes any remark:" He flings down the paper in a rage, and goes to the window to count the carriages passing. Why does not some enterprising projector publish a real Morning New.spuper during the sittings of Parliament, tnerking the Debatea? The sight of such a paper during the session would be as weleome as a drink in the desert, a salad at sea, or a nosegay at the North Pole.
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