The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25.

" HFRE'S ► health to Mends far away!" is
the tout of the day. It is a chorus that
goes up from all the households in the land
except the few whose friends are all at hand.
You by year these few become fewer. No longer
shut up in our own islands, with the Continent
closed to us, America an unmanageably long way 6114
and our colonies difficult of acovesi—no longer
proud of our insularity, and averse to going out
from it, like the last generation, within our living
memory, we British are not only scattered as
travellers over every civilised land, bet are actual
residents in all. The English keep their Christman,
not only under the mistletoe in the light of the Yule
log, or with sparkling snow underfoot and steely cold
stars Overhead, but panting in the Shanamin in one
continent, fanning themselves under a palms is am-
other--elsewhere listening to " service high and
anthem clear" in Papal cathedrals, or sitting down to
meditate, as Christians may now, in the decent and
quiet mosque, where old folks some for rest, and
children for play or sleep. The solitary hornbill he
the far west hear the winds moaning under the he
which closes in the great lakes; and our room he
the far east watch the free breezes curling the
surf of tropical seas, and sporting with the
spray on coral reefs. Far, far away as are
these of our friends, we drink their health'
cheerily, and think of them es pursuing their put
poses and fulfilling their chosen lot. The age has
arrived for our little kingdom to poor out its youth,
to occupy the remote portions of our empire. It is no
undesirable destiny to found a colonial family, to
help to settle a new region, or even to be • eesuser.
clad exile for a time, in order to return home lads-
pendent. Such adventurers as these we do not wish
home again, however we may mime them, sad perm
for their prima.
Bat there are other absent Mends of whom we can-
not but think with lees complacency; and especially
this year. More and more of our countrymen and
their families live in the heart of foreign nations, I
ender government and laws, customs and objects
very unlike our own; and the present is not • time
when we can think of their position and prospects
with entire 6/didactics and fearlessness. So recently
as the earlier years of the present century it
was a rare thing for Englishmen to live in con-
tinental countries. Mr.Lomizz's sojourn in Italy, to
learn the secrets of the silk manufacture, was one of
the wonders of cur childhood, like the adventures of
MCNCiO Peas in search of the mysterious African
river. Admiral Onitio in the Baltic, and Colonel
Urroor in the Black Bea—both in the service of
Rusin—were regarded as incomprehensible men,
whose motives could not be fathomed. We felt an
exasperation of pity for the English who had to live
is France after being caught en the renewal of the
war. In Germany, no British were 'opposed to
reside. The merchants in the Portuguese, Dutch,
and Mediterranean ports were regarded se we now
regard our residents at Canton or Shanghai
—es men snaking enormous temporary samillose
foe the sake of independence or wealth for the rest
of their lives. Steadily and rapidly, the whole cans
has altered sines the pesos of 1816. English gentry
whose fortunes are lower than their pride or love of
we have gone is constantly increasieg numbers to
live in cheap French and Belgian, sad even German
town'. Seekers of health, and lovers of fine art and
fine climate, live in Italy by thousands. As mince
and the arts of life have improved, more and more
of our countrymen have gone to Ramie, to Austria
and to almost every continental country, to manage
Government departments, military or civil, or to
administer the affairs of rich men or companies. The
stir that there is at this moment in the United
States to get appointments in Ramis, in the
place of the British, who are believed to be on
the eve of dismissal from the Government works
there—to be replaced, according to Imperial
command, by Americans—shows something of the
extent to which the English have made their homes
Is the CZAR'S dominions. That there should be a
settlement of 12,000 Irish in Buenos Ayres and Monte
Video is not very mrprielig, considering the influence
of the priests over the emigrant clam of Irish, and
the discouragement that Catholics have encountered
in North America; but there appears to be something
more unnatural in the success of efforts to induce
Englishmen to settle in Mohammedan mentrier. A
traveller cannot go to Demme or lopes without
being urged by English residents to mend more of
their countrymen, to invest capital In mulberry
plantations, and spin silk, and grow traits or
wince. The iodsosurents held out are wealth,
a floe climate for luxury—though not for
health, beauty of scenery, and unlimited means of
personal indulgence. There was no chance till lately
of any fair consideration of Christians in those coun-
tries; and it seemed wonderful, in the face of this
fact, and in the midst of utter insecurity of mete
and property (which could be protected only by Con-
suls whore own position was precarious is the ex-
treme), that anybody could ask anybody elms to give
cep good government and laws, religious and civil
liberties—all the moral advantages, in short, of social
existexos—for wealth and luxury.