The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-01 00:00:00

onty..Wo bits a One aadexpandini wasionto,
abandon' capital, plastifol energy, and a along and
united will. By SOW of lbw we hart sista from
MOO 'Wiliam§ Anew tbaa before ; and we area
to

sermewat time librell rams* sad to ris anti-
asouly to the blight of ow great argussat—d
wagssot ovw the earewivegitit of &gotta& We
In Ni. of anise ear way. If sometime chase to

031116 op to the strife with their pietas' in their
train, well and good ; the work will be men done.
11.._ the sewage@ Meg bask, the peoples

will o=o up without them And it tiny
meld set—lf lees and chains kept then back—we
would go on alone, knowing that • goad sense is
nessenrily intenertal, and that beads and Whom of
those things which moth sad rust destroy aid eat
away, sooner sr later. What every min hie to do,
as the grist duly el the New Year, is to help to for.
sate a Partionsat as the wilco nay trust and fully
ressgalin What we have to do as a people is to see
that war heads aro kept slaw kw our sawed week
—our amp of liberty kept akin of spies and
traitors, aid oar spirit of self-denial and resolution
strengthened and dissiptined by every year's and
every day's experience of what it is that we have
undertakes to achieve. We have now to amain a

Dow year for Itiatary. It east, %seam it nay, be
a sable aas.

MAIN the sail Arca the United States triage..
eloodea of • Speaker, sad, aosesgeently. no

Memaie. 4t the awe of tie thirteenth
day, on the sixty-earth ate, the snow-Nothing
and Democrat (salaam steed sandy where they
did when the maims mail was despatched. The
minority, which is determined to tempt of neither
of dim osatineoll to throw its votes sway epos
cendidata who have not the shadow of a area.
Without a Jae seek a state of affairs shows the pre-
endeent disuse of the Asglallormsn Taos kc
sentadve institadone. Aa ...ably mama of
men of say other raft (Dutch and Geneses nosepted)
would have hese at ash other's throats keg before
• sizty-fserth veto add have beat alma Bat the
AngioNerman phiegma—oonfirmed and improved, it
would Riper, by the soil and climate el America—
clings to the forme of law ender uy moat of
teasing aid provosatica. The opining mesa of this
everaseseable (Sagan datum to be chroaieled
by the Bladrieee easalist of Now York—the honor-
tat Keicansoczna. The pertinacity of the *outset
is priestly intelligible. Prudent Ptiaca's party
have hew roatd-♦mitts hip ad thigh at the elm-
.

dons by new esabinations ef politikas t bat ea
meeting in the Muss of deniably they dad the
relapse central phalanx of their victorious adver-
saries sat seilloostly wanes to fora as absolute
- id the Ram They therefore entrench
babied the ecestitudseal prescript
wWt add= that a Bpselei ma Italy be sleeted
by the atm of as absolute majority. Be.
oohed to give up not an Wok of ground if they Can
blip, they laugh to ow, within this impregnable
the repeated assaalte of their adversaries.
"Small bias to thee," a native al the sister Weed
woad say. It is their wty's Let chance far plass
mil Its emoisamesti. bowl .roe,
like the 'whim of oar first parents from Pendia,
▪ 11. etersaL It is ea in haw nature, Woe
sash circumstances, to lean a meg berth Wen
pulled out of it by the rest. Bash au 111111110111
play of patience has not been witnessed is this weld
since that recorded in the old Scotch ballad el " The
Barris' ri the Door." The exultation of the pest,
which tires the other oat will be se exuberant as that
of the geed Ws who, when her hubend—threatened
to be shaved with " puddin'-brie," sad to have his
wife kissed before his face—omld keep 'Hew or
longer—

eave three skips oa the fl en :
" Yee, whoa the feiemeseweed., penes,

List sisal bar the loaf."
This obstinate coated is a good sign of the pram*
roue °maim of the United States, both is their
foesign and domestic relatioaa. Did an enemy stand
at their ;stem were a emarasesial gals impendieg.
were a servile war raging in the Soothers States,
the elsotioa of Speaker would not be span
out to ma a length. All other oonsidera-
dons would he Aug to the winds in order
that Games alight pressed without delay
to moose' ateasmen for averting the danger. But the
liaised States have pesos within their borders sad
beyond them. With ample elbow-nom is their ex-
tensive sad thinly peopled territory, with an ample
field of remanerative employment for a doused
times the capital and labour they ma menimad—
ma have no tempted*. to civil broils; sad unless
they Imes a quasi on ISM Amiga amigo, so
peep* or Oeveranseat have anything to gsl by
muskies them. The salmi meetings of their
mpesentatime are devoted to routine bedews,
whisk might stand over for a year or two
without seriously injuring them. They are
the *idea lotaresters of the modern worlds they
ma afford to iadalge in leisure sad pooreatinatioa.
Puler' si Mow is georini. The nations of the Old
World have the wolf ceastently at the door, and Rost
dearly able any wisest of precious time they let
slip.

Praideat Pizacs, however, appears to be 'ethic(
baptised. He wishes to see the testogesetioa of who
is to be Speaker decided one way or another, and hes
how oadgelliag his brains for sons ccestitational
wade of eeseciag the House of Representatives into
decided &Mien. To this we Wants his delicate ie.
sianaties to one of the ambers of the Hosea that if
the sleeks is protracted Rath leapt, he will
base to send two Hangar instead, of ose. To an
Ileroplea issagiaatioa the threat is appalling. One
Mossap of the ordinary length appears
to as a savers trial of patisace t how aay mortal amid
*adore two at ease belies ear powers of eacceptioa.
If the Round Representatives as esatemplats the
prospect of having two Manages to read with
enehakea equaissity, the cane 1. hopeless.

THE REVENUE RETURNS FOR 1866.

Us Iteveatie Mates for the year and qoutee
ended Slat Deeetaber—pabllebed is another eels=

—present little natter ter remark. They merely tell
what everybody seat have szpoeted—that there ie
a. material variation is say awe et the reesipte, ex.
opt the seisms frost the booms tax, whisk are
nearly deeded I and that the balsam fax which
" dedeleasy bills " will have to ha loud durum the
quarter that sestassoas to day is rather heavier
thaw mil

Erriono LAWS Marva. or Bricri.—A letter
hen reedeed per tbe Annie% eseteasse the
arrival at *et pest et las Majesty's ship &Asa; hen Von

Cm, with 2,i/1000Mb. fir jegissi-400,000 To
SINUt et divklmode.

ber eroveree, lad bit ammo &Maces; salve are
meelved that she abffill be 104 s r it
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oar bolsi. Wo asa do ors will is a good caw.
We have assat as wit woad. Aso& Oa loot wit,
may sot yet Ws got tato its right place. Ws hare
sot oaly spick, bat alroady As body of a flu