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

LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN MANY 1.

Timor everybody mys use oetaaion that the
divides a time into years k for moral Wain, purely
arbitrary, everybody goes 'en dividing his own llb
into yam hem his birthday, end that of the muse.
pity from New Teen Day. Am we pow aid indi-
vidually, we woe ism mil km he oar birthdays, end
peeler letting tin elms of lib flew amble idly and
etraogly, wMs t asides the sanest by ay ad-
tidal integrities t bet the mew* of abuses is
applied, now sod thew, to the very mid, wren if the
term be a hundred yews In the owe (Intim there
ems be no aunimioa el the memaremeet for hie.

tory, is its early store, can hare ao other rods
Whoa the time caws for say portion of Watery to
Mee its philosophy, bum Oars cane to be mos
lasted by phone, political and moral, or by his.
Wed periods ; bat the tale of social stoke cut be
obresiele before it an ripe into history ; sad the
years out be stopped sad qesstioasol so they pass.
All Europe is dots; tido at this =wait ; sad Nelda,
sold De sere Warman tbsa the ossoporisos, if we
meld but mho it, .ot the molest= of the interro-
gatories of suit attics. What alight such a sespari-
soca stilt throw upon some of the post, sad some
ifttb of the totsre!

In several continental sountries the outward ob-
unseen of the day are meek alike. Visiting every-
body me home, giving and resolving premeds, girls'
sad swirls, nehmen sad geed wising, sad seeing
festive appeusacos as every head—seek are the
obeervaness is ematries whore Catholicism preserve'
tradition. It is or this day at Bt. Petersburg and
Marrow, at Paris, Madrid, Timm, Berlin, Tagus, and
Stockholm What thoughts and feeliage .indeslie
the selehentioa P I. St. Petersham there le Meshy
is finding messy for presents, and eneertalaty about
what is to be doom cm the nest omission, if the eosin
year is to be es dark as theist. Then is the
Name talk of victory that there was a year
ego; but the engimeeriag poles which surround the
city prophesy siege is ..mist. The penalties of
siege, in the dearth of salt and other mesmerise,
and the failure of trade, have hem hard to hear for
seamy mesas. What will siege in earnest be—
siege of the city itself P--is the question whisk sehody
soy nitro amidst the mew-year festivities, hot which
the preperatices far cirosmallatios is bath of the

capitals mat suggest to every mind. The
fall of lan is as their lips, as it well may be; for
it is their single it.. of good fortune ;Mem the war
begas ; bat the soosimitioe of Yen will give this
as more of what they most pressingly want—see,
and powder. Eves the truest Muscovites,
who uphold the inviecibility ef Ram* must pea
into the fetus with some anxiety to know what
twelve maths will do towards proving their point.
In Poris, there is no saying how many and what
strange sodas, an floating in people's aiade seder
the dolmen and silage* which the Imperial will
has Emma over petal. affairs sad the press.
who have ccerespoodeato is
epic who then is smithies impa
molly meisiactis in dm •wiligeae.,
ressociablessis of the nodose Moat on public affairs,
is the absence of radium. Irma the press and public
disseislue. The ruler who adopts snob a mode of
ipiammat is answerable, not only for severity in
pedilleg desk olinme as spreading labs news and
so forth, bat lir the assess themselves. That is
main la the world more false at this mewed than
slims et the Mises and expectations ettertsined by
*s very best MSS sad wanes is Paris who as no
wiser ties the utilise' sed moat unsteady as long as
all memo of knowledge ere winded Whoa infer
nation sad planes fall, the usual 141100109 is to
look beak sad ase what the Est rum% mak did
whim to him empire was new. In this way it is that
Paris has got it lake its Mat that Imes is going to
lends Prmia Macedistely—new, in the middle

of wiater, in ceder to seise the Mine
sad asses the Rhoda protium,—Heaven
haws why! The board has come home,
sad the old ttiressow dabbled sad maimed in the
Rhenish provisoes; so, Prussia is to be immediately
birthed. At the sexes time, there are ethers who
say that, es far frees phagiag late • Osman war,
de Itemise is best as pees with Reeds herself.
Ii the midst of the &nip, the proposition of a Cca-
glee &European potions** bursts over the beads
of the gossips Wm a theaderalep. It pets quite •
difiereat order of ideas lab everybody's head.
met propesiiies iti we imagine, distinguishing
Ms New Tear's Day hem every other for these
forty years pate, is msay Serepesa countries. There
*probably a stupid wish that it may ease true in
the abide of Dermas Primer, great and email, in
tie despotic Italian Courts, sad probably in Spain.
Lag LZOPOLD Y perhaps pawing the day in pon-
dering the easier. The yeast Kis; of Posarnoet
day be pleas*, bow to conduit himself is the ma-
saltation ; and OSCAR of Sweden ie somewhat 'axiom
shout his reception, after what he has just been

do'sg. Masatishe then ie as almost passiolsts wish

ameag the peoplea (who are by no maim to be Tepee-
mated is that amiably nor any other) that the pro.
*Moo may be entertaised, and Milled. They
know that the emiliet between liberty and despotism
will assume Its tree form, and dad its proper grosad,
from the bear when the alining somreiges ef Europe
undertake to settle the rights and liberties of Europe.
Their fear is that the heirs is too good to be tree;
sad, indeed, they may be pretty eenfideatly mound
that the Norm will never take plan.
And bow gee. the New Year's Day with no mean-
time We ham sit the fetes of the Coatinent, nor
tha universal kolidapmaking. Here sad them the
doors of eliminating churches are open, sad in rimy
priiate bone* there see family gatimprinp and mosso*.
able ealebratioes. Time is so " fain news,* or nothing
to speak et. Everybody known of the fall et
Earn and talks of dadieg out whose doing it
111.11 S. Everybody rejects the project of a Negress of
sovereigns, sad km* at the idea of our esmiller
tioual Qualm Joining a ocuusil of Men who semi
their people es a had of iii. sleek, to be provided
for sad assedvd. whams she has the hewn et bay.
lag for a people subjects at the Law, whereof site is
the representative. Or uppermost thought this
New Year's Day is that oar dsty is clear before as,
and that we ere, aimed to a man, resolved to de it.
We have dose a geed deal within the hot twelve
menthe. Ws have dissevered, acknowledged, sad
ratified ems ortiourfaidts, and are actively on the
track for the reetifiestion et others. We have leaned
to a certainty that Husk is sot what she prat ads
ti be--that. indeed et kin iavineible, she appears
to be se Isere able to ague in hit ight—that
ale ten be humbled through her military repetition,'