5 JANUARY 1867, Page 7

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The daily papers bored the- ,blic, as usual on New Year's Day, by filling their columns with vary histories of 1866. We will not ask if anybody ever reach tl.se articles, but did any one ever meet anybody else who said he had made the attempt? They are published, like notices of the arrival of despatches, in obedience to - a stupid tradition of which the profession appears unable to get rid. The Pall Mall Gazelle, we are happy to perceive, refused to - burden itself with a hurriedly written imitation of the Annual Register, but the other papers deliberately made themselves unread- able for the day.