The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-27 00:00:00

ITALY.

PADUA, Szpr. 26.

A commission, under the presidency of General
Revel, has left for Venice to take possession of the
war material belonging to the fortresses of the
Quadrilateral.

THE PAPAL STATES.
ROME, Sm. 26.
The Empress of Mexico has arrived here.
The Roman Legion left yesterday for Viterbo.

ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCESS DAGIAAR.
ST. PETERSBURG, SECT. 2G.

Her Royal Highness Princess Dagmar, of Den-
mark, the betrothed bride of the Cesarewitch,
arrived here at 12.30 p.m. to-day.
Her royal highness met with an enthusiastic
reception at Cronstadt and Peterhof.
The Princess proceeds to Tzarskoe Selo.

AMERICA.
CRY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, SEPT. 21.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam•
ship Borussia has arrived out.
Mr. Seward continues seriously ill.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE LATE MARQUIS DE BOISSY.
Orson ot:a ows CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING
Poor Marquis de Boissy is gone. He died yes-
terday, after an illness which had kept him to his
bed for several days, at the age of 68. Although
he delighted to proclaim himself the enemy of
England, no Englishman bore him any malice in
his lifetime, and many certainly will pay the
" tribute of a sigh" to his grave. I have heard his
Anglophobia ascribed to posthumous jealousy of
Lord Byron. However this may be, his hatred of
England displayed in his public speeches and
writings did not affect the relations of private life.
Englishmen very frequently sat at his hospitable
board, and his hospitality was of no ordinary kind.
He kept up the traditions of a grand seigneur, and
has sometimes been called le drrnier marquis. His
cuisine and cellar, carefully superintended by him-
self, were of the very highest class. The story
is told that a guest on one occasion
having presumed to say that the soup was
"excellent," the marquis warmly responded to the
remark :—" I should like to know, sir, whether
you ever had bad soup at my table t" The unlucky
eulogium prevented the utterer from ever being
asked again. The Marquis de Boissy was a scion
of the noble house of Itouille, in Brittany. His
political life dates from 1839, when he was created
a peer by Louis Philippe. He had precisely the
same sort of rows with Duke Pasquier, the Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Peers, which in more
recent times he waswont to have with M.Troplong,
President of the Imperial Senate. He spoke on
all subjects, in season and out of season, with ex-
traordinary volubility. He was utterly incapable
of keeping to the question ; but amidst tor-
rents of eccentric and trivial expressions
which shocked good taste, provoked everybody,
and were indecent in a grave public assembly,
there were often mixed up some really humorous
and (more rarely) practical common sense observa-
tions. Duke Pasquier once called him to order
eighteen times in the course of a single sitting.
In 1848 he was a candidate for the Constituent
Assembly, but was not elected. In 1853 the
Emperor, at the earnest request of his uncle,
Prince Jerome, made him a senator, and his
Majesty has probably never ceased to regret the
appointment. The last time the Marquis's name
came before the public was when he gave a grand
dinner to Stephens, the Fenian Head Centre. The
Countess Guiccioli, whom he married in 1840,
survives him. By his former marriage with Mille.
de Folleville he had a daughter, who died last year
in Italy. He leaves no issue.
Viscount de Saint Vanier, a diplomatic attaché
in the office of the Minister of State, has been
selected by the Marquis de Moustier for his chef
de cabinet. The viscount has left for Marseilles to
meet the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is going
to wait upon the Emperor at Biarritz before coming
to Paris.
A despatch from Moulins, dated this day, says
that the Allier has risen higher than in 1856, and
that the Chazenil bridge, which connects Varennes
with Saint Pourcain, has been carried away.
A favourable change in the weather has taken
place in Paris. Yesterday and to-day have been
sunny and delighti uL