The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-27 00:00:00

f will, we hays reason to believe, be nearly u follows.
The letters of Lord LUCAN tad Lord CARDIGAN,
which hays already been pabliahed, will be laid
before the Board. Statements from Sir RIM=
AIRZY and Colonel GORDON will next be read.
Board will then pruceedlto On examination or evi-
dence. Sir RICHARD AIRRY and Colonel GORDON
have indicated the witnesses they wish to have ext-
mined. These have already been telegvapbad for, and
will arrive in this country in the coarse of a fort-
nigbt—bsfore the Board can be ready to examine
them. It is to be presumed that any °Seers, or
others, now in the Crimea, whose evidence the Board
may deem calculated to throw additional light tea
the subject of investigation, will be made fortbooma
log with equal promptitude.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
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PARIS, TIMIDLY ETZNINO.

The Negress did not sit today. It appears that
an interval of one day is required between each sit-
ting, to give time for drawing up the minutes of the
proceedings, which are communicated confidentially
to each plenipotenti►ry previcsly to being signed.
It is understood to be arranged that the Congress
will assemble three times a week—on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays. M. Benedetti, the di-
:sato, of the political division of the Ministry of Fo-
, Nip Affairs, is for the present the only person en-
trusted with the duty of drawing up the protocols. It
has been said that a subditector has been appointed
to assist him, and sit by his aide at the Congress, but
I believe this is not true. Acoeding to the best
formation, M. Benedetti is the only individual not a
member of the Congress who is allowed to be pre-
sent at its deliberations.

The Coogress will meet for the second Urns
to-morrow (Wednesday) at one o'clock.
Count Walewski gave a grand dinner yesterday to
the plenipotentiaries on the occasion of the opening
of the Congress. All the Minister, of Napoleon 111.,
the great officers of the crown, the Governor of the
Invalides, the Prefect of the Seine, and M. Benedetti,
were among the guests. At denser, Count Walewski
proposed as • tout " A happy issue to the negotia-
tions this day opened."
In the evening there was a concert, for which 700
cards of invitation were inlaid. The Princess Ma-
thilde and Prinoe Napoleon honoured the Minister with
their presence. The splendid salons of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs blazed with light on this occasion.
The concert, conducted by M. Ataxy, with Mesdames
Freuolini and Borghi Memo, and MM. Mario, Gra-
riani, and Zucchini for perfumers, took place in the
drawing-room which contain, the statue of the pre-
sent Emperor. This room, not being large enough
for the whole company, was almost entirely 'filled
with ladies, and all the doorways opening from the
neighbouring rooms were thronged with eminent
personages. Daring the evening, the Salo* des
Ambassadeurs, where the Congress is held, which
was thrown open to the guests, was inspected in
etery part with the utmost curiosity. At the Congress
table the names of the diffsrent plenipotentiaries were
written in pencil in groat of the chairs which they wi-
mpy. It wasremarkeducirionethattheßessianpleni-
poientiaries were so placed that the *yoga( the portrait
of Napoleon In., which huge in the room, sum
directly fixed epos titans. In the centre of the table
is a magnificent inkstand of the time of the first
empire, the cost price of which, ite appears from •

memorandum gnirayed inside a secret drawer, was
16,000 tr. This bauble of gold and silver is placed
there merely for ornament. There is no ink in it,
and the plenipotentiaries when they write make nee
of mach humbler vessels.

I learn, on good authority, that the Debate is
mistaken in coo tradicting the original statement that
the plenipotentiaries take precedence in the Congress
according to alphabetical order. This is the order:
Austria, France, (heat Britain, Russia, Sardinia,
Turkey. The precedence to which the Dolmas alludes,
sceordiag to the order in which the plenipotentiaries
happened to be presented to the Emperor, is observed
on certain other °cession& For instance, at the
dinner yesterday Lord Clarendon set next to Count
Walewski.
The anammounent of the unladen in the Moni-
tor, so far from producing a favourable effect upon
the Bourse, was rubor coldly received. It is re-
numbered that the Monitor had intimated that the
preliminaries of peace were to be signed before the
statistic., woe granted, sad einem no anneenewment of
the ileums of these preliminaries is sow mode, the
inference is that the intended and mere satisfactory
order of proceeding has buss departed from. How-
ever, the general opioion is that einem an armistice
has been agreed upon, pesos must be next to certain.
The Rents fell 30c., dosing rather heavily at
731,.16e. Beak of France fell 16fr., and Credit
Mobiller sfr. The Lyons and Mediterranean Rail-
way roes 10Th., sad Orleans brr., but the other lines
tamed with s fall of from 3fr. to Oft.

Oa Baaday, the anuivenary of February 24,
than was some slight political effervewence on the
Plats de la Bastille. As has been usual Maw 1861.
a strait body of sergens.de.ville was stationed in the
neighbourhood, to be ready for any emergency, tor'.
purest people from standing about the column, and
(especially) from hanging inssooresliN on the railing.
Last year this prewative faros fosad nothing to do,
but cm this awasioa they arrested fifteen young men,
who in spits of the known danger were caught in the
fact of making seditious manifestations by voice or
gesture. Oss was arrested for saluting the column
as le pawed it. A little boy of 13, was arrested for
throwing an immerge& at the foot of the column.
Ow of the 'ripsaws is a student who has been twice
in custody for sedition within the last few weeks,
owe on amount of his participation in the Ninard
riots, and another time for having joined in singing
Le Bire de Fraraboisy" at the Odom whet the
lifomprees ww present.

Mademoiselle Rachel arrived at Havre yesterday by
the Fulton. One tithe Havre Journals says that eh*
seems to be oompletely recovered from the ilium
which compelled her to give ap her American ea
gsgemeats, bet the Omerrier dm Havre says, on the
matrary, she has greatly suffered deriag her voyage,
sod that she rapine three or four days' rest at Havre,
helots undertaking the pommy to Paris.
The fusels' of Madame Allea-Despreaux, of the
Theatre Frame* took plain yesterday morning, and
was attended by the satire company of the theatre
and a vast amourse of moaner& The speataele of
the fairness of the Francais follow's; the Dolga on
foot in deep mournieg, and shedding no unreal
tears, was very touching. Madame Pkesy-Areculd,
who had known Madame Allan long at Bt. Peters.
berg, and who was to have played with her in a
new pine on the day the died, was particularly
affected. Madame Allan, who has been cut offalmost
suddenly by a woligeaut cancer, is her 48th year,
was modeled the most flakhed mitres, of the
Theatre Fraecals. The theatre was closed yesterday
main oat of reaped to her memory.
The Manamrr publishes the (Aoki return of the
'esteem reweave for the month of January, whir*
amounted to 11,106,2080., showing a decrease of
1,394088 fr. on the eorrespondieg smooth of 1863,
and an horses' of 2,071,184 fr. on that of 1864.

THE EXPRESS. WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 11558.

Bat tide aras sot se. At presisrly three =Mates
pest .011 C a molest lookies brougham, is nay
remarked till it was withla a few yards of the alibis-
try, doss iLti tk. frost seta, sad kilted at the feat
of the grand etakeise. The carriage met died the Bard-
Wan pliatipetmadarise,C,uit Career sad the Marquis Vii-

, Isobaric& A slogle chewier was Visit only attendant.
Taey, like a I the plenipotentieriet who followed, were
looted V p'a'n az Toon. eistuelle. As they ascended the
stairease,• squadron of M.Walewski's footmen, woo were on
Om look out, threw wide open the glass ric..l and the
'Fiedwontese seprweatetivee entered the hotel the first. •
fkw miscom afterwards came Turkey—Asti P.cha, the
armed Vhier, end Mehemet Boy were droplet jest like
Bar pens, ezeep. that they ware of course the ineCt able
red f.. The Grand Viet*, wore a Telma, that ne;ght have
bon bought in Regent•street. Emitted end Austria fol.
bowed very eh utly alterwarde, in nusikatly unpreteedies
sieriageo. There wee the• • Fosse of azvenl minute/ Bootle
began to ask • hither lis•ela weld not find some encase not
to cow. Bat ate grater pest one a haat:home oar imp,
with tore downers hebiod it, drove up .t a tap d pet e, ma-
laria., the Et mien t ',nil o 'ovaries. Count Or. oil a cpped
net first., sod al koegh bent 70 years of sge, ea ep he •tet
like a boy. I bad an orpircanity of a sing him well,
fir when k, arrived on .be top tenths, be to* off
hie hot as if to warn the mist* of the servants in
welting, and then turned round to see what had
become of he maitre'. Boos de Bencow got
out (tie earri‘g. very slowly. His face was enveloped in
an ample comforter ; he walked up the waits with a same-
whet fast rug s'ep, aid his snare and bent tom presented
• strileng contrast to that of his onedjetor. Count Orloff
la a woodezfel.ltoking man for his age. He Ii of large
eke, very erect, end aim countenance denotes rebut health
sad gr at resolstioa. He h•s a very large had, covered
with non grey tar, cropped alma The eapression of hie
features is quite Cabana, bat as be smiled at Baron
Brasov, slcwly mounting the stairs of er him, he had a
good-catered look."

PIEDMONT.

We reed io the Opiniosse of Terhs :

The reprodacVoe iia.t • Meeselaw of the Silels's article
is the beet frost Omit all ebstaelis io the coaelusion of
poses bare not teem deflaitively removed. Oar goner -
seat is gate pr p rod. Tate Chamber has mated maple
new for caning us the war. lilies not bees any of
subsidies boons it feels flat wiles ea obl.ptiee hie bi ea
contented it should be Issitoorab y sad fully carried out
If the Coot r ten should sot airs poses t Brow, tbs
goverosiast will be soder se eab weeniest to keep isp the
war, sod if pm ci st °al l be sada the tenser, will be is a
coodieoa to nubs toe national credit sad f er every even-
tual' y.