The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-30 00:00:00

[IITABIPTD, H. ADDITION,

Bared, on Lake Balaton, in Hungary, during the
first fortnight in May.

GALICIA.
LEMBERG, Aria 29.
The Galician Diet was closed yesterday.

SPAIN.
MADRID. Ann. 19.

The Patria of to-day publishes an article urging I
Senor Alonso Martinez, the Minister of Finance,
either to meet public expectation by proposing
energetic measures for remedying the financial
difficulties of the country, or to retire from the
I cabinet.

THE BRAZILS.
(By T.legr►ph from Lisbon.)
RIO DR JANEIRO, Arm. L
_ _ .

...
Two Peruvian frigates have entered the halftime
of Rio, bringing in the Spanish merchant flaset
Dorothea, laden with provisions for
which they captured on the Bth of March. j ,
Ex.c.hange on London, 2r4 to 251. CogfessBoo4l
first, 7,000 to 7,200 reis. Shipments sines *Raw
parture of the French mail, 55,492 bags, at bilk
32,000 were for the Channel. Stock, 132,000-bi.
Sales, 75,000.
tAIhA, Ana 13.

Exchange on London, 27 to 271. Sugar, whites,
2,600 to 2,800 reis ; browns, 1,900 to 2,100 reis.
PKB.NAMBUCO, Aram 16.

Exchange on London, 27* to 27*. Sugar, whits.,
3,800 to 4,000 rein ; browia, 1,950 to 2,200 leis.
Cotton, 18,200 to 18,300 reis.
The Messageries Imp6riales steamship Navarre
arrived here on the 11th inst., with the outward
mail.

LISBON, lam 28.
The Royal Mail Company'■ steamship Oneida
arrived here to-day with the Brasil mails.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. Sumer lineage.
War is more imminent than ever. While the
French semi-official journals, whose business it is
to deceive, and who do their work awkwardly but
unblushingly, represent that the German question
is " settled " (!) and that the only thing which
now threatens the peace of Europe is a misuader-
standing between Austria and Italy, each suppos-
ing wrongly that the other is meditating an attack,
there comes a despatch showing that the question
is more German than ever, and holding out the
prospect of an aggression on the part of 'Prussia
almost immediately—possibly within a few hours.
Pruksia has peremptorily called upon Saxony to dis-
arm. A refusal is certain, because the military mea-
sures taken by Saxony were resorted to in oonsequenes
of her deliberate determination to eland with Aut.
iris against Prussia. Bavaria, summoned in like
manner by M. de Bismarck, has already replied by
a positive refusal. Things have now come to such
a pass that the power which hesitates to assume
the responsibility of the first blow may fear that
forbearance may place her at a military crundvan-
tage, just as was the case with Austria in 1859.
Had she then acted promptly upon the evidence
that France was preparing a campaign against her,
' the might have taken Turin before a single ,filseastei
soldier crossed the Alps.
The Prease says that Prince de Metternich yes-
terday called on M. Drouyn de Lhuys, and de-
clared to him that Austria was ready to disarm
completely in Venetia if France would give a gua-
rantee against any attack from Italy. " The answer
of the Minister of Foreign Affairs is not," says the
Prase, "well known; of course he could not
enter into any positive engagement at a first in-
terview, but this much is certain, that Austria is
doing all she can to avoid war." Aa I believe
that war is a thing long ago secretly arranged
between France and Prussia, I do not of course
anticipate that M. Drouyn de Lhuys, however
much time he may take for consideration, will be
allowed to say anything likely to satisfy the
Austrian demand. As a symptom it is remarkable
that the Constitutionnel and Pays throw all the
blame of the present alarming state of things upon
Austria, and endeavour to exculpate Prussia and
Italy.
The Aitenir National, speaking of the despatches
of the day, says :
Events are moving so swiftly that M. Rouher will pro-
bably have very little to tell the Corps Legislatif on
Thursday next. In all probability the minister will then
only have to admit accomplished facts.
A good deal of business was done on the little
irregular Bourse on the Boulevards at very depre-
ciated quotations. Bargains were made in the
Rents at 65fr. 40c., being nearly a franc lower than
yesterday. Italian was done as low as 47fr. 30c.
M. de Sacy has been appointed chevalier
d'honneur to the Princess Mathilde, in place of the
late M. de Saint Marsault.
Nubar Pacha, the Viceroy of Egypt's Minister
of Foreign Affairs, had an audience of the Emperor
at 2 this afternoon. It is understood that the
Isthmus of Suez canal was the subject of the inter-
view.