The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-24 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID. APRIL 24.

The Minister of Finance has received notification
that the deposit for the New National Bank of
Spain has been paid into the Bank of England.
The Chamber of Deputies have appointed a com-
mittee to examine the press law.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, APRIL 24.

A change of ministry is considered probable, in
which case it is said that the Duke de Loule will be
entrusted with the formation of a new Cabinet.
The Cortes will be closed on the Bth proximo.
Senhor Julio Oomez is dead.

(REUTERS EXPRESS.)

ITALIAN MILITARY PREPARATIONS.

MILAN, APRIL 20.

According to the Lombardia, orders have reached
the military department of Milan to watch the line
of the Po, and to make preparations for the expe-
ditious mobilisation, whenever necessary, of the
regiments stationed in Lombardy. Particular
instructions are also stated to have been given to
General Durand() in the event of the Austrians re-
inforcing the line of the Po. The fortifications of
Cremona have been commenced, and are rapidly
proceeded with. Orders have arrived at Pavia to
prepare all the artillery stores that will be necessary
for the armament of Cremona. General Durand()
is expected at Pavia to make an inspection of the
troops and fortifications. The generals on service
in the military district of Milan have recently
visited the garrisons and barracks of various
towns in Lombardy. General Aribaldi Ghilini
left this morning for Lodi, and General Franzin►
for Lecco.

THE STEAMER FIAVRE ON FIRE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.

The London and South Western Company's
steamer Havre is on fire. Every effort is being made to
save her.

She arrived this morning from Havre with • cargo of
French goods chiefly for transshipment to the steamer
sailing to-morrow for New York.
The fire was caused by the explosion of a case of com-
bustibles amongst the cargo in the hold. Two of the crew
and the stewardess are said to be seriously injured.

One man has just been got from the hold of the vessel
dead.

TUESI/AT AFTERNOON,

The fire on board the Havre is now extinguished,
but the ship has sustained much damage below and in the
fire saloon. No further casualties have occurred
on board; but Captain Wright, of the company's steamer
Atalanta, while running to his own ship for assistance,
dropped down dead from excitement.

RECEIPTS OF THE PARIS THEATRES.—It appears
from the A note Litteraireet Dramatique, which has just been
published, that the receipts of the principal Paris theatres
for the year 1865 have been as follows:—Opera (L'Africaine),
61,800/. ; Francais (Le Supplice d' un Femme), 37,717/.;
Gymnase ( Les Vieux Garcons), 28,576/. ; Vaudeville (La
Famine Benoilon ), 21,458/. ; Varietes (La Belle Helene),
32,888/. ; Porte St. Martin (La B/eke au Bois), 57,089/. ;
Opera Comique (Le Voyage en Chine), 45,415/. ;
Royal (Jocrisses de ('Amour), 30,7381.
RELIGIOUS ExcLusrrENEss. —ln accordance
with a resolution of the diet of the Tyrol, the
Austrian government has modified the privileges
of protestant. in that part of the Austrian
dominions by requiring the authorisation of the
Diet of the Tyrol as a necessary preliminary to the public
exercise of their worship. "As," says the Independance,
" the great majority of the Diet is composed of ultra.
montanes the meaning of this modification may be readily
understood." In Sweden, on the other hand, none but
protestants can be members of the Swedish Diet. The
Journal des Bekaa, remarking on this exclusivenes,
says:—" It cannot be of long duration, and on that
point we have full confidence in the equity of the
Christian consciences of Sweden. What makes us
believe in such an act of equity and at an early period
is that we have recently read that • proposition,
tending to declare non-protestant Christians and Jews ad-
missible to the public service, had been adopted by the
committee on the constitution. It is true that this ad-
missibility is not to be extended to judicial and ecclesias-
tical functions or to professorships of religion, philosophy,
I and history. In France we can hardly understand how
I these exceptions can be erected into principles."
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the new money order poet town]) in Australia are Faree,
Tinonee, and Goodiwindi.