The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-02 00:00:00

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
kustralia and New Zealand, Via Southamptori.....Jan. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles
... ...Jan. :3.
Brazil and Capa Verde. by British packet. .........Jan. 1. •
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Elelena Dea. 8.
China. Penang. and Singapore, via Sou:hampton Jan 3.
Ditto, via Marseilles
faikland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 3
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan 3
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton.
Ditto, via slarseilles
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 3.
Ditto, via Marseilles . Jae. 7.
Mauritius, vit Southampton
Ditto, via Marseilles... .. Jan. 9.
Newfoundland
~ —Jan. 2.
Portugal
•• ••....Jan.
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. .
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet.
•• . Jan. 9.
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton
Ditto, via Cork
•• •
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Jan. 4
West Coat of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife ~ . Jan. 3.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras)
Bahama, via New York
Cuba a-Walt/3m .......
Bermuda, via

•• • Jan

Jan 1
Jan.—
Jan. 16.

The cattle plague continues to show itself, al-
though ou so infinitesimal a scale that the " weekly
return of reported cases," issued " by authority of
the Lords of the Privy Council," does not appear_
to be of much use. From this document, received-"
last night, it appears that there were six cases in
the week ending Saturday, December 22, being the
same number as in the previous week. There is,
however, this difference, that whereas last week
they were all from South Holderness, in the East
Riding, only three came from that district, and the
others, one each, from Stowmarket, in •Suffolk,
Pirehill, in Staffordshire, and Warrington, in
Lancashire.

The report of the East Indian Railway Company,
to be presented on the 31st inst., is the most im-
portant document of the kind yet issued with regard 1
to Indian lines, since it announces for the first timethe payment of a dividend in excess of the 5 per cent.
interest guaranteed by the Government. The sur-
plus is £108,073, half of which belongs to the India
Government, and the remaining half will enable
the dividend to be increased from the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum to 5;- per cent., leaving £l,OOO to
be carried forward, after appropriating £9,166 to a :.
reserve fund to meet a probable loss from the failure 1.
of a concern called the Commercial Transport Asso-
ciation at Calcutta. The working expenses for the
half-year to the 30th of June last were 41.34 per
cent., against 42.30 per cent. in the corresponding
half of the previous year ; the number of passengers
was 2,099,737, against 2,183,319, and the tonnage •
of goods was 401,305 tons, against 391,951 tons, and
the net earnings were £626,218, against £474,083.
The vacancy in the Board caused by the death of
the late Capt. Nairne is to be filled by the nomina-
tion of Mr. D. I. Noad, the secretary, to be managing
director. The interest paid by Government on the
East Indian line from its commencement has
amounted to over £4,000,000. When this shall
have been paid off by the division of all earnings
above 5 per cent., the whole of the net revenue will
go to the shareholders.
A letter from Florence, in the Debats, has the
following :—." When two months ago I wrote to
you that after the departure of the French from
Rome in all probability nothing particular would
happen, I must confess I did not expect to be se
thoroughly correct. The fact is, that nothing is
doing, absolutely nothing, and the calm is such that
it seems as if it might be prolonged to all eternity.
However, this must only be trusted to a certain ex'
tent. M. Tonello and his mission' are hardly spoken
of. People say that by the side of his negotiation a
secret semi-official one is progressing which willpre'*
pare the real solution. What is clear, in any case,
is that the country is tranquil and that the passions, I
if they exist, are singularly kept down. The
Official Gazette has published a letter from the '
bishops residing at Rome to the President of
the Council, and the reply of Baron Rieasoll•
This answer deserves to be noticed. It is a cleat
and lucid exposition of the motives which animate
the Government. I may add that it appears a sill'
cere one ; the Baron has evidently either written or
dedicated this epistle, and put into into it his real,
thought, for it does not consist of mere Ministerial
phraseology. His idea is to solve by the most cow'
plete liberty the long-standing difficulties between
Church and State. This attempt, made in Italy
herself, there where the Church had fixed her centre
of empire, there where the Roman right was created #
which has furnished the best arms to the State, is
a daring effort, so bold, that pne hesitates to pre"
diet its success, although, down to the present time,
everything seems to indicate its possibility."