The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-03 00:00:00

SHALL-PDX IN SHEEP.

A supplement to the Gazette, publish-d last even-
ing, contains an Order in Council, dated April 2.
After the usual recitals, it goes on to say :--
"Whereas a contagious or infections disorder, known or
described as the sheep pox, or variola ovine, now prevails
among the sheep in a certain part of the United Kingdom,
and it is expedient to take measures for preventing such
disorder from spreading.
" Nov, therefore, the Lords of her Majesty's Privy
Council do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
so vested in them as aforesaid, make and ordain the severe
orders and regulations following ; that is to say :
"1. It shall not be lawful for any person to remove
any sheep or lambs to or from the parish of Earl's
Colne, in the county of Essex, or to drive or conduct
any sheep or lambs through or by way of such parish.
" 2. No skin, wool, horns, or hoofs of any sheep or lambs
shall bo moved out of the aforesaid parish without a certifi-
cate in writing, signed by some person who may have been
authorised by two or more justices of the said county of
Essex to soize sheep or lambs infected with or labouring
under the said disorder, under the first section of the said
Act, to the effect that such skin, wool, horns, or hoofs, did
not belong to any sheep or lambs forming part of a flock
affected by the said disorder, or to any sheep or lambs on
the farm or premises in which such disorder prevails.

3. All sheep and lambs dying in any of the stages of
the said disease, wheresoever such death or deaths shall or
may occur, shall forthwith be buried by the person or
persons in whose possession such sheep or lambs may be
at the time of death, with their skins and wool on, in pits
of not less than sft. in depth, and the carcases so buried
shall be covered with quicklime.
"4, All sheds and places whatsoever, and all railway
trucks and other vehicles which may or shall have been
used or occupied by sheep or lambs affected by the said
disease, shall forthwith, after having been so used, be
thoroughly cleansed with water, and immediately after-
wards purified by chloride of lime, by the person or per-
sons in possession of such sheds, places, trucks, and
vehicles respectively.

"5. Every person in possession of any sheep or lambs
in or amongst which tho said disease shall manifest itself,
shall forthwith give notice, in writing, of the fact to the
Chief Constable or Superintendent of Police of the county
or borough in which such sheep or lambs may be.

" G. And it is further ordered that this order shall con-
tinue in force until revoked.

AltTlll3. HELPS."

Foreign Mail Packet List

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton April 19
Ditto, via Marseilles April 13.
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet April 6
Ditto, by French packet April 22.
Cape of Goad Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aprll 23
China. Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton—April 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles. April 13.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton April 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 13
India (Bombay), via Southampton. April 13.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 7.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April 13.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 7.
Mauritius, via Southampton April 13
Ditto, via Marseille 3 April 7.
Newfoundland
...April 11.
Portugal
.... 11.
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet April 11.
Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton.........

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. April 6.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras) April 13.
Cuba and Mexico
Bahamas, via New York. MaY 3-
Bermuda, via Halifax April II
West Coma of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerife .... April 12

The report of the directors of the London Bank
of Mexico and South America, to be presented at
the forthcoming second ordinary general annual
meeting, congratulates the proprietary on the suc-
cessful progress of the bank during the past half-
year. The accounts show that the net profit
amounts to £27,860 195., which, with £13,585
brought forward from last account, gives an avail-
able total of £41,446. The directors recommend
that £15,000 of this sum be appropriated to the
payment of a dividend of 15x. per share, being at
the rate of 10 per cent,
per
annum; that £2,133
12s. 10d. be placed to the reduction of preliminary
expenses ; that £20,000
fund; and that
the balances, £4,312, be carried
forward to the current half-year, subject to the
reduction of payment of directors, and auditors'
remuneration
and income tax
TIIREE YOUNG MEN. RON\ D '.'
.NED.—We are sorry to
have to a '
announce the premature and melancholy
death by drowning of three young men belonging to the
district of Applecross. It appears that
they left Sernentore,
where they resided, on Monday week, to transact business
in Portrce, and when last seen they were passing through
the Kyle of Itona late in the evening. Nothing "[nom was
heard of them until a few days since the sad news arrived
that pieces of the boat in which they sot out upon their
journey were found upon the shore, near Portrce, in Skye,
and that the poor unfortunate fellows had never reached
their destination. The weather being calm when they
passed through the Kyle of Item, it is conjectured that
the boat had struck on some rock between the island of
Raasy and Skye. None of the bodies have yet been found.
The names of the deceased are Angus Maclennan, Donald
Macbeth, and John Macheath. The last named leaves a
widow and child to mourn his loss ; the others wore un-
married. The occurrence has cast a deep gloom over the
neighbourhood.—Inverness Courier.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about i per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.25 per £1 sterling. on
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £C3
Ila. told. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold 111
nearly 3-10 the per cent dearer in London than in Paris.