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

SMALL-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 infectious disorder, known or
described as the sheep pox, or variola ovina, 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.
"Now, 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 severa
orders and regulations following ; that is to say :
"1. it shall not be lawful for any parson to remove
any sheep or lambs to or from the parish of Earl's
Coln; 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 be moved out of the aforesaid parish without a certifi-
cate i❑ writing, signed by some person who may have been
authorised by two or more justices of the said county of
Essex to seize 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 shed; place; trucks, and
vehicles respectively.

"5. Every person in possession of any sheep or lambs
in or amongst which the 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.
"6. And it is further ordered that this order shall con-
tinue in force until revoked.

" ARTHUR nELPS.

Never Despair of the Republic.

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There is such a thing as patriotism. Let the sel-
fish and the slavish say what they will, pure love of
country yet remains. There are those still living
who are ready to act on the old sentiment, " Dulce,
0, duke et decorum est pro patria mori."
Perhaps there never was a time when this ancient
aspiration was more called for in America than at
the present. In the midst of the clash of resound-
ing arms, the pouring out like water of human life
and treasures, there was a common impulse to join
heart and hand to save the Republic. But now
that the battle has ceased, now that the great con-
trolling cause of the war is removed for ever, there
is danger that the people will forget that there are
other ways of saving a nation beside fighting or
even dying for it.
It is perfectly clear that the Father of his country,
George Washington, saw and felt this, from the
beginning to the close of his distinguished public
career. When the struggle of the Revolution was
safely ended, his clear eye saw new and still
threatening dangers ahead. A summary of them is
given by him in those memorable words of wisdom
contained in his Farewell Address to his Country-
men. Prominent among these he names especially
two—" The Insidious Wiles of Foreign Influence,"
and " The Bitter Jealousies of Party Spirit."
Never were such warnings more needed by the
American people than at this moment. There can
be no doubt that very much of the difference of
opinion on public questions at times so rampant in
America may be directly traced to the secret in-
fluence brought -to bear from abroad. The same
jealousy of the people that shows itself in aristo-
cratic riots in England, does not fail to appear in
the pro-slavery mobs of America. A large body of
the crowd who rushed around the Executive Mansion
in Washington, and cheered President Johnson's
February speech to the echo, were foreigners, aliens
to the American soil and Constitution, who wanted
nothing so much as to see the Union of the States
dissolved. They were then, and now are, ready for
anything and everything, no matter what, that
would, or will, distract the national councils, and, if
possible, divide the Republic. " Divide and Con-
quer " is their motto as foreigners ; and with it on
their banners they play into the hands of the
traitors at home, who have inscribed on their stan-
dard of slavery and rebellion—" Rule, or Ruin."
The wicked and plotting spirit of Party now
steps on the scene. It at once perceives its
advantages, and is resolved to make the most of
them.

"Double, double,
" Toil and trouble,
" Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.**

Only let the party cauldron boil. The scum of so-
ciety is sure to reach the top. There is nothing like
a fiery political agitation for your genuine dema-
gogue. Without this, 'tis

" Othello's occupation's gone "
with him. No matter what the excitement is. No
matter who got it up. No matter where it began.
No matter how it is to end. It is all the same to
your political salamander. He can live in any fur-
nace, heated though it be seven times hotter than
ever before—like that of Shadrach, Meshech, and
Abednego. He was born a fire-eater, and takes to
it as naturally for his daily bread as a duck does to
water. One would think, when such brawling in-
fernals get into public meetings, that there are, in-
deed, " earthquakes all around." But when their
blitzing orgies are over, when their fever heat is
worked off with hoarse yells and coarse oaths, that
is the end of them—at least until the next time.

It is just here, however, that the real character
of the institutions of America invariably shows its
strength. There is a latent force in American Re-
publicanism that is always in reserve for emergen-
cies like these. The Jaw-abiding majority of the
people has always come forward to the rescue at
the proper time ; and, as long as patriotism and
education prevail in America, it always will. We
need never despair of such a Republic. The people
themselves are the real sovereigns ; and they have
too much at stake in the great issues of Republican
government to allow any temporary excitement,
however violent on the surface, seriously to injure
the foundations of the laws, or to check for any
considerable period the onward march of freedom
and equal rights.—Anglo-Anzericaii Times.

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 V.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April `3
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton April 19
Ditto, via Marseilles Avii 13
fraikland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton April 19
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton April 13
Ditto, via narseilles
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April 13.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 7.
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseilles, . Aprii 7.
April II
NTewfoundiand
.•‘
•... ..April 11.
Portugal

Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... ............
United States and British North America, by Bri
tish packet ........ .April It
Ditto, by United States paact,
via
....... .

ton
Ditto, via C.:rk ..............................
via
BLaohnadounadserarnyci. Aptil 6,
Ditto, by Canadian packet.
West Indies and Pacific (except
Honduras) .............. ...April 13
Cuba and Mexico .................................. April 23
Bahamas, via New 'York. ........................... May 3.
Bermuda, via Halifax ............................ April I
West Coaht of Africa. lifadeira, and Tenerifte .... April ;2

A COCK AND A RAT.—Mr. Paton, a merchant
in Anstruther, was astonished on entering his stable the
other morning to find a combat going on between a cock
and a rat, the latter of which had evidently the worst of
the fray. The entrance of Mr. Paton seemed to make the
terror of the rat more desperate still, as it attempted to
make off, but a stroke from victorious " chanticleer" again
sent it sprawling on the floor, where Mr. Paton's heel at
once and effectually concluded it and the battle. The
fury of the conqueror, however, was not satisfied with tho
death of his opponent, for on the rat being thrown to the
door, the cock furiously renewed the attack upon it, and
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this continued until the carcass was placed beyond hie
reach.—Edinbur.94 Courant.