The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-07 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Capt. Sherard Osborn, the managing di-
rector of Telegraph Construction and Maintenance
Company, Limited (lessees of the Malta and Alex-
andra Telegrah), begs to forward the editor of The
Sun the following copy of a telegram this day re-
ceived from the company's superintendent, dated
yesterday, 11.55 p.m. :
" The Patriarch of Cairo expects no information
from the bishops sent to Abyssinia for the next 20
days. The report of the liberation of the captives
not yet confirmed. Will enquire further and tele-
graph again."
London, Sept. 6, 1867.

LONDON GAZETTE.-LAST EVENING.

FOREIGN OFFICE, AUG. 21.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Patrick J. Hughes, now British Vice-Consul at
Taug-Chow, to by her Majesty's Consul at Kin-Kiang.

SEPT. 3.

The Queen has boon graciously pleased to appoint
Edward Thornton, Esq., 0.13., now her Majesty's Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Em-
peror of Brazil, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipo entiary to the King of Portugal.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Orville
Allen as Consul at Trinidad for the United States of
America.

DOWNING-STREET, Szr.r. 4.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Pitot,
Esq., to be a Member of the Council of Government of the
Island of Mauritius.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Charles
Augustus Berkeley, Esq., to be a Member of the Privy
Council of the Island of Tobago.
Her Majesty has been further pleased to appoint Robert
Saunders, James Meade, John Francis Kirwan, Hugh Riley
Sompor, and John Edmund Sturge, Esqrs., to bo Mem-
bers of the Legislative Council of the Island of Mont-
scrraq.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE,—Last EveDng.

Amsterdam Short. 11 19
Ditto 3 Months.l2 OZ
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 40
Brussels — 25 40

11 191
12 11
12 11
25 471
25 47f
13 101
25 25
25 40
25 42}
1201
12 65
12 65
32
6 271
491
49t
27 40
27 40
27 40
27 40
27 40
27 40

Hamburg — 13 10
Paris Short 25 20
_ _ _ _

Ditto 3 Months. 25 85
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1201
Tienna — 12 60
Priestcl — 12 60
etersburgn
Berlin
Madrid — 481
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 27 35
Naples — 27 35
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon — 51
Oporto — 51

DEATH OF THE LANDGRAVE WILLIAM OF HESSE.—
On Thursday afternoon the Landgrave William of Hesse,
father to the Queen of Denmark, breathe,' his last in Copen-
hagen, in his 80th year. The Courtg of England, Russia,
Denmark, and Greece will be placed in mourning by hi

decease.
STATISTICS OF BLINDNESS.—The geographical
statistics of blindness are extremely puzzling. In Norway
one person in every 510 is blind; in Sweden only one
in
1,419. Franca has ono in 933; Belgium one in 1,233.
Across the Atlantic, the United States have only one in
2,470, by far the smallest proportion of any country on
record • but this exemption does not extend to the British
Colonies, for Newfoundland has ono in 1,42 G. In England
and Wales tho variations are equally conspicuous.
Iu
Cheshire and Lancashire the proportion is one in 1,253 ; in
Bedfordshire still less, ono in 1,323. In the Eastern
counties it is one in 902; in Wilts, Dorset, Devon, and
Corn wall, one in 793; in Herefordshire, one in 603. We
know of no theory on which these figures can be explained,
though the comparative immunity of the great manufac-
turing counties and of Bedfordshire, whore straw-plaiting
prevails, seems to point to indoor occupations as less in-
jurious to the sight than outdoor —a conclusion which
would hardly have been arrived at a priori. Of the 20,000
blind people in England, about 2,700 are acid to be under
twenty Van, of ago. .