The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-15 00:00:00

General illegally collected money from them at
Fortress Monroe.

The arrangements for the new Atlantic Cable
have been fully completed. Its termini will be Brest,
in Europe, and the French island of St. Pierre, off
Newfoundland, and thence probably to Plymouth,
Massachusetts, on the American side. The first of
the two sections composing the line, that is from
Brest to St. Pierre, will be 2,325 miles long, and the
second, from St. Pierre to the United States, 722
miles. The cable from Valentia to Newfoundland
being less than 1,900 miles, that to St. Pierre is
much longer, but it is conjectured that by giving a
greater weight of copper to the conductor messages
will be transmitted with equal speed. For this pur-
pose the copper is to be increased from 3001 b., as
in the present cable, to 4001 b. per marine mile. As
it will be necessary to ship about 3,350 miles of
cable, which is greatly in excess of that required for
the Valentia lines, the one of 1866 being 1896 miles,
and that of 1836, 1851, of course the Great Eastern
must be employed, and she is well able to bear the
burden. Thedeepsea cable of the longer section will
weigh fully 35 cwt. per mile, and the total when laid
will be about 10,000 tons. It will be strong enough
to bear about 8 tons, the strain in paying out pro-
bably never exceeding one-twelfth this weight. The
shallow water section will be stout and heavy, a
bituminous covering protecting the iron wire from
rust. By the contract the cable is to be shipped
next June, and the line is expected to be opened for
traffic in the course of 1869. The French Govern-
ment made their concession to MM. D'Erlanger
and Reuter, binding itself 'not to grant any other
for 20 years, dating from the Ist September, 1869.
The company formed by these gentlemen is mainly
composed of Englishmen, with many English on the
direction, and bids fair to prove a most profitable
speculation.

An American correspondent who, according to
the Pall Mall Gazette, is well acquainted with the
various questions relating to American funds, writes
to that paper to show the virtue of the Democratic
platform, at least in this, that it makes no sugges-
tion of changing the legal form of the public in-
debtedness. " The party declares it will only pay
the 5-20 Bonds in. lawful money, pledging itself to
elevate the value of the greenbacks to par, and to
use them for paying that part of the Public Debt
not by law payable in coin." This is a most praise-
worthy intention ; but what we do not understand,
and desire the " well-acquainted correspondent"
to explain, is the use of an agitation to pay in
greenbacks, which are pledged to be raised to par
with gold. Think of the English Conserva-
tive party going to the country with the.
one great plank in its platform of paying all its
creditors in Bank Notes whom they were not com-
pelled by law to pay in gold. The foolish and thick-
headed, of whom the world contains so many, might
ask the object of this when the notes could be ex-
changed for gold at their par value in Threai-
needle-street—and we, being amongst that lot,
wonder at the Democrats who pledged themselves
to bring greenbacks to a level with gold, while
furiously agitating to pay the debt in the paper they
bind themselves to make equivalent with gold.
A correspondent asks—Has an American citizen
human affection that Englishmen are bound to re-
spect? and we apply to the Standard, which, as an
old woman we hold to be the best authority, for an
answer. The oracular response is, If your cor-
respondent be a Copperhead—yes ; if a Radical—
no. " Mr. Colfax," continues the old laiy, "lately
told the Indiana people in an hour and a half's
speech that he loved them before all the world."
Then granny gives an extract from the speech, all
which is intended to be very satirical, and to prove
that Colfax had no right to love South Bend before
all the world. Our correspondent knows that
Colfax rose with that city ; he has seen it grow
from a hamlet into an important town ; his own
career is associated with it, and as an editor and
afterwards Congressional Representative, he must
have had more than ordinary opportunities of be-
coming acquainted with the inhabitants. Why,
then, should Colfax be sneered at for telling the
people who had assembled, every man, woman,
and child of them, to welcome him back to his old
home, and to do him honour, that he loved South
Bend before all the world.
The New York Citizen considers that the Demo-
cratic party will elect the Governor of the State next
November by a majority of from 40,000 to 60,000
votes. If so, Mr. Griswold, the Radical nominee,
who it asserts is simply a Creenis willing to shed
go'.(len bloo.l for the honour of being a candidate,
has no chance. Horace Greeley, who represents
positive issues, would have called forth the enthu-
siasm of his own side and run a closer ram. Had
Fenton been renominated his unrivalled political
strategy would have aided his party, but Griswold,
though highly respectable, is a nobody in the con-
test. This leaves the governorship to one of the
four candidates to be named by the Democratic
State Convention. Stanford E. Church, Senator
li. C. Murphy, William M. Tweed, and the Hon.
John T. Hoffman. The Citizen picks out Mayor
Hoffmm for the following reasons. Church can
have the nomination if he wants it, but is not rich
enough, and a compromise can be made by naming
him as Governor Morgan's successor in the United
States Senate. Twee.l has only allowed himself to
be talked about, to hold the field still more closely
in Hoffman's favour, drawing off from him prema •
ture fire, and Senator Murphy's proper place is in
the States' Senate or is Congress. But the Citizen
makes apoint of Mayor Hoffman's resigning his civic
chief magistracy that the D&nocrats may capture
that office as well as the Chief Magistracy of the
State.

On the 29th July a Grand festival took place iu
Janes' Wood, New York, at which 5,000 persons
were present, to raise funds for the erection of the
monument to commemorate the heroism of the Irish
soldiers who fell in the late war for the preserva-
tion of the Union. Miles O'Reilly read the poem
he had written for the occasion, and at the conclu-
sion was loudly called upon for a speech. However
beautiful the lines, there is in them this glaring
contradiction—they were written to commemorate
the deeds of gallant Irish soldiers who fell for the
preservation of the American Union, yet the burden
of the song is to inaugurate another war for the
disruption of the British Union. Nor is the allu-
sion in these lines complimentary to Americans :
" For Irish soldiers fighting here,
As when Lord Clare was bid advance,
And Cumberland beheld with fear
The old green banner swinging clear
To shield the broken lines of France."
Mr O'Gorman said—" Of all the races that have
been called into this nation to strengthen it, there
is not one, I am proud to say, to which the United
States is more indebtedsthan to the race from which
I sprang." What ! not even that which founded
the colonies, and gave to the American people their
early history, their religion, language, literature, and
laws ?
We give the following as a specimen of how the
iron Age puts it. We thought every one knew
that it was Juarez who discontinued diplomatic
relations with England after executing Maximilian,
because England had recognized the Imperial Go-
vernment ; but we are obliged to the iron Age for
correcting this error—there is nothing like truth :
" England has discontinued diplomatic relations
with Mexico since the death of Maximilian. She is
shocked because the Mexicans exercised the power
which the fortune of war placed in their hands, and
treated with severity one whom they justly regarded
as an invader and usurper. Does England forget
the many princes she murdered in India ?—the Irish
patriots who are suffering a lingering death in her
prisons ?"
That paper also, after stating that the British Go-
vernment had ordered the blockade of the port of
Mazatlan to be at once raised, goes on to advise
that the United States should not permit a sister
Republic to receive treatment which England would
not dare to offer to a stronger power:—that is, the
instant disavowal and, perhaps, dismissal of her
Officer who took upon himself to avenge an insult.
This is the way the Iron Age has of putting it !
Nominally Congress has adjourned to the 21st
September, but it is not likely to meet at that date,
unless the President Allows au inclination to avail
himself of its absence ; in which case Senator
Morgan, of New York, who is the chairman of the
Executive Republican Committee of the Cham-
ber, and General Schenck, of Ohio, chair-