The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-23 00:00:00

modifications in the new Convention : —" Ist. Modify
article third by reducing the postage on a single in-
ernational letter to ten cents in the United States or
sd. in the United Kingdom; the existing contracts
with this department for sea transportation at the
rate of 15c. per ounce for letter mails justifying
-uch a reduction of postage. Also provide in the
:ame article for further reluctions of the postage
from year to year as the cost of sea transportation
shall be reduced. Second, Modify article four lby
fixing the amount of the fine to be collected in the
United Kingdom on unpaid Gr insufficiently pre-
paid letters received from the United States either
at twopence or threepence, as the British office shall

fed. Third, Molify article five by stipulating
lat the total postage on international newspapers

(including prices current) shall be two cents in the
United States and one penny in Engl•tini per four
ounces ; and that the total postage on international
book packets and palerns or samples shall be six
dents in the United States and thre?pence in the
United Kingdom p2r four ounces or fraction thereof.
Fourth, The new convention to be terminable at any
time on a previous notice by either office of one year."
The Miniteur has olncially announced the climes-

=ion granted to Baron Emile d'ilrlanger and 31.
Reuter to lay a telegraphic cable from France to
the United States. The communication is to be
established before the Ist September, 1839, start-
ing from Brest to a point on the American coast
between Boston and New York. The price of a

despatch containing twenty words cannot exceed
100 f. The State of New York has granted a cor-
responding concession to be exclusive, and at least
on the French side to last for twenty years. The
Pall Mall Gazette thus gives the reasons which in-
fluenced the Governments :—The grounds upon
which the projectors have found favour with the
French and New York State Governments have been
chiefly that the proposed cable will obviate the circuity
and delay incident to the present line, and will also
lessen the existing liability to casualties. By the only
route we now have not less than four submarine
cables have to be employed, while the electric fluid
has to perform four land journeys also before a in 3S-
sage can be sent from the continent of Europe to
New York. Thera intervene-1, the North Sea,
or the English Channel; 2, the Irish Sea; 3, the
Atlantic; 4, the sea between Newfoundland and
the A:nerican continent; while the wires have also
to be carried across England, Ireland, Ne wf,,und_
land, and, lastly, from the coast of British America
southwards to New York. It is, perhaps, surpris-
ing that with this circuity messages are sent from
Europe to the United States as quickly as they are;
but there is no doubt that communication will ba
very much accelerated if, as is said, a merchant or
banker at Paris will be able literally to speak into
New York. It may possibly be a sanguine calcula-
tion that messages between those cities may then be
sent and answered in half an hour, and that messages
may be sent from Berlin or Frankfort to New York
answered within an hour ; but the difference of time
must obviously he very great. It is thought also that
the directness and simplicity of this route will very
much diminish the chances of communication with
America being from time to time put out of gear.
Ocean telegraphy has now been carried to such per.
fection that there is more fear of mishap by land

than by sea : and, in point of fact, during the last
two winters, when we have several times been
alarmed by a stoppage of messages, the explanation
has in each case been that storms had blown down

the land telegraphs, sometimes in Newfoundland,
sometimes on the American mainland. From this
danger, whatever it may amount to, the new line
will be exempt. As the capital it will represent
will, it is stated, be only £1,000,000, and as the
working expenses, with only two stations (at Brest
and at New York), ought to be very small, it is
probable that this project will bring the luxury of
telegraphing across the Atlantic within the reach
of persons of very moderate mean;. A cable laid
across the English Channel, from Falmouth to Brest,
would also give us the benefit of it. It is under-
stood that the new Atlantic cable will be ready for
laying next June.

A LEI TER FROM GEORGE FRANCIS

TRAIN.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

George Francis Train has done us the honour of
adding us to his score of papers. If given all the
space he would fill, the editor might put his hands
in his pockets and go and refresh himself at the
Blarney Stone, or cool himself on the Alps, for his
work would be at an end. Train would undertake
to edit half a &man newspapers from the Mar-
shalsea. Indeed nothing bat a big " daily" could
k-.sep pace with his requirements. He tells us so pub-
lish in whole, in part, or throw all into the basket,
and we act on the permission. Mr. Train has a
right to rush snorting au I screaming through the
world like his namesake the train if he chooses,
but we feel assured he might employ his great
talents more effectively. We are wholly opposed
to every course which in any degree tends to stir
up ill-feeling between America and England. If
Slr. Train thought that his method was that best
adapted to force the redresi of Irish grievances on
the English Government, he may be justified as far
as Ireland is concerned. But where .we disapproVe
is in mixing up America with the question.

EDITOR A. A. T.

He Pays his Compliments to the Anglo-American Times
—A Wonderful Foreshadowing of Events—He Publishes
a "Train Extra" on the Fourth containing his Anniver-
sary Address -He Advises the Irish not to Elect any
more Members of Parliament—He Appoints Ben Butler
as his Congressional Agent to Ii lease our Citizens—He
Adds the Anglo-American Times to his Scure of Journals.—
Dublin, Four Courts, hrarshalsea, July 18.

Dear Anglo-American Times,—As I cannot invite you
to my cottage in New York, I can only make my
acknowledgments for an occasional kind word of re-
membrance, by asking you to drop in and sea me
at the Marshalsea should you be passing this most
agreeable simmer resort. Mutual friends have told me
that my name often appears in your columns, and as I do
not get the paper, please to send it to me diroct and I will
enclose the stamps. Anything that has the word "Ameri-
can " in it is a godsend to a fellow who never know what fair
play was till he came to England. Wonderful country.!
Statesmen so pure !—aristocracy so noble ! —women so
virtuous !—people so temperate! No paupers—no poverty
—no crime ! Wonderful race the English ! Think of
little England being able to whip great Abyssinia! Exeter
Hall was always too much for the negro. And if you
would like an occasional letter for the Anglo-American
Times. You shall have it.