The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-22 00:00:00

AN EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

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Mr. Hastings, formerly Secretary of the Social
Science Association, proposes that a committee of
eighteen persons, chosen in equal numbers, from the
Education League, the Education Union, and the
Social Science Association, should meet and draw
up an Education Bill, to be submitted to Parliament
next session. Mr. Dixon, M.P., on the part of the
League, has declined to entertain this strange sug-
gestion. What sort of bill would such a committee
agree upon ? As the League and the Union repre-
sent the two contending schools, it is evident that
the issue would entirely depend upon the opinions
held by the six Social Science representatives,

?HE TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPH

COMPANIES.

Negotiations between the Transatlantic Cable
Companies have resulted in an agreement whereby
the proceeds from the three wires will go into a
common purse, to be divided in the proportion of
63 1,3 to the Anglo-American, Atlantic, and New-
foundland Companies, and 36 2-3 to the Franco-
American ; that is, a slight advantage to the French
Cable over the other two connections with America,
though practically the arrangement may be said to
be share and share alike, or one-third each. The
Anglo-American stock is to be increased from
£600,00010£1,575,000,0f which a portionattrounting
to £375,000, will be given to the Atlantic Eight and
Four per Cent.holdei s,those com panics being thereby
extinguished. These arrangements will b satis-
factory alike to the public and the shareholders,
for they give promise of greater efficiency in the
transaction of such important business as well as of
economy in managing it, whereby, without mulcting
the public who will benefit by the increased facili-
ties, the shareholders may receive higher dividends.
We rejoice to see the original companies merged
into the successful one, built up in no small degree
at their expense, for it grated against the senti-
ment, to which we confess, to see in the daily quota-
tions those enterprising undertakings left out in the
cold; and that eyesore will henceforth be removed. But
the more practical question is what the gain will be in
forwarding messsges. Supposing the French line
to be occupied in transmitting a long message from
America, it bars that Cable during the period, from
the despatch of all communication from the oppo-
site direction ; therefore, if a long message took
three or four hours, for that time, however urgent
the necessity, no communication could be received
from France. This might work a serious injury,
would be obviated through the present arrangement,
for the receiving officer of the message in Paris
would say, " Our line will not be free for st.veral
hours, therefore transmit this per Anglo-Ainerican."
In the same way, if both the English lines were
engaged in forwarding long communications to
America, the French line would be kept free for
transmitting short messages backwards and for-
wards. Or, if a storm prostrated the Newfound-
land shore line, as has occurred, and rendered the
Anglo-American Cables unavailable, the French line
would stillbe open ata uniform charge. The Standard,
in its article of Monday, makes an extraordinary-
assertion. It says :—" Frequently telegrams, pail
for in Auserici, have arrived later than the letters
which were intended to follow them." Bat nothing
so bad ever occurred, although a serious delay
was once caused by a hurricane sufficiently violent
to prostrate a considerable portion of the poles in
the Milted States. Competition, like all good
things, is an unmitigated evil when carried to an
extreme. Then the rival companies not only ruin each
other, but damage the business they were formed to
transact, and thereby inflict an injury on the public,
who pay dearly in the end for any temporary gain
derived from low prices. The evening papers of
London show what competition and low prices lead
to, and the difficulty is to retrace the ground after
the false step bas been taken. Instead of the sense-
less course the companies have wisely amalgamated
their interests, and it only remains for the Franco-
American to surrender their concession and meet
the views of the United States to remove all pend-
ing difficulties. Should they not do so, their con-
tribution to the joint purse is likely to be very
small indeed; and we still maintain, as always, and
as we dare say Mr. CYRUS W. FIELD who is now in
London can inform the directors, that the Wash-
ington Executive will close the office at Duxbury
if the concession be adhered to. An attempt is
noticed in America to controvert the statement in
the PRESIDENT'S Message, hut it will not do, for
the articles are too distinct to admit of denial, and
the nation not only insists on reciprocity, but con-
tinues to regard the action of the French Govern-
ment in the matter as little less than au insult to
the United States. This stumbling-block removed,
to which we again desire to attract the ser ions attention
of the French Company, for it is not a matter with
which to trifle, the way will be clear for some
such action as the Standard recommends-." There
seems no reason why the telegrams should not be
divided into first, second, and third class, like the
passengers on a railway. The first class should consti-
tute a sort of telegraphic express,occupying one par-
ticular cable. The two other cables could be used for
second-class telegrams at ordinary rates, and for mes-
sages at half-price, thelatte,r to be sent at night only."
BOLTON'S Code, for instance, might find a place in
the new arrangements ; and we feel certain that
eventually an expeditious•method must be resorted
to or the business will beat the lines. Touching
this Code, the Philadelphia Ledger, in discussing our
articles, objects to thii ponderous book and the dif-
ficulty of interpreting the numbers through it. But
the Ledger is very naturally deleived on the point,
for thereal merit of the work rests in its extraordinary
simplicity. Those who have not seen it can scarcely
help being deluded into the impression that it must
be unwieldy and complicated, expensive to pur-
chase, requiring, first, study to unravel, and after-
wards time to decipher a particular message. But
this is not the case ; indeed, if it were, the name of
Mr. CYRUS FIELD would not have been among its
endorsers. - Anglo-American Times.

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