The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1869,

*unanimously approveu the EaliCatloll Islll as it was
passed by the House of Commons.

MR. HOWELL UPON THE LABOUR, QUESTION:

Mr. Howell has made himself a name and obtained
a position. As Secretary of the Reform League, as
the working men's candidate—an unsuccessful one—
for several constituencies, as an advanced independent
politician, and a leader amongst the trades unionists
he now occupies a place in which his opinions become
important. Alr. Howell spoke to a meeting of metro-
politan bricklayers the other n;ght, and declared
that trades unions must and will become
political—thoroughly and intensely political. At
present they were doing little work. They must
now take up the question of education, and demand\
that it shall be compulsory and unsectarian. They
should agitate for a reform of the land laws. Mr.
Howell spoke in favour of eight hours' labour per
diem, denounced the combination laws, and appealed for
direct representation of the working man in Parliament.
He looked upon co-operation as the means of ultimately
nettlino• the contest between capital and labour. In
one point Mr. Howell dissented from the opinions of
his fellow trades unionists. He could not agree with
limiting the number of apprentices. Lads must work;
they would only overstock other markets and bo
brought up to inferior trades if they were driven out
from the higher ones.

in reply to this appeal, says that as the matter of the pro-
pagation of Christianity has already been fixed in the
treaty, it would be very difficult to hinder it openly. He
directs that the various cases in question should be eza-
mined, "that what is proper to be done should be done at
once, and what must be repressed be clearly shewn to the
treaty," and so the cause of good order may be main-
tained and these religious litigations finally settled.

advertisement in its columns, and lately a paper
lost the time-table of all railways, fora reflection
on the conduct of one railroad company ; while but
the other day another, in addition, was denied the
sale in the cars of the road it bad unfavourably men-
tioned. If a journal loses these advertisements,
our readers may learn what that is from these facts :
at the first meeting of the directors of a Life Insur-
ance Company, recently organized in New York, it
was resolved to expend $lOO,OOO, a tenth of its capi-
tal of a million dollars, in advertising. Another,
of wealth and standing, recently expended nearly
half that sum in two months in advertising an
extract from its annual report. The Union Pacific
Railroad devoted several hundred thousands of
dollars to making known the value of its bonds.
This proves how largely the income of the press is
derived from such advertisements, and they are
sometimes given as retaining fees are to lawyers, if
not to advocate the cause, at least not to take the
other side. The public have decided that they must
get the great journals for next to nothing ; but the
most expensive machinery in the country cannot be
kept going without liberal supplies of fuel, which is
derived from advertising. In the ordinary way of
business a man does not seek for information from
interested persons, nor should he from the columns
of a paper, whose main item of support is derived
from that source. Those, more especially in coun-
try places, barred from information, should, as a
rule, pass as but of little worth the comments of any
newspaper on any undertaking, and more particu-
larly on those which advertise in its columns.