The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-30 00:00:00

NATIONAL TRADE CONFERENCE.

The Beehive, for the second time, suggests a
meeting of trades delegates for the purpose of con-
sidering the royal commissioners' report. Our con-
temporary believes that in moderate compass a Blue-
book might be got up on behalf of the labour case,
correcting, explaining, and amending the bulky one
of the royal commission, and that such statements
and facts could be given as would place the associations
and policy of the operatives in a different, better,
and truer light than they are now likely to appear.
It is proposed that each trade society should bear all
the personal expenses of its delegate; that each
delegate should bring a written report of its own
trade position in the royal commission report, and
suggestions as to the right therein and wrong therein;
and that having
compared reports and taken counsel,
a fit and proper person should be selected to con-
centrate and condense the several statements and
considerations into shape. A copy of the report
would be presented to each member of Parliament.

UNPROF.T.vmn JOURNALISM.
Political extremes do not seem to prosper so far
as their journals are concerned. One after_ another
Tory newspaper has been born,havc lingered
on a few
months feebly, and then died. Fluruit sine froettc,
defloruit sine luctu. The organ of Chartism and
Trade Unionism seems to be living a very precarious
life. At a meeting of the Beeli:vc shareholders, as.
we learn from that journal itself, it was
stated that the shares were " valueless," and
in order to improve this sad state of
things it -was resolved that a committee of
three should be appointed to work the paper, to
receive a small weekly salary, and, provided they con-
solidated the paper and made it remunerative, they
should receive half of the unsold shares.

AN INNOVATION IN JOURNALISM.
The Times has begun an innovation which we have
often wondered has not been adopted before by our
voluminous contemporary. Over its first leader it
publishes a table of contents. This contains some sixty
entries, a fact which in itself chews how much the
improvement was wanted. It must, however, involve
a vast amount of trouble, which only practical jour-
nalists can appreciate.

A SHARP LESSON.

An Irish "gentleman " in County Cork is very
desirous to be placed on the commission of the
peace. He is so anxious to be entrusted with the
administration of the laws that he breaks the laws
by offering a bribe of to the lord-lieutenant
of the county for making him a magistrate. Lord
Fermoy has kept the letter, and directed the would-
be magistrate to be prosecuted. He will, therefore,
make his appearance in a court of justice, only not
quite in the capacity he meant.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA.

For the purpose of e,lrrying out direct telegraphic
communication with India two companies are in
exit tence. The British-Indian Submar;no Telegraph
Company (Lindled) hrs a capital of -1:1;f200,C00, of
which only ;C:170,060 is for allotment, the contractors
ta!iing -160,000 in part payment for the cable to be
constructed, and .4,:ii_?o,Coo having been privately
subscribed, while £lOO,OOO is to be reserved. The
line will be from Suez to Aden and Bombay, and
arrangements have been made with the An,glo-Medi-
terranean Telegraph Company for through working,
and also for a lease of the land lines of the Telegraph
to India Company between Alexandria, Cairo, and
Suez. The cable will cost R 1,000,000, and the work
is to be completed by April 1870. Messages from
London to Bombay will be at the rate of £3 for
twenty words. The Indian and Australian Submarine
immediately
ph Company (Limited) will be brought for-
wy,;cl in competition with the above,

company proposes to lay submarine telegraphic
cables direct from England to India and Australia,
vid the Mediterranean and fled Seas; but it is

intended, in the first instance, to construct the
section between Suez and Bombay. Large subscrip-
tions of capital have, it is stated, already been
promised. It is mentioned in connection wish tele-
graphy that Mr. Lowe, having become Chancellor of
the Exchequer, has resigned the chairmanship of the
French Atlantic Telegraph Company, and that he
has been succeeded by Lord Monck, late Governor-
General of Canada.