The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-06 00:00:00

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This meeting was held at Radley's Hotel, New Bridget
street, Blackfriars, on Monday afternoon, the 27th inst., at
three o' olock. The gathering of shareholders was larger
than upon any previous occasion.
The Rev. David Thomas, Chairman of Directors, was
called to the chair.
Mr. D. MORGAN THOMAS, having read the notice call-
ing the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—Gentlemen, we have
reached a point in our enterprise when something must_ be
done. We have been canvassing, for shareholders now for
several years, and we have not yet commenced the business
for which the company was chiefly organised, namely, the
starting of a metropolitan daily journal. It is true that we
have given our shareholders no pledge as to the precise time
when we should commence business ; and it is also true that
we have started a weekly journal in whose merits not a few
rejoice. But the shareholders are not satisfied with the
weekly; not because of any intrinsic defects, but because
they bargained, they say, for a daily, and do not feel dis-
posed to support a weekly. This being the case Ido not
see that we can go on much longer canvassing for share-
holders, without starting the daily. And if you do not
continue canvassing for shareholders, your existing capital
will gradually be drained away by the necessary expenses
of the office. (Hear.) Something, then, must be done.
But what ? There seems to be only two courses at our
choice, either to wind up the company or to start forthwith
a daily.. Some few dissatisfied shareholders, I have no
doubt, would advocate the former course. The newspaper
press would gladly hail it, and our enemies, who are neither
few nor feeble, would be delighted ; but I am persuaded
that such an opposition would be raised to this by the great
body of our more public spirited shareholders that would
render a dissolution legally impossible. If we start a daily
it seems that it must not be more than ld. Our idea at first
was a high-priced paper—l thought 3d. would be the lowest
price at which we could start, but since our company was
organised, the newspaper press has undergone a
thorough revolution. The penny paper has come into
existence, has grown to a tremendous power, and,
as soon the repeal of the Paper-duty, which can
not be long, will become greater still. It may be said
our object was to create a paper that should compete with
the Times. Be it so. It is the penny that is to grapple
with Jupiter, and nothing else. Now there are but two
ways of starting the Daily at a penny, either by creating an
entirely new one, or by joining, on honourable conditions,
an existing one. Which shall it be ? Shall we start inde-
pendently of any existing paper ? Th'.s, of course, you can
do, if you were to employ the whole of your legally avail-
able capital, which amounts to upwards of £200,000. You
could afford to be making mistakes and buying experience,
until at length, perhaps, it would become a paying concern.
But to me there appear three great difficulties in the way of
starting an entirely new metropolitan journal. (Hear.)
First, the immense sums of money that we should inevit-
ably sacrifice in the attempt. All new papers have sunk
their thousands, and we have no right.to assume that we
should be especially favoured in this respect. Secondly,
another difficulty in the way is the indifference, of share-
holders. If all the shareholders would be true to the pledge
implied in the joining—namely, to co-operate heartily with
those in making this great experiment—l should have had
but little difficulty. The hearty co-operation of 9,000 mien
would have made any paper a tremendous power and success
at once. But in this I have been sadly disappointed. If I
were able I would this day return the money of every
grumbling shareholder, and free the enterprise of them.
Another difficulty in starting an entirely new journal is
this—the ground is occupied. The penny press has taken
the field. The difficulties, then, to me in starting an en-
tirely new journal are so formidable that I should hesitate
greatly before I committed myself to it. It seems to me,
therefore, that the only eligible course is to unite with
something existing—a popular journal. The question is,
Can such a junction be formed ? For my own part, I can
consent to no union where the following things are not re-
cognised and guaranteed:—First, the adoption of our name
and the entire adoption of our prospectus. Though some,
with a sad perversity, continue to charge us with having
surrendered some of our principles, I maintain that
our prospectus is in every essential respect the same as
it was when it first appeared in print. Nor will I con-
sent to surrender one jot or tittle of the prospectus. If we
join a paper, it must become in spirit the Dial—become all
that we would be if we started a journal independently.
Secondly, another thing wnich must be recognised and
guaranteed before joining any paper, is that it is in a
healthy commercial condilion. Thirdly, another thing for
which I require a guarantee before I join any paper is, that
the shareholders shall have a healthy control over it. The
representative principle in journalism is to me one of the
characteristics and one of the charms of the enterprise. I
do not believe in the irresponsible " we." Fourthly, another
thing for which I require a guarantee is that our share-
holders be protected to the utmost against a second call.
Now let these things be secured, let the entire adoption of
our prospectus be secured, let the healthy commercial state
of the journal we join be assured, let the representative
principle be guaranteed, and let the shareholders be pro-
tected to the utmost against a second call, and then I am
prepared to join an existing daily journal, With these con-
ditions secured I care but little what journal we may adopt.
Some will say that the project of a union is a wonderful
come-down for us. Ido not think so. We have reached a
position to join on an equal footing a first-class popular
journal, and the _Dial seems to me even a greater work
than to create n new one.
EDMOND BEALES, Esq., M.P., then rose and said, the
resolution I have to propose is as follows :
" That the directors be empowered to enter into such ar-
rangements as they may think advisable for bringing out the
daily Dial in conjunction with an existing daily paper upon
the principles of the National Newspaper League Company
(Limited), and that if it be necessary for the above purpose
to form a separate company with limited liability, in con-
junction with the proprietors of the existing journal, a sum
of money not more than £17,500 be contributed from the
present funds of the company towards the capital of the
new company, and that the shareholders of this company
now appoint four, or a sufficient number, of the members of
their board of directors to represent, as directors and trus-
tees,the shareholders of this eobpany in the new company."
Mr. Beales explained in very general terms the chief
features of the plan; following the leading of the chair-

man.
The Rev. Wit. AcKwounr, M.A.—I second this reso.
lution, and I think the friends of the Dial will have occa•
sion to rejoice in it as long as the Dial will carry out the
prospectus of the company. I shall probably sometimes
scribble in it ; but it must be understood that I don't write
like Shakespeare or an archangel.
Mr. FREDERICX IVRAGGE, of Stoke—When I tell you
that I haVe come a considerable distance this morning, at
great personal inconvenience, to attend this meeting, and
when I inform you that I am in possession of the senti-
ments of a great many shareholders, I think no further
apology will be necessary in trespassing for a moment upon
your time. I must express my great surprise and astonish-
ment that this meeting has been called upon such a day in
the week, when it is impossible for distant shareholders to
make their appearance. (Hear, hear.) I must beg, if the
meeting will bear with me for a few minutes, to recall their
attention to that prospectus of which we have heard so
much, and to the circumstances under which this company
was formed. Many I dare say will remember that in the
provinces, when those gentlemen came down to us, that
they impressed upon us that it was a fundamental condition
of the formation of the company that no paper was to be
, issued until 20,000 shareholders had been obtained. This
was the motto of the company, it was emblazoned on the
portals of the enterprise (laughter), and it was upon the
faith of that statement, that I and hundreds of others took
shares. I say that it is a total departure from the promises
made to us that we should not be called upon to launch fur-
ther into this enterprise without that condition having
been fulfilled. Well, we are called upon and invited
not only to start a daily paper, but to unite or
amalgate with some paper which has been already
established. lEr this is another total departure from
the prospectus. (No.) I know the answer I shall get. I
shall be told that it has all been done legally—(Yes)—but
I shall tell you that many unjust and improper things
may be done without transgressing the limits of the law ;
and I say that morality and equity should guide us. But
there is another thing, gentlemen, we must remember
Since our shareholders were obtained • times and circum-
stances ha4e considerably altered. (Hear.) We were then
in a state of comparative commercial prosperity, but now it
is not so. The small capitalist and little shopkeeper require
our consideration and sympathy. With complications in
the politics of the continent, with a dk cloud lowering
over the nations of Europe—(laughter)— ar
whilst some with
sullenness and gloom now bear the iron yoke of despotism
—(laughter)—others turning their faces to what seems the
first turn of the light of liberty, and others also fighting for
what is dearer to them than life—the freedom of—(laugh-
ter and uproar). At this time, with commercial panic
coming, with deficient harvest certain—(no, and laughter)