15 FEBRUARY 1890, Page 3

The new strike in. the docks has happily been averted,

the outside leaders as well as the men perceiving that the Union formed by the employers makes a strike dangerous, and that the public . is -not. with them. The sudden fluctuation of opinionon thesubjeet is most notable. It was believed for . the moment that them was in England "a recrudescence of Rousseauism ;" but clearly the public remembered that apostle's whole name, and shrank from a Jean-Jacquerie.