The Agricultural Strike extends. We have news of large com-
binations in Cambridgeshire, where the labourers are very badly off ; and Lincolnshire, where they seem to be singularly success- ful; and Herefordshire, where they ask for more money like prisoners pleading for mercy. The demands of the men are in nearly all cases the same, from 16s. to 18s. a week, cottages from landlords instead of farmers, that is, exemption from eviction on dismissal—a cruel piece of tyranny, justified by the argument that the cottage is in aid of wages—land for a cow, and the recog- nition of the right to combine. In many of the meetings absurd statements are made as to the farmers' profits, but as yet there are
no threats, and the leaders, with Mr. Arch at their head, counsel moderation. We notice, however, that the labourers, though they think the battle for wages fair fighting, are getting exasperated at the disposition of the farmers to treat combination as an offence, and suggest that farmers who dismiss on that ground "ought to be banged."
