There is a very serious strike of firemen and drivers
on the Midland Railway. The notices of the drivers and firemen expired at midnight on Thursday, and at that hour a good many drivers and firemen left their train and raked out the fire, so that there were many blocks on the Midland lines. The Midland Directors say that they have reserves enough at Kentish. Town to supply the place of all the drivers and firemen who may go on strike, and it is said that only about 10 per cent. of the London employee have struck work. We cannot pretend to have mastered the exact rights of the quarrel; but it does seem strange that a dispute involving so much danger to the public, and one, moreover, between the Directors and a class so intel- ligent and reasonable as these railway officials mostly are, should not have been capable of accommodation without bringing the straggle to so bitter a crisis as this.
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