No great change has occurred in the farm labourers' strike ;
though it is still spreading, and has reached Suffolk and Dorset- shire, but we note that common-sense exists among the Warwick- shire squires. At a meeting of the Chamber of Agriculture, it was resolved that all perquisites should be abolished and all wages paid in silver—the first step towards any important reform—and that the measurement of wages ought to be by work, and not by time,—a change which, though excessively cruel in itself, is almost• indispensable for a time, to force the labourers out of their half- hearted ways. They have had too little pay, and therefore have done half-hearted_ work. Finally, Lord Denbigh made a speech in favour of co-operation between the farmer and his men, which seems to have been laughed at, but will be remembered when all Warwickshire is cultivated so. With thousand-acre farms and the labourers made shareholders, the master may pay £1 a week, and yet make 10 per cent. He will have in each man a helper worth three under-paid, half-fed, lounging louts unable even to. walk straight.
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