The Look-out in the Eastern Counties continues, In Lincoln- shire
the farmers and men have come to an agreement, the former recognising the Unions, and the latter agreeing, with consent of their Unions, to give a month's notice of any claim to more wages. It was believed that this compromise would influence the 'Suffolk and Cambridge farmers, and it has been pressed on them by many landlords ; but they hold out, declaring that they will fight to the last against the Union principle, or in other words, they will maintain their own Trade Union till they have -warred down the Trade Union of the labourers,—that is, till they have demonstrated that they alone in the counties are in enjoy- ment of civil rights. They assert that the lock-out saves them money, as they find they can do very well without the men, at least so long as the old and the children suffice for the work. New profit and new exemption from trouble have not, 'however, made them pleasanter-tempered, as they ought to have done. The men still outshine them in patience, good behaviour, and tolerance, utterly rejecting the incendiary advice still, we regret to see, tendered by some of their papers.
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