11 APRIL 1874, page 7

The Agricultural Lock-out.

T HE Lock-out in the Eastern Counties is becoming more' and more important. The Bishop of Manchester had, it seems, good data for his statement that the labourers locked out......

The Pleas For German Persecution.

T HE oddest phenomenon of the time is the sort of plea we hear advanced on all sides for the new German Persecu- tion. We hear it stated, for instance, in one quarter, as a......