The strike in the English cotton district is not yet
closed ; and notwithstanding many signs of yielding in the outposts, the leaders of the main body at Preston still talk bravely of receiving large funds. Indeed, the working classes of the district seem to regard Preston as their forlorn hope, and to furnish it with sup- plies in preference to other towns. At Glossop the masters have revoked the ten per cent which was granted to the workpeople in that town on the breaking out of the demand; and the men have acquiesced. Wigan remains quiet. The wonder is, how the peo- ple manage to subsist, while so large an amount of weekly revenue is in abeyance. " Amicus," the correspondent of the Times, who obtained so conspicuous a position during the strike of the Amal- gamated Engineers, now comes out with a letter advising the workpeople to give up their strikes—though not their "combina- tion," the possible utility of which he admits.
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