29 OCTOBER 1853, page 12

What Is Recreation?

OCCASIONALLY some Mechanics' Institute or local Athenseura bursts on an admiring public with a flood of selected eloquence such as could only be supplied by professors as......

Local Government And Prison Discipline. Although The...

inquire into the go- vernment of the Gaols at Birmingham, Leicester, and perhaps we should add Winchester, have not made their report, and it is im- possible to pronounce......

Cotton, Wages, And Emigration.

Ix appears to be generally presumed, and on grounds that cannot be controverted, that the masters will conquer in their war of strikes with the men in the factory-districts ;......