8 OCTOBER 1853, page 13

Self-developing Improvement Of The Working Classes. "tire...

for the time, been merged in the question of " strikes " • and we have been engaged somewhat more anxiously in the "strikes"; question which has worn rather an ominous aspect.......

American Competition With England.

A warms to whose compilations the Times gives space and a con- spicuous position, has taken more than one opportunity of enlarging upon a competition with which our merchants......

China And The Chinese.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT] OF all the anomalies in the world, China is the greatest. Tracing its origin back through the mists of mythology to the time when the smoke of sacrifice......