Strikes, with their aggravation of all the evils they are intended to remedy and the prospective want and suffering which they engender, are not confined to this country. Liverpool and London are now suffering an infliction of this folly. The entire trade of Liverpool is paralyzed. Feb. 13, the strike included not only the sailors and dock hands, but laborers generally, carters, and carpenters. Thirty-five ships laden with grain and destined for Liverpool, are held by their owners at Queenstown, as they do not know where to send them; and meanwhile there is imminent danger that the immense amount of grain will heat and spoil. Few ships, if any, leave the port, and no cargo can be discharged there except by men brought from other places, and guarded by the military and police while about their work. The fleet chartered at Liverpool to convey troops and supplies to South Africa to suppress the trouble from the natives there, will have to be fitted out at other ports. All propositions to compromise from the ship-owners have been rejected. In London the strike has commenced with a society called “The Amalgamated Society of Engineers,” involving engineers, boiler makers, steam engine makers, iron moulders, and all other iron workers in the great establishments. Pattern makers and a hundred other trades intend to follow. Both cities are greatly overcrowded with laboring men; and the utter blindness and folly of this movement is seen when it is considered that England is absolutely dependent on her commercial and manufacturing industries for the pre-eminent position of prosperity which she has so long enjoyed; and if these are paralyzed, what becomes of her prosperity? and what hope is there for her laboring millions? And every hour’s suspension of these industries, such as is brought about by these strikes, is only hastening England’s fall; for she has sharp competitors and dangerous rivals in a commercial point of view, and they will not be slow to take and keep for themselves those markets which England thus vacates. And then the power of her strength is broken. How much trouble and suffering this will involve, before it is ended, who can tell?