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The International Society.The address of Karl Marx, of the International Society, from its reference to the changes that are to come over England in the course of about twenty years, is calculated to create dismay. Within that time, the address informs us, London, Liverpool, and Manchester will be in revolt against “ odious capital,” and not only the great cities of our own country, but New York, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, and Brussels, as well as Paris, Lyons, and Marseilles. A hundred millions of Communists are to rise and declare that “the world belongs to us.” And before this insurrection, Karl Marx says the past (that is, the present system of society), “will disappear like a hideous nightmare, for the popular conflagration kindled at a hundred points at once like an immense dawn will destroy even its memory.” This is truly a gloomy prospect. One cannot help being struck by the number of the adherents upon whom M. Karl Marx so confidently relies. A rising of one hundred million Communists would be very awkward. Indeed, if M. Marx can bring about such aresulthe will probably haveevery-thinghisownway. Should one hundred million Communists rise in Europe and America they would find nobody of consequence to oppose them except the ^old women, and some of these, judging by M. Marx’s production, would be amongst the Communists themselves.The International in Holland.The members of the International appear fully determined to defend the horrors of the closing scenes of the Commune in Paris. A grand meeting was held a day or two since at Rotterdam by a section of the association, and at its close a speaker expressed the sense of the Assembly in declaring that the valiant Commune had been stifled in Paris by the Royalists at Versailles, but that soon it would arise stronger than ever. Soon they would secure, by every possible means, the destruction of the old society, and the triumph of the socialistic principle all through Europe. When that day came the noble children of Holland would no longer have to bend under a depotism, for “ the magnificent sun of the Commune would enlighten their generous heads.” At present the Batavian soil is not so favoured, for the day after this grand demonstration all its leading members were arrested on the charge of inciting to civil war.Railway Carriages Wanted.The French railway companies are suffering from a perplexity which offers an opening to English enterprise and industry. They cannot meet the demands of the traffic on their lines for want of railway carriages. Sogreat has been the inconvenience produced by the accumulation of merchandise in the port of Dunkerque, and the insufficiency of the means of transport, that the Chambers of Commerce at Lille and Dunkerque have appealed to the Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, who, in his turn, referred the matter to the Great Northern Railway of France. The Company give an answer much after the fashion of the mayor who apologised for not saluting the king because he had no cannon. Most of their carriages have been taken off by the Prussians, and will not be returned for another month. Others have been taken in forced loan by the French Government itself, while they cannot get the orders they have given for new ones executed with sufficient rapidity. Added to this, the threatened taxes on the import of raw material complicate their troubles by filling the ports with unexpected merchandise ; and their stations have gone through so many ordeals during the war that their business is impeded in everyway. In this strait they have been obliged to borrow from their English neighbours what railway material they can spare, but even then their wants will not be supplied.
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Sun and Central Press
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Jul 11, 1871
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