The Socialist Government in Berlin has put down the Anarchist
rising, which began last Monday week. It realized at last that it must either conquer or perish, and summoned up courage enough to employ the troops, who made abort work of the Anarchists. A Times correspondent, who was present, says that the insurgentawere few in numbers, and that the population as a whole took no part in the fighting. Revolution, indeed, is alien to the German temper ; the 'German likes to be ruled, and lacks the Western instinct for -political liberty. Herr Lieb- lomeht disappearedwith his Russian paymaster Radek, but some of his chief colleagues were taken. The elections for the National Assembly, which the Anarchista wanted to.postpone Indefinitely, are to be held on Sunday in Prussia. The eketiona in Wfirttem- berg and Bavaria have shown, as we expected, that the Socialists are in a decided minority in these States, and that the Imps- pendent Socialists, like our I.L.P., are an Insignificant body, although they make a great deal of noise.
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