The Internationalists seem to have come to great grief. At
their sixth Congress, on Monday, only one of their original leaders was present, Jaques Guillaume, the remainder being dead, changed in their opinions, or become too prosperous to care about Internationalism. Like the St. Simonians, the Internationalists seem to have a faculty for getting on in the world ; and when they do, they acquire new ideas as to the value of property, or think, like Albert Richard, that an Emperor could do more than a Committee.—just the conviction of the Roman plebs after their long struggle with the patricians, and of the Danish proletariat after their contest with the nobles. Karl Marx is still trying to organise a central despotism over labour, but does not suceed, and the new leaders at Geneva, so far from approving the Commune, are not willing to organise a general strike, for which it is said the working-classes on the Continent have a hankering, but for which they have not the means. The Spanish representative revealed the curious fact that there are still only 50,000 Inter- nationalists throughout Spain, and the entire organisation had to congratulate itself on only a few local strikes. Germany was not pre- sent, Mr. Hales, from England, reported no progress, and M. Costa, from Italy, denounced Garibaldians and Mazzinists as people who knew nothing, and understood nothing except fighting. The Americans sent no delegate, but wrote that the Council should have no powers, but all duties ; and the Dutchmen point to the rising wages of their tobacconists. Altogether, we should say this bug-bear of mankind, which three years ago nearly launched the Governments of the world into a crusade, is to-day a respectable council of persons inclined to chat in French upon the best way of raising wages. There is no particular harm or good in that. The English operatives have effected that for themselves, without talking about the matter at all. liodmen, we are told, now receive mason's wages, and nobody has even heard of a Hodmen's League, while their only declaration of principles has been that they won't take less.
