New Zealand Herald. AND DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS. MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1878.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5168, 10 June 1878, Page 2

THE New Zealand Herald. AND DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS. MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1878.

Eurol'eax telegrams are instructive. Prominent in the intelligence they convey is the fact at which we hinted when the hist attempt at assassination of the German Emperor was notified, that a conspiracy existed which was of a more far-reaching nature than was dreamed of by the Germanic authorities. We now learn that the Socialist conspiracy, which is akin to the Nihilist movement in Russia, is so wide-spread as to awaken great anxiety in Germany. To such an extent does this alarm exists that it is advocated that the European Congress should deal with the question. This idea, however, is a mistake, for, firstly, it implies inability on the part of the new German Empire to govern its own subjects ; and secondly, it invites an interference with the internal affairs of a great empire, which would or should be as intolerable to the nation itself, and as unwarrantable as would be French interference in the matter of Ireland and Home Rule or agrarian outrage. That this Socialist movement is growing is evident, that it is deemed daugerous to the Government is equally so, from the many arrests which have been made, and from the mere proposal that its existence and ramifications, embracing the question of the internal control of German subjects, should be submitted to Congress. Naturally, repressive measures are advocated, for two attempts on the life of the monarch within a fortnight point to the necessity of action. But what can be the condition and feelings o: a considerable section of the subject.-, <>f the haughty Hohenzollerns that 1„■ ulers such repression a necessity.

A telegram pointing to the attitude of France regarding -Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, and that the condition of these provinces of Turkey should he exempted from discussion at the coming Congress, is pregnant with meaning. It means, as we think, the opening of the question of the Holy Places, the antagonism of the Latin Grei-k Churches, which were made the basis of the disputes out of which arose the Crimean War, and it would appear to shew that France is pr-paring to take the same ground she occupied when that war was engaged in. .Russian complications are offering greater dilliculues than either the Czar or Gortschakofi" imagined would present themselves when the one-sided Treaty of San Stefano was signed.