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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 301, 7 February 1879, Page 9

Regicides follow each other. Never has such a epidemic of murder raged in European monarchies. Hoeclel and Nobiling in Germany, Moncasi in Spain and the cook Passananti in Italy. Everywhere Socialism and the revolutionary principle arm the hand of the assassin. Emopc is evidently passing through a violent social crisis, and a grave struggle is looked forward to between the International and monarchies. Five Russian students who had come for the purpose of establishing relations between the Socialists of Germany aud those of Russia, have just been arrested at Berlin. These young men arc advised that the revolutionary movements of each country .should be regulated, so as all should work together. The same idea is everywhere uppermost at the present moment. It is not local Socialism which is to be dreaded ; it is International Socialism. The International seeks to extend its ramifications over the whole of Europe, like the meshes of an immense net. This network once set the nations will no longer be able to defend themselves against the Socialist invasion. The revolution will light upon several points at the same time, and the conflagration spread gradually over the whole of Europe. That is what the International Socialists seek ; that is the object they have in view. Republican Constitutions are, in fact, as much threatened as Monarchical Constitutions. A moderate and liberal Republic is not moie tasteful to Socialists than arc autocratic or parliamentary monarchies. Everyone who makes a show of conservative principles will be equally menaced, whether a Monarchist or Republican. Franco cannot and should not neglect to turn her attention most seriously to a situation which is calculated to inspire all governments, based on order, with the most serious disquietude. — Paris ConstitutloHHcl.