The Working-Men's International Congress is now assembled at Brussela, and
shows apparently diminished numbers and in- creased violence of intention and language. If the Times may be trusted, the number of the delegates is small, and they appear to speak for a very indefinite number of constituents. Still, what- ever the real number of persons who share the views expressed by the Italian, Spanish, and some of the Swiss delegates, it cannot be doubted that they are dangerous, if only for the extreme passion and blindness of their views. The Italian delegates assert that they must take farewell of the Congress, because the pub.. licity of Congresses is unsuited for their campaign, which is to be one of secrecy, but is to be prompt and violent. They aim explicitly at "anarchy," and at possessing themselves of the wealth of the country for the collective whole. When, however, the other members of the Congress came to discuss what was to succeed the anarchy, there was no agreement. The nearest thing to a practical suggestion was that the population of the earth should become a leviathan co-operative society for producing and distributing all the wealth of the earth,—a suggestion which may at least- be called somewhat unmanageable.
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