The New York herald., 1871-09-05

Terrible Spectre os the Isseruatieoal.
In addition to our special despatch detailing
the ominous popular disturbances which on
Sunday and all Sunday night last agitased the
city of Dublin, we give another to our readers
this morning, which conveys . vivid ides of
the present unsettled, gloomy and revolution
ary condition of France-poor France. Our
correspondent on this subject says that Paris
is occupied by sixty thousand troops, which
are constantly patrolling the city, that tho
government is informed Of an intended demon
stration on the 4th inst. yesterday of the
International; that stringent orders have been
given for its absolute suppression, and that
Lyons, Marseilles and Bordeaux are Allied with
troops.
1t is, then, the terrible spectre Of the Inter-
national which has frightened the Theirs gov
erument into these suggestive precautionary
measures which look like the preparations for
graphing with an extensive revolutionary
rising. It was supposed that in the bloody
suppression of the Paris Commune the
radical revolutionary elements OF Paris and
of France, If not utterly extinguished,
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pletely demoralized that, perhaps for years
to come, they would be powerless to disturb
the established order of things in the French
capital or the provinces. But the slaughter Of
thirty thousand Communists In the suburbs and
within the walls Of Paris, the capture Of
many thousands as prisoners of State, and the
dispersion beyond the borders Of France of
many thousands more, have evidently failed to
shake the powerful organization Of the dreaded
International even In Paris. If we measure
the danger in that revolutionary stronghold,
which menaces the Versailles government, by
the strength of the army Of observation Of
sixty thousand men within the city, the danger
must be very great And when. In this con-
nectlon, We are told that Lyons, Marseilles
and Bordeaux are also filled with troops we are
told that the danger which overhangs Paris
overshadows France.
What, then, is this dreaded International?
1t is protective organization of workingmen
of political character embracing all the
countries of Europe and largely represented
by it's sections in the United States. Its po-
litical programme Is hardly less radical in it's
revolutionary objects than the programme
of the Paris Commune, though the
expression of its countenance is COM
paratively that of innocence OF any
wicked designs But the Commune
was largely composed Of members of the
International. The leaders Of the Commune
were working, as an independent organization,
on more ultra revolutionary platform than
that Of the International; bat the fighting
Communists were mostly Of the International
Brotherhood. The Commune is suppressed,
but the International survives; and the merci'
less stamping out" of the Commune has
apparently created deadly spirit of ven
geance in the International 1t appears, too,
that this fearful organization. present every
where, aud openly proclaiming itself and its
purposes everywhere, but nowhere visible to
the naked eye, is ready for action, and, from
the repressive measures adopted by President
Theirs, is recognized as holding the balance
Of political power in France against Bour-
bons, Bonapartists or conservative republi-
cans of the neutral school OF Theirs.
Here then, we have the secret of the con-
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present French Assembly. The different anti
radical parties of that neutrality-suspicious.,
Bonapartists and conservative republicans
have. first Of all, a common cause against the
radicals. They each fear Gambetta and the
Jacobin elements behind him more than they
fear each other The Bourbons Shrink from
their grand design and desire of the
restoration Of their house, because they
fear combination Of imperalsts and radi-
calls which will put them down. The
Bonapartsts, comparatively weak in the
Assembly, are strong in the army, and are
biding their time. The conservative republi-
cans are powerless upon their own resources,
and so for the present. through President
Theirs, they are balancing between legitimists
and imperialists, after the style Of the monkey
in the fable weighing out the cheese between
the two cats. And so the moderate men Of
all parties in the present ''Long Parliament"
of France prefer rather to bear yet awhile
with the ills they have ''than fly to others that
they know not off, but which they have rea-
son TO fear may destroy them
But how long can the managers of this
French government pro fem maintain them
selves under this unsatisfactory and precari-
Gus state Of things? Their object is to gain
time but are they not losing time? Their
great admitted danger is the International;
but can they expect the International 10
become weaker from the delay of ''the powers
that be" In establishing for France a regular
and responsible government? Is not the
International becoming stronger in France,
and more thoroughly organized for an
expected opportunity, from this delay? We
think 1t is; and yet the confidence Of the
French people, as manifested in their
unstinted and amazing supplies of money to