MARX TO ENGELS” 

London, 24 March 1857 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hiil 

Dear Engels, 

Herewith some anti-Palmerstoniana, viz.: 1. Betrayal of England, 
2 cops. (NB. The self-same Coningham who here reproduces 

excerpts from Anstey’s speech is now an_ ultra-Palmerstonian 
candidate in Brighton.) 2. Tucxer-pampnzers,'*” 8 copies. 3. Anstey’s 
speech.” 4. Palmerston for Premier. 5. Palmerston in Three Epochs. 
(With the exception of the Hungarian affair, cribbed from 
Urquhart, the remainder has been lifted by Mr Wilks—just like 
him, of course—from my articles in the Tribune.'**) No need for 
you to preserve numbers | and 2; but possibly numbers 3, 4 and 
5. Tomorrow, if I can find them, I shall send a few other 
pamphlets. As To rHe Nord, note that the Post itself (in one of the 
numbers appearing between 4 and 9 March) carried the article I 
have mentioned.’ Later, however, it changed its tune. 

Now for private arrairs. D’abord‘ a letter has arrived from the 
Tribune, which I shall send you as soon as I have answered it. My 
threat to write to another paper has worked after all, at least up to 
a point. Despite its very friendly tone, the letter shows that I was 
not mistaken about these gentlemen. For what they propose is to 
pay for one article a week, whether or not they print it; the second 
I send at my own risk, and draw on it if printed. Thus they are au 
fait’ cutting me down by one half. However I shall agree to it and 
must agree to it. Also, if things in England take the course I think 
they will, it won’t be long before my income reaches its former 
level again. 

I’m very sorry that, in the meantime, I must continue to depend 
on you, having so greatly fallen into arrears that everything that 
could be pawned has been pawned and the drop in income cannot 
be made up until I have found some new resource. On top of 
that, and since I cannot after all withhold the racr from you, my 
wife is IN HIGHLY INTERESTING CIRCUMSTANCES. However, all I intended in 
my last was to explain why I hadn’t answered for so long— 
certainly not anything ELse. You will understand that even the most 
equable of men—and in a mess such as this I do indeed possess a 
great deal of equanimity—will sometimes lose patience and let 
himself go, especially vis 4 vis his friends. 

I should be most grateful if you could let me have a few 
‘humorous’ LINES, SAY 50 OR 100 ONES, ON the Orlandian bravery evinced 
by the English in Persia and before Canton.'** The Bushire 
expedition,’ as you will have seen, pivoted mainly on the 

a Coningham made use of Th. Anstey’s speeches delivered during the debates in the 
House of Commons from 8 February to 1 March 1848. -> in the House of 
Commons on 23 February 1848 - © by W. Wilks - 4 ‘From Our Own Correspon- 
dent. Brussels, March 6’, The Morning Post, No. 25955, 9 March 1857 (see also this 
volume, p. 107). - © First - f in effect - § L. Ariosto, L’Orlando furioso. 

espionage of one Captain Jones, who was sent to Bushire under 
FALSE PRETENCES a§ POLITICAL AGENT. Probably more tomorrow, as I want 
to send you the pamphlets today. 

Salut. 
Your 

K. M. 

NB. It does after all make a difference whether one stages a 
coup d’état first and elections afterwards, or elections first with a 
subsequent coup d’état in view. Without doubt Palmerston, or at 
least his papers, have OVERDONE THEIR PART. Take the Advertiser, for 
instance, wallowing in filth up to its eyebrows. This has, oF course, 
evoked a measure of reaction.