In No. 16 of your newspaper Herr M. Hess from Paris
casts suspicion on the French members, with whom he is entirely
unacquainted, of the London Central Committee of the International
Working Men's Association with the words:

"There is really no knowing whether it would matter if some
friends of the Palais-Royal [1] also belonged to the
London Association, since it is a public one, etc."

In an earlier issue[2] , while prattling about
the newspaper L 'Association, the same Herr M. H. made similar insinuations
about the Paris friends of the London Committee. We declare his
insinuations to be preposterous slander.

For the rest, we are glad to find in this incident confirmation
of our conviction that the Paris proletariat is as irreconcilably opposed
as ever to Bonapartism in both its forms, the Tuileries form [3]
and the form of the Palais-Royal, and never for a moment considered the
plan of selling its historical honour (or should we, instead of "its historical
honour", say "its historical birthright as bearer of revolution"?)
for a mess of pottage. We recommend this example to the German workers.

London and Manchester