Manchester, 2 September 1867 

Dear Moor, 

The £5 banknote enclosed. You will have received the booklet 
“Transactions” [or THE] Rf[ovat] Sociery.“©? Can you send me the July 
and August Free Presses, as promised? 

Things appear to have taken a very sharp turn in Paris; every 
day all the papers are following Girardin’s example in recalling 
1829 and 1847,*° and the Lille speech, full of resignation, appears 
to prove that there is nothing to be done in South Germany and 
Austria precisely now when he* needs it, obviously solely in 
consequence of the sorry state of the latter. ‘And hence’ it is only 
‘weak governments’ which incline to use foreign conflicts as a 
means of avoiding internal difficulties.” Then, the constantly 
reiterated allusions to ‘mon fils’> do not appear to imply any very 
significant confidence in the longevity of the ‘pére’ quem nuptiae 
demonstrant* either. You must press ahead with the second 
volume,*'* things may soon start to happen. 

On Saturday I saw a Californian newspaper, which suggested 
the 8 Hours-Movement must have had an enormous impact amongst 
the surpinc Trapes there. The masters are forming a 10-Hours. 
ASSOCIATION to Oppose it and are setting up a considerable wailing. 
Contracts for 1'/, million dollars are said to have been withdrawn 
as a result of the 8 Hours business.** 

Gumpert is back and says that in Electoral Hesse the rage at the 
Prussians is as furious as in Hanover, though less demonstrative. 
The moment the military were to leave, every ‘Prussian’ would be 
slaughtered. Amongst other things the Prussians have confiscated 
the officers’ widows and pension fund in Kassel which derived 
from compulsory contributions from the officers. He found things even 
hotter in Hanover than I did. 

Kugelmann also wanted to attend the Lausanne Congress,*” i.e., 
aS a spectator, perhaps it would be a good thing to inform Eccarius 
of this. He will probably encounter Schorlemmer, who left 
yesterday (via Grimsby), at the Naturalists’ Congress in Frankfurt. 

a Napoleon HI - b ‘my son’ (Eu éne Bonaparte -¢ father, who became so by 
marriage 

Moore is travelling to Thuringia in approx. 3 weeks, to learn 
German for 6 weeks; I have sent him off there so that he may get 
off the track of the Bririsy rovurists. 

Kindest regards. 

Your 
F. E.