Manchester, 8 November 1867 

Dear Moor, 

In great haste: 

Siebel will be here tomorrow or in Liverpool, where I shall see 
him. He can place another 3 articles,4 which I have prepared at 
once and which we shall then despatch with all speed. If I had 
known that it would be so long before he came, he should have 
received them in Barmen long ago. 

a The following confession from a nun is to be found in an inquisition record in 
Italy, who innocently prayed to the madonna: ‘I beg of you, Holy Virgin, send me 
someone with whom I may sin.’ - > stronger - © the Father Confessor does not come 
in every day- 4 on the first volume of Capital 

The idea about the Internationale Revue had already occurred to 
me, too, and shall be attended to. Likewise with The Fortnightly 
Review, as soon as acceptance is assured.° For the moment, 
however, I believe it is most important to create a rumpus in the 
German daily press, pour forcer la main a ces gueux d’économistes.* 

The vownsreax of the police in the trial here has been more 
rapid and more complete than I had expected. But there is 
probably even better to come. Orv Blackburn also appears to be 
changing his tune, today he complimented Ernest Jones most 
fulsomely on his speech.*%” 

Have you read Bismarck’s instructions to Usedom (in the 
Augsburger Abendzeitung, denied, of course*'*)? The fellow is 
making no bones about exposing the Italians’ intrigues with 
Bonaparte; one has to grant him that he is capable of the most 
undiplomatic manners if it suits him. (K6lnische Zeitung of 
Wednesday has reprinted it.) This stance of Bismarck’s also 
explains the Italians’ retreat and their present grovelling. 

Concerning the true nature of the inspections, checks and 
interferences of the Prussian bureaucracy: my brother writes that 
the manufacturers want to set up an association on the Rhine and 
in the Ruhr, like the ones here, to have their boilers periodically 
examined by competent engineers, and he goes on to say of the 
government control: 

‘Here at our place, a District Architect inspects 7 boilers in half an hour (!!) and 
goes home quite satisfied, in another factory a similar official took 2 hours for 35 
boilers!! If anyone is so foolish as to imagine he can sleep soundly after such an 
inspection, he is, of course, deceived. It would be a real blessing if this nonsense 
were done away with and replaced by some sensible practical arrangement. At one 
inspection, I first explained the boiler with all its fittings to the District Architect, 
then I carried out his instructions as well and finally wrote the report for the 
government for him.’ 

There are the Prussians for you! Portrayed by themselves.