Manchester, 14 April 1869 
Dear Moor, 

Enclosed the Solingen letter *’? returned, which is also significant 
because it clarifies Liebknecht’s boasts about the ‘establishment of 
associations in Solingen and Bourscheid’. The one in Solingen was 
already there,*° and the Solingen people established the one in 
Bourscheid. 

The article on the Cretan insurrection in The Diplomatic 
Review* is the best thing they have published for a long time; ditto 
Urquhart’s letter to Fuad Pasha.” But, as always, the source is not 
given for Brunnow’s statement in the Greek dispatch,‘ i.e., 

a ‘The “Eastern Question” Closed. Summary from the Blue-Books’, The Diplomatic 
Review, 7 April 1869. - > D. Urquhart, ‘Au grand Vizir, 16 aoat, 1867’, The Diplomatic 
Review, 7 April 1869, in the column ‘Insurrection en Candie. M. Urquhart 4 Fuad 
Pasha’. - © ‘Le Ministre Grec a Londres 4 son Gouvernement’, 29 December 1868, 
[extract] The Diplomatic Review, 7 April 1869. 

whether this dispatch is published in one of the official publica- 
tions, which is not easy to believe (unless a Greek book), or 
whether it found its way into Urquhart’s hands along private 
channels. It would be interesting to know this, in case it is quoted 
later. The statement coincides completely with my constant claim 

_ that Russia will not unleash a war before 2 railways are completed 
to the Black Sea and the Pruth. They are now building like mad, 
and borrowing money like crazy—in the past 3 years—about 
£47,000,000! A major part of this represents the future costs of 
war. 

However, in the light of these negotiations, Beust appears to be 
the Austrian Palmerston, and here too there could be a motive 
that would favour a speed-up of the action. 

Doesn’t Eichhoff still send you the Social-Demokrat? It would be 
very important to see how Schweitzer is conducting himself at the 
moment in his own paper. 

You will have read the article about Lassalle in the Fortnightly,* 
and will have seen that you are regarded therein as the real papa 
of Lassallean and other socialism. Who is this Ludlow? If he could 
be prevailed upon to write an article in the Fortnightly about your 
book, this would be better than nothing after all_— Congreve’s reply 
to Huxley is the puztesr, most stupid and most confused thing I 
have ever seen‘; if this is the supreme wisdom of the Comtists, 
they can let themselves to be buried without further ado. 

I still must not strain my eye too much, and I feel it a little 
again today, since I read too much by lamplight yesterday 
evening; so I am closing. On Saturday‘ we received a very jolly 
letter from Tussy. 

Best greetings to your wife and Jenny. 

Your 
F. E.