Manchester, 13 April 1870 

Dear Moor, 

Best thanks for the parlamentaires.* Some of them anticipated my 
wishes; others were new to me and very handy. I am sending you 
several numbers of Zukunft to give you an opportunity to admire the 
infinitely foul methods used by the National Liberals in the debate 
on political crimes (Criminal Code). This excels everything. The 
cowardly rogues believe they have performed such a deed of 
heroism with the abolition of the death sentence for common 
crimes—and that, too, only on paper—that political offenders 
may now be calmly imprisoned in convict jails and treated as 
common convicts.” For political crimes, powder and lead will 
continue to exist, through the agency of martial law. 

Enclosed—a jolly letter from Wilhelm, which I request returned 
for the sake of answering. You will see that the fellow acts as 
though I were copying from him. He has not yet firmly 
established his Leipzig sheet,” and already wants to start a daily in 
Berlin. The fellow always sees the heavens filled with melodious 
violins,“ but the strings are missing and the sounding-board is 
smashed. 

After various interruptions I am finally finished with Wake- 
field “— 16-1700 pages quarto. 

The book is gruesomely written and still more gruesomely 
printed—nearly all figures and dates are wrong—but, as far as 
the material is concerned, unequalled in my practice. I have never 
before seen something so complete about a country. And the 
fellow has eyes and is fairly honest. The anxiety of the English 
concerning Ireland from 1808 to 1812 is priceless. Dispatches sent 
to India in which Lord W. Bentinck declared that Ireland was lost 
for England, were intercepted by the French and published. 

a parliamentary materials - > Der Volksstaat-« The German ‘ihm hangt der 
Himmel voller Geigen’ corresponds to the English ‘he sees everything in rosy 
colours’, - ¢ E. Wakefield, An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political. 

It is striking 8 o’clock; I must run to catch the post. 
Best greetings. 

Your 
FL E.