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@ also belonged to the London Association, since it is a public one, etc.” 


In an earlier issue,? 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’ 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 “tts 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