London, 31 March 1857 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill 

Dear Engels, 

Received the £5. 

I should like you to send me some Manchester Examiners if 
convenient. The Bright Party’s EXPLANATIONS are of interest to me 
just now. It is only through their defeat that the election has 
acquired any historical porr.’** Palmerston’s position will become 
dangerous only now, when he has a commanding majority inside 
Parliament, whereas outside Parliament there is a recrudescence — 
for the first time since the Anti-Corn Law League ’—of serious 
ANTI-MINISTERIAL AGITATION. England is entering upon a_ sérieuse 
crisis—as The Times already intimates, with its reference to the 
CLOUD WHICH IT SEES GATHERING*~-and if the Move is resumed on the 
Continent, John Bull will not maintain the stance of supercilious 
detachment he adopted in 1848. Pam’s victory marks the 
culmination of events which began in June 1848.’°' Amongst the 
more intelligent members of the London public the news from 
Manchester, accompanied as it was by a commentary in the shape 
of Pam’s brazen address and speech,” was greeted with a kind of 
stupefaction. Seen from here—and all are unanimous on this 
point— Manchester has brought disgrace, serious disgrace, upon 
itself. Had Punch not been bought by Pam— Taylor, a chief editor 
thereof, has been given a post at the General Board of Health at a 
salary of £1,000— Potter, Turner, and Garnett, at any rate, would 
have figured in it next Wednesday. Send me some particulars 
about these laddies and their whereabouts. 

Mr Dronke has written to Freiligrath telling him that he ‘will 
break with his Jew and set up as an independent agent’. 

I have provided Urquhart with some notes on Bangya‘—in view 
of the latter’s connections with Constantinople and Circassia. 

a ‘Sir De Lacy Evans is the first-born...’, The Times, No. 22641, 30 March 1857 
(leader). - > Palmerston’s speech before the electors of Tiverton published in The 
Times, No. 22641, 30 March 1857. - © K. Marx, ‘A Traitor in Circassia’. 

Enclosed a cutting from Reynolds about the editor of The 
Morning Advertiser—Mr Grant. Every word of it true. 

Also Dana’s letter. Let me have it back. In his enumeration of 
the articles published he mentions only the last ones,* and even 
some of these he didn’t publish until 5 or 6 weeks after their 
arrival in New York when he saw that things were taking a new 
turn.’ His proposal re money is the best possible indication that I 
was not mistaken about the gentleman’s intentions. His remark 
about the length of the articles suits me well. I shall have all the 
less to send. What strikes me, though, is that for months past he 
has been able to find 2 or 3 columns for the most insipid London 
GOSSIP. 

In Prussia too there is a minor parliamentary crisis. Once AGAIN 
the dictum ‘Geniality leaves off where money matters begin’'” 
would seem to be proving true there. 

It seems highly probable that the Swiss will agree to expel all the 
refugees. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

Did you take note of the bubbles that burst last week—the 
Australian Agricultural Company, the London and Eastern Bank, 
and the North of Europe Steam Company, one of the directors 
being Mr Peto?