[London,] 12 April 1860 

Dear Engels, 

Best thanks for the hundred pound note. It came as a glorious 
surprise THis morntnc. The whole family was filled with glee. 

You may or may not have seen that the Kölnische Zeitung 
(Schlesinger, London) has had the impudence to talk about the 
Brimstone Gang” and its Russian redolence. Weu.! Through the 
good offices of my bankrupt friend Speck I am now hot on the 
trail of the whole Brimstone Gang here in London. 

D’abord* you'll have seen in the papers that Palmerston has 
amused himself by presenting Mr Reuter (the Jew from Trieste of 
telegraph fame)‘ to the Queen.© And who do you think is 
factotum to this grammatically illiterate Jew Reuter?— Siegmund 
Englander, who was expelled from Paris because, although a spy in 

@ Roesgen - > Ermen - ¢ First - ¢ Julius Reuter. A list of persons presented to 
Queen Victoria on 28 March 1860, was published in The Times, No. 23580, 29 March 
1860. - © Victoria 

the pay of France (600 frs. per month), he was discovered to be a 
‘secret’ Russian spy. This same Reuter, together with Englander, 
Horfel and Schlesinger, was a partner in a Bonapartist litho- 
graphic news agency in Paris (an honorary member being one 
Esterhazy, a Man about town and the cousin of Esterh., the Austrian 
ambassador); they fell out, etc. Mr Bernhard Wolff, chief proprietor 
of the Berlin ‘National-Zeitung’ and owner of the Berlin telegraphic 
bureau, is hand-in-purse (partners) with S. Englander, who is at 
present editing European world history in Reuter’s name. N. B. 
Russia has now joined the ‘Austro-German Telegraphic Union’ 
and, ‘pour encourager les autres," has got Pam to present her Reuter 
to the Queen. I am to get a detailed account of Schlesinger’s entire 
curriculum vitae, as well as that of Reuter’s. 
Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

My thanks to Siebel for the notes, which arrived today. Also for his 
Religion und Liebe.” My wife thinks highly of the latter.