Manchester, 7 January 1861 

Dear Moor, 

The Revelations’? will be despatched from here today or 
tomorrow post-paid to Petsch. The fellow had best stick a small 
label on the title page—London, A. Petsch & Co., 1861—so that 
people know where it is to be had. 

Can't you get me Toby’s cry of pain 

Shall write to Siebel. 

In none of the German papers save the Kélnische” have I found 
so much as an advertisement—which is surely odd. 

Our old enemies are not escaping the fate they deserve. The 
editor en chef of the late lamented Strassburger Correspondent was, 
according to the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung “a certain Mr 
Wolfers of Cologne”—the worthy Wolfers of Dumont’s paper “— 
couldn’t you somehow convey this to Biscamp for transmission to 
the Augsburg A. Z.? Also, that the chap is not a Rhinelander but 
a beastly Belgian. Schwanbeck dead of delirium tremens, the 
worthy Brüggemann disappeared and consigned to oblivion, and 
Wolfers openly in the pay of Bonaparte—what more can you ask? 

Doubtless King William I will now make a real ass of himself as 
well. When he tells the Berliners that much has happened that was 
unjust,© perhaps he is referring to the enforced dismissal of 
Stieber.*" Apropos. Another friend, griffin Greif,’ would appear 
from a report in the Neue Preussische Zeitung* to be gravely ill as 
the result of an apoplectic fit. It’s a good sign, these chaps being 
bowled over like ninepins. That the change of monarch should 
go so nicely hand in hand with the Austrian revolution” of all 
things, is capital. Even the Wochenschrift des Nationalvereins now 

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* K. Marx, Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne. - > Kélnische 
Zeitung, No. 341, 8 December 1860. -¢ Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 1, 1 January 
1861. -4 Kélnische Zeitung - © [King William I’s speech to a deputation of Berlin 
municipal officers on his ascension to the: throne,] Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 5, 
5 January 1861. -! Engels has ‘Vogel Greif’, which means both ‘bird Greif’ (a 
personal name), and ‘bird griffin’. - 8 Neue Preussische Zeitung, No. 2, 3 January 
1861. - 4 ‘Heidelberg, 21. December’, Wochenschrift des Nationalvereins, No. 35, 
28 December 1860.