{London,] 6 March 1862 

Dear Frederick, 

My best thanks for the Post Orrice order and the wine. That 
swine Koller, who has an I.0.U. of mine, had already dunned me 
yesterday.‘ 

I enclose -herewith the 3 last Free Presses. I haven’t yet seen 
Collet in person, but feel sure he will be able to get hold of the 
other numbers as well. 

In my letter to you, read Japan for Java.' I obtained the actual 
racts from sundry numbers of the Tribune which contained the 
official Russian communiqués and reports from American con- 
suls—all of them suppressed by the English press. I sent the 
relevant numbers to Urquhart and haven’t yet got them back. I 
had previously used them for a Presse arricte on the Russian 
advance in Asia. However, the jackasses didn’t print it. Now, you 
know what a bad memory for names I’ve got. So, at the moment I 
cart provide you with the names. The first island* lies exactly half 
way between the south-western extremity of Japan and the Korean 
mainland. It has a large harbour and, according to the American 
account, is capable of becoming a second Sevastopol.’ As regards 
the other islands that are actual Japanese possessions, one of them, 
if I am not mistaken, is called Jeso.“ However, I shall see if I can 
retrieve the documents. 

Chinese trade, compared with what it was like up to 1852, has 
certainly increased, but by no means on the same scale as have all 
other markets since the Californian-Australian  discoveries.*”’ 
Moreover, in earlier reports Hong Kong, as an English possession, 
is shown separately from China, so that exports under the heading 
‘China’ invariably (from the 40s on) amount to less than total 
exports. Finally, the increment achieved since 1859 fell back in 
1861 to its former level. 

In consequence of the American crisis, the Boarp or Trapr report 
for 1861“ shows a considerable change in the ranking order 
of the various markets for English exports. India leads with 
£17,923,767 (including Ceylon and Singapore. India alone, 
£16,412,090). 

‘Second market Germany, normally 4th. 1860: £13,491,523. 1861: 
£12,937,073 (not including what goes via Holland and, to a lesser 
degree, via Belgium). In view of Germany’s economic importance 
to England, what a diplomatic advantage it would give us, 
circumstances being different, over bluff John Bull! 

France this year the 5th market. 1860: £5,249,980. 1861: 
£8,896,282. However, that includes Switzerland as well. England, on 
the other hand, now ranks as the premier market for France. 

Out of the total exports of £125,115,133 (1861), £42,260,970 go 
to English ‘Possessions’ and ‘Coxontes’. If one adds to that what 
England exports to other parts of Asia, Africa and America, there 
remains at most 23 to 24% for export to the countries of Europe. 

Should Russia continue to advance in Asia at the same rapid pace 
as during the past 10 years, until all her errortrs are concentrated 
on India, it will be the end of John Bull’s world market, a demise 
that will be hastened by the United States’s protective tariff policy, 
which that country will certainly be in no hurry to relinquish, if 
only out of revence against John. Moreover, John Bull is 
discovering to his horror that his main colonies in North America 
and Australia are becoming protectionist to the same extent as he 
himself is becoming a rree-Traper.”” The complacent, brutal 
stupidity with which John has acclaimed Pam’s ‘spirirep pouicy’ in 
Asia and America, will one day cost him damned dear. 

To me it does not seem very prosasie that the Sournerners will 
have concluded peace by July 1862. When the Norruerners have 
1. secured the sorper states—and it is upon these, in fact, that 
everything has centred from the start*—and 2. the Mississippi as 
far as New Orleans and Texas, the war may well enter a 2nd phase 
during which the Nortuerners will make no great exertions of a 
military nature but, by isolating the Gutr Srares,**? finally bring 
them to the point of voluntary RE-ANNEXATION. 

During this war Bull has acted with what must be wholly 
unprecedented effrontery.*” 

In terms of brutality on the English side, the Mexican Blue Book” 
exceeds anything previously known in history. Menshikov appears 
@ GENTLEMAN Compared with Sir C. Lennox Wyke. Not only does this 
blackguard evince the most immoderate zéle‘ in the execution of 
Pam’s secret instructions but, by his insolence, also seeks to avenge 
himself for the fact that, in the exchange of diplomatic dispatches, 
Sefor Zamacona, the Mexican Foreign Minister (now resigned) 
and erstwhile journalist, invariably proves himself superior. As for 
the chap’s style, herewith a few examples from his dispatches to 
Zamacona. 

**The arbitrary act of stopping all payments for the space of two years 4% is 
depriving the parties interested of their money for that space of time, which is a dead 
loss of so much value to them.’ ‘A starving man may justify, in his own eyes, the fact 
of stealing a loaf on the ground that imperious necessity impelled him thereto; but 
such an argument cannot, in a moral point of view, justify his violation of the law, 
which remains as positive, apart from all sentimentality, as if the crime had not had 
an excuse. If he was actually starving, he should have first asked the baker to assuage 
his hunger, but doing so’ (starving?) ‘of his own free will, without permission, ts acting 
exactly as the Mexican government has done towards its creditors on the present 
occasion. ‘With regard to the light in which you view the question, as expressed in 
your above named note,? you will excuse me for stating that it cannot be treated of 
partially, without also taking into consideration the opinions of those who 
directly suffer from the practical operation of such ideas as emanating from yourself.’ ‘I 
had a full right to complain ... of having first of all heard of this extraordinary 
measure ... by seeing it in printed bills placarded through the public streets....’> 

‘I have a duty to perform both to my own Gut. and to that to which I am 
accredited, which impels me...,’ etc.¢ 

‘I suspend all official relations with the Government of this Republic until that 
of Her Majesty shall adopt such measures as they shall deem necessary.*’¢ 

Zamacona writes and tells him that the inrricurs of Foreicn 
diplomatists in the past 25 years have been largely to blame for the 
trousies in Mexico.’ Wyke replies that 

* ‘the population of Mexico is so degraded as to make them dangerous, not only 
to themselves, but to everybody coming into contact with them!’ *s 

Zamacona writes, saying that the propositions he [Wyke] has 
made would put an end to the Republic’s independence, and were 
incompatible with the dignity of any independent state." Wyke 
replies: 

*‘Excuse me for adding that such a proposition as I have made to you does not 
necessarily become undignified and impracticable simply because you, an interested 
person, * (i.e., Foreign Minister of Mexico) *‘are pleased to say so.’ *! 

But satis superque! 

According to a letter from Schily to Rheinlander, things look 
most precarious in Paris and, unless there is war, Badinguet '* 
cannot hold onhor. another year. What bad luck for the chap that he 
should have the Parisians to govern, and not the Berliners, who 
admire him. 

Salut. 

Your 

PS. 1. How do I translate cics into German? 
2. What are FEEDERS ON CIRCULAR FRAMES? 
3. Could you inform me of all the different types of workers 
employed, e.g., at your mill (all, that is, excepr re warehouse), and in 
what proportion to each other? For in my book? I need an 
example showing that, in mechanical workshops, the division of 
labour, as forming the basis of manufacture and as described by 
A. Smith, does not exist. The proposition itself has already been 
set forth by Ure.* All that is needed is an example of some 
kind. 

I must write and tell the chaps at the Presse that some new 
ARRANGEMENT Will have to be made. It’s all the same to me if they 
don’t print the best articles (although I always write them in such a 
way that they can print them). But financially it’s no go if, out of 
every 4 or 5 articles, they print 1 and only pay for 1. That places 
me far below the penny-a-Liners.