[Manchester,] 6 January 1852 

Dear Marx, 

By ris timz, you will, I trust, have completely recovered from 
your afflictions; I also hope that your wife will no longer be angry 
with me about the coup d’état which plunged you for two days 
into such depths of melancholy.” At any rate, please give her and 
your children my kindest regards. 

I shall get an article done for Weydemeyer in time for next 
Friday’s steamer and hope you will let me have something topical 
for the Tribune, which I shall at once translate. It’s really not a 
paper that calls for any serious exertion. Barnum stalks its 
columns large as life, and the English is ghastly—but this apart, it 
has some good qualities which, however, have nothing at all to do 
with our uine. If you can see that it reaches me by Thursday— 
even by the 2nd post-—you shall have the translation back in 
London in time for Saturday’s steamer, ie. by the 2nd_ post 
arriving there on Friday. Then, next week, I shall set to work on 
the articles on Germany and shall soon be done with them.> 

2 See this volume, p. 8. - > This presumably refers to Article VII of Revolution and 
Counter-Revolution in Germany. 

The lack of originality with which the Austrians have aped Louis 
Napoleon and promptly abolished their constitution is certainly 
deplorable. Now there'll be a fine how-d’ye-do in Prussia— 
there’s no doubt that Prussia has been betrayed and sold by 
Austria and, if it does not likewise abolish its constitution,’ may 
very well be crushed by a Russian-Austrian-French alliance. 

In 1851 the English cotton industry consumed 32,000 bales a 
week as against 29,000 bales in 1850.* The-entire surplus, and a 
good deal more, went to the East Indies and China; at present 
Manchester is almost wholly dependent on deliveries to these two 
markets and to the Home Trang, since very little is going to the 
Continent. This cannot last much longer. They are sailing very 
near the wind here, and the fact that, e.g., cotton prices are 
soaring, despite an exceptionally heavy crop, merely in: the 
expectation of even heavier demand, is of itself significant enough. 

Weerth dropped me a few lines today from Bradford inquiring 
about the insufferable Liders who has written to him. If you can 
tell me whether and to what extent this old jackass has been 
involved in the intrigues there, I should be grateful and it might 
come in handy. Otherwise, nothing else to report, Business WITH US 
stack, fog and smoke in abundance. 

Your 
F. E.