{[Manchester,] Friday, 30 January 1852 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

I sent you by last Saturday’s steamer (the Europa, I think) an 
article together with a letter.* Herewith a few more lines.” The 
issues of the Revolution you promised have not yet turned up, 
although your last letter of 5 Jan. gave good reason to believe that 
they would come by the next sreamer,and since then | Southamp- 
ton and 3 Liverpool steamers have arrived here with mails from 
New York dated up to 17 Jan. I hope no snags have arisen to 
prevent publication. At all events, I expect to hear from you by 
the next steamer, the Cambria (out of Boston 21 Jan.), which is due 
here on Monday 2 Feb. 

My anticipations regarding the confiscation of Louis Philippe’s 
fortune and a Persigny Ministry© have been confirmed sooner 
than I could have hoped; given a reasonably well-organised 
service, news of it must have arrived in New York by way of the 
Liverpool newspapers at the same time as my letter; hardly was 
my letter in the post when the telegraphic dispatch about it 
likewise arrived here. So much the better. The thing’s going 
splendidly and there’s better still to come. 

Weerth is on his travels again, will be visiting Holland, France, 
Switzerland, etc., and must at this moment be in London. I have 
written and told Marx that he should again chivvy him a little 
about sending you a few things, although he will hardly have the 
peace and quiet to do so. When one has spent the whole day 
tramping round calling on Dutch Jews with samples of wool and 
linen yarn, one feels small inclination to spend the evening at the 
hotel in writing that sort of thing. However, if anything is to be 
extracted from him, Marx is the man to do it. 

The sudden lull in the émigrés’ tittle-tattle brought about by the 
new turn of events in France is truly comical. Not a whisper do I 
hear about the whole caboodle. 

The prisoners in Cologne are in a serious position. Since there is 

a F. Engels, ‘England’, I (see also this volume, pp. 15-19). - > F. Engels, ‘England’, 
Il. - *¢ See this volume, p. 17. 

no charge whatever against them, the Board of indicting 
magistrates has neither released them nor brought them before 
the Court of Assizes but—has referred the matter back to the first 
examining magistrate for a fresh investigation! In other words, 
they will remain provisionally in clink without books, without 
letters, without being able to communicate either with one another 
or with the outside world, until the new state tribunal is ready.* 
Just now we are trying to denounce this outrage in the English 
bourgeois Press.” 

M ds. 
any regards ee 

F. E. 

{On the back of the letter] 

Per Liverroo. Steamer Mr. J. Weydemeyer, 7 Chambers’ Street, 
New York (City)