Manchester, 20 March 1857 
Dear Marx, 

It had already occurred to me that you might once again be in 
something of a hole. Whatever can be done by me, will be done. If 
at all possible I’ll send you another five-pound note next week or, 
if I can’t get hold of one, a Post Office order. In the latter case, be 
sure to let me know at what posr orrice I should make it payable. 
I’ve had very heavy debts to pay this month, with people tracking 
me down to the office, so that there was no option but to stump 
up. Otherwise you’d have had the five pounds straight away. It’s 
lucky, by the way, that this parliament business has begun, with 
China thrown in for good measure '*: at this juncture the Tribune 
will need help again and will be forced to come to TERMS. 

I’ve been sounding the Guardian chap about the possibility of 
making contact with reviews and macazines up here. But this chap, 
too, seems to be hunting round in the hope of fixing up 
something for himself and there’s not much to be got out of him. 
However, I shall see. Since he knows my opinion of Palmerston 
and declares it to be prerosrerous he is all the less likely to give us a 
recommendation in politicis.* All the same, I have a certain HOLD on 
THE FELLOW but as yet haven’t devised any way of exploiting it. 

I share your view of Palmerston’s intentions and prospects in 
the new parliament. Bonapartist despotism wielded by Pam 
together with a Corps législatif. '?* We shall see what that leads to. 

According to the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung? the Circassians 
(which, not specified) have actually appointed Bangya ‘head of the 
house’; he was selected for this snug berth precisely because he is 
a foreigner, so that none of the native chiefs could complain of 
having been slighted. What has become of Sefer Pasha (a man of 
quite a different stamp to Koscielski) is far from clear. I regard 
the whole thing as a stroke of genius on the part of the Russians, 
and we shall probably hear no more of the 300 Polish Spartans. '*° 

The Nord must have changed its mind again. The Guardian’ 
Brussels correspondent quotes passages that are violently anti- 

a as far as politics are concerned - > ‘Pera. 20 Febr.’, Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 63, 4 
March 1857.