The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-23 00:00:00

TUB POLITICAL TRIALS AT COLOGNE.

This monster process drags along day after day,
with little prospect of an early termination. We
have already given an outline of the indictment. The
following is the evidence of the principal witness, M.
litieber, councillor of police at Berlin:
In the sprieg of 1861 I was sent to London, when the
Great Exhibition was to be opened, with a number of Frus-
tum police agents, to assist the English police in the work
of suretillanes. My mission to London had no political
object, the English government having invited each state to
send police agents over, on account of the great expected
Mau: of strangers of all nations. While I was occupied at
London the president of pollee at Berlin pent me word of
the arrest of the tailor Nothjuag, which was effected at
Leipsic on the 10th of May, with cocas of the papers found
at his residence. These papers established the fact that
Notlijung was the emissary of a very extensive political
conipireey, having Its seat for the moment at Cologne, but
the centre of which was in Loudon • and as I was in that
capital I was directed to institute an iniestigatiou an the spot.
My attention was particularly called to the archives of
the association, which, according to the papers found at
Nothjung's domicile, were in the keeping of a political
refugee, by birth a Nessovian, named Oswald Diet:, and
residing In London. I was told also that this man possessed
all the correspondence of the members of the society. Upon
receiving this information I bethought me of a man who
had waited on me soon after my arrival, spoken of the com-
munistic tendencies of the refugees in London, and offered
himself Pansy agent, an offer which I had declined, not being
then occupied with business requiring such services. I sent
one of my employes to this man with a message, and
received for answer that be could easily get me the
papers I wanted, as anything was to be had from the com-
munists for money. I returned from London via Paris to
Berlin, whither important baguets conneeted with my
once called me. Shortly afterwards—that is to say, on the
6th of August, I received the papers from London. They
formed a packet of about sixty original documents and letters.
I then saw what I had never before been able to belie ee—
namely, that there he/le:Mimi a long time, and indeed several
years before the year 18 ilk tliti network of a workmen's coulb
racy, having rantificaticeadleest Europe, and directed sys-
tematically from London, mai thatch* present revolutionary
party had the meet intimate impale relations with all parts
of Germany and France. Assess the papers thus obtained
will be remarked the statutes oftbs Communist Association,
dated London, December 8, 1817—resolutions of a congress
held in 1851, at London, settling the procedure to be ob-
served before, during, and after a revolution, which it had
been agreed to make in 1862 ; a proclamation by the central
authority, inten,ed fur the directing emirs, and des-
tined to be addressed to them in the spririr of 1852 ;
and three reports of the directing circle of Belgium, dated
Brussels Jan. 19, Feb. 18, and April 2, 1851. From these
documents it results, that at that epoch the association was
completely organised at Cologne, Berlia, Hanover, Bruns-
wick, Frankfort, Hamburg, Leipsie, Stuttgart, Brussels,
Vernier., Liege, Lyons, Marseilles, Geneva, St. Gall, Chau:
de Fond, Berne, Dijon, Strasbourg, Valenciennes Mete,
Basle, London, Algiers, New York, and Philadelphia. The
letters compromise about a hundred parsons as members of
the asaociation, but it is easy to see that there exists a very
large number of unknown adherents.
Clue of the most important results of these letters is, that,
wherever the association exists, its members have under
their influence workmen's anions, singing clubs, gymnastic
unions, and other apparently harmless societies. All the
localities wore in constant communication one with another,
and numerous manurial were continual) y moving to and
fro. The statutes of Dcc. 8, 1847, expressly state that the
association was founded in February, 1840.
During the examination of the chief of the Hano-
verian police it came out that the parties incrimi-
nated had been in the habit of sending their de-1
spatchee to and front London and Hanover by the
hands of the King of Hanover's courier, who was
in their confidence.