New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-22

vep,;op in store They worked up the whole Of the
resorts they had made into original minute BOOK
Of the stngs of the secret supreme committee whose
existence was maintained by the Prussian police anu
Mr. steber finding that this book wondreusiy asreea
with the reports already received from the same par
ties at once laid II before the jury declaring upon h
oath that after serious examination and accoruhs ~
his fullest conviction that book was genuine II WIS
then that most Of the absuriities repo1ed Dy i'0
were made public. You may imagine the sufP''. u
the pretended members Of that secret cornnee
,ber tor,d thing. stated of them which they never
tneusbefore some who were baptized William were
be,e cb,;s,encd louis or Charles others at the time
thew wore at the other end of England were made 70
bsve ,,onounced speeches in London others were re-
o+ed N have read letters they never had received
thew were made 70 have met regularly on Inursosy'
when they used 70 have conv1viai reunion, once
week. ON Wednesdays; working-man, VINO couu
hardly write figured as one OF the takers Of ininu'e
and signed az SUCH and they all OF them were maze 70
snesk IN language which if il may be that OF
p,ussian polce stations certainly not that Of
r,nio, in which Literary men, favoraby known in their
country. formed the minority. and, 10 crown the
whole. receipt was forged for a sum OF money, pre-
tended 20 have been paid by the fabrcaors to the pre-
tended secretary Of the fictitious central committee Tor
rested merely upon a hoax that some malicious Com
munist had PLAYED upon the unfortunate iiirsch.
This clumsy fabrication too scsndaous an affair
not 70 produce tie contrary Of its intended effect Al
though the London friends of the defendants were de-
prived of all means to bring the facts Of the case be-
fore the jury-slthough the letters they sent TO the
counsel for the defense suppressed by the post
although the documents and afdavis they succeeded
in getting into the hands OF these legal gentlemen were
not admitted in evidence yet the general indignation
was such that even the public accusers, nay even Mr.
stcber-whose oath had been given a guarantee for
the authenticity Of that book-werc compelled TO re-
cognize it as forgery.
This forgery, however, not the only thing OF
the Kind Of which the police guilty. Two or three
more cases Of the sort came out during the trial The
documents stolen by Renter were intepolated by the
police so as to disgure their meaning paper, con
tanning some rubid nonsense, written in hand
writing initiating that of Dr. Marx and fora time twas
pretended that it had been written by him. until at last
the prosecution was obliged TO acknowledge the forgery
But for every police infny that was proved as such
there were five or six fresh osos brought forward
! which could NOT at the moment be unveiled the de-
Tense being taken by surprise the proofs having to be
cot from London, and every correspondence OF the
counsel for the defense with the London Communist
I
in the alleged plot
That Greif and Flcury arc what they are here re-
preentod 10 be has been stated by Mr. steber himself
in his evidence as to Hirsch, he has before London
magistrate confess ed that he forged the Minute Book
by order and with the assistance Of Fleury, and then
mode his escape from this country in order TO evade
criminal prosecution.
The Government could stand few such branding
disclosures as to light during the trial 1t had
jury such as the Rhenish Provinces had not yet secn
six nobles of the purest rescton' water four Lords
Of Finance two Government officials. These we're
net the to look closely into the confused mass of
evidence heaped before them during six weeks when
they heard it continually dinned into their ears that
the defendants were the chiefs Of dreadful Communist
conspiracy, cot up in order to subvcrt everything
autobiography, family religion, order, government
and lawl And YET, had not the Government, at the
came time broughtit TO the knowledge of the privileged
classes that acquital in this trial would be the
signal for the suppression Of the jury and that it would
be taken direct political ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS proof
Of the middle class liberal opposition being ready to
unite with the most extreme revolutionststhe
retroactive application Of the new Prussian code en-
ablsd the Government to have seven prisoners cor
victed while four merely were acquitted, and those
convicted were sentenced TO imprisonment varying
from three TO six years you have doubtless already
stated at the time the news reached you. KARL MARX