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with a revenue of £2,100,000. It
reach even that, for one of the many
which the country has to struggle is
emigration, which year by year empties the islands
their most energetic children, end which any
heavy taxation would be certain to increase. Oat
of this sum she will have to pay the interest on a
debt of £10,000,000, leaving her less than
£1,300,000 foe court, army, navy, ceionies, ard in-
ternal administration. We may imagine in these
days of ironclads the sort of fleet she would be able
to maintain out of the balance remaining. But
Denmark, argue the men, who in weariness of the
temporary paralysis of Great Britain are think-
leg that they approve of Mr. Cobden's opinioto,
may live without fleet and army. She may, but it
will be a life without a future, for she is not, be it
remembered, under the European geareutee. In-
deed if she ware it would be worthlees, for the Five
Powers were s)iemnly pledqect. to maintain the in-
tegrity arid independence ef D.-nniar:T, end broke
the pledge because it was inconvenient. Tee Ger-
man stream flows ceaselessly into Jutland, the
traders in Zealand are German, the Court is purely
German, and once the Duchies ere gone the rest
of the monarchy can be absorbed whenever a Prus-
sian Premier desires to stave off an unpleasant in•
ternel reform. Sestitzn.iand exists with a separate
life without either fleet or army, but that there
even steel boils "at a pound a piece" are wasted on
mountain sides. Denmark may avoid incessant
compulsion by entering the Confederation, but
then she becomes a Scandinavian province ; or
by accepting a Russian Protectorate, but then she
becomes a Russian satrapy—in any case, even the
mosgavouraele, " there is an end of an auld sang,"
as good Lord Belhaven said,
Denmark as a
member of the European family is dead,
and the only subject for speculation is the
manner and time of her burial. In other
words, England rather than risk her commercial
prosperity, or risk a cessation of harmony between
the
st a Court
people, has suffered a free Pro-
n m a
raint
idmteh e
Stateto be swept from the map
by a great despotic semi-Catholic Power. Tt.ere
t e
are but two more such States in the world,
Rola
land and Sweden, and either may new be attacked
on the same pretexts, and with the same certainty
of success. That policy may be wise, it is waste of
time to argue in England when all the political
leaders are on one side, but at least let us acknow-
ledge to ourselves and the world its visible results.
THE " EXAMINER" ON A QUESTIONABLE CON-,
VICTION.—We have always contended for the severe
punishment of outrages against women, but in pro-
portion of the severity of punishment should be
the care and circumspection in coming to the con-
clusion of guilt. The charge of Miss Moody is fresh
in public recollection. She accused a middle-aged
man, named Nash, of having indecently assaulted
her in a carriage of the South... Western Company,
and she risked her life to escape from the man's
advances, real or imagined, for she got out upon the
ledge which runs along the side of the train, and
would probably have fallen and been killed but for
the brave exertions of a passenger, Mr. Stokes, of
Coventry street, who supported her when she
had lost the power of making any effort for
her self-preservation. A woman would never have
put herself in this terrible position of peril without
cause, real or fanciful, and there could not be a
doubt about Miss Moody's impression that she was
in danger of insult or worse; but the question was
whether that impression was warranted by facts,
or whether it was merely fanciful. The affair hap-
pened in the middle of the day in a train stopping
frequently. The circumstances of alarm are thus
stated by the prosecutrix:—
" The defendant then questioned her as to how old she
was, but she did not answer the inquiry. The defendant
then laid himself full length on the seat opposite to her,
and there remained staring her full in the face. The prose-
cutrix then stated that she began to feel nervous and rose
from her seat to open the window of the carriage with a
view to get out, the train at that moment having scarcely
got into motion. The defendant said, "do not get out," and
she closed the door and resumed her seat. The defendant
wanted to close the window, but she objected, and stood up
to prevent his doing so. While she was making the attempt
to open the window she felt the defendant's band upon her
shoulder. She moved, as if annoyed, and immediately after-
wards she felt his arm round her waist. She moved again,
and he then put his arm quite round her waist, and then
she felt her dress quietly raised in front. She then turned
round, and, taking up her parasol and bag, opened the
carriage door and got out upon the ledge that runs from one
carriage to another.
It is remarkable that in such a moment of terror Miss
Moody thought more of her parasol and bag than of her
own personal safety. She carefully secured those articles
before she risked her life for her honour. The progress of
nervous alarm is clearly traceable in the above evidence.
Nash, probably a rude man, stared his fellow-passenger in
the face, which made her feel nervous, and she rose to leave
the carriage, which he, possibly repenting of his bad man-
ners, begged her not to do. There was next a little struggle
about the window, and it is very conceivable that the man,
seeing that she wanted the window open because of her
fear of him, might have, prevented her opening it without
any bad design, and merely not to let her have her way in
her suspicions of him. As for laying the hand on the
shoulder and the waist, there are classes with whom these
acts are not considered as necessarily liberties, and though
Miss Moody was not one of these free-and-easy classes the
man Nash might be, she therefore may have thought much. of what he, of coarse habits, thought little. But the next
is the material point. Miss Moody felt her dress quietly
raised, but what was there to connect Nash with the motion
of the dress? Absolutely nothing. Who travels by rail or
omnibus without seeing crinolines lifted without hands ? It
is a dress of self-exposure. Any unequal pressure deranges
it, and in Miss Moody's struggle for the window she may un-
consciously have given the motion to her dress which the,
with a foregone conclusion in mind, attributed to Nash. She
was in the state of excitement in which there is little attention
to cause and effect. For having put the'girl in that fright
Nash deserved some punishment, but hardly the sentence
dealt out to him, ruinous to a man in his condition. And.
whatever view may be taken of the case, the verdict is
absurd and unjust; for it convicts the man of a common
assault, and not of the indecent attempt charged in the first
count of the indictment. Now clearly if there was no in-.
decent assault the man was guiltless altogether. There was
indecent assault, or no assault whatever. To what insig-
nificance, indeed, is the case reduced if stripped of all the
alleged circumstances of indecency. Let the crinoline be
underanged, and the facts of the common assault would be
laying a hand on the shoulder and waist—assaults com-
mitted in every ball-room, The acts were freedoms unper-
missible, undoubtedly, but the jury did not regard them as
indecent liberties; and considered merely as freedoms, and
vulgar freedoms, they did not amount to assault in any
sense of the word. But for this Nash is sentenced to im-
prisonment with hard labour for nine months I If the man
was guilty of the indecency charged, he deserved four times
that measure of punishment; but if alr that part of the
charge against him was false or fanciful, a ninth part of the
punishment assigned would be sufficient for an offence more
of bad manners than morals. The truth seems to be that
the Court was perplexed, and made one of the bad compro-
mises frequent in doubtful cases. The jury could not find
grounds for conviction on the serious charge, nor wore they
disposed to acquit altogether; so, as they could not find
indecency, they found assault in acts not of the character
of assault rather than let the prisoner escape altogether.
This is not justice, and we think the case deserves the at-
tention of the Home Office.

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shoot, A large portion of the earth is carted to the
river from the excavations now going on for the
Finsbury extension of the Metropolitan Railway
from Farringdon-street. The inner circle railway
will be constructed on the inner side of the embank-
ment, and not within the embankment itself, which
will have quite sufficient to carry the Lew Level
Sewer and the subway. When completed, with
the extension of New Earl-street, the Thames Em-
bankment will form a noble thoroughfare, not sur-
passed by any in Europe, having St. Paul's at one
end and Westminster Abbey and the Houses of
Parliament at the other.—Observer.

THE LONDON REVIEW ox MExtco.—The Emperor and
Empress of Mexico have entered their capital, and have
met with a right imperial welcome. Whatever may be the
origin of the new throne, there seems every reason to believe
that it offers to the country the prospect of a stable and
regular Government. All classes of the people seem rally-
ing around it; and, although the authority of the new
monarch is now actually established in large portions of his
dominions, there is no doubt that he will be as readily
welcomed there, as he has been elsewhere, as soon as the
marauding bands of Juarez are dispersed. Such, indeed,
is the confidence of the Emperor Maximilian and his Minis-
ters in their ability to accomplish the speedy pacification of
the country, that ,the last of the French troops are on thek
point of leaving. Under these circumstances nut acknow
ledgment of the new empire ought not to be long delay ed.
We have none but the best wiehers for its prosperity ; since
anything which tends to develops the recourcea and in-
crease the commerce of Mexico must redound to our ad-
vantage. It has long been clear that the Mexicans were
wholly unfit for republican institutions. We have acknow-
ledged President after President, only to see the conqueror
of to-day become the conqueror of to-morrow. Probably
few of the military chiefe,who have successively seized the
reigns of government during the last few
years, exercised
anything like substantial authority over a more extensive
tract of country than now owns the sway of the Em eror
one
Maximilian. There is certainly no
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arms against him
with the slightest chance of success.

THE HIGHEST 11101INTAIN IN BRITAIN.--A new
measurement of Ben Maedhui and the other moun-
tains of the Cairngorm group, has just been made by the
Royal Engineers presently engaged upon that part of the
Ordnance Survey of Scotland. Ben Macdhui, which was
formerly supposed to be 4,390 feet in height, is now sot
down at nearly 100 feet less than that—viz., 4,296. Some
years since Ben Macdhui was supposed to be 17
feet higher
than Ben Nevis, the height of which was then put down at
4,373. Ben Macdhui was therefcre at that time authorita-
tively stated to be the highest mountain in Britain. Since
then, however, the tables have taken a turn, and Ben Nevis
would now appear to be by far the highest of the two. The
Ordnance survey of Ben Nevis, so far as we are aware, has
not yet been made, but taking its height at the old measure-
raent of 4,373 feet, and Ben Macdhui at its newly ascer-
tained height—viz., 4,296 feet, Ben Nevis appears by this
calculation to be 77 feet higher than the highest of the
Grampian range. The difference is still greater in favour
of Ben Nevis .f we accept its height as being 4,40 G, as
marked in a map lately published by Messrs Chambers in
Milner's "Gallery of Geography. Braeraich is .set dowrL
in the new survey at 4,243, Cairtoul, which was formerly
believed to be 4,245 feet in height, is now taken down five
feet, and made 4,240. The height of 13enabourd is fixed at
3,923 feet.-4/gin Colgan t.