on the
other hand are subjected to the meddlesome and domineering
interference of policemen, lends some interest to the case of Miss
Cass in London, one of the victims of police brutality, which has
excited an inquiry and comment in Parliament, and is likely to result
in the punishment of the policeman. The New York _Sun_ says:

"The case of Miss Cass, who was arrested in Regent Street as a
disreputable character, has started in the _Pall Mall Gazette_ a
discussion of the annoyances to which decent women are subjected
in the streets of London. It will be remembered that she was a
respectable girl recently arrived in London, where she had
obtained employment in a milliner's shop, and that while waiting
in Regent Street early in the evening she was arrested by a
policeman, who insisted in regarding her as a professional
street-walker, as which, also, she was held by a magistrate, who
refused, to listen to her denials and explanations.

"Many women have accordingly written to the _Pall Mall Gazette_
to ask why, if a woman is liable to arrest on the mere suspicion
of having addressed a man, men are allowed to annoy and insult
women in the London streets with perfect impunity. The testimony
of them all is that, even in the daytime, a lady with any claims
to good looks, and who walks alone, is always liable to such
treatment, no matter how modest her apparel and reserved her
demeanor. It is not merely of insolent and persistent staring
that they complain, for they have grown to expect that as a
matter of course; but they are actually spoken to by men who are
strangers to them, in the most insinuating and offensively
flattering terms. These men are commonly described as
'gentlemen' in appearance; 'a tall, distinguished,
military-looking man;' 'a youthful diplomat;' 'a government
official, a man holding a lucrative appointment,' and the like.
They are not roughs; from them ladies have nothing of the sort
to fear; but men who think to have the greater success and to
enjoy the complete immunity because they wear the garb of
gentlemen.

"Rev. Mr. Haweis writes that 'you might easily fill the _Pall
Mall Gazette_ with nothing else for months, for we have come to
such a pass as this, that a young girl cannot stand aside at a
railway station while papa takes tickets, nor a girl lead her
blind rel