Professor Max Muller has written a second letter to the
Times on the German policy, and the Last letter of that man is worse than the first. Its chief point was a demonstration that Mr. Hall, the Danish Minister who carried the common Constitution for Schleswig and Denmark in November, himself believed it to be equivalent to an incorporation with Denmark, and the Professor quotes in proof two passages, which every one who read them sup- posed to be taken from Mr. Hall's speeches or despatches concerning the November Constitution. His opponent, however, "H. T.," has shown that the passage quoted was from a despatch of Mr. Hall's dated a year before the November Constitution was thought of, viz., November 6, 1862, and was contained in an historical statement of what hid been lawful for Denmark before the agree- ments of 1851-2. " H. T." quotes from Mr. Hall's speeches last November, to prove his sincere belief that this November Consti- tution was not an incorporation at all, in the sense of those agree- ments, whereas Mr. Max Muller had adduced him as a witness that it was. It is not easy to conceive a greater failure of candour, to use the mildest term which will describe this manipulation of evidence.
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