... Women's Suffrage Birmingham.—Five hundred fifty-seven women ratepayers have sent in their claims vote in the election of members for the borough of Birmingham, viz., 133 from the parish of 173 from the parish of Aston, and from the parish of Birmingham ...

... Lydia Becker, the secretary of the Man- chester National Society for Women’s Suffrage, announces that the “society is satisfied that under the ‘ Representa- tion of the People Act,’ all women who have paid their rates in conformity with its provisions are ...

... franchise because they were women. When it was remembered that in one of the Australian Colonies the franchise was given to women, and with good results —when it was remembered that women might fill parochial offices, that women could and did vote in parocnial ...

... declared that he had, and would swear it, though nothing could be further from the truth. The National Society for Women's Suffrage held a meeting on Saturdayat the Architectural Society's rooms in Conduit-street. There was a numerous attendance of ...

... little about tiie ways of men, and less about the ways women. His notions and ideas are very suitable for the world as it ought to be, but not for the world as it it. If the majority of men and women were wise and good. Mr. Mill would make an admirable ...

... factories; but this does not render the suffrage less desirable for them, nor their claim to it less irresistible, when not likely make bad use it. Nobody pretends to think that women would make bad use of the suffrage. The worst that is said is, that they ...

... having responded, the meeting shortly afterwards separated. Woman Suffrage.— Lady Clifton, wife of Sir Robert Juckes Clifton, of Clifton Hall, has just written the following address to the women of Nottingham: (( Ladies—Cherishing a lively sense of gratitude ...

... capacity legal attainments whose career temper and crotchettiness have marred—has dmitted the claim of women to enrolment but in several ases the of women put on by the Overseers and not objeeted to have been re On the other hand, one tained upon the lists ...

... monopolised pertons of the rowdy class. Every American, high aud low, rich and poor, clings obstinately to his sacred right of suffrage; the exception is very rare. Occasionally I meet with an indifferent person, on. in whose veins the Goddess of Liberty has ...

... introduced in a BiU. which the Government should stand or fall. The Standard now advocates a bold policy. Household suffrage, with certain limitations, but to include- all the settled and respectable householders, is the only possible basis of ...

... to say in the prelude that the women of the Eastern Counties still surpass all other races in these isles in rich and delicate beauty; doubtless, if he spoke out all he thought, would go on to say, as the women of Cambridge surpass in this respect ...

... to women. He said he did not claim the vote for women a- an abstract right, but his argument was entirely one of expediency and justice. It was a doctrine of the British constitution that taxation and representation should co-exist, and many women paid ...