The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-09 00:00:00

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FEMALE SUFFRAGE.

THE judgment of the Court of Common Pleas
on the Female Suffrage Question will probably
not surprise Miss BECKER and her oo-
appellants. Nor can we undertake to affirm
that it will displease or disappoint the great
majority of Miss BEcrea's countrywomen, who,
there is reason to believe, are tolerably con-
tent with things as they are. No doubt
it is permissible to the female candidates for
the suffrage to consider themselves the elite of
their sex in philosophical enlightenment and poli-
tical capacity, and in some sense as martyrs and
sufferers in the cause of electoral emancipation.
Without being guilty of the discourtesy of
paying such eminent " persona " idle com-
pliments, it is sufficient to read the names of
the leaders of this movement to aclmowledge
that whatever authority can be lent to a ffis-
puted claim by the character and intelligence of
its supporters was here in Court. On the other
hand, the ladies who have so gallantly asserted
the rights of their sex would scarcely deny
that they represent a minority as con-
spicuous by its weakness in point of numbers
as by its strength of intellect and will.
It would, perhaps, be not too rash to avow that
eight-tenths of the single women in Great Britain
and nine-tenths of the married women take a very
topid interest in the question which was decided
by the Court of Common Pleas this morning,
and will scarcely be conscious of a senti-
ment of resignation when they are told that
the British spinster is not held to be " a man " in
a political sense. Whether the long non user of the
electoral franchise has deadened the consciousness

of injustice and the desire of redress in the great
body of our countrywomen, or whether most
Englishwomen are devoid of political ambition or
sufficiently absorbed in domestic duties, or
satisfied to leave the work of legislation
in rougher hands, we cannot refuse to the
appellanta in the Common Pleas the same sort of
glory which belongs to the three hundred
at Thermopylae, and still more, to the six
hundred who rode down the valley of Balaclava.
According to the able and ingenious argument of
the learned counsel for the appellants it would
appear that in the ages of chivalry Englishwomen
were justified in exclaiming, Homo sum, nihil
humani a me etienum puto ; or, in other words,
'' I dare do all that doth become a man ;" whether
it were the work of a gravedigger, a returning
officer, a churchwarden, a constable, or a king.
Mr. Mut-tad, it is true, excepts women from the
general summons to " suitors as well as others"
to attend the elections for knighta of the shire in
full county court. But Mr. COLIMIDGE con-
tended on Saturday that women were
simply excused attending county elections
unless specially summoned if they wished
not to go there—a reservation which, even in
this advanced age, should reduce the number
of female electors within very moderate limits.
The learned counsel for the ladies cited
indentures of the time of 111111 Y IV. and
liarritY V. returning members to Parliament, and
signed in one case by the attorney for a lady and