The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-23 00:00:00

YR. JODY STVART KILL AND WO.V6NS
SUFFRAGE.

Mr. Mill hue writtten the following lotto- in
reply to one from M. Priscilla IPI-eren, the President
resident
die Edinburgh Branch of the National Society lo
Women's Suffrage:
" Avignon. Dec. 12, IsM.
'• Dear Madam,—Few things could be more gratifying
to me than 1t... letter with which I have been honoured
by you and y. ur committee, and I beg you to accept
and to convey to the committee my warmest acknowlolge
merits. Of all my rceol!ections connected with the House
of Commons. than of my having had the honour of being
tie f.,:t to make the claim of women to the suffrage
a parliamentary question is the most gratifying, as I
believe it to have been the most important public acre
sire that dresimstanees made it in my power to render.
lhia is now a thing accomplished• and the ranee has a
suftieient number of supporters among the hest me
in the Home of Commons to sorry on as much of
the contest as can be conducted there. It rennin.;
for the intelligent women of the country to give their
moral support to the men who are engaged in urging
their claims. and to open the minds of the less intelligent
to the fact that political freedom is the only effectual re-
medy foe the evils which most women are conscious aAt
women suffer. Whatever power I may have to promote
this cause outside the House of Commons I shall not fail
to exert to the utmost. Your mpreseion of sympathy
with my feelings, and approbation of my conduct on the
subject of the Jamaica atrocities. are pculiarly
grateful to me, for it has been with rape .111
sorrow that I Lave seen ro many women cold
and unmoved at the recital of suffering. which
at might have been supposed would at least
have aroused some womanly pity and generous indig-
nation against the perpetrators. ft i, peculiarly among
women, who are not aware that it is their duty to use
their intelligence on matters of politics, that the severest
condemnation of Mr. Eyre and hie Instruments should
have been found; for if such women had premised the
warmth of heart which all women ought to have, their
feelings would have revolted at the torturer indicted,
and they would have considered the ' by which
these were attempted to be palliated as bey their pro-
vince. As it is, the conduct of so many among them has
afforded one more evidence that the renunetation of mass
cuhno intelligemeo gives no sociality for womanly kinduess.
I am, dear madam, very sincerely yours, .

•
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'•I. S. Mitt.
"Mn. ll'Laren, Newington House, Ediuburgd

Till FEMALE SCHOOL OF ART.—The drawings
of the students belonging to the Female School of Art
for the year 1887-8 were exhibited at their gall ea 7 in
Oueen-square. Bloomsbury, yesterday. Some idea of the
undulates of the institution may be gathered from the
circumstance that 80 Andante sent up works for inspec-
tion to the annual exhibition at South Kensington this
year, of whom 14 obtained prizes, while the drawings of
eight were selected for the national exhibition. Of the
latter two obtained national Queen's prises, and one a
national bronze medal. The Queen's gold medal was
awarded, specially in the department of applied design,
to Sarah MMiregor, fur designs in lace and church decora-
tions. The drawings by due student were submitted to
the Queen's inspection, who purchased a study of flowers
as a mark of approbation. Alice Militia Manly, late pupil
teacher iu the school, who last year cerried off the Query
medal, has been admitted • student of the llopilAcedinny.
There ate now four free students in the school, two of
whom are also pupil teachers receiving allowanoes. These
fne studentships are nut limited in number. bid are ob-
tainable by all who have paid the full school fees for two
consecutive Fours*, and taken a certificate of the third
grade. Amongst the works conspicuous for their
merit were studies from life by Julia Pooock (who
obtained the first and second vacation prize), and similar
subjects by Alice E. Manly and Jane Sabine. In flower
painting comaiderehle proficiency is displayed by Emma
Newsom, Alice Htawebe Ellis, Alice Lucke, and Maria
Jacobs, all of whose have contributed favourable speed.
mess et their blest in this peculiar branch of art. In the
elesmastary seelient_Hrelli Austin, Mary Ann Holdback,
Elbahsth Loma, Illeashe M'Arthur, and Kate Mosby
exhibit &whip of mush samik brimages shading from
the cost sad the flat. The inhibition was visited throngs.
out the an, by a peat. amber et peresos. who appeared
to Mho muds Melrose la the perms nimble the_parpils.
LORD MALMEII3I7Rff ON THE WOIRTWO
At a banquet Peen at Christchurch, es Monday evening,
to Sir R. D. W the dedsalsil emmerative candidab,
the Teri of the toast ot the work-
ing men of Magland. csbe bag bow a
party, as am of WA Mikwisae rissessed, LlitiaVt
sad it wait Priartz at trey last eleelaidlreltirelra
rasa of Christchurch exercised that privilege. His
end Woman 'Doddered the great and -important
relorm whoa
11/M4, Lord Darby brouAt
a WO for the reads of the ropraerataties of
cZiiThat bill failed,
_se l
padid three or four others
in by other isarties, could bemuse they
sot agree as to the precise amount at which the fram-
able *odd be given. It soon awned to him to be fast
appsegeiiag a perfect fares when there was so much
qu se to a W., 81., 7!., 61., 81., and even a 4/.
metal er realm. (Hear, hear.) The Haan. Bill of 1033
fixed a positive lbe--101.--and by this mesas the middle
dams% The WOO Mae
of thepfivigeleltheldriPfraalhise.eamisdihe quibbling,
=tom W. dews to M. In later times booms so
becievenleit that It was felt no such test should
be bid down, and that the humble" should be at owes
given to all who paid the rates, and therefore had
some interest fn the taxation and in the conduct
of the affairs of this mushy. Thum It was that the
conservative
.goveroksoct for the brat time proposed
and carried household suffrage. When he
.4 The Working Men of litoglard," and he maw of
them were in that room, he congratulated fhb as If he
were their godfather,and had given them what aid
not poems before ; tad it was with the greatest
lion that he sew them before hlm, sot as men bilks!
oleo the dames above them, Doi cat to the laws et the
uty, but showing by their ronduet that they were
ready to support those laws, and would meddle will them
oily] to improve them. (Clasen.)
WAREHAM R41107T0N.-43LORN OF TII3
Dralt (C), 871 ; Cabral (L), 303.
Tint HRIIICOUITATION • off NOITINGUAIL—
Colonel Wright, _ eopervitho member for Nolelneham,
hewen to Do local moire dada, that it Is his loten-
to tulip his wet abbey secoust of 111-heeith.