The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-19 00:00:00

THE TREATY OF PRAGUE.

The North Eastern Correspondence says that next week
the Crown Prince of Prussia, who is suffering from the
preliminary symptoms of disease of the liver, will go to
Carlsbad to take the waters there. It is supposed that
this visit to a Bohemian watering-place so early in the
season is also connected with a political motive, as
the question of North Sleswick has again been revived,
and Uonnt Bismarck's organ, the Nord Deutsche Allge•
mane Zeitung, says that Austria is the only power which
has the right to demand the execution of the fifth article
of the Treaty of Prague. It is certain, adds the Corres-
pondence, that the Crown Prince will be visited while
at Carlsbad either by the Emperor himself or by one
of his brothers, and it is more than probable that tho
question of North Sleswick will be touched upon durin(
this visit.

LADY HAMILTON'S FIGHT WITH THE
QUEEN OF NAPLES.

Sir Nathanial Wraxall, the most incurable gossip and
the writer of some most interesting memoirs, found his
way to Naples when prowling from Court to Court, and
gives a very graphic description of the strange Court. He
describes Sir William as a tall meagre man ; very dark,
and with an aquiline nose. He was indefatigable in
vigorous sporting—up all • night at balls, yet the next
day away hunting and shooting with the King, har-
pooning fish in the rivers, and yet past sixty years of
age. The partiality of the Queen for his wife increased
every day. They affected the liking of sisters, dressed
in the same colours, slept in the same room. She had
the right of entree at any hour, and without announce.
ment. It was scarcely wonderful that the jealousy of the
court ladies should have been aroused, or that they
should have at last worked up the Queen to resent her too
arrogant exercise of such privileges. One day the visitor
was stopped at the door by one of the Royal pages, and
informed that her Majessy was engaged. An extraordinary
scene was said to have taken place; and not an impro-
bable one, considering the character of these two women.
Lady Hamilton forced her way in and began to re-
reproach the Queen for this affront. The other, indig-
nant, burst into fury. Billingsgate could hardly supply
the terms which the two ladies showered on each other.
The whole culminated in a blow from the Queen, promptly
returned by the ambassadress, who had not forgotten her
training at the tavern. The King was present, and
roared at a scene so congenial to his tastes. Strange
to say, it ended in a renewed and firmer intimacy.—
Belgravia.

ANOTHER LADY ON THE RIGHTS OF HER
SEX.

The number of ladies who are advocating the cause of
woman's rights in person is increasing. Miss Tay lour, of
Belmont, Stranraer, has lectured on woman's suffrage at
Dundee. She argued that the forefathers of the British
race were not so unjust as the present generation, for
there was evidence that when Parliament was first con-
stituted sex formed no barrier to the exercise of the
franchise. In the reign of James I. an opposition was
first started, but it was overruled by judicial decree.
The Puritans renewed the opposition in Charles I.'s
reign, and were unsuccessful, but attained their wish
during the Commonwealth. But it was in 1832
that the first law was passed which directly excluded
women from the franchise. How long would the justice-
loving men of Scotland permit so glaring a wrong to
remain unrepaired ? They desired the suffrage because while
it was withheld from them their minds would be embit-
tered by a sense of wrong; in a word, they wanted justice,
and the refusal of it came to be the more wrong as they
considered the second reason—viz. that, as it was another
fundamental principle of their constitution that taxation
could only be levied by a Parliament elected by taxpayers.
they held it as unconstitutional as it was unjust to impose
the burden upon women, while withholding the privilege of
voting. To be consistent they would have to allow that
if sex remitted the right to vote it also remitted the right
to bear the burden. Her third reason was furnished by
the consideration that as vast numbers of women wort
in the present day forced to be self-supporting, it was
not only unjust but cruel in the extreme to lay upon them
an unnecessary disqualification. It had been found that,
when the last census was taken, three and a half
millions of women were returned as earning their
hood, and of those two and a half millions were returned
as single women. Was there, therefore, not
most pressing reason that women should have fah
play in the battle of life? and did not the cry for justiot
and consideration become the more urgent because it
came from what was termed the weaker sex ? It had heel
said to the recent agitators for reform that they were
in a sense represented in Parliament ; but that did not
satisfy them, nor would it prove satisfactcry to those who
demanded the enfranchisement of women householders ;
for, with the reformers, they shared the conviction that to '
secure fair representation they must also have direct
representation. One wrong which women had had to
to submit to silently for generations was their being kept
back from just participation in educational endowments,
which were in almost every instance, devoted to boys,
whereas they had, in the first instance, been intended foi
education generally. As an example of this, Miss Taylour
mentioned the case of Christ's Hospital, where 1,100 boys
monopolised the institution, while only twenty-five girls
were admitted.