The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-16 00:00:00

The New Irish Commander-in-Chief.

Sir William Mansfield, who has just returned from
India, and who is now about to succeed Lord Strath-
nairn as Commander-in-Chief of the IriSh Forces,
is described as having on his face or figure
little sign of the mental and bodily work against
which he has had to contend for a term of twelve
years in India. The Army and Navy Gazette says
he is still apparently " full of fight," and referring to
his speech at the Literary Fund dinner,
asserts that any one who had heard- him
would have been aware that he was listening to a
man of thought, and of decision. It appears that
Captain the Hon. W. Harbord would have probably
accompanied Sir W. Mansfield to Ireland, but that
the Horse Guards insisted on the observance of the
five years' rule, and on his going back to his regi-
ment for two years more.
The Army and Navy.

The Army and Navy Gazette understands that it
is not improbable that Colonel W. L. Ingall, C. 8.,
62nd Regiment, and Colonel P. W. MacMahon, 36th
Regiment, will be appointed permanently to the Staff
of the Bengal Army whenever vacancies may occur.
—The same paper has the following items:—
A distinguished-service pension is vacant by
the death of Colonel W. Fenwick, 10th Foot.—
Admiral Warren will retain his present command
at the Nore until June.—Captain Cowper
Phipps Coles, C. 8., has embarked in the Captain.
The gallant officer is in a very weak
state of health, but it is expected that
the short cruise will be of benefit to 'him.—
Lieutenant-Colonel F. Middleton has been appointed
superintendent of the new garrison instructors. He
will have the rank and pay of assistant quarter-
master-general.—Sir R. Airey will in all likelihood
succeed Lord Paulet as adjutant-general at the
Horse Guards.—Her Majesty's birthday will be
celebrated in Malta on May 30.—The United Service
Gazette says that Colonel P. W. Macmahon, C. 8.,
commanding the 36th Foot, and Colonel W.
Lenox Ingall, C. 8.,. commanding the 62nd Regiment,
have been appointed to the Brigade Staff in India,
with the rank of Brigadier-Generals; and that a
good service pension has been conferred on Inspector-
General of Hospitals William Mackenzie, C. 8.,
C. 5.1., A.M., and M.D., of the Indian Medical
Department, Madras.
Miss Wedgwood on Woman's Suffrage.
Miss Wedgwood defends the bill for giving women
votes. In a letter to the Spectator she sets forth
that the only object involved in the bill now before
Parliament is, that exceptional women should be ad-
mitted to share in the rights and responsibilities of
average men. Those who perform a man's work ought
to have a man's privileges whatever they may be.
It has been said that the bill endeavours to " esta-
blish a new and invidious disqualification in the case
of married women as against their unmarried sisters."
This Miss Wedgwood thinks utterly irrelevant. It
is true that the measure does not attempt to remedy
all the disadvantages under which women at present
stand. "Its very object being to do away with the dis-
qualifications of sex, it does not re-introduce enact-
ments founded on sex. It merely says, give human
beings who have similar burdens similar advantages.
When married women can hold their own property,
they will, of course, enter on all the rights
and all the duties of property ; the measure
now before the House clears the way for
such a step, by proposing that the full rights of pro-
perty shall be common to women as women. No
doubt the wife who supports her family by her own
earnings would be a character still more exceptional
than the spinster who kept her own house. She
would also need in a yet higher degree the pro-
tection and respect which it would be one important
result of this bill to confer on poor women."