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

MR. MILL ON WOMEN SUFFRAGE.

Mr. Mill seems to be occupying his time at Avignor.
with writing letters. There is now another from him in
answer to a woman's letter of condolence on his defeat,
The Women's Suffrage Committee of Edinburgh pre-
pared the letter. In reply Mr. Mill says :
"Of all my recollections connected with the House of
Commons, that of my having had the honour of being
the first 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 ser-
vice that circumstances made it in my power to render.
This is now a thing accomplished, and the cause has a
sufficient number of supporters among the best men
in the House of Commons to carry on as much of
the contest as can be conducted there. It remains
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
remedy for the evils which most women are conscious that
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 expression of sympathy with my feelings, and
approbation of my conduct on the subject of the Jamaica
atrocities are peculiarly grateful to me, for it has
been with especial sorrow that I have seen so many
women cold and unmoved at the recital of sufferings
which it might have been supposed would at least have
aroused some womanly pity and generous indignation
against the perpetrators. It is peculiarly among women,
who are not aware VI:It it is their duty to use theirintel
ligence on matters of politics, that the severest condemna-
tion of Mr. Eyre and his instruments should have been
found ; for if such women had possessed the warmth of
heart which all women ought to have, their feelings
would have been revolted at the tortures inflicted, and
they would have considered the reasonings by which these
were attempted to be palliated as beyond their province.
As it is, the conduct of so many among them has
afforded one more evidence that the renunciation of
masculine intelligence gives no security for womanly
kindness."

A marriage is arranged between Lord Colchester
and the Hon Isabella Grace Maude, eldest daughter of Vis-
count Hawarden.

The Bourse Gazette of St. Petersburg gives cur-
rency to a report that in case a rupture between Turkey
and Greece the troops in the circumscription of Odessa
would be placed on a war footing.

It is proposed to erect a memorial of the late Rev.
Dr. Cooke. A meeting with this object in view was held in
Belfast on Saturday, and a committee was appointed to
consider the matter.

With rsspect to the strictures passed by a morning
contemporary on Sir Henry Bulwer for bringing forward the
ballot, it may be mentioned that Mr. Berkeley, coincides with
Sir Henry's notice, and that the latter in no way interferes
with his taking the lead upon the question.
At a sheriff criminal Court, held in Glasgow about
a fortnight back, a juryman was discovered to have left the
box at the finish of a trial, and notwithstanding that every
search was made he could not be found. He has since been
apprehended, and fined ~£5 for his freak.

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From a despatch received by the Customs authori-
ties at Liverpool, it appears that the cattle plague is in-
creasing in Hungary and Transylvania, and the authorities
are instructed to exercise the greatest vigilance in the
examination of cattle from that part of Europe.

The Rectory of Bramwell, near Doncaster,
has fallen to the gift of Lord Dufferin, the new Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster, in consequence of the death
of the Rev. F. Maynatd, M.A. It is worth about £520 a

year.
The Right Rev. Dr. Moriarty, Roman Catholic
Bishop, has barely escaped a serious accident at Killarney.
lie was leaning upon the hand-railing of a rustic bridge
spanning the river Dinagh when it gave way, and he was
only saved from falling by Lord Castlerosse seizing him by
the arm.

With regard to the vacancy in South Derbyshire,
no active steps have yet been taken by either of the great
political parties ; but it is currently reported that Mr. W. F.
Cox, formerly the Conservative member for Derby, but
who was defeated at the last election by Mr. S. Plimsoll,
will do battle for his party. Mr. Evans, the defeated Libe-
ral candidate, has already announced his intention to try
again.

At a vestry meeting at Oswestry, on Thursday,
the subject of the long-continued absence of the vicar being
introduced, a resolution was passed to the effect that '"f he
vestry viewed with extreme concern the long-continued ab-
s,nce of the vicar of the parish, now extending over a period
,d 11 years, and considered that the present state of Church
imperativvly demands a resident vicar." The Rev. Mr.
:.:alwey's absence is owing to indisposition.

The petition against the Conservative member for
Ashton-under-Lyne has been dropped, in consequence of
the petit.oner not having served a copy of it upon the sitting
in mber, made the required deposit, nor entered into recog-
Idzances. Some days ago, a petition was presented against
the return o! Mr. Beaumont by Mr. Stanhope, one of the de-
:'eated candich.tes for the Southern Division of the West
[tiding. On -Monday, en the opening of the Common Pleas
,111ce, it was found that a second petition had been lodged,
• his ono being against the return of both Lord Milton and
•'r. Beaumont.

In the Equity Court, on Tuesday, before Vice-
Chancellor Mulins, a special moton was brought forward
or au injunction to restrain the Metropolitan District Rail-
way Company from opening their line fur traffic
until the compensation to the poor of Emanuel Hospital
for their land taken by the company had been properly
tssease3, and the purcl,ase money paid. The motion was
dismissed with costs, the company undertaking to deposit
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