Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-16
SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE AD-
vANCEMENT OF WOMEN.

seems to be o hash Of incoherencies
and plumbers, and, should it get to the
point Of receiving the Royal assent, Will
be found so crude and inconsistent that
IL never can hold the Provinces long to-
eether. The best feature Of it would
seem that it confsrs the right Of suffrage
on all male British subjects Of twenty
one years of ase-a measure SO utterly
opposed to the English system Of repre-
sentation based on q property qualitica-
ton. But as the bill was drawn up and
presented by the law officers Of the
Crown, and discussed in committee, 1t
was found that, by singular oversight,
il would admit all women as well as men
to vote.
"on clause Al, relating to the electoral
franchise, Mr.. Hamilton asked whether
it was intended to give the franchise to
females or to contine it to males. The
clause as it stood, said that every Brit
ish subject Of the prescribed age should
have q vote. Mr.. Adderley presumed
il was not intended that females should
vote, but would inquire about that be-
fore the next stage Of the measure. The
word male was then inserted before
British subject and the clause as
amended was ordered to stand part Of
the bill" 1t would even appear from
the above extract from the London
Time, that Mr.. Adderley did not know
| but that il had been intended that fe-
males should vote, but he would in
ouire about that before the next stage
Of the measure.
In British India, a Miss Carpenter, the
daughter of a distinguished English
Unitarian minister, after giving up years
of her time to the ragged schools of
England, was the means Of instituting
Reformatory Schools for girls, based on
the principle that juvenile criminals
should not be punished, but reformed.
Not satisfied with her success in these
efforts, she has been led by a spirit Of
earnest philanthropy to visit British In
dia on an errand of mercy to her own
seq, so radical that it probably has had
something to do with tho hesitation Of
Mr.. Adderley as to whether females were
not intended to be allowed to vote in
the other great British Provinces. It
seems that the Rev. Mr.. Dali, an Ameri-
can Unitarian missionary in Calcutta,
called the attention Of Miss Carpentert to
the degraded condition Of the female
sex throughout India. The philanthro-
pic and energetic lady %thereupon con-
triyed to initiate measures both in Bengal
and in Calcutta that promise to do much
to elevate her sex in India, although no
| doubt giving infinite trouble and per-
plexity to scores of under colonial sec
retaries and officers connected with the
Indian Department. Taking with her
letters to the highest authorities, her
labors favored by the British Associa-
ton of Social Science, and having en-
tered India with the ridicule, if not the
abuse, Of the public papers, she was
soon received with the highest distinc-
ton by the Governor General and the
British and native authorities generally,
and became, indeed, for several weeks,
q guest at'the government palace atCal-
cutta, addressing the assembled heads
Of British India on her plans for the ell
ovation of the female sex. The wisdom
and moderation Of her proposals, togeth-
or with the vast extent Of their applica-
ton, has attracted to them and to her
much attention. The seclusion Of wo-
men, their ignorance and degradation,
far worse than the harem life Of the
Turks; their early marriages, often at
six and eight years Of age, or sooner;
their still more miserable p~rivations
through remaining life, if surviving the
man or boy to whom they are afianced
all render their condition most wretch
ed, and the efforts to elevate them most
difficult.
Miss Carpenter proposed to separate
the education of females from any at
tempts whatever to alter their religion,
so that the natives most bitter against
the last might not oppose this more gen.
eral work of instruction. Many Of the
native princes and gentry have listened
| with much interest to her plans. She
proposes the establishment of female
normal schools and a system Of medical
education for females, more especially
as medical men are not permitted to at
tend female patients. She has called
into existence a Social Science Associa-
ton in India, which promises to be Of
the utmost utility. Free schools have
been already established by her in CAL
cutta, and efforts are being made for
prison reform. At the last meeting OF
the Educational Section Of the Ameri-
can Association Of Social Science, q res
olution of congratulation was passed
and sent to the corresponding body in
England, at the head Of which Lord
Brougham stands, congratulating them
upon Miss Carpenters labor and sue
cess. It is quite clear, from all these
occurrences, that a remarkable move
ment for the elevation Of woman is go
ing on all round the globe, from the
oldest regions of civilization to the most
modern, and 50 distracting to British
statesmen that they have to take time
to reflect whether or not they intend to
allow women to vote in their latest at
tempt at craftsmanship, "The Kingdom
Of Canada"
THE advocates Of female suffrage have
recently been reinforced by Mr.. John
Stuart Mill, who has become a strenu-