New-York tribune., 1868-10-22
WI be considerabe numhcr Of others in difterent

sihtcu WIN MS brothers JOuCs and RObiIis0n' ahI
th'y are all ot opinion that the moon Is mHit oi
green checSe--OT Is not, the may be, ih me
M3hchrtnr appeal. upward of 5000 names are up,
pended to the case lodged in the Common Pleas an"
II stands INST for argument Mr. ColofHgt; =; y"
has been specially retained by the National SH,GI
Tor Womans suffrage. and with him II Dr. ia1HnT|.St |
author OF the article in recent nnhOe oI 5t 1V,
EgAIg which first put the case for women Oh S'io"s
| legal grounds. ,.;
called American news in the English papers =, ,,t
All the posofces between Idle Rock ana WasnmG nt
vps fbe cjr nation Of Conservative ncwSpapers.
This item, under the heading - Pope kGe dc. O. NC.
Leans elrgams Ier seaih1 Th,pnics and other Lead
INC napets I'm the provinces. The Scotsman comintnts
: ON il as anew way of carrying an election thas
mnst be placed at the credit of the Repnhlcan nrE.
In ought rather be placed 20 the credit or tle ~
eenious Ncw-York agent Of Alessrs Pope, Ree d Nc
Mr. George Thompson. says an English paper Is In
weak health and unable 20 speak-shouid there be
! anybody who wanted to hear him. HlS lrirlus are
making another effort to raise money Tor hihl, anu
have got together about G70O. The day Is gone byl
know not if it ever came-whcn his voice had an III
tuence IN England u w. o.
| A DECISION FOR THE wOMEN-TIEiR PROSPECTS
SIDNEY SMITHS ARGUMENT A FALSE
RUMOR ABOUT CARLYLE-s0MB AMERICAN
CORRESPONDENTS.
IPRoM oUR OwS CORRESPONDENT
LONDON, Sept. SIT is remarkable with what
steady determination the claim of the women TO vote
is pressed. Received 0t first with surprise, and
treated joke. il has been made so often, IN so
many boroughs, by women of such unexceptionable
rank in society and with the aid of such eminent
counsel that il has at last and at least proved it's
right to he seriously dealt with. Its success IN Ash
ford was perhaps accidental The Revising BarIiser
left the 80 the register because nobody OBJ
jected. Now we have got q step beyond that in
the Metropolitan borough of Finsbury. Oh Wednes
day last tho claim of Jane Allen came before the
U,rristnr ClishOlm AustPy. argued
like any other claim. and WAS finally admitted OH
purely legal and technical grounds, Perhaps there IS
nothing absolutely in the aTQumenJ OF Mr.
ShOcn the Solicitor nor in the opinion OF the ke-
vising Barrister. But the claim. which 10 most mag
istIutes has appeared frivolous, at best unsound
has finally been laid before mind without the usual
bias against it, and Mr. Anstey has had the courage
to decide on what appeared to him the legal merits of
the case Mark 1t the first judicial decision IN In
gland in favor of womans demand for the franchise
As SUCH il has q real Importance. have no doubtit
will be overrued but il is point gained by the adj
yocates of this movement. The English mind has an
immense respect for anything in the shape OF mag
istrate Revising Barristers Court is an irregular
sort of tribunal but is still hedged about with good
deal of had almost said divinity to complete the
quotation. But this is certain, that one such decision
has more influence the public mind than all the
addresses Of Miss Becker and all the arguments OF
Stuart Mill. Mr.. Anstey 1t should bo observed. is
not a new convert 10 tho womans claims. but an old
advocate of it, He is o man Of some note at the
bar and in literature is a Roman Catholic, and has
been prominent in questions touching Catholic in
terests He was in Parliament from ~ TO '52 for an
irish borough, and was afterward Attorney-General
at Hong Kong. Since his return to England he has
published number OF pamphlets on the woman
question 1t is just possible that the appointment of
such man by the Chief Justice indicates a tendency
Oh the part of that great functonay 10 consider the
new claim favorably.
Mr.. Anstey has based his decision distinctly upon
the statement that women formerly had and used
the fauchse and that they have not been deprived of
it by legislation nor lost 1t by Tho dictUB, Of
Coke-so frequently quoted that il must he in every
| bodys memory-he set aside as being dictEm mere
! ly and as applying only to freehoder and not the
case of an occupying claimant like the present. The
legal position Of women he held TO hc much stron
| than it is commonly believed 10 be. The MAGMA
Chara, the rights of llte liberty, and property are
allowed to women. and act OF Parliament declared
that pecresses had the right 10 be tried by pccrrscs
peers by peers Taxation acts and penal acts
construed 10 apply 10 women unless they were eX-
pressly excluded As 10 the argument that woman
had forfeited by user whatever night they origi-
nay possessed, Mr. Anstey pointed out that ne op-
pOrtuuty TO make claim had been denied them.
Since the reign Of James I-lOf;l695-uO such clam
cOuld have been made in a court Of law In that
reign a standing order made 10y The House that
no application regarding the privilege of yotiug
should be brought before any Other tribunal man the
Legislature itself That order was not repealed az
August. 1863 What then became Of the argument of
non user when Parliament Itself prohibited clam
from being tried IN the cOurtsY Mn Anstey proceeded
10 say that under the common law women were rcR.s
tered as bnTgcsscs for they were liable To the dieS
Of watch and ward. The rolls OF Parliament contained
records Of women being in Pariament-a fact which
have not before seen urged. Still more curious -
the statement that when Mrs. Copley claimed that
she was entitled 60 return member tOT borough
herself a committee decided that tie constituency
was t4pf a q L IU-
capacated by her sex, the question wOud not have
been entertained at all. Ii was not TIL after the
Gr,at Rebellion and the Revolution that the female
suffrage fell ont Of use: bnt, saYe our HhgI7tiair
there is not single decision not even of the High
Court of Parliament itself to deprive women oi The !
case Of freeholders as already mentioned. The !
often quoted words of the Reform Act of
1852, male persons" were disposed of with |
tha TemaTk--also new-that that was used only |
in the enabling" clause of that act, not IN the dis
abng' clauses Evidently the trainers of that net
did not wish 10 take away old rights, however FAR
noticing-Mr Weller would call il n coincidence
that this decision was delivered in the Lord Chance
los Court in Lincolns lnn the actual room wherein
the property Of England goes churlnng through
In the Registration Court of the City of London.
on Wednesday. Mr.. Sidney Smith delivered a speech
clam of LYDIA Stopford to the franchise. have
no argument IN which the whole question was dis
cussed with so much learning. aud put in 20 fresh
and striking way. The report Is a column long.
send il TO YOU 10 reprint II you can Ind room amid
all your home politics Here are few specimen
facts
Tits on record that, In the reign ~ Elizabeth Dame
Dorothea PakngtoD, widow Of Sir John PakDgton, Knit
voted burgeses sit for the Of AyleHbury
I'm Parliament the Sheriff having previously issued his
precept There another instance !n the case OF
the lay-I beg pardon the lord OF the manor OF Gait
voting for members Of Parliament In 1889, bir VIM.
Lee ChiefIustice f the Kings Bench decided. and the
other learned Judges agreed with him, that femme soie
having freehold might vote for members OF Parliament
and this Ia the only occasion which the qucson has
been raised before higher courts Ia cOncudhg his
argument. Mr. smith quoted Things not GENERALLY