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but, as general thing, her ideas were writ
ten down as sound, and her views as remark
ably sensible. Now, what did it all amount

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ten down as sound, and her views as remark
ably sensible. Now, what did it all amount
to?
Her Ladyship chose, as the especial OBJ
jects Of her sympathy, the women who have
neither husbands nor children; exposing, be-
sides, the hartships of those unfortunates,
who, being unable to hold property of their
own, are absolutely at the mercy OF drunk
en- and prohigate husband. And who will
deny that, even in England, there are thous-
ands of cases of cruelties perpetrated on
tender wives and children by the absolute
brutality of men, which demand remedy
which shall be both quick and sure? All
that Lady Amberley asks is, that women
shall be properly protected in their rights OF
person and property, and that, for the same
work, women shall receive the same wages
as men. Nor did she foolishly propose to
secure this last result BY legislation. "Any-
'thing so absurd, " her Ladyship says, "never
fell from her lips; but" she continues,
'sother forces may produce the same result"
Combination without education, or with so
little OF it as to be scarcely worth mention
ing, has enabled men to obtain better wages
than by their isolated efforts they would
have been able to secure; and Lady
Amberley believes that by better education
and greater variety of employment, with
this potent power of combination superad-
ded, women may hereafter command better
prices for their labor.
1t is evident enough that Lady Amberley
does not go the lengths of the New England
party of Womans Rights. What she asks
for is already secured to American women
in this State, and, we believe, in nearly eve
ry other State of the Union. And Mr.. John
Bright, the other day, told the correspondent
Of an American paper that he had no SYM
pathy whatever with the agitators of Amer
ica like Tilton, Stanton and Anthony, who
sought the suffrage for women in order that
with it they might overturn society and
bring about o reign Of free lovers, free di-
vorce, and the abolition of the headship OF
men in the family. Happily, in England,
the agitation in favor of woman suffrage has
been kept wholly free from such issues as
these, and the persons engaged in it regard
ed the doctrines preached on the rostrums OF
Womau's Rights meetings in America with
horror and disgust. The hard-featured, hard
listed, twang-tongued, men-women who de-
claim upon womans wrongs at the rate of
fifty dollars night, (gas and hall rent ex-
elusive would meet with little encourage
ment and less sympathy in England. There,
it is desired to elevate the woman, to make
her more noble, more pure more strong,
more independent, but always woman.
Here, the leather-lunged spouters oftheWood-
hull & Claflln, or Susan B. Anthony order, do
all that they can to strip them and theirs OF
all that is sweetest and tenderest in woman.
Lady Amberley and her patrician col
leagues, as we'll as the thoughtful women OF
the potent middle classes, are striving to OBJ
tain for their sex fair play and ample protec-
tion And they have an earnest of success
in the ease with which the Married Womens
Property Bill passed the House OF Commons.
That bill in no degree promotes what by
way of reproach has been termed tine ''polit-
''ical rights Of women, but merely proposes
to place in their own hands the property
which belongs to them as individuals, and
which can only be handed over to anybody
else in defiance of every sentiment and in
stinct Of justice.
But while the leaders among English
women are working steadily up to visible
and on attainable goal, their American sis
tiers intrigue with dubious Princess, sigh
for spike-tail coats, pant for bifurcate neither
garments, and make up their minds to enjoy
all the rights OF man, from free lunch to
free fight, from holding public Office to be-
coming food for powder. And when all
these rights are actually theirs the next
move will be for new constitutional amend
ment, providing that if, for the good OF the
nation, any woman should deign to become
the mother of q child, oil the dry-nursiug
and wet-nursing shall be done by its unfor-
tunate father, or by mechanical Maria
Jane furnished for the common good by q
happy and grateful country.