New-York tribune., 1875-07-26
Commons.


violence Of his demonstration in tho House OF
Commons.
New light In, recently been thrown upon tho
future of woman ia medicine in England. The Gen.
,rL Medical Council of Great Britain. which in
c!ndes representatives Of all the medical collegea
licensing bodies and the universities, well as OF tho
Government and which registers the licenses granted
ny the licensing bodies has just been Discussing. mt
the request Of Government, the adsisability OF
allowing women to practice medicine, and permit
ting them to receive degrees or licenses which can
be registered. Two-thirls of the Council declare
that they not prepared to say that
women should be debarred from medical practice.
while they recognize the special difficulties In Its
way. The majority Of those who voted for this decls-
ration however took toexpress therbelief that
it was neither a proper pracio able sphere OF
work for women As to the means by which legal
status might be obtained for female medical practi-
TONERS they say that If women are examined byany
of the nineteen licensing bodies in the United King
,lom the Council will register tho licenses, thus
making the consent Of those bodies the only step TO-
naming clear the way for women as far as exaIni
nations aud degrees concerned In case this con-
sent refused the Council suggests special exani-
pation by net Of Parliament and under its supervi-
SION its certificates to as licenses and the do
gree to be that Of "practitioner in medicine. This
is long stride in advance in q country where now
bat one female practitioner, Mrs. Anderson. has .
LEGAL status a. such.
japanese opinions on womews rights must possess
considerable interest This is what one OF ther
newspaper writers has to say on the subjects
II We the theories OF Europeans on this sub
icc IL would appear that tho possession Of equal power
by husband ani vile is based natural reason Butn
Of E,D Al
that power OF the wife Ia greater tina" that OF the
husband and that this has been brought about ~
the want of view Of the dictates OF nature we
will point cut examples OF this Ia gong through door
lhe wife pa sSes aud tao husband follows her; tho
wi takes the best aud the husband the next best:
IN visiting the wife first saued; in forms of address,
the wife il FIRST m, nouei Moreover while are In
The company Of ladies they must be particular In their
conversation and not permitted to smoke "thout
the les permission being first obtained These aud
like customs are innumerabe. and the power of tho
women is far greater than that Of the men"
In all this he sees danger, and he makes this ap-
peal
Tho equality OF rights between husband ond wife 10
much misunderstood. and dcze their wives for tho
purpose of pleasing them. And this Is the reason w'v
some OF the celebrated OF Europe have behaved
ia manner which IL pains us even 10 hear OF, ana WHICH
ia terrible At present there Ia much discussion in this
country the relations which should exist between
men and women 1t Is well. therefore, that our learned
men should take this into considerations otherwise the
powor of the other will grow gradually aud event
ually become 81 overw heing that it will be impossible
to control It, Ye learned men, what are your yewsT
Mr. Jefferson Davis it is stated. will devote him
self presently to the work Of writing History OF
the Rebellion. If he is hardly in position 90 pro-
duce what may be fairly called a history. he can
doubtless make a valuable contribution to history ~
will xyaa
pose an elaborate plea in justification, making the
best defense of his conduct and that OF hs asso
ciates. We think that he has right to be heari TO
say for himself what motives mpelled HIM TO
abandon a government which he had sworn TO nam
tan and to offer such extenuations of his course as
he may think proper. SO much is conceded 70 every
criminal upon trial. Mr Davis must be i'll POSSES
sion of facts which not generally known; and no
may give us materials for the annals of the Rebellion
which otherwise would be lost. lie cannot proba-
by write Trustworthy book; but we SEQ no reason
why he may not write an honest one.
fair and square test under the Civil Rights
k.w will now be mado up in Indiana. IN direct yio-
aton of the State statute Frank Miller white. has
married Mary A. Ginis, cocred and is in Jail for 10
doing The marriage license was regularly issued
by the Clerk of the Circuit Court Of CLARK County.
and the ceremony was regularly performed by
Methodist cler gyman II ew-Albany, who has been
indicted together with the ncarcorated bridegroom.
The Trial Is fixed f,r October. Miller Is "a German
by birth has been in this country about six years.
and declares that he loves his vile and would
.rather have her than any white woman he ever
sawy Shcis described a. " a decent, honest woman.
and both announce their intention Of fighting tho
matter to The end.
Extraordinary account this of a lady extremely
married in Smyrna Del Seven times, blusliing
bride has she been conducted Ia the altar She was
Miss Williams 10 start with; then successfully she
became Mrs. Tnax farrow. Riggs, Wallace berry,
Pratt A; present she ~ an Abbott. ilcr taste runs
to widowers-all her husbands save one belonged TO
that honorable and ~ eiul anl much magned fra
ternity Most of tue husbands had rrady-mads
children and she has taken excellent caie of tiems
never havimg bad any of her own. Who VIII ray
that this a hls MT lod uscfa life, and that she
il n, entitled 70 be called bcnefactress'
ST. LOUIS thinks Of showing that st. Lonis WAS n"s
made lof Sunday but Sunday tor Sc. Louis 10y inTt-
tuting sunday Lecture Socisty the object "i whien
~ to provide lectures by the best SPEAKERS Oh mo
day for au admission fee of 10 cents. ibo SOrir'y
gives pledge not to divide any future proiits-ap-
partatly a useless precautionbui IT, apply them 70
th laltheganee vs is objects. Their hnahces srs VI