Mr. Disraeli is really very adroit. One of the subjects
which bother him is the claim of women to the suffrage. He is himself in favour of it, but Mr. Hardy is not, and the question, if it ever- got beyond drawing-rooms, would split his party to pieces. So, he told Mr. Forsyth on Tuesday he would help him if he could, but he really was not sure he could give him a day. He had given up a day already for Home-rule, and another for the- Income-tax, and a third for the Waste Lands of Ireland, and he- could only give a day if he happened to have the power. In fact, he will not give a day,, but as Mr. Forsyth is in a scrape with his Bill, which is not the one his clients wished for, and as
female-suffrage party do not care about it, thinking, very justly, that it rather excludes than admits their right, Mr. Dis- raeli earns no odium by his adroit escape from an impossible posi- tion. , He may still pose as the ladies' friend, without doing anything for them.
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