WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.
(To TEE EDITOR OP TER "EPROTAT0R.1 SIR,—By an accident, it was not until to-day that I saw the article on the Women's Suffrage meeting in your issue of the 20th ult. I am not going to ask space to answer it, but I beg room for a single correction which concerns myself. The passage I quoted from Burke had reference to the spirit in which claimants of the franchise should be met, and not to their numbers. The context, I think, shows this plainly. There is, therefore, no non-sequitur in applying his words to the case of women, even if they were but the "little knot" you suppose. But the women-householders of
this country are nearly four hundred thousand, not a small number absolutely, nor yet relatively, to the total number of self-supporting or independent women. It is true, however, that they must, to a considerable extent, act as the representatives of a much larger class,—women who are represented in many things, but not in all, by their fathers or husbands. None but women can know thoroughly how important this last part of their work is.—I am,
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