The New York correspondent of the Daily News, perhaps the
best observer of American politics whose criticisms are published in England, expresses his belief, in a very interesting letter published this day week, that the woman suffrage in America will be soon sanctioned in most of the States of the Union. He ascribes this to the useful part women took in organizing the Sanitary Commission during the Civil War,—several large hospitals were managed entirely by women,—to the immense demand for masculine labour, which almost obliges the handing over of many important occupations, like school-keeping and teaching, to women, and to the direct patriotic influence exercised by women during the great struggle. There are many women, he says, in charge of large boy-schools, or schools of both sexes, and receiving salaries from 300/. to 700/. a year. Finally, the necessity of granting negro suffrage makes it absurd, he says, to exclude women.
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