The Women seem likely to obtain the most just and
moderate -of all their requests. The Married Women's Property Bill, the -original Bill, which gives them their own, passed its second reading anWednesday without a division. There may be alterations of detail -in Committee, but the principle of the Bill is now safe in the Commons, and the only question is,—what will the Lords do ? They always pass the Bill for the benefit of their own families, signing deeds of settlement ; but this Bill will not interfere with their taste for heiresses. The heiress can give the agreed sum for her coronet, and keep the remainder, just as she does at present. We trust and believe that the Bill, which is a fine evidence of English unselfishness, will pass, but if it does not, women have the remedy in their own hands. Let them cut the Peers.
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