28 OCTOBER 1911, Page 16

LOCAL BODIES AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

[To THE EDITOR Or THY " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—May I draw your attention to the remarkable fact that 127 City, Town, Borough, and District Councils have now petitioned Parliament or passed resolutions in favour of the enfranchisement of women. Be it noted that women help to elect the members of these bodies and are themselves eligible. Nine of these Councils are London Boroughs, and amongst the City Councils are the most important in the kingdom, viz., Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Edin- burgh, Dublin, Newcastle, Hull, Leicester, Nottingham.—I am,

Sir, &c., C. S. BREMNER. [At the urgent request of our correspondent we insert her letter, but we cannot publish any further correspondence on this subject—ED. Spectator.]