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LIST OF PETITIONS PRESENTED TO PARLIA

MENT FOR THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF
QUALIFIED WOMEN.

On March the 28th, a petition praying that the suffrage might be granted to unmarried women and widows, duly qualified in all respects except that of sex, was presented by the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce. The petition was signed by 3, 559 persons of all classes. We observe among the printed list of persons who signed, the names of 1 Dean, 5 Professors, 26 Fellows of Colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, of whom 11 are Clergymen, 16 Clergymen not Fellows, 6 Queen's Counsels, and 11 Physicians. There are also the names of several landed proprietors, and of a considerable number of literary and professional women. The great bulk of signatures are those of married women and of unmarried ones who are not householders. The signatures of this petition were collected by the London Ladies' Franchise Committee.

A petition to the same effect was presented at the same time from Dumfries signed by 34 per

sons.

On the 5th of April, a petition praying that the suffrage should be granted to qualified women, was presented by Mr. J. Stuart Mill, to which 3,161 signatures, collected by the Manchester Committee, were attached.

prietors of considerable landed property; others are the freeholders of much more than to the value of 40s. Among the householders, some pay high rents for leasehold houses; others maintain themselves by their intelligence and industry, as shopkeepers, &c.

On the 11th of April the Edinburgh petition was presented, and we are informed that it received the signatures of 8 Professors, 18 Ministers, 14 Lawyers, 10 Officers, 10 Physicians, 2 Artists, a few landed proprietors and farmers, a good many influential citizens, and 800 ladies possessing the property qualification, amounting in all to 2,849 signatures.

On the same day Mr. Mill presented a second petition from Manchester, signed by 246 women fulfilling all the conditions required by law from Parliamentary electors, praying for the electoral franchise. Also a supplementary petition, signed by men and unqualified women, praying for the admission of women to the franchise on the same conditions as men. The total number of signatures attached to the various petitions from Manchester is 4,200, about half of which are those of women.

Among the names of the gentlemen we find 43 Fellows of Colleges, 4 University Dignitaries other than Fellows, 24 Clergymen of the Church of England, 5 Dissenting Ministers, 4 Physicians and Surgeons, and 2 Barristers.

A petition was presented at the same time by the Right Hon. Russell Gurney, signed by 1,605 unmarried women and widows possessing the legal qualifications of an elector, who prayed that they might be admitted to the franchise. These signatures had been collected from different parts of the Kingdom, 757 were sent through the Edinburgh Franchise Committee, 655 through the London Committee, and 193 through the Manchester Committee. Some of the ladies who signed this petition are the pro-plement, Englishwoman's Review.

A petition for the same object was also presented on the 11th of April by Mr. Walgrave Leslie, M.P. for Hastings, from Mr. Heywood and others, but we do not know the number of signatures attached to it. The total number of signatures attached to petitions presented up to April 13th was 12,247 (not counting the peti tion from Hastings), and it was believed that more were in the course of preparation.-Sup

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