his change 'Important Notice,'
it says: 'We have great pleasure in announcing that we have made an
arrangement with the Toronto Woman's Literary Club to occupy an
important space in our columns, for the advance of moral, social,
educational and family matters affecting woman generally. Mrs. S.
A. Curzon has charge of this column as associate editor.' The club
in a stirring salutatory defines its work and objects. It is the
intention to give, each week, a _resume_ of the current topics
concerning women, education, the franchises, the legal abilities
and disabilities of women, etc., hoping to arouse a national
sentiment among Canadian women and intelligence upon these
important subjects. This appeal is signed by Mrs. McEwen, the
president, and Emily H. Stowe, Mrs. W. J. MacKenzie, Mrs. W. B.
Hamilton and Mrs. S. A. Curzon, the executive committee."

[535] The officers were: _President_, Mrs. Donald McEwen;
_Vice-Presidents_, Mrs. Curzon, Mrs. E. H. Stowe, M. D., Captain W.
F. McMaster, John Hallam, esq.; _Treasurer_, Mrs. W. B. Hamilton;
_Secretary_, Miss J. Foulds; _Executive Committee_, Mrs. McKenzie,
Mrs. S. McMaster, Mrs. Riches, Mrs. Miller, Miss Hamilton, Miss
McMaster, Miss Alexander, William Houston, J. L. Foulds, P.
McIntyre, Phillips Thompson, Thomas Bengough.

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CHAPTER LVI.

GREAT BRITAIN.

BY CAROLINE ASHURST BIGGS.

Women Send Members to Parliament--Sidney Smith, Sir Robert Peel,
Richard Cobden--The Ladies of Oldham--Jeremy Bentham--Anne
Knight--Northern Reform Society, 1858--Mrs. Matilda
Biggs--Unmarried Women and Widows Petition
Parliament--Associations formed in London, Manchester, Edinburgh,
1867--John Stuart Mill in Parliament--Seventy-three Votes for his
Bill--John Bright's Vote--Women Register and
Vote--Lord-Chief-Justice of England Declares their Constitutional
Right--The Courts give Adverse Decisions--Jacob Bright secures
the Municipal Franchise--First Public Meeting--Division on Jacob
Bright's Bill to Remove Political Disabilities--Mr. Gladstone's
Speech--Work of 1871-2--Fourth Vote on the Suffrage Bill--Jacob
Bright fails of Reelection--Efforts of Mr. Forsyth--Memorial of
the National Society--Some Account of the Workers--Vote of the
New Parliament, 1875--Organized Opposition--Diminished Adverse
Vote of 1878--Mr. Courtney's Resolution--Letters--Great
Demonstrations at