een shaped in the courts below.

Under the present system, a citizen of any State in the Union
having selected a counsel of good moral character who has
practiced three years, who possesses all-sufficient professional
and personal qualifications, and having had a cause brought to a
successful result in the State court, is denied by the present
existing and unjust rule having counsel of his choice argue the
cause in the Supreme Court of the United States.

The greatest master of human manners, who read the human heart
and who understood better than any man who ever lived the
varieties of human character, when he desired to solve just what
had puzzled the lawyers and doctors, placed a woman upon the
judgment seat; and yet, under the present existing law, if Portia
herself were alive, she could not defend the opinion she had
given, before the Supreme Court of the United States.

The press commented favorably upon this new point gained for women.
We give a few extracts:

The senators who voted to-day against the bill "to relieve
certain legal disabilities of women" are marked men and have
reason to fear the result of their action.--[Telegraph to the New
York _Tribune_, February 7.

The women get into the Supreme Court in spite of the
determination of the justices. They gained a decided advantage
to-day in the passage by the Senate of a bill providing that any
woman who shall have been a member of the highest court in any
State or territory, or of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, for three years, may be admitted to the Supreme Court.
The bill was called up by Senator McDonald, in antagonism to Mr.
Edmunds' amendment to the constitution which was the pending
order. Mr. Edmunds objected to the consideration of the bill and
voted against it. There was not much discussion, the main
speeches being by Mr. Sargent and Mr. Hoar.--[Special dispatch to
the New York _World_, February 7.

A WOMAN'S RIGHTS VICTORY IN THE SENATE.--The Lockwood bill,
giving women authority to practice before the Supreme Court of
the United States, passed the Senate yesterday by a vote of two
to one, and now it only requires the approval of Mr. Hayes to
become a law. The powerful effect of persistent and industrious
lobbying is manifested in the success of thi