ists was held at the National Charter Association in the Old Bailey,
to form a female Chartist Association to co-operate with the original
society. A Mr. Cohen created some dissatisfaction by speaking _against_
the interposition of women in political affairs; he "put it to the
mothers present, whether they did not find themselves more happy in the
peacefulness and usefulness of the domestic hearth, than in coming forth
in public, and aspiring after political rights?" Miss Inge asked Mr.
Cohen, did he not consider women qualified to fill public offices? it did
not require much "physical force" to vote! Mr. Cohen replied with an
_argumentum ad foeminam_:--He would, with all humility and respect, ask
the young lady, what sort of office she would aspire to fill? If she
would fill one, she would fill all? He was not going to treat the
question with ridicule; but he would ask her to suppose herself in the
House of Commons, as Member for a Parliamentary Borough, and that a young
gentleman, a lover, in that House, were to try to influence her vote,
through his sway over her affections; how would she act? whether, in
other words, she could resist, and might not lose sight of the public
interests? (Order! Order!) He wished to be in order. He was for
maintaining the _social_ rights of women; _political_ rights, such as he
understood that meeting to aspire to, she could never, in his opinion,
attain. This drew forth an energetic speech from Miss Mary Anne Walker;
she "repudiated, with indignation, the insinuation that, if women were in
Parliament, any man, be he husband, or be he lover, would dare to be so
base a scoundrel as to attempt to sway her from the strict line of duty."
Miss Walker was much applauded; and, after the business of the evening,
she received the thanks of the meeting.

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In the _Times_ of Oct. 5, there is a paragraph about a gipsey trial, and
as that curious nomad race is fast disappearing, it may prove of interest
to my readers:

"A short time since, a very remarkable circumstance took place in the
New Forest, Hampshire, in the instance of a gipsey, named Lee, being
cast out of the fraternity. The spot where the scene took place was
at Bolton's Bench, near Lyndhurst. Between 300 and 400 gipsies,
belonging to different tribes, including the Lees, Stanleys, and
Coopers, were assembled upon this unusual occasion. The concourse
con