ABSTRACT
On 2 January the Pall Mall Gazette contained an article written by a personal friend of M Gambetta giving, among other matters of interest, a short account of his view of the comparative rate of liberal progress in France and in England. Many things have happened since the opinion was expressed which would have confirmed it had M Gambetta been alive. The events of this autumn make it abundantly evident that the majority of Liberals are now in favour of giving the Parliamentary suffrage to women on the same terms on which it is or may be granted to men. The conference represented between five and six hundred Liberal organisations, sending up about sixteen hundred delegates. The resolution in favour of admitting women to the suffrage was fairly put, and carried by an overwhelming majority; an eye-witness states that a perfect forest of hands went up in its favour, and only an insignificant sprinkling against it.
