Show 1 A PEEP AT PAHLIAMKNT U < i > llfUl MonionAre In Ho the Mnnltl pI tin While Otlord Is I rejecting the demand of women for admission to degree and Cambridge hesitating to grant It the house of commons continues to mike progress In the direction of recognising the political quality of men and women wo-men says the New York Recorder The remarkable success of the bill enabling en-abling women to act as poorUw I guardians guard-ians In Ireland has already been recorded re-corded Another Irish bill gave the house ot cainmons the other day an opportunity of again expressing Its opinion that women are entitled to the fullest share In municipal government The bill was a private bill promoted by the corporation of lomlomlmy for the enlargement of the borough boundaries bound-aries and various other local Improvements Improve-ments n was opposed l by the nationalists nation-alists on the ground that the catholics of the borough were by reason ot the high franchise excluded from their fair share of representation on the town council After some hesitation the promoters pro-moters of the bill offered as n compromise com-promise to accept for municipal purposes pur-poses the ordinary parliamentary franchise fran-chise While accepting title offer Mr Tim Healy pointed out that the parliamentary parlia-mentary franchise did not Includewo men rntepncrs And It would < l be a pity It the prcrcnl opportunity of ex sculling tho municipal franchise to the women of lon < lon < lrry wero lot Mr Johnston of Ilillkllbeg an ardent Protestant agreed with Mr treaty arguing ar-guing that women had secured the vote In Ilelfnit and that there was no possible pos-sible reason against their having It In Londonderry No one dissenting a forma resolution was passed expressIng express-Ing tho opinion of tho house that the bill should be so framed as to enable qualified women to have the municipal ole |