Petitions have been presented to Parliament signed by upwards of 30,000 persons, praying for the alteration of this hard law. The Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law, has taken up this crying grievance, and has published a valuable ‘Report of the Personal Laws Committee on the Law relating to the Property of Unmarried Women.’ The following are the heads of the new law of property which the committee recommends:-- 1. The Common Law rules which make marriage a gift of all the woman’s personal property to the husband to be repealed. 2. Power in married women to hold separate property by law as they now may in equity. 3. A woman marrying without any antenuptial contract, to retain her property and after acquisitions and earnings as if she were a _feme sole_. 4. A married woman, having separate property, to be liable on her separate contracts, whether made before or after marriage. 5. A husband not to be liable for the antenuptial debts of his wife any further than any property brought to him by his wife under settlement extends. 6. A married woman to have the power of making a will; and on her death intestate, the principles of the Statute of Distributions as to her husband’s personalty _mutatis mutandis_ to apply to the property of the wife. 7. The rights of succession between husband and wife, whether as to real or personal estate, to courtesy or dower, to be framed on principles of equal justice to each party. We wish all, _women_ especially, to consider this proposed law, and if they think it is a just law, let them use every means in their power to help forward the measure. Let them express themselves either by meetings or in petitions, perhaps the last is the best means. Let no one person be content to wish simply for this change, but let him or her join with others and express their wishes. Short petitions praying that the law proposed by the Law Amendment Society should be adopted by Parliament, sent in, in large numbers, would do much to gain this reform. It depends principally on the working classes whether this great injustice is to be overthrown or not. All the best thinkers of the day have decided that women are no longer to be considered as mere appendages of men, but as independent human beings, who have a right to the produce of the labour of their hands and to freedom, to work out their lives in their own way. Philanthropists and reformers have stepped forward and are willing to give a helping hand; and such men as Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Lord Stanley, Sir Erskine Perry, and Matthew Davenport Hill, are strong hands to help any cause. The thoughtful women of our day, those whose names adorn the age we live in, have expressed themselves. It only remains for the working women who earn money, to say--‘This law is a great injustice to us, we wish to have our own money earnings in our own power,’ and the law will be abolished.