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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 48, 30 March 1894, Page 6

The French Senate have adopted a motion in favour of granting to women the right of voting at elections to the tribunals of commerce. There is something impressive in the career a d c aracter of Comte de Mun, w^o has just been elected deputy for Morlaix. For many years the influence of the Count has baen steadily iuiutg By birth and accomplishments be is an aristocrat, and yet the most uncompromired Kadical in the Frcncn Chamber admires and trusts him. The Comte de Mun is the elcquent and earnest advocate of Christian Socialism. The Comte, in his early days » Ueacionint has been leaning and growing with the times. He bas done mucu to reconcile French Catholics to the Bepublic— Irish Weekly BradstreetV, the well-known trade p«per, has collected statistics aa to the number of unemployed in 119 of ibe chief cities in the 7, 9'9 ' * he nuniber out of worlt >n th«se cities is somewhat over 801,000. Th« number dependant on this army of unemrjlovtd ifl estimated at 2,000,000. In fifteen of the most impo.tant cities in the States of New V ,rk and New J^rs y there are 223 250 unemployed, and 563,760 dependant f, r tb>ir support on tbes« quarter of a million wage workers, who are seeking m vain for employ meut tv keep the wolf from the door. In twenty-one cities in New Kngland there are 66,200 idle men, who, when at work, are the breadwinners for 154,400 peisons.