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Rights of Women-The Nashville Union of the lst inst, says: "A bill has passed the Senate of the Tennessee Legislature, by d very large majority, to secure to married wo- men the use and enjoyment of their own pro- perty." The justice of such measure seems at once so apparent, that it is matter of wonder why 1t is now, for the first time, in Tennessee, about to be established by law, as we trust it will be. The principles of the English common law have been 90 successful. ly and deeply grafted in ourjurisprudence, that this and similar measures have met win but little countenance in most of the States, be- cause the great and important changes which they were calculated to produce in one of the fundamental rules of that law. This sort cf opposition, however, is the fruit of prejudice, and justice has been denied solely to prevent an innovation on long established usage

 Those who oppose this measure on this ground, have about as solid a plea as the Italian carriers of which we have so often read, who put their meal in one end of their panniers and rocks in the other, to make them balance on the ass's back. When told that the rocks were useless burden, and that division of the meal would make as good balance, they replied tlrey would not depart from the customs of their fathers. But we ought not to refuse to do right, because it has been customary to do wrong. Com mon justice demands that every person, mals as well as female, should have the absolute control of whatever estate he or she IS law fully possessed; why then should 1t cease 10 be just for woman to retain all her proper ty, when she contracts marriage, What is there in the contract or the relation that should compel her instantly to lose her hold upon her owns

 Under the old law which has been mfss called the ''perfection of wisdom," how ma ny worthy women have been reduced from competency to beggary! how many have been the victims of worthless fortune hunt CTS! how many have suffered cruel privations from miserly husbands! how many have been left renniless widows, their property being taken to pay their husbands debts.- The law now proposed simply provides that the wife shall have the same undisturbed con- trol of her own estate after marriage which she had before. It prevents her property from passing out of her hands, on marriage, by mere operation of law, without her con- sent It elevates woman one step higher in the scale of being, and gives her rank which in all Christian countries she has proved her self to deserve. And besides all this, tlle measure injures no one-it takes from no man any thing that belongs to hint will prevent frauds and the smuggling of proper ty-and last, though not least important im it's consequences, it will decrease the num- Der of old maids, who now refuse to marry lest their effects should be squandered.