LORD CURZON of Kedleston has sent to the Times a correspondence that has passed between himself and the Bishop of Winchester [Edward Stuart Talbot] in regard to the forthcoming Church Congress at Southampton. Prominent among the subjects of its agenda paper is that of the position of women, their influence, responsibilities and duties. Lord Curzon is afraid that the question of female suffrage will be raised, as assuredly it will be, and calls upon the Bishop to follow the lead of the Archbishop of York, who ruled out of the proceedings of the Middlesbrough Congress last year the discussion of the women question, or, at all events, to keep out of the discussion the proposal to admit women to the franchise. It is true that there are not wanting signs that a determined effort will be made to raise, in an acute form, an agitation in favour of the vote for women, but, in our opinion, the Congress ought not to be alarmed by that prospect. For good or for evil, the franchise question is with us, and it cannot be said that it is a matter which does not concern Churchpeople as such. There has been too great a tendency in recent Congresses, at all events, to restrict debates to subjects on which we are all practically agreed. Here is a big public question which cuts right across the usual party or sectional lines, and we think that it will be interesting at least, if not of real value, to see how Churchpeople as such regard the demand of women to be enfranchised. In his presid-ential capacity, the Bishop of Winchester may be trusted to keep the discussion well within the limits of decency and restraint.