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66.: FRENCH NEWS [6] EXAMINER, 12 DEC., 1830, P. 795 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXII - Newspaper Writings December 1822 - July 1831 Part I [1822]

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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXII - Newspaper Writings December 1822 - July 1831 Part I, ed. Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, Introduction by Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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FRENCH NEWS [6]

EXAMINER, 12 DEC., 1830, P. 795

This article is headed “London, Dec. 11.” For the entry in Mill’s bibliography, see No. 55. The article concludes with a paragraph of Swiss news, presumably not by Mill.

the french ministry has not yet produced the expected municipal and election laws, but M. Dupont de l’Eure has introduced a Bill reducing the number of the Judges in each Court of Assize (as the principal Courts of Justice are called) from five to three.1 This is a most important improvement, and a step towards getting rid of those multitudinous judicatories which destroy individual responsibility, and neutralize one able judge by associating him with a crowd of feeble or inexperienced colleagues, who either do nothing or worse.

The clergy of all Christian persuasions existing in France, already received salaries from the Government: the Chamber of Deputies has just passed a Bill extending the same provision to the ministers of the Jewish worship.2

[1 ]The bill passed the Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 186 to 122 on 11 Jan., after four days of discussion, and was enacted as Bull. 21, No. 86 (4 Mar., 1831). Mill is referring to Art. 1.

[2 ]Bull. 20, No. 85 (10 Feb., 1831).