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128.: FRENCH NEWS [35] EXAMINER, 20 NOV., 1831, PP. 744-5 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II [1831]

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FRENCH NEWS [35]

EXAMINER, 20 NOV., 1831, PP. 744-5

For the entry in Mill’s bibliography, see No. 116. The item, headed “London, November 20,” is listed as “Paragraphs on France” and enclosed in square brackets in the Somerville College set.

the french chamber of deputies has passed the “loi du recrutement,”¹ and is now engaged in discussing a law for the regulation of promotions in the army.²

The Peerage Bill³ has not yet been carried up to the House of Peers; and it is still as uncertain in France as among ourselves, whether there will be a creation of Peers for the purpose of carrying the proposed Constitutional Reform.

[1 ]For the Act, see No. 120, n13.

[2 ]Enacted as Bull. 72, No. 154 (14 Apr., 1832), it provided among other things safeguards against unearned promotion.

[3 ]For background, see No. 115, n1.