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148.: FRENCH NEWS [50] EXAMINER, 4 MAR., 1832, P. 152 - 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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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II, 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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148.

FRENCH NEWS [50]

EXAMINER, 4 MAR., 1832, P. 152

For the entry in Mill’s bibliography, see No. 116. The item, headed “London, March 4, 1832,” is listed in the Somerville College set of the Examiner as “Article on France” and enclosed in square brackets, with a pencilled emendation: at 422.14, “eighteen” is underlined, and “should be fifteen” is written at the foot of the page. In the Somerville College edition, the article is on pp. 152-3.

the court of cassation has confirmed the iniquitous sentence, by which five members of the Society of the Friends of the People, after being acquitted by the jury, were sentenced by the Judges to periods of imprisonment, for what they said in their defence.1 “Some months’ imprisonment,” says the mealy-mouthed correspondent of the Times.2 Yes, good sir; six, twelve, and fifteen months imprisonment, besides fines. And it is but justice to say, that the speeches of MM. Blanqui and Thouret, two of these persecuted men, were such as almost any man might be proud of.3

One of the correspondents of the Times, on Thursday last, after railing at the Chamber of Deputies for its retrenchments, and bitterly lamenting the error which was committed in extending the elective franchise, calls on the Times to give the aid of its pen to the enemies of cheap government in France, and to tell them how much more wisely we order these things in England.4 We trust that this Paris correspondence is read; and that the indications it gives, of the real spirit of the Journal which publishes it, are not thrown away.

The reason why no witnesses were heard in the law-suit on the will of the Duc de Bourbon5 is, that in French law oral testimony is not received to invalidate a will, unless a certain primâ facie case can be made out; which, in this case, the Court did not consider to have been established. The decision has been appealed from, and the cause will next be brought before the Cour Royale.

[1 ]For earlier comment, see No. 137. The decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal, presided over by M. de Bastard d’Estang (1783-1844), in the cases of Blanqui, Bonnias, Gervais, Raspail, and Thouret, is in Moniteur, 1832, pp. 576 and 579.

[2 ]“Private Correspondence” (27 Feb.), The Times, 1 Mar., 1832, p. 4.

[3 ]For the reference, see No. 137, n3.

[4 ]“Private Correspondence” (28 Feb.), The Times, 2 Mar., 1832, p. 1; not on “Thursday last,” but Friday.

[5 ]See the concluding paragraph of No. 147.