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160.: FRENCH NEWS [57] EXAMINER, 22 APR., 1832, P. 264 - 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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FRENCH NEWS [57]

EXAMINER, 22 APR., 1832, P. 264

For the entry in Mill’s bibliography, see No. 116. The item, headed “London, April 22, 1832,” is listed as “Paragraphs on France” in the Somerville College set with the first two paragraphs of the article (to the printer’s rule) enclosed in square brackets.

the french chamber of deputies has galloped through the Ways and Means, disposed of all the great questions of taxation with scarcely a word of discussion, and then virtually adjourned, it being now impossible to make a house.1 It must be remembered that by the regulations of the French Parliament, the number necessary to form a quorum is not forty members, as with us, but a majority of the whole house.2 This is one of the causes which practically disable the Chamber from transacting public business after dinner time.

The Session will not close for some days, the Peers having yet to pass several bills already adopted by the other Chamber.

[1 ]The vote of 12 Apr. on the Budget (see No. 150, n2) is in Moniteur, 1832, p. 1062. The haste was due to the cholera, which was wreaking havoc in Paris; the official total of deaths had reached between 12,000 and 13,000.

[2 ]Charter of 1830, Art. 16; continuing Charter of 1814, Art. 18.