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238.: FRENCH NEWS [89] EXAMINER, 2 MAR., 1834, P. 137 - 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 [89]

EXAMINER, 2 MAR., 1834, P. 137

This article, headed “London, March 2, 1834,” is not covered by Mill’s bibliographic entry (see No. 226), but is listed in the Somerville College set of the Examiner as “Article on France.”

the bill relating to public criers has passed the Chamber of Peers in one sitting, has received the Royal assent, and is now law.¹ On the day on which it came into force, there was not a riot, but sufficient crowd in the streets, to give the police an excuse for some of their usual acts of brutal outrage.

The French government are so pleased with their easy success in passing this Bill, that they have announced another for the suppression of Political Associations.² If this should pass, they have probably another ready for the restriction of the province of Jury Trial, in political cases. We are too distant from the scene of action to know whether the inducement to all these enormities be terror, because they are weak, or because they are strong.

The Cour d’Assises has declared the National de 1834, identical with the old National, and has sentenced M. Carrel and his coadjutor, M. Conseil, to fine and imprisonment.³ Their last resource against this complicated and flagrant act of persecution and tyranny, is in the Court of Cassation; and to rely on that is, we fear, to lean on a broken reed.

[1 ]For earlier comment, see Nos. 236 and 237.

[2 ]Projet de loi sur les associations (25 Feb.), Moniteur, 1834, p. 418, enacted as Bull. 115, No. 261 (10 Apr., 1834).

[3 ]See the report in the National de 1834, 15 Feb., 1834, pp. 2-3, and, for earlier comment, No. 232.