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250.: FRENCH NEWS [96] EXAMINER, 27 APR., 1834, P. 265 - 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 [96]

EXAMINER, 27 APR., 1834, P. 265

This item is headed “London, April 27, 1834.” For Mill’s bibliographic entry, see No. 246. In the Somerville College set of the Examiner, it is listed as “Article on France.”

the french government has introduced two measures; one for increasing the army to 410,000 men, the smallest number with which it professes to be able to coerce the disaffected;¹ the other for the more effectual punishment of all who are taken in arms against the Government, who assist in any insurrectionary acts, or who possess arms or ammunition without the license required by law.² These propositions are of a less despotic character than the public were apprehensive of; but the Committee of the Chamber is expected, and was almost invited by the new Minister of Justice, to amend the latter measure, by subjecting all persons accused of rebellion to the jurisdiction of Courts Martial.³ The état de siège, which so scandalised the public two years ago, is thus to be made permanent.⁴

The horror and disgust of all Paris has been excited by the conduct of some of the soldiers of the 15th regiment of infantry, who, having been fired upon during the late insurrection by a pistol shot from one of the upper windows of a house in the Rue Transnonain, entered the house and massacred all the inhabitants, to the number of between twenty and thirty persons.⁵

[1 ]In introducing the bills increasing the supply to his ministry on 15 Apr., Persil indicated the intention to increase the army (Moniteur, 1834, p. 930).

[2 ]For details, see No. 249, n4.

[3 ]See Persil’s speech of 15 Apr., p. 929.

[4 ]For details, see No. 172, n28.

[5 ]Moniteur, 1834, pp. 909-10, quotes accounts of the incident from Journal de Paris, Bulletin du Soir, Constitutionnel, and Journal du Commerce of 14 Apr. Mill had also probably seen the accounts in National de 1834 of 15 Apr., p. 1, and 16 Apr., pp. 1-2.