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257.: FRENCH NEWS [98] EXAMINER, 1 JUNE, 1834, P. 345 - The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II

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257.: FRENCH NEWS [98] EXAMINER, 1 JUNE, 1834, P. 345 - 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 [98]

EXAMINER, 1 JUNE, 1834, P. 345

The item is headed “London, June 1, 1834.” This and Nos. 258, 260, and 262 are described in Mill’s bibliography as “The summary of French News in the Examiner of 1st, 22d, and 29th June, and 6th July 1834” (MacMinn, p. 41). In Mill’s copy of the Examiner in Somerville College, this item is listed as “Paragraphs on France.”

the french legislature has been first prorogued, and then dissolved;¹ though it has only sat for three years it has voted five annual budgets,² and is therefore considered to have attained the termination of its lawful existence.

Thus has a Session closed which has been productive of nothing but taxes, and laws for the suppression of insurrections.

[1 ]It was both prorogued and dissolved on 24 May (Moniteur, 1834, p. 1341).

[2 ]In addition to those for 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1834 (all previously cited), that for 1835 (Bull. 126, No. 283, dépenses [23 May, 1834], and Bull. 127, No. 286, recettes [24 May, 1834]).