John Stuart Mill: A Criticism with Personal Recollections

SUMMARY OF TEN YEARS. 31
for his father s attack it upon in the first number of the West
minster*
1824. First number of the Westminster appears (March).
Contributes to the second number on the Edinburgh Review ;
to the third, on Religious Persecution and on War Expendi
ture ; to the fourth, on Hume s Misrepresentations in his
History.
1825. Principal occupation editing Bentham s book on
Evidence. Starting of Parliamentary History and Review :
writes the article on the Catholic Disabilities ; also on the
Commercial Crisis and Currency and the Reciprocity Principle
in Commerce. Learns German. Begins morning-readings in
the Society at Grote s house in Threadneedle Street. Goes
with some others to the debates of the Owenites Co-opera
tive Society ; founding of the Speculative Debating Society.
Writes, in the Westminster, on the Political Economy of the
Quarterly, on the Law of Libel (?), and on the Game Laws (?)
(number for Jan., 1826).
1826. Utilitarian Society ceases; readings at Grote s con
tinue. Speculative Society flourishing. Reviews,
for the
Westminster, Mignet s French Revolution, and Sismondi s
History of France;
Beginning of
"
writes two articles on the Corn Laws.
mental crisis ".
1827. Speculative Society. Readings at Grote s (turned
* This was the year of his entering the India House. He was appointed
junior clerk in the Examiner s Office, 2ist May, 1823. The clerks in those days
had no salary, only a gratuity. For three years, Mill had ^30 a-year; at
the end of that time, he received a salary of ^100, with an annual rise of jio.
It was, however, in 1828, that he was put over the heads of all the clerks, and
made an Assistant, at ^600 a-year ; being sixth in rank. In 1830, he stood
fifth ; his father being at the top. Early in 1836, he gained a step, and, on
his father s death, the same year, another : he
was made second over his head ;
was then third, but David Hill
Peacock was chief. His salary was now
.1200 a-year ; to which, in 1854, a special and personal addition was made of
^200 a-year. On 28th March, 1856, Peacock and Hill retiring together, he was
made Examiner, salary 2000 a-year. At Christmas, 1858, on the transfer of
the Company s government to the crown, he was superannuated on a pension
of ^1500 a-year.