At last he is sick of the Opposition, he admits.
In respect to literature, nothing can be more mendacious than to say there are restraints upon literature.

Books of freer opinion are printed now than would ever have been permitted under Louis Philippe, as was reproached against Napoleon by an enemy the other day--books of free opinion, even licentious opinion, on religion and philosophy.

_There is restraint in the newspapers only._ That the 'Athenaeum' should venture to say that in consequence of the suppression of books compositors are thrown out of work and forced to become transcribers of verses like Beranger's (which are not Beranger's) is so stupendous a falsehood in the face of _statistics which prove a yearly increase in the amount of books printed_ that I quite lose my breath, you see, in speaking of it.
The Government is steadily solving, or attempting to solve, that difficult modern problem of possible _Socialism_ which has been knocking at all our heads and hearts so long.

_That_ is its vexation.

It is a Government for the _'bus people_, the first settled and serious Government that ever attempted _their_ case.