"Repression is more rapid and more efficacious," as Maitre Rouher says.

And then 'tis so much better.

Call the causes: correctional police, sixth chamber; first cause, one Roumage, swindler; second cause, one Lamennais, writer.

This has a good effect, and accustoms the citizens to talk without distinction of writers and swindlers.

That, certainly, is an advantage; but in a practical point of view, with reference to "repression," is the government quite sure of what it has done on that head?
Is it quite sure that the sixth chamber will answer better than the excellent assize court of Paris, for instance, which had for president such abject creatures as Partarrieu-Lafosse, and for advocates at its bar, such base wretches as Suin, and such dull orators as Mongis?
Can it reasonably expect that the police judges will be still more base and more contemptible than they?
Will those judges, salaried as they are, work better than that jury-squad, who had the department prosecutor for corporal, and who pronounced their judgments and gesticulated their verdicts with the precision of a charge in double quick time, so that the prefect of police, Carlier, good-humouredly observed to a celebrated advocate, M.
Desm----: "_The jury! what a stupid institution! When not forced to it they never condemn, but when forced they never acquit._" Let us weep for that worthy jury which was made by Carlier and unmade by Rouher.
This government feels that it is hideous.