text: " Then the Radical journals teemed with joyful paragraphs announcing that Sir Robert Peel's ministry was already crumbling to pieces! The farmers it would seem were every where up in arms; confusion (and something a vast deal worse!) was drunk at all their meetings to Peel! Nevertheless these happy things came not to pass; Sir Robert Peel's Ministry _would_ not fall to pieces; and the curses of the farmers came not so fast or loud as their eager disinterested friends could have wished! To be serious the alteration of the Corn-Laws was undoubtedly a very bold one but the result of most anxious and profound consideration