text:  Such has been the result of all the deep-laid schemes of Lord Auckland's policy and the equivalent obtained for the thousands of lives and millions of treasure lavished in support of them;--failure so complete that but for the ruins of desolated cities and the deep furrows of slaughter and devastation left visible through the length and breadth of the land the whole might be regarded as a dream from which the country had awakened after the lapse of five years to take up the thread of events as they were left at the end of 1838