text:  What courage was requisite to grapple with this giant difficulty! What practical skill; what patience and resolution; what exact yet extensive acquaintance with mercantile affairs; what a comprehensive discernment of consequences; what firm impartiality in deciding between vast conflicting interests were here evinced! And observe--all these great measures effecting a complete revolution in our domestic economy and policy--the fruits of only a few months accession to office of a Conservative Ministry! All the while that the Radical press was assailing them on the ground of their insolent and cruel disregard of their duty and of the sufferings of the people they were engaged upon the united labours of enquiry and reflection on which alone can have been safely based the great measures which we have been briefly reviewing! "But all these " says some faithful mourner after the deceased Ministry "they intended to have done and would have done _if they could_