text:  The ominous words of Sir Robert Peel--"I think that the connexion of the manufacturers in the north of England with the joint-stock banks gave an undue and improper impulse to trade in that quarter of the country"--rang in their ears as a knell; and told them that they were _found out_ by a firm and sagacious Minister whom therefore their sole object thenceforth must be to overthrow _per fas aut nefas_