When Lord John Russell proposed, in 1850, in a speech of great good taste, a monument to the memory of Sir Robert Peel, he very naturally looked back, not merely to the 40 Crisis of the Anti-Corn Law movement which had brought them together, but to the long struggles of 30 years before; and Lord John Russell said, in very becoming language—"I will not enter into the nature of the measures with which his name is associated;" and, again—"This is not the time to consider particular opinions or particular measures".

The reason given for that is that there has been a lack of Anti Crisis measures.