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Our readers are doubtless familiar with the fact that a Commission was issued to inquire into the condition of the poor in Ireland , and to determine upon a mode or modes of relief , if such should prove requisite . This Commission collected an immense quantity of information on the developing of the social state of the sister kingdom , part of which was laid before Parliament last session , and the othe , r portion from time to time during the present session . This evidence is valuable both for its intrinsic merits
and for tlie admirable manner in which it is arranged . From the unwield y form in which commissioners and committees but too often submit the result of their labours to the public , they are almost always fruitful solely of expense . The merit of the arrangement by which tins mass of evidence was collected , as well as of the tangible shape in which it now appears , is due , of course , to Mr Revans ; upon whom , as the Secretary to the Commission ,
this duty devolved Upon this evidence certain of the Commissioners professed to prepare a Kep ^ rt . Those who assented as well as those who dissented have published their reasons , in a separate form , for the course they pursued . The Report is a disgrace to its authors , who , if we exonerate them from every other charge , are still open to that of having been guiLty of the moet utter recklessness in dealing with a most important subject ; so much so , that we feel warranted in dealing "
with their Report as a production entitled to the smallest possible respect . In support 01 this we take the following exposure from an admirable article on the question of poor laws for Ireland , in the last number of the " London He view . " The main argument of the Commissioners against poor laws is ihe fallowing : —
"If workhouses were Qetermin&l upon for Ireland as an actual raeaps of relief , they mutt be established for the jpurpose of setting vast numbers of unemployed pejrwxnt b » work witiwv them , and of bo providing for such pettont aod their ftuuUfsy Now , according to ' tbfe third table aiKiemed * we cannot estimate the number of persons in Ireland < mt of work and in distress during thirty weeks of Uie y ^ ar at
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POOR LAWS FOR IRELAND .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/50/
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