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had the advantage of some thirty folio paged besides—jQamply , the ^ Report *— -in which to assign phe reasons for the co ^ c ^ Leftce which they entertained . The dissenter a , in effect , stole that the voluntary plan , in a systematic form , has been tried add found wanting . This they support successfully , by reference to the state of the-mendicity societies and dispensaries in Ireland * And they conclude by recommending the application of the Eng " - lish Poor-law system to Ireland ,
The signers , then , are for the voluntary system , with a legal administrative form ; while the dissenters are for a legal com * pulsbry mode of collecting , as well as of administering , relief , vr There has lately been published a valuable work * on lxelani by Mr George C . Lewis ( son of Mr F . Lewis , Chairman oJ tne English lioard , ) who was an Assistant Commissioner , on the Irish Inquiry Commission . This gentleman also concludes in fevbur of a legal provision for the poor in Ireland . We have now before us tne opinion of Mr Re vans , f tpfctf thtw describes his qualifications for the task he had undertaken : —
" Having held the office of Secretary to the Poor Law Inquity for England and Wales , which led to the amendment of the laws in . 1834 , and subsequently that of Secretary to the Poor Inquiry ComtaisiHMi in Ireland , I have had peculiar opportunities foT contrasting iL tftate of society in which the most extensive public provision for the d $ stir tute has long been established , with one in which there is adlittie
public provision as in any country in Europe . No other person hafe enjoyed equal opportunities , for no other person was engaged od both inquiries . The power of making the contrast is thus almost peculiarly mine . It becomes therefore my duty , as a public servant , to lay the knowledge which favourable circumstances have enabled me id
acquire before the country , in order that it may come to a cOrr * et jtid £ - ment respecting the important subject in the inquiry about which 1 was appointed to assist . I would hope that , by thus attempting to be useful , I take the best means of showing myself worthy of the two important trusts which his Majesty ' s Government thought fit to confer upon me . "
This work opens with a mass of evidence descriptire of the wretched condition of the Irish people . Mr Revans then proceeds to prove the following important propositions : — That , in the absence of a poor-law , if the peasantry ha ^ e not land , they must beg , steal , or starve ; ^/ That to obtain land , owing- to the competition , tfcey at » eotapeiled £ o promise to pay any rent which may be demanded ^ * - <** That the consequence is , they become involved to their
lanH-* Ort irfMMri Disturbances in Ireland , and on the Irish Church QueaUmv . B . v *^ l lowei , Ludgate street . ( t ¦ „ ' f Tfrm ;^ vm of ^ St ^ U of Ireland ; their Cawes , and iheir Remedy— , a ' ^< w » r Law . Jofin Hatcliard a | ul 5 bn . . . : <
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Poor Lawijbr Ireland , 51 ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 513, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/53/
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