THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW; OR, EUROPEAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL. "In primisque hominis est propria veri inquisitio atque investigatio." N° VIII. CICERO DE OFF. LONDON: JAMES RIDGWAY AND SONS, PICCADILLY. THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW. ARTICLE I. Third Report of the Irish Poor Inquiry Commissioners. Remarks on the Evidence taken in the Poor Inquiry, con tained in Appendices, D, E, and F. Commissioners (Mr. BICHENO). On Local Disturbances in Ireland, &c. CORNEWALL LEWIS, Esq. By one of the By GEORGE Evils of the State of Ireland,-their Causes and their Remedy,-a Poor Law. By JOHN REVANS, Esq. London and Westminster Review, Article IV. " Poor Laws in Ireland." Of the many works on the State of Ireland which have issued from the press within the last twelve months, the above are, beyond all question, the most important. The two first are official; the three next are semi-official; whilst the last is a calm and philosophical examination, not only of the question to which they relate, but also of their manner of dealing with the evidence. Although the works which we have quoted are very far from agreeing upon a remedy for the evils which they unfoldthe official publications being opposed to a poor law, and the rest in favour of such a measure-they have, nevertheless, all contributed to lay bare the misery of Ireland to the people of this country; and the result has been-notwithstanding any thing which may have been said or written to the contrary |