236 ON THE STATE OF IRELAND. [BOOK III. 



raised by the proceedings of the Board shall be promptly 

 and justly decided, we recommend that the president or 

 vice-president, and such two of the judges of the Courts of 

 King's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer, as shall 

 from time to time be appointed for the purpose, shall con- 

 stitute a Court of Review and Record, with power to hear 

 and determine the several matters we shall mention, and 

 to act with or without a jury, or to direct issues of fact 

 where it may think proper. 



We shall now state the duties which we think should 

 be respectively assigned to the Board of Improvement and 

 to the Court of Review. 



We recommend that the Board of Improvement shall 

 be authorized to appoint Commissioners, from time to 

 time, to make a survey, valuation, and partition of any 

 waste lands in Ireland. There is abundant evidence be- 

 fore the public of the very great benefits that may thus 

 be conferred upon the country. " Upon these lands," 

 Mr. Arthur Young observed nearly sixty years ago, " is 

 to be practised the most profitable husbandry in the king's 

 dominions." The Commissioners appointed to inquire 

 into the state of the bogs of Ireland in 1 809 reported to 

 the like effect ; and committee after committee of the 

 House of Commons have done the same thing. 



The following extracts from a Report made in 1830 by 

 a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to in- 

 quire into the state of the Irish poor, appear to us parti- 

 cularly clear and satisfactory on the subject. 



" The possibility of recovering the bog and mountain- 

 ous districts of Ireland has long been the matter of par- 

 liamentary attention. In 1809 a Commission was issued 

 which completed a most minute and scientific inquiry, 



