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to 40,000, who hold landed property yielding an 

 annual rent of not less than $500, the number rap 

 idly diminishing as the annual rent increases. The 

 incomes of the wealthiest range from 100,000 to 

 1,500,000 per annum. A hundred years ago the 

 landholders of England were numbered at 230,000, 

 which number has ever since been rapidly dimin 

 ishing by the purchase of the lands belonging to the 

 thriftless and wasteful, by the more prudent and 

 wealthy. 



The Marquis of Bredalbane rides from his house a 

 hundred miles in a straight line to the sea, on his 

 own property. The Duke of Sutherland owns the 

 entire county of that name, stretching across Scot 

 land from sea to sea. The Duke of Devonshire, be 

 sides his other estates, owns 96,000 acres in the 

 county of Derby. The Duke of Richmond has 

 40,000 acres at Goodwood, and 300,000 at Gordon 

 Castle. The Duke of Norfolk s park in Sussex, is 

 fifteen miles in circuit. An agriculturist recently 

 bought the island of Lewis, in the Hebrides, con 

 taining 500,000 acres. These vast domains are con 

 stantly growing larger. The great estates are ab 

 sorbing the smaller freeholds as opportunity offers. 

 The great landholders never sell. 



Wherever slavery has cursed the soil of this coun 

 try by its presence, the same process of absorption 

 has been going on. Mr. Clay, of Alabama, gives 

 the following gloomy picture 



&quot; I can show you, with sorrow, in the older portions of 

 Alabama, and in my native county of Madison, the sad me- 



