30 THE LANDED INTEREST. 



forty-six to two hundred and sixty millions 

 sterling, a gain of one hundred and fourteen 

 millions, 

 and in that It will be subsequently shown, when treating 



of land. 



of the value of land, that within a somewhat 

 shorter period the increase of the land-rent of 

 this country, when capitalised at thirty years' 

 purchase, shows an increased value of three 

 hundred and thirty-one millions sterling. When 

 we add to this the increase of farm capital, 

 through the rise in the value of live-stock, one 

 hundred and fourteen millions, there is the 

 amazing sum of four hundred and forty-five 

 millions sterling as the gain to the agriculturists 

 the landowners and farmers and, in higher 

 wages, to the agricultural labourers of the 

 United Kingdom, from the improvement of land 

 and the general prosperity of the country. I 

 may, perhaps, be excused for quoting the 

 concluding words of my volume, written in 

 1851, at a time of great agricultural depression, 

 when I stated that I believed the landlords 

 and tenants of England possessed energy and 

 capacity sufficient to meet and adapt themselves 



