io8 THE LANDED INTEREST. 



yielding a gross rent of 10,000. If he were 

 enabled to sell 2,000 acres, which might fetch a 

 residential price of 100 an acre, or 200,000, 

 retaining his family seat and 8,000 acres: his 

 rental would then be 8,000, plus the interest at 

 4 per cent, of 200,000 8,000. These sums 

 together would make an income of 16,000, or 

 60 per cent, more than he had before. He 

 would thus at once find himself in funds and in 

 spirits to go on with the improvement of the 

 remainder of his estate, while the neighbourhood 

 would have the advantage of a circulation of 

 fresh capital and ideas, to brighten a scene 

 formerly rendered gloomy by dissatisfied in- 

 difference. Landowners who are precluded 

 by entail or settlement from using this natural 

 advantage of their position, are deprived of an 

 incalculable benefit to themselves and their 

 families. 

 Settle- To a certain extent this has already been 



ments 



should be discovered, and there are probably no settle- 

 limited 



lives h 

 being. 



limited to 



lives in ments of land now made without considerable 



powers of sale. The principle is recognised, 

 and may with great benefit be extended and 



