GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



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depreciation of Protestantism. They contend- 

 ed that as Protestants were bound by law to 

 abstain from all religious teaching during the 

 secular hours, and also from attacks upon other 

 church systems, the Roman Catholics ought 

 to bo guided by the saiuy rules as required by 

 the Education Act. The deputation also com- 

 plained that, while Protestants were prohibit- 

 ed fn mi appointing ministers or clergymen as 

 teachers, the Roman Catholic schools were 

 taught by the various orders of the Roman 

 Catholic priesthood in contempt of this general 

 rule. The Rev. Dr. Rule produced the books 

 to which references were made. The Duke of 

 Richmond and Gordon, in reply, said that the 

 books to which the deputation had referred 

 should be looked into, and their complaints 

 considered. A few days afterward Cardinal 

 Manning, presiding at a meeting in aid of the 

 Catholic Poor School Committee, referring to 

 this deputation, said that the school-books had 

 been carefully revised a few years ago, so that 



they might be made to conform to the law ; 

 and, although they contained relereir 

 Home Catholic practices, ouch an pilgrimages, 

 it was merely in the way ot history, and if that 

 were forbidden they might as well forbid ge- 

 ography and geology. 



Early in the year the Home Secretary issued 

 a volume which had been several years in 

 preparation, the design of which was to show 

 the number of landholders, and the amount 

 and condition of their estates, in England and 

 Wales, not including the metropolis. It is 

 commonly known as "The New Doomsday- 

 Book." It gives a complete list of the land- 

 owners in the kingdom, great and small, with 

 the extent of the estate of each, and its rental 

 value. The following is a summary of the num- 

 ber ot land-owners, with the relative extent and 

 gross amount of their possessions, showing also 

 the rental values of their estates, and the rela- 

 tive proportion of the estates of each class to 

 the whole landed property of the kingdom : 



ENGLAND AND WALES. 



The following table exhibits in like manner the distribution of the land in Scotland : 



SCOTLAND. 



The book also gives tables of the average of the kingdom. The average for the whole 

 value of the produce per acre in each county of England and Wales is 3 per acre, and 



