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horses, and gives daily employment on his farms to 600 

 men, including those who are making drains, &c. The 

 whole of this extensive establishment is managed in the 

 most orderly and systematic way — each department has 

 its separate head, who is answerable for it alone — and 

 the quiet and regular progress with which everything is 

 going on at once convinces the spectator that the ruling 

 mind here is defective neither in energy nor skill. It is 

 a great and most important experiment, and assuredly 

 deserves to be successful. 



Landlords generally, even those of the highest class 

 in the empire, might do well to take a lesson from the 

 example of Lord Lucan. He has not thought it beneath 

 his station to acquire an intimate practical knowledge of 

 his own business — the management of his estate. 

 The want of this essential requisite to the profitable 

 ownership of land, has done more to retard the agricul- 

 tural advancement of the country than can well be cal- 

 culated. It has led to the very general appointment of 

 a class of agents unqualified by previous education for 

 the important duties they ought to perform. It has 

 exhibited an unreasoning jealousy towards prosperous 

 farmers, whose exertions, instead of being encouraged, 

 are only regarded as a source of increased rent. It has 

 crushed, by culpable negligence, the efforts of the indus- 

 trious tenant, willing to struggle against adverse times, 

 if only fairly met by a considerate landlord. It forms 

 the true solution of the different success which distin- 

 guishes the commercial and manufacturing capitalist 

 from the great landlord. The first makes his business 



