One-fifth of People connected with Land. 45 



male adult population ; and it is thence not un- 

 reasonable to infer that, in that proportion, the 

 people of this country are more or less interested 

 in the preservation of landed property. 



When we come more closely to analyse the 

 landowning class, the aggregation of land 

 amongst small numbers becomes very conspi- 

 cuous. One-fourth of the whole territory, ex- 

 cluding those under one acre, is held by 1,200 

 persons, at an average for each of 16,200 acres ; 

 another fourth by 6,200 persons, at an average 

 for each of 3,150 acres; another fourth by 

 50,770 persons, at an average for each of 380 

 acres ; whilst the remaining fourth is held by 

 261,830 persons, at an average for each of 70 

 acres. An interesting compilation from the 

 Domesday Books by the Scotsman newspaper, 

 shows that the Peerage of the United Kingdom, One-fifth 



of the 



about 600 in number, possess among them rather land held 



by the 



more than a fifth of all the land, and between a Peerage. 



tenth and an eleventh of its annual income. 



The great bulk of the land in the United Not culti- 

 vated by 

 Kingdom is not cultivated by the owners, but owners but 



by tenant- 

 by tenant-occupiers. Of these there are 561,000 farmers; 



