150 The Landed Interest. 



advanced out of the public Treasury. If the 

 Ifextended security for repayment of the advance is good 



to England 



and Scot- in Ireland, it would be doubly good in Eng- 

 land would 

 be more land and Scotland, and if the infusion amongst 



rapidly ap- 

 propriated, the body of landowners in the sister country 



of some proportion of the Irish tenantry is 

 regarded as beneficial, much more would such 

 advantageous results be likely to be secured 

 by the addition of a body of more educated 

 and enterprising agriculturists to the landlords 

 of Great Britain. There is not a single reason 

 in favour of exceptional aid from the public 

 Treasury for Ireland that is not equally ap- 

 plicable to the rest of the United Kingdom, 

 and, if such aid can be given without injury 

 to other interests, the extension of the " Bright 

 ' Clauses" of the Irish Land Act to England 



and Scotland would be followed by a much more 

 rapid appropriation of their advantages to the 

 farmer than they have yet met with in Ireland. 

 There are landed estates in almost every county 

 in Great Britain, coming from time to time into 

 the market, which are not sufficiently residential 

 to attract great capitalists, but which would be 



