At first the high prices which Corn bore, enabled 

 the occupiers to pay the trifling rent, as well as the 

 tax ; but as Corn declined in price, they became un- 

 able to pay both. The taxes were in most instances 

 paid, but the rent was suffered to run in arrear, from 

 the impossibility of extracting it from the tenants. 

 I was informed by a very intelligent gentleman, who 

 had sufficient means of information, that most of the 

 occupiers of the Royal domains whose rent was ten 

 years in arrears, had been forgiven the whole, on pro- 

 mising to make the payments regularly in future ; a 

 promise they are in general unable to fulfil, from the 

 great additional fall in the price of Corn which has 

 since taken place. 



These national domains are of such various qua- 

 lities, and in such different localities, that it is difficult 

 to find what is the average rent of them per acre. 

 Some of them are let as high as 3s. Sd. per acre, a 

 much larger proportion at Is. 2d. and a larger still 

 from 6d. to Qd. As far as my means of information 

 can enable me to form a judgment, I should not esti- 

 mate the average rent to exceed, if it reaches Is. 3d. 

 per acre. The farm of Subbowitz, whose produce is 

 noticed in the Appendix, No. 11, which is considered 

 fair average land, consists of about 1,720 acres, and 

 is let for 158/. 12s. Id. sterling per year. That of 

 Subkau, also noticed in the same statement, consist- 

 ing of 3,054 acres, is some of the best land, the rent 

 of which is about 552/. 11s. 8d. sterling per annum. 



These two farms, with the others, noticed in the 

 same paper, are occupied by some of the most skilful 

 cultivators of the district ; and yet the accounts show, 

 that small as the rent is, and judicious as the ma- 

 nagement may be, the produce falls short of the cost 

 of production, even though the rent should be given 

 up. 



Although the Royal domains are here noticed, 

 they bear a small proportion to the whole land, in 



