28 Expiration of Leases at Lismore. 



gested to the mind without enviable expect- 

 ations. Although the progress of improve- 

 ments, generally speaking, is slow, yet means 

 of accomplishing, at once, what under ordinary 

 circumstances would require the duration of a 

 long life to effect, sometimes occur. All the 

 leases on this part of the Duke of Devonshire's 

 property are now about to expire. When this 

 circumstance is taken into consideration, with 

 the time of life at which his Grace has suc- 

 ceeded to the honours and patrimonial estates 

 of his family, what an opportunity offers it- 

 self for patriotic improvement, and giving an 

 example for the imitation of others. Here 

 might practices easily be established, which 

 would have the effect of a school for teaching a 

 better system of husbandry, and the management 

 of all rural affairs. Hence might conviction be 

 so forced on the incredulous, and diffused 

 among the laborious orders, that no doubt would 

 remain of their comfort becoming increased in 

 the ratio of their exertions, and their happiness 

 secured in proportion to the confidence they 

 reposed in their employers, and their obedience 

 and respect for the laws of the land. The 

 Irish car, and the long handled shovel, would 

 soon give place to the Cumberland cart, and 

 garden spade, whilst every other approved im- 

 plement, and species of management, by being 

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