J<*Vi corn, — Jltnt under Satire Government, 



l>een so fortunate jus to receive land nearly rent-free; 

 nil ho* they might perhaps have had a claim to a pro- 

 portionate release from any other possible assessuienf*. 



Ah illumed out, the greatest portion of the loans of 

 rice and money, which had heen humanely made to 

 the emigrants hy tlie Government, was applied to other 

 purposes 1 1 lad cultivation, and was lost. That a capi- 

 tal ha* hern generated on the soil by little else than the 

 mere labor of the ryot, is a fact which every day's ex- 

 perience now proves, in the increasing- intensity of the 

 demand for wasteland without much reference toils 

 qualify where that is not very poor. When population 

 was deficient, land excepting the richest, or that very 

 fu\ ;)i;;l>!\ >i:uated, could bo had for a mere nominal 

 rent, or really for nothing ; but the case was materi- 

 ally altered when, instead of having 5,000 persons of 

 all ages to feed, there were 15,000 persons, as in 1824. 



To have given land then, for nothing, would have 

 only taught a population to set little or no value on 

 what had become really valuable, and tvowld have 

 called form no more exertion than was simply requir- 

 ed to supply a pressing demand for food : thus de- 

 priving the community of itiat surplus produce which 

 would naturally be otherwise created, and the State of 

 that ,air portion of general rents required for the public 

 expenses. The benefits on both hands were reci pro- 

 cat, ami could not be disunited without one of them 

 suffering. O.ie great advantage was derived to the 

 lot on prosperity of the Province in the facilities af- 

 forded for making a pretty equal distribution of the 

 lands. The allotments have varied, on the average, 

 from twoorlongs, which a mau with a wife and house- 

 hold of perhaps five or six persona can cultivate, uf* 

 to 40 orlongs, a quantity which some of the respecta- 

 ble ryots, who bad many debtor -servants and larger 

 komi -holds, can manage. 



