British Agriculture. 
331 = 65 
I am indebted to the Earl of Powis for the following inte- 
resting particulars in the business relations of the Crown with 
itj agricultural tenants : — 
The average rental of the agricultural land of the Crown General con(U- 
Estates is at present rather more than 32s. 6rf. per acre. Nearly Crown 
the whole of it is let in farms of various sizes, on agricultural Farms are let. 
leases of 21 years' duration, subject to the reservation of all 
trees and substrata. The tenants are to reside on the premises : 
to cultivate according to the best mode of husbandry in the 
district : within the last three years of the termination of the 
lease not to sow two white crops in succession, or to plant on 
the same land more than one crop of potatoes. The tenants 
to be entitled to one-half of the money expended by them in 
the last year of the term in the purchase of linseed, cotton, and 
rape-cake consumed on the premises, but not to an amount ex- 
ceeding one-half of the average expenditure for such articles 
during each of the three preceding years. The right of shooting 
and sporting is not reserved from the tenants, except under very 
special circumstances. New buildings are constructed, and 
existing buildings improved, and under-drainage, roads, and 
other permanent improvements executed at the cost of the 
Crown. Terms of renewal are proposed to desirable tenants, 
two years before the expiration of lease. 
Charity Estates. 
The value and extent of land held in trust for charities in Charity 
England alone is very considerable. Inclusive of rent-charges ^^'^^^^ = 
and fixed annual payments, the gross annual rental exceeds 
1,558,000/., derived from 524,000 acres of land, and the houses 
built thereon. Besides this, the Charity Trusts possess in 
Government Stock and other personalty, nearly 20,000,000/., 
yielding an annual income of 640,000/. Their total income their value, 
from real and personal property is thus close upon 2,200,000/. 
This great property is held in separate endowments in all parts 
of England, in number estimated at about 50,000, which are 
administered by various bodies of trustees, such as Municipal 
Trustees, Ministers, and Parish Officers, and in many cases by 
persons who may be termed private trustees, or such as are not 
trustees in virtue of holding any especial office. These have 
been placed by Parliament under the general superintendence of 
a Government Department, the Charity Commission, which 
reports annually to Parliament upon the administration of the 
charities over which they possess necessary power of control. 
The principal objects to which the funds were appropriated by 
the founders of the charities are education, apprenticing, and 
