If, then, competition, generated by a very minute subdivision of landed property, has produced these
subject at a Farmers' Club, in Cork. A body of gentlemen who it appears are engaged in framing a bill to regulate the tenure of land.
"Mr. Keller said that no arguments could convince him of the justice of preventing a father giving a portion of his farm, if he had one, to his son. It would be preposterous and unjust to prevent him. He held suppose, 300 acres, and saw his boys growing up around him, and helping to cultivate the land, yet he was not to have the power to settle any of them on a part of it, even though it was of sufficient extent to admit of ten divisions. Mr. Dill said, subletting did not include devising of interest, or the handing over of a portion from one to another. The object of the clause was to prevent a man taking a farm at say its real value from his landlord and turn the holder, constituting himself a middleman or second landlord, and subletting it to some unfortunate person at a higher rate, pocketing the difference.Mr. Carroll said, suppose a farm of 500 acres had on it build-
state of agriculture in France as exemplified by the most recent statistics.
"Some curious statistics have come out in connection with the inquiry into the state of French agriculture, although the report of the commissioners has not yet been drawn up. There is a dearth of capital, of labour, and intelligence, and the division of property is asserted to be a great impediment to improvement. The agriculturists say that the population does not increase because agriculture makes no progress, and that France could not feed more people than at present. Since 1821 the French importation of corn has exceeded the exportation by more than thirty-five million hectolitres (twenty-two gallons each), and within the last twenty years the price of cattle has doubled, though the importation exceeds the exportation. These two facts show how little progress has been made, as France well cultivated would not be forced to import corn, nor
