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Division Of Real Estate

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
May
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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T ho Phihidelphia Ledger, in an article on the subject of the distress in Europe, gives the following ns the main cause which lead to the unpaiaileled suffering in Ire'.and iind Scolland. " But thegieat curse of Ireland, and inHeed of England r.d Scotlaml, now unkuown inFrance and Celgium, is the accuinulation of the land in the hand.3 of a few tafds, and its cullivation by tenant wiio are itarved to pay reñís. But by the Uevo'uticn of 1789, all the estáte of the Fiench nobility and clergy, in óthor words, all the lurids in the kingdcm.were oonfiscated and sold in small f:inns ; and by the iaws of distribütion which have prev-iuled in thit country ever since, an state, on the decease of the owner, is equnlly divided aniong all his children or other h'oiis. , The jame system has beon ndopied in Be'gium, andas a ennsequenco in each country, landed estates aio now smal!, and every man owns the !;u;d ihat l,e cultivates. But in Ire'and, no', a spade or a plough is ever put into a foot of boil by its owuer ; not an acre ís culiivated, exceptirg by a poor tenant, who paysTin onormous rent, which is divid'e i among three or four iutermediata ngeriis nrid the landlord, tlie latter continüally absent, and spending the rents thus e.xtortcd Trom the ragged Odltivator, at foreign gnmbling tables, and in dlssilialion ;it fureign watcring-placos. The contract bolween Frunce or Belgium, and Ireland, ought to ppoak in tonesof thunder to every State of our Union, opon ihe tenuresof lani, nginst its accumulati m iniarge'esuiies."

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