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 respective purchasers. And further, by considerably extending the term of years, the yearly rent and redemption payment made together actually a smaller amount than the current marketable rental.

One of the happiest features concluding the case, and a result not entirely unexpected, although the reality probably exceeded all expectation, was the substantial advance in landed value all over Ireland, as this great territorial resettlement approached its completion. The effect of this advance was to diffuse at once financial ease and comparative plenty, together with all the contentment of such a condition, throughout the whole country. In after years Ireland's exceptional land limitation measure, when no longer required, was repealed; and with this the last lingering difference between the two sides of the Channel was finally abolished.