The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-30
The Ownership o f Land in England.

England show a remarkable diminution
in the number of landowners, as sep
arate class, in that realm. According to
the census of 1861, the total number of
landowners was 80, 736-15, ,131 gentle
men, and Is, ,635 ladies. The census of
1851 showed nearly the same figures.
But that of 1871 shows a sudden and re-
markab1e reduction. The total thus
classed is but 22,924. of whom IA, 191
are gentleman, and 8, 733 are ladies'.
At the first glance these figures would
seem to show that the great evil of En-
gland-the ownership of so large por-
ton of it's real estate by landed aris-
tocracy, small in nnumbers-wasg growing
from year to year. Indeed, such has
been the conclusion 1eaped at by some
persons who should know better, and
some editorial or other rhetoric has
been wasted on the assumption that the
Gland monopoly" in England is be-
coming still more complete. The facts
are. however, the other way, as every
careful student of English social science
knows. The land-holding aristoeracy
are less powerful now than they were
twenty years ago, and are steadily los
ing power and prestige every year.
These census figures, when under
stood in their proper Significance, har-
monize with and confirm the other facts
which show that the land monopoly is
being broken. The persons classed as
Gland owners by the census are mere
from their land They include only a
very small fraction of those who really
own land in England. The class is in
tended to cover only the holders sof
large estates, who live on their rents
and have no other business. This is
the express declaration of the census it
self. The logic of the decrease in num-
bers of the class called :" landowners %
in the census returns is, therefore, that
the numbers and power of the landed
gentry is decreasing instead of increas-
ing, and that the land is passing away
slowly but surely from the hands of the
landed aristocracy into the possession
of manufacturers, builders, farmers
bankers and tradesmen.-Dctroit ITd6
ak72e.
The Unconscious Action Of the Brain
1t may be taken as one of the com
monest mental experiences of most mel
| that fact, and especially a name, which
they endeavor to remember, which es
capes from the determinate effort o
recollection, often suddenly jumps, a
it were, into the recollection withou
effort, after they have been thinking o
other matters. DR.. Carpenter explain
this by the theory that the part of tn
brain engaged in storing up and repro
ducing past impressions is not the sam
part of the brain which is engaged il
the consciousness of those Impressions
or in the consciousness of their reproduc
tion and that after the seat of con
sciousness has given up its futile labor
Il n0& s@E mn q
tinues it's activity, and when ithas uncon
sciously brought its work to a success
full issue it communicates the result t.
the seat of consciousness and then
and not before. the fact is consc1ousl.
remembered. Upon this we must re
mark that the conscious effort to com
mand the memory, without guide
clew. is generally and singularly unsuc
cessful in result. The only way to sue
ceed in remembering some forgottel
thing is to seek some clew, some threae
of ideal association which may lead u
! to it. The direct bold effort falls, 10
the simple reason that the attention
fixed unon the effort, and not upon tn
! idea sought. Withdraw the enort' an an
the attention fixes upon the idea. In
, roamo,-v of the thing was in the brain
must have been there all the time, or
could never again have been remem
bered. Memory is latent power, an
always unconscious. Recollection ]
the mental activity which opens tn
cells of memory to the consciousness
| and recollection, therefore must alway
be conscious. That any portion {
brain work is done unconsciously in th
act of recollection, is a theory to whic
we cannot subscribe without fl
: stronger evidence than any which "
, have yet seen adduced.-Dr. Buck7ail
J an Popular Science Mosathtu.
SEVEN sons of Ezra Price, of Brool
lyn, met at Norwich, few days sine
after separation of fifty years. Thel
{ brothers, despite their ages, have game
: some notoriety as postal-card writer
Edmund, 66 years old, wrote on car,
: last year, 2, 700 words, for which he r
j ceived diploma at the American ms
. tute Fair, and since then he has write
on one g, 300 words from the Psalms.