The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-09
SCOTCH ESTATES.

Landlordism In the Land o Cakes-
What the Aristocracy Has Grasped for
Class Uses-ssTh0mas Carlyle 1885,"
London correspondence OF Dundee Advertiser.l
A blue book OF considerable interest to those
persons who concern themselves about the in
comes OF landlords was issued to-day. It ia q re-
turn OF the names OF all landlords In Scotland,
with the number ana value OF their acres; and
though in part copied from the valuation rolls OF
the countless the fact that contains ali the coun
ties in Q collected form Will enable any one to
.trackr landowners from one shire TO another,
and 90 obtain some idea Of their gross incomes It
seems that the total number OF landowners In
Scotland is 1850, and that the gross an
nual value OF their lands Is Gls,ees, so4,
which is somewhere about three millions
The county naying the largest number Of proprie-
File, OF atPisces In the world, comes next with
To- 30; then Lanark, with el17; ana then Ayr
none Of them possessing more than 5000. Perth
has 8, 1877; ForSar, 1884, and Aberdeen, 448o. The
gross annual value Of Fl. asa Ayr comes
lss. then Fife. with ssos 5li; then Aberdeen, with
compared with these, tine othess are poor indeed
the richest being Edlnburgh, Dumfries, Rem
hall : miiea. the - oo.pw 81 S1 inverness ness,
az 3. e:nss shire IN seosisaa worth ont; only
return shows sna 81 far the richest in lana q
course tue Durgh Of Glasgow, whose annual value
33I; then Dundee with something less than $780,
600; Then Paisley, which beats Greonock and Aber-
ass hsn he lsss w wS
The annual value or Leith b about E 900 less than
Aberdeen. Perth IL tine only other burgh shown
2o,ooo-and It's value is sSsoo2. Tue town 81 Edin.
bnrgh has over 1000 prcprietors.n 1000
1883 and the oiDer towns with the exception Of
GreenOck, not much above ], 900 each.
Passing from places to persons, one finds that,
putting aside railway companies, by far
THE RICHEST PRoPRiEroR m SCOTLAND
is his Grace 81 Buccleuch and Queensferry, whose
It is over eos 500 for Edinburgh 1t Is over f37O00
for ROxbu ghshire, over f30, 900; and for SelkirK
Serass lesser ones Is Elsa sOe which, or scotcn
Duke, " certainly an income worth having. The
other proprietors measured By the standard OF
The Duke OF HamilrOns rent roll in the counties or
Butte and Lanark amounts to almost f120.000
iarsnirs. Bsnsnire, Moraysnsre, and Aberdeen
shire, Is valued at nearly 100000. The Earl OF
Seaneld. who has lands In Inverness-shire, Banfr-
<7l.50o. The Duke OF Argyll more illustrious than
both, has lands to she value OF f45,o00 In Argyll.
colleague, the Earl OF Daihousie, draws nearly
ESQ 900 out OF the Foriarshire and $50 from the
and tie Earl o. trustees are Wort
between them more than $3.50 per annum. The
Duke OF Atnole's estates in Perthshire are valued
at 756. The Ear OF Aberdeen Is put down for
somewhere about $4,000 and his neighbour the
Earl OF KintOre for f32 900. The Marquis OF Butte,
who, oil course, has large estates In England Into
the bargain, has rent roll In Scotland
OF over 10000. Lord Lovat In Inverness shire
draws from his estates f2s 900 q year, the Ear; OF
Mansfield about $40, 000 the Earl OF AirIie nearly
$4,000, the Earl OF Southesk upwards of x2O,OO0
the Earl OF Klnnoun ABOUT sl5, 600, Lord Kinnaird
and SIR Archibald Steuart, OF Aurthy. upwards of
$4,000, the Marquis OF Hunty x11,000. and the
Earl OF OamperdOwn nearly x12,000. Among
others IN your district the lands belonging to the
CLAIMS Trs1gteeg are valued at nearly E21 600 Sir
r. Anotrnth0eB estates IN Catthness-shtre and
PifeSkiro grs volesd togetner 1t nearly 600.
the nChe6t pFoprfetor 10 the county or Fife u Mr..
Baitsur q Bsi6irkie, who b credited with ESQ
year. The eccentric Colonel 81 st. Martins has
lands to the value OF about E15,O00 per annum,
and his equally eccentric netghb0r, Sir r. Menzies,
to the value OF 48500. In the lar north the Duke
OF sutherland II vnIued ~ $751; 900 year.
Locnlci at 81, S3O and the proper Macintosh at
fl2,S ~ ~
AMONG ORLyBRITTB
owning lands In Scotland the Queen, as owner OF
Balmors Castle, ~ valued At q, S02 per annum,
the Prince Of Wales m owner Of Birkhall, near
Baiater. at E5l6 l2a, and Thomas Carlyle (perhaps
the greatest celebrity OF the lott at f250-the an
naaI value OF the estate OF Craigenputtoch, Dunn
frlcsshire,