The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-03 00:00:00

THE CANADIAN LEGISLATURE.

In reply to Col. FRENCH,
Sir G. GREY said that he had received no information
as to the Governor-General of Canada having dismissed the
Canadian Parliament without any authority from Govern
ment.

TRANSFER OF LAND BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. WALPOLE presented petitions from certain legal
bodies in different parts of the United Kingdom praying
against the bill in its present form, and that amendments
should be introduced for the purpose of
giving effect to the
recommendations of the comwission of 1854.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in moving the second
reading of this bill, referred to the advantages which had
resulted in Ireland from the alteration which had taken
place in the sale and transfer of land. The right hon.
gentleman then described the present state of the law orl
this subject, and said that the object of this bill was to
f the com-
missioners remedy the existing defects. It was proposed by the bill to
afford additional facilities for the transfer of land
away with those unnecessary restrictions which impeded .
land, and
theand to doe
a
sale and purchase of land in the country at present,
e of them
expressed his full appreciation of the labours
missioners of 1854, but he contended that sol
were not calculated to -erect the improvement which they
contemplated.

Sir H. CAIRNS said he should be sorry to offer any op-
position to the second reading of the bill, though he dis-
sented from ono or two of its principles. He referred to
portions of the bill which would, in his opinion, require
large amendments, and observed that its working would
very much depend upon the administrative hand to which
it was to be intrusted—namely, the registrar, who was to
be the sole authority to decide whetherlhe was to adjudicate
or not. The only chance of presenting to the country a
measure of this kind that would work well was to appoint
a person to work it whose weight would command the con-
fidence of landholders. He trusted that the Government
would allow this bill, part of which was in direct anta-
gonism to the report of a royal commission, to be referred
to a select committee.
After some remarks by Mr. SCULLY,
Sir F. KELLY said he did not oppose the second read-
ing of the bill, Lut it must undergo the consideration of a
select committee or a deliberate and searching examination
by a committee of the whole house. The machinery of the
bill was, in his opinion, radically defective and imperfect.
The bill, however, could be so modified and improved as to
confer a great benefit upon the country. He thought that
part of the bill which was in fact a system of registration
of assurances was an encumbrance.
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if the bill passed in its present ,
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bill; but he put it to the house whether
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