It is even yet, however, so strong that Messrs Dartnall aria.' Shafr'p ;n laying off the sites of the Court house ani the Immigration Barracks saw np option for themselves (an , opinion which I fuW shared) but to ignore the new survey ftiialrebrddotcethe old. The Council may be awarei Bb'wer^r, that at the last moment, fchttqgtf Uie r |xeftiqns of the Sev Mr Tanner, th'gTay 'street owners of block 111. signed and registered a deed binding themselves in erect ing new buildings and fences to conform to Mr Maben's survey. Mr Dartnall, in the case of the' Courthouse site, made an endeavor to effect the same object in block Il.j but as an adherence to the new sarvey would have ulti mately entailed the excision of 18 inches from a large building and other consequences 0f ... similar kind his efforts were n uc "-^f»l ._li— Jb- .probably- unnecessary g^Fto; nartipularize the various blocks Simply say tfiatf fa Cfofp.qai -1 be

gathered from my previous reiunrka that that compensation would be of large amount, m d claimable by a great number nf owners. I ccrtaiuly, however, was uot. aware of the ex te .t to which the new survey had been adopted thioujrhout i!u: town, ami :is matters cannot be pcrni-uicir ly left a« they are — with jogs mid bmi'N 0:1 'h- M.eet lines and with barras.>in<; nncrn;i;;i y picvniliug in regard to modes of Bin vcy — I would unhesitatingly recommend them to place the new suivey be fore them as the goal at which they wi.ih to arrive. The new surrey is accurate, simple, symmetrical and certain; tne old is neces sarily complex and more or less shapeless and uncertain. To revert to the old fiom choice. not from i\eces*itij , would, I think, on the part of the Corporation (if it had ant s iy in the matter) be madness. On the other hand, to attempt to force the new survey in an arbi trary arid high-handed way upon" the. citizens ! whose hpldihg« are out of ; position would, I think, be to attempt the legally impossible; and to commit not one but a scries of acts of injustice. 