The Ma you: It ehould be sufficient if the two Solicitors agree that the draft lease is in accordance with the Ordinance. A number oi thoae who have bought leases are asking when they arc to be put in pos scrion of the land. We have hitherto been able to say that the dra(t-l«se had not been submitted to the Government. Mr Diuver : I can scarcely see how your Honor can recognise any section oi the public who may raise objections to the course taken by the City Council. I think the Ordinance makes your Honor and the Council the two parties who are to deal with each other; and Ido not pee

how your Honor cau allow the public to arbitrate, as it were, ai to conditions that are imposed by the Ordinance. The Sutebintendeht : Uut the public are really interested in the matter. Mr Dbivee : But your Honor, an a pub lic officer, is to Bee that the Ordinance is carried out. In a large place like thia, a public excitement may be got up upm almost any subject; and it will be im possible to carry out cny law, if there are to be deputations sent to your Honor with a view of promoting private interests. The Superintendent: But it is tried you know, in come countries", even to sub mit laws to the public before their enact ment. Mr Diuvbb: Before they arc laws: but here is a law to be adminiitercd. Mr Smith: Does your Honor propose to poll the public a* to the conditions of tbiu-draft-lenie? > - The Superintendent : I simply pro pose to publish the conditions of the lea-e in the Gazette ; and if the public, by de-

putntion, chooses to say anything to me on the suhirct, I will li-iten to it. Mr Smith : Who is to decide iw to the propriety or impropriety of any of the con dition?, but your Honor? The SuruuiNTESDEST: The Govern ment will decide. ,. Mr Smith : Then, of whit use is it to submit the lease to the public? The Fsui'EitiNTENDBST: Every member of the public id interested in what ia done with the Belt, and that being so, some of those members may desire to cutest that. ome of the conditions arc illegal. 