Over two months have passed away since the opening of the present Session of Parliament ; the end is approaching, honorable members arc already getting restive, and beeoining anxious to escape, and as yet so little has been done in the way of legisla tion that the Session may almost be described so far as barren. There is yet time, however, to save it from quite deserving aucli an ignominious

appellation. If the Government will adhere to their recent determination to allow nothing to stand in the way of the prosecution of the business of the ceuntry, and if the Opposition, now that they have proved their weak ness, will accept the inevitable, and with what harmony they can assist rather than hamper the Government, something may yet be done. Among the many measures which demand immediate consideration and legisla tion are those relating to legal reform. As is well known, the Judicature Commission has devoted an immense amount of time and labor to this question, and a portion of the result of their work consists of live bills which deal with the matter of judicial procedure. The most important of these is the Supreme Court Bill which passed its second reading on Tuesday. The object of the Bill is to simplify and cheapen the practice of that Court. Those who have un fortunately had business there, and even those wuose knowledge of its proceedings are confined to the re ports published in the Press, must be alive to the fact that the system is so intricate and involved, the delays so long and frequent, the costs so frightfully heavy, that unless some very great stake is at issue a suitor would not do ill to forego his claim rather than institute an action, the cost and worry of which would not be re compensed even by a favorable verdict The most prominent feature in the reform proposed in this Bill is that the present elaborate system of plead ings is entirely done away with. The amount of time wasted, and money spent over declarations, pleas, replica tions, rebutters, surrebutters, demur rers, and other mysterious ai'range ments which none but a lawyer can understand, has been something tei'rible, and has severely tried the tempers as well as the pockets of litigants. 