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London, it is not the less certain that of late the proportion of the excess had 

 tended to decrease, in consequence of the works that had been executed for the 

 better organization of the sewerage, the water-supply, the street-ventilation, and 

 the reform of the house-system under the orders of the Emperor. The inquiry into 

 the rates of mortality has, however, thus far led to ascertaining the fact that the 

 mortality of London is less that that of Paris by nearly 4 in 1000, if the average 

 be taken over a period of ten years ; it is less by nearly 13 in 10,000, if attention 

 is solelj' confined to the rate of mortality which prevailed in the year 1862. 



After stating that he had followed, in the statistics given in the paper thus read, 

 the " Statistique Generale de la France" and the " .\unuau-e du Bureau des Lon- 

 gitudes " for all that had reference to the mortality of Paris, and the returns of the 

 Registrar-General for that of London, Mr. Tite concluded by adopting the state- 

 ment that had been made upon the subject by M. Legoyt. That gentleman, Mr. 

 Tite said, stated that, ''firstly, Paris had more marriages, and of legitimate chil- 

 dren less than London ; secondly, that in spite of this lesser fecundity, and the 

 well-known fact that a gTeat number of the children born in Paris died in the 

 country, Paris had a rate of mortality that was much greater than that of Lon- 

 don ; thirdly, that there was a greater proportion of male deaths in London than 

 in Paris ; fourthly, that the proportion of births to deaths was greater in London 

 than Paris." It must have cost the national vanity of M. Legoyt a great deal to 

 make these admissions, and they may very fairly be taken as representing the facts 

 of the case. 



On the Land-Transfer of Australia as applicable to Ireland. 

 By Colonel Toheens. 

 The author, after some preliminaiy remarks, proceeded as follows : — " We will 

 now consider the different methods prescribed for conducting the futiu'e transfers 

 and other dealings with land, through the institimentality of ' Registration of 

 Title ' ; without again accumulating the complexities and doubts of retrospective 

 title fi-om which they have been cleared by the procedure just described under the 

 Australian method, which is that adopted in the Bill of the Irish Association, the 

 Record Book is the pivot upon which the whole mechanism tm-ns. It is compiled 

 by binding together the duplicates of all conveyances and declarations of titles 

 issued by the Estates Coin-t representing the freehold, each of which constitutes a 

 distinct folium, consisting of two or more pages set apart for recording together the 

 memorials of all futm'e dealings, whether with the freehold or any lesser estate or in- 

 terest in the land represented by the conveyance or declaration of title, imtil a change 

 of ownership of the freehold is registered. When this occurs, the existing declaration 

 of title or conveyance is cancelled, the exising folium of the record closed, afresh de- 

 claration of title issued to the new proprietor, and a new folium opened in the Record 

 Book, upon which are carried forward the memorials of all lesser estates and 

 charges affecting the land, and continuing current at the time of recording the 

 ownership of the freehold. Printed forms of contract, with full instructions for 

 the guidance of parties dealing, are to be supplied at the lands'-titles office and 

 law-stationers' shops. These instmments must be filled in duplicate. All cove- 

 nants essential to the existence, use, and enjojTnent of estates and interests which 

 are the subject of the contract are declared to be implied in these instniments f 

 and, when recorded, they are endorsed with the folium of the record constituted 

 by the declaration of title of the land, where the memorials of them will be found 

 entered in the order in which they are recorded. They are then numbered in con- 

 secutive series ; one original of each is handed to the party whose title is evinced 

 thereby, the other is filed in the lands'-titles office. Under this method accumula- 

 tion of instruments with voluminous indexes, the fatal objection to other systems, 

 is avoided. The retrospective character of title is effectually got rid of, as each 

 separate estate of interest in each parcel of land is represented, so long as it exists, 

 by one instrument only ; and, as each instrument necessarily discloses the nature 

 of the property held by the proprietor, with all that a party dealing can require to 

 know, search is vmnecessary, except to ascertain the non-existence of caveats — 

 and even that is accomplished without reference to any index, as each instrimient 



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