14 MAY 1864, Page 22

Statement of a Leasehold Title as actually investigated under the

present System of Conveyancing, and as it would be proved by Registration. By Henry Dix Hutton. (Dublin : A. Marlow.)—In Ireland the Encum- bered Estates Court has long given the purchaser of land a Parlia- mentary title, but there is no way of keeping the title simple by registration. An effort is to be made this session to obtain this boon, but the machinery of the Australian, or Torrens, system of registra- tion is preferred to Lord Westbury's. We are disposed to doubt the wisdom of this choice ; but Mr. Hutton, an Irish barrister, has given a very clear account of the proposed system, and of its superiority to the present system of conveyancing, in a very short space.