The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

, WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 25.
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, The Queen, accompEOed by their Royal,Highnessep the
Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Alexandra, Princess
Louise, and Prince Leopold, drove out this morning.
Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Caledon
and Lord Charles Fitzroy.
His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. D. do Ros, also accompanied her Ma-
jesty on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major
Elphinstone, returned to Greenwich Park yesterday.
Viscount Torrington and Col. Seymour have succeeded
Lord De Tabley and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell as Lord
and Groom in Waiting.

Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Lord High Comm issionei of the lonian Islands.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Elect and the
Misses Langley have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Raby
Castle. _ _

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll, who have been
staying with the Duke of Devonshire and family at Chats-
worth, Derbyshire, leave to-day for Roseneath, Dumber •
tonshiro. '

The Duke of Somerset left his official residence
of the Admiralty yesterday for Norfolk. The duchess has
arrived at Bulstrode, Bucks, from Stover Park, Devon.
The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor arrived
on Saturday at Chatsworth, on a visit to the Duke of De-
vonshire, from Calverley Park, Cheshire.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield returned to
Bretby Park, Derbyshire, on Monday, from Willey Park,
Lord Forester's seat in Salop.
The Countess of Fife and Miss Stapleton arrived
in Grosvenor-place last evening from Scotland.
Lord Richard Grosvenor and the Hon. Jas. Stuart
Wortley have arrived in London from a tour in the East.

The Bight Hon. Col. C. W. Forester, M.P., and
the Hon. Mrs. Forester, who have been visiting Lord and
Lady Forester at Willey Park, Salop, left Wiley on Mon-
day last on a tour of visits.
Sir Charles and Lady Clifford, Mr. and Mrs.
Clavering, and Mr. and Mrs. M.. 3. Rhodes have left
Brown's Hotel.

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DEATH OF THE COUNTESS GRANVILLE.—We
regret to have to:record the death of the Countess Granville,
mother of the Lord President of the Council. •Her lady-
ship expired at her house in Hereford-street, Park-lane,
yesterday morning, shortly after 5 o'clock. The late Coun-
tess was the second daughter of William, fifth Duke of
Devonshire, and was consequently sister of the late Coun-
tess of Carlisle and the late Duke of Devonshire. She
married, on the 24th of December, 1809, Granville, first
Earl, by whom she leaves Lady Susan, married to Lord
Rivers ; Lady Georgians Fullerton, wife of Mr. Alex-
ander George Fullerton, of Ballantry, County Antrim ;
George, the present Earl Granville ; and the Hon. Ed-
ward F. Leveson Gower, M.P. Her ladyship was in her
78th year.
The adjourned meeting of the creditors of Mr.
W. Buss, Irish provision merchant, trading under the firm
of Buss and Leedham, took place yesterday, when Mr.
Humphrys, of the firm of Honey, Humphrys, and Honey,
accountants, submitted an amended balance-sheet, showing
liabilities to the amount of £27,192, with assets estimated at
£26,674 net; the deficiency is consequently only £5lB.
After some discussion relative to the position held by the
creditors on Mr. Greaves' account (who failed in the Aus-
tralian trade), and the claim held by his assignees, it was
resolved that the estate should be wound up under a deed
of assignment for the benefit of the creditors, no offer of
composition being made by the debtor.
REGISTER YOUR LAND.—Let the squire and my
lord now shout exceedingly and sing for joy, since my Lord
Westbury has come to their help, and established by his
new act, which came into operation in the middle of this
last October, a Register of Titles to Landed Estates I The
revolutionary Chancellor has thrown himself with his whole
weight upon the entanglements in which land and the trans-
fer of it have been enmeshed by the scientific theories of
bygone generations of lawyers, who have thriven on the diffi-
culties of their science. " Why not treat land as stock ?"
says the unscientific public. The answer is old enough. It
was given by Lord Macclesfield 140 years ago. " some
lands," he said, " are more convenient than others; but
there is no difference in stock." One acre of Cheapside
is more convenient than one acre of Salisbury Plain;
but one £5OO of Patagonia Loan Preference shares is like
any other £5OO of that fattening investment. But the dif-
ference between land and stock, great as it is, is only mate-
rial for some purposes, of which the Chancellor's purpose
is not one. The publio makes also, by its own natural
dealings with land, a fresh difficulty in the way of easy
transfer. We must needs establish actual and possible dis-
positions of it among our children, and grandchildren, and
nephews, and nieces, and brothers, and sisters, in a way
that makes the use of conveyances, short as the little printed
transfer of stock, almost beyond hope. Then we add leas-
ing powers, and charging powers, and powers of giving
portions to younger children, and jointures to wives.
All this is done so elegantly and easily that no one
thinks of abandoning the practice. Only declare that
your estate shall be held to the use that you shall have it
for your life ; then to the use that your wife shall have her
jointure; and to the usa that she shall have a right of dis-
tress, &c., and the thing is done, and all through that ad-
mirable old statute of Henry the Eighth for turning uses
into possession, or for trying to find out who are the real
owners of any bit of ground. That statute has, with ad-
mirable skill, been so treated by judges and conveyancers
as to be the chief means of defeating its own end, and con -
cealing the real ownership. It was the Magna Charta of
conveyancers ; and, when the learned Sandars, one of the
fathers of conveyancing, whose life had been spent in
studying and testing the strength of every line in the con •
veyancing web, was lying on his death-bed, the equally
learned Brodie came in—" Sanders I Sandars I" says he,
'they've repealed the Statute of Uses I" Mr. Sandars fell
back on his pillow and died, Has the Chancellor sufficiently
weighed the effect of his legislation on the Sandarses of our
own day ?'— Al& the Yeas- Round.

AMERICAN SEAMEN IN RATCLIFF-HIGHWAYO—
night there was a somewhat riotous assemblage of
American seamen in Ratcliff- highway. They belonged to
two ships, and were all armed with knives. A fight was
intended, but the police, who mustered in considerable
numbers, and had heard that a row was in contemplation,
dispersed the Americans. On Monday night a fight took
place in the highway
between two American sailors, and
one of them bit his adversary's lip off.
The WEATHER IN NORTH AFRICA.--A letter
from Constantia (Algeria) of the 14th says ;—" The night
before last the mountains which are at some distance
around Constantia were entirely covered with snow, brought
on by a north wind of great violence. For many years
snow had not been seen to fall here so early as the middle
of November,'