The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-29 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

All civil, military, and naval officers have been
ordered to wear mourning for Mr. Lincoln for six

months.

The Foreign Ministers have sent a deputation to

convey to Mr. Lincoln's family expression of their

sympathy.

The Governor of New York has ordered the 20th
inst., which had previously been appointed as a day
of thanksgiving, to be dedicated to the services ap-
propriate to a season of national bereavement.
The British and French residents in New York
have held a meeting, when resolutions expressive
of deep sympathy were passed.
The greatest order continues throughout the
Northern States.
A universal feeling of sympathy prevails through-
out the British provinces.
The Governor of Nova Scotia announced on
Saturday that in consequence of Mr. Lincoln's
assassination he would postpone his intended visit,
and recommended the adjournment of the Legisla-
ture as a mark of sympathy.
General D ent has permanently superseded Weitzel
in command at Richmond, and the latter commands
at Petersburgh.
The order permitting the Virginia Legislature to
assemble at Richmond has been rescinded by Gen.
Ord, and delegates who had arrived were directed
to leave within 12 hours.
General Grant reached Washington on Saturday
and held a conference with Johnston and the Cabi-
net. Immediately afterwards the arrests of Judge
Campbell and ex-Mayor Mayo of Richmond were
ordered.

General Lee has arrived at Richmond, where he
was enthusiastically received both by the Unionists
and Confederates.
Lee's farewell order says that after four years
of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage,
the army had been compelled to yield to over-
whelming numbers and resources, and had sur-
rendered to avoid useless sacrifice of life.
It is reported that Kilpatrick's cavalry had cap-

tared the Governor of North Carolina, while bear-
ing an offer from Johnston to deliver up the State
to Sherman. Johnston was subsequently visited
by Davis, under whose direction the proposition
was countermanded.

President Davis was reported to have reached
Macon, Georgia, on the 10th.

Butler, who is now in Washington, was reported
on Thursday to have resigned ; he has since with-

drawn his resignation, and it is supposed that
Johnson will give him a command.

The Confederates have destroyed their navy
yard at Halifax, North Carolina.
General Anderson formally replaced the United
States flag on Fort Sumter on Friday (14th), when
the Rev. Ward Beecher and others delivered pat-
riotic addresses.

General Dix, commanding at New York, has
received information that an organised band of 150
men were in Carolton county, Canada, prepared for
a raid upon Rochester and Ogdensburg.
The New York Herald, in its correspondence from
the city of Mexico, states that rumours were cur-

rent that a large number Of Confederates propose
shortly to cross the Rio Grande, and march to the
assistance of Juarez.

It is reported that a Federal force has crossed the
Rio Grande near Pelo Alto, Resaca, and Depalma,

and has destroyed 4,000 bales of cotton, which were
stored on Mexican soil.

The Kangaroo, Germania, Baltimore, Belgian
and Persia have arrived out.

NEW YORK, APRIL 19, 11 A.M.
Stanton reports that Canby captured Mobile on
the 12th. No particulars of the capture had been

THE ROYAL ACADEMY,

The Private View—Yesterday.

Great though the expectations excited by rumour
in regard to the Exhibition this season at the Royal
Academy, those expectations have not, upon the
whole, been disappointed. They have not, at any
rate, been disappointed in our own view. And
we hardly think it likely they will be in regard to
the general public. One or two radiant expecta-
tions, it is true, have not been realised, but these
are, it should be said at once, purely exceptiOnal.
Mr. Maclise, for example, abstains after all from
placing on view on the walls of the Academy Gallery
the replica of his great water glass painting just
now completed at the Houses of Parliament. That
distinguished artist, as it is generally understood,
having refrained from exhibiting the work mainly
by reason of his picture being so large in its dimen-
sions, that he most generously shrank from occupy-
ing so much space, upon a superficial area for ex-
hibition in itself necessarily restricted. Most of I
the other Academicians, however, it is grati-
fying to know, are among the band of
actual exhibitors. The three most pro-
minent names among the list of absentees
being—two of our greatest living Sculptors, John
Gibson and John Foley, and one of the most accom-
plished among our living Painters, the President
himself. Of Sir Charles, however, it should be borne
in mind that he has of late years accustomed us
overmuch to his being in this way an annual de-
faulter. Six R.A.'s contribute a single painting
each to the present collection—Cooke, Elmore,
Goodall, Herbert, Charles Landseer, and the two
Pickersgills. Seven contribute two respectively
M'Dowell, Calder Marshall, Philip, Poole, Stan-
field, Webster, Ward, and Weekes. From three
we have three a-piece—Creswick, Frith, and Jones.
From seven of them four each—Boxall, Cooper,
Cope, Grant, Sir Edwin Landseer, Lee, and Red-
grave. Three of them contribute as many as five
each—namely, Hart, the Academy's Librarian,
Hook, the sea-painter, and Knight, the Academy's
Secretary. Turning to the smaller band of Asso-
ciates, we find that two alone among those abstain
from exhibiting—namely,Calderon and Baron Maro-
chetti. From three we have one a-piece—Frost,
Faed, and Stephens. Three have two works of art
each in the collection—Horsley, Lewis, and Le
Jeune. Four have three each—Cooper, O'Neil,
Ansdell And Barry. One has four—W. C. T. Dob-
son. Two have five—Thorburn and Leighton. The
distinctive characteristic of the whole exhibition,
however, is this—that it yields so much of fair,
bright, exhilarating promise in regard to artists
hitherto unknown or unnoticed. Hardly one of the
famous artists already particularised, whether Asso-
ciates or Academicians, comes up to the full height
of his reputation. Exceptions there are, of course,
to that—but, upon the whole, they can really
hardly with justice be said to have done so. With
several of the young exhibitors, however, it is
quite otherwise. One or two of them have,
at a single bound, sprung forward into the very
front rank among the most rarely-gifted of the
exhibitors. One of them has done so, in fact, so
very conspicuously that we may at once mention
his name and particularise his achievement without
running the slightest hazard, as it appears to us, of
being invidious to any one else among the numerous
throng of new exhibitors. Around a picture that
will be found in the Middle Room, numbered
304, and entitled in the catalogue " Bravo,
Toro !"—a picture by one J. B. Burgess (a name
wholly strange to us) there will surely be
gathered during tthe course of the season
that is now about to commence on Monday
next, the May Day of 1865, as numerous
a throng of observers (or we are very much
mistaken) as will be collected together round
any other picture in the Gallery. Even, let us say,
though that other be Mr. Frith's magnificent Court
painting of the " Royal Marriage !" Yet the sub-
ject selected by Mr. Burgess for delineation is simple
enough in itself—the theme • being nothing more
remarkable in its way than a cluster of spec-
tators at a Spanish Bullfight. The Bullfight itself
you, the spectator of the picture don't see ! But you
do see those who are supposed to be looking at it.
And you can recognize at once that the fight—that
must be going on (unseen by you) down below in
the amphitheatre—must have reached a point marked
almost poignantly, may we not say it, by a
very climax of excitement. Look at those faces !
Look at that motley cluster of human beings visible
within the four lines of the framework of the
picture ! Veritable effigies of real flesh and blood
human beings—look at them ! Creatures about each
of whom you might write a life's history—every one
of them having their vivid shadowing forth of an in-
dividuality, of an idiocyncrasy, at once, instanta-
neously, and perfectly distinguishable ! For its ex-
pression of character, we have seen no such realistic
picture as this for a very long time. It is as true,
in its way for what it purports to be, as the laughing
audience, or the singing choresters of Hogarth. The
excited fellow who has just snatched his cigarette
from his lips to clap his other hand to the side of
his mouth, bawling out at the utmost pitch of his
lungs the words giving the title to the painting,
Bravo, Toro! What a creation that one head alone
is in itself i Then the old man in the background
to whose dull hearing the girl is screaming hurriedly
an account of what 's going on in the arena below
—the girl herself looking askance out of the corners
of her eyes at the progress of the incident
while she is describing it ! And the child
above her, who is turning away from the
sight in evident alarm, an alarm that her mother
endeavours to dissipate by her caresses—at the very
moment that the middle-aged spaniard above them,
looking down at them on the broad grin, showing
all his teeth, is luxuriating in some sly joke of his
own at their expence ! And the three ladies in the
box above, each with her distinctive character, one
with her kid-gloved hand raised and. her deli-
cate nostrils distendedin an eager exercitation,
that almost partakes of the anguish of sus-
pense ! And the insouciante blase air of the lavender-
gloved fop lounging in the slips, yet higher up
in the grouping of the picture, carelessly permitting
his gaze to fall, through his half-closed eyelids, on
what is going forward, as though really for once, in a
way, there seemed to be a something within the range
of his vision worth looking at perhaps for the vestige
of a moment ! Altogether it is the production of a
veritable student of human nature, as well as of an
artist quite safe and certain, if he will but go on as he
has here commenced, of winning for himself a
high and honourable reputation. So well do
we think of the work he has here done, of the gifts
of art and powers of observation he has here evi-
denced, that in regard to his future career we have
now at once formed the very highest expectations.
In the North Room, again, there is noticeable a pro-
duction contributed to the walls of the Academy by
another artist whose name is as yet unfamiliar to
the public, the painter of No. 603, " Hamlet and
Ophelia," namely, one W. L. Orchardson. In
a homelier way, too, upon the opposite
side of the same apartment, there is no-
ticeable a picture of which similarly kind and
equally truthful words might be spoken, No. 514,
painted by E. Nichol, and entitled, simply, " A
Departure." A production, this lasts evidently the
work of a skilled humourist. As for tfle productions
of the more famous artists who exhibit on these walls,
while the majority of them are hardly, as we have
already remarked, quite up to the height of the re-
putations those artists have long since won for
themselves, there are many of them that are works
of singular beauty and excellence—works reflecting
the highest honour---some few among them—upon
the name, even, here and there, of an illustrious aca-
demician. Sir Edwin Landseer, it is true, appears to
us this season to have frittered away his great
powers upon four pictorial jeux d'esprit, as we might
term his contributions this year to the Gallery,
instead of applying those powers of his, by pre-
fer

.ence, rather, to the production of one solitary
painting of genuine importance. Mr. Herbert has
contented himself with a single Scripture piece
delineative of ancient customs and oriental scenery,
but it is one—(46) " The Sower of Good Seed"—
worthy, if only by reason of its astonishing
truthfulness, of one of the most gifted among
the great artists of our generation. Else-
where in the Exhibition there are evidences of

other spoils from the East won, so to speak, at his
elbow, during the course of his recent Oriental wan-
derings by a student of art inheriting from him more
than merely an honoured name in that same art of
his—ex. gr. No. 495, " Sundown," with its purpling
violet clouds, as sketched in the desert, by W. V.
Herbert, junior. The briny blue-green seawater
pictures—coast views all of them—by J. L. Hook,
still win for themselves the admiration of the dis-
cerning. Thomas Webster has in No. 77, " Village
Gossips," a notable group that looks for all the world
like a scene from the " Mill on the Floss." So true it
is to provincial women and their small-talk—and in
No. 87 "My Back Kitchen" opens up to view a cool
delightful homely perspective of an interior through
an interior. Frost's, No. 107, " Death of Adonis"
only recalls unsatisfactorily to mind the days when
his graceful pencil depicted upon a scale and in a
manner worthier of himself, the sylvan revelries of
the old poetical mythology. Between. Poole's con-
tributions to the Academy Exhibition this season,
commend us far rather to the lovely moonlit scene of
farewell, No. 263, " The Parting Moment," with that
clinging kiss of the sundering and saddened lovers
on the shingly-shore, than to the ghastly represen-
tation of (No. 162) " A Suburb of the Roman City
of Pompeii," a picture that by its distortion and
general extravagance can hardly be deemed worthy
of the painter of Solomon Eagle in the Plague of
London. Ward's No. 258, " The Night of Rizzio's
Murder," Philip's No. 156, " The Early Career of
Murillo," Faed's No. 150, " The Last of his Clan"—
the first of the three haunting us long afterwards
with its glittering eyes, the last with the world of
anguish visible in the old man's face, and in the
bent head of the daughter by his side, are among
the most remarkable pictures in this year's collec-
tion. So likewise, most assuredly, is Goodall's
No. 8, "The Rising of the Nile," with its vicious
looking camel's head getting soundly switched
into obedience. Enough, however, has here been
said in regard to what we have deemed to be
the more salient points in this unusually brilliant
collection of more than a thousand works of ar'

in sculpture and in painting, works so very
variously of the latter kind—scriptural, historical,
genre, portrait, landscape.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the illustrated London Nets)
Probate of the will of the Right Hon. George
William Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle,
K.G., P.C., of Castle Howard, Yorkshire; Naworth
Gastle, Cumberland ; and Grosvenor-place, Lon-
don, was granted by her Majesty's Court of Pro-
bate to the Duke of Devonshire and Richard Du
Cane, Esq., of Gray's Inn, the joint acting execu-
tors. The personalty was sworn under £140,000.
The will bears date August 23, 1864, and his lord-
ship died on the sth of December, at the age of
sixty-two, unmarried. Many liberal annuities are

left by his lordship to his brothers, sisters, nephews,
nieces, and other relatives and personal friends. To
each of his executors, £3OO ; to each of his agents,
£lOO ; to three of his servants, £lOO each ; and
legacies to his other servants, free of duty. Provi-
sion is made for the support of the schools founded
by his lordship. He directs that his brother, Ad-
miral the Hon. Edward Granville George Howard,
and his wife, may select any object which might not
improperly be alienated from the family estate, as
memorials of affection. Books, in sets and perfect
volumes, are also to be given and selected by friends
who are enumerated by his lordship in his will.
The best horse in his stables is to be given to Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Frederick Marshall, 2d Life Guards,
with right of selection. There are other specific
bequests. All the furniture and effects, sculpture,
paintings, books, plate, articles of virtu, &c., at
Castle Howard, Naworth Castle, Grosvenor-place,
and elsewhere, are to be held in trust as heirlooms
for the person inheriting the title and estates. His
successor thereto is his next brother, the Hon. and
Rev. William Howard, now Earl of Carlisle.
The will of Lady Ashburnham, relict of Sir
William Ashburnham, Bart., of Broomham, Sussex,
was proved in ,London, on the 28th ult., by the
surviving executors and trustees, Charles James
Palmer,• Esq., of Bedford-row, and Miss Anna
Nouaille, her cousin. The personalty was sworn
under £lB,OOO. The will is dated 1860, and a
codicil 1862. Her ladyship died on Feb. 22 last,
at Broomham. By her will she has devised certain
estates, farms, and woodland in Guestling and Ick-
lesham, Sussex, in trust for her nephew, Sir An-
chitel Ashburnham, Bart., and his issue male ; she
also bequeaths to him the family jewels, plate, pic-
tures, books, and furniture absolutely. Her lady-
ship has devised other estates, houses, and land to
Lawrence Ashburnam, Esq., another nephew of her
late husband. Several legacies are left to nephews,
nieces, and others. To her executrix a legacy of
£6OO and other gifts ; to her bailiff,- £5OO ; to a
maid-servant, £lOO ; and legacies to her other ser-
vants. To the poor of the parish of Guestling and
Seal legacies of £5O to each parish.

The will of Ebenezer Trotman, Esq., of Park
Cottages, Regent's-park, formerly of Furnival's
Inn, architect, was proved in the London Court,
under £12,000 personalty. The executors therein
appointed are William Bennett, of New Park-road,
Clapham-park, and William Perkins, of Canonbury-
park, architect and surveyor. The testator died
Jan. 1, 1865, a bachelor, having executed his will
June 19, 1852. To his sister, Anne Trotman, he
has left a life interest in the whole of his property,
real and personal, and, should she not leave any
lawful issue, the whole of the property at her de-
cease is to be divided amongst the three following
institutions :—The Magdalen Hospital, the Scottish
Episcopal Fund, and the Incorporated National
Society, and to each of them he has left a legacy of
£lOO, free of legacy duty.

The Attack on Mobile.
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We take the following account of the Federal
attack upon Mobile from the New York papers :
New Orleans papers of the 6th inst. have been received
at New York. The New Orleans Times contains corres-
pondence from the Federal forces in front of Spanish Fort,
Alabama, to the 30th ult., and from Lakeport to' the 4th
inst. Siege guns and mortars are mounted near Spanish
Fort, so as to almost, if not quite, cut off all rebel commu-
nication by land or water. A rebel transport and hospital
beat have been destroyed. The Union tin-clad No. 48
was sunk by a torpedo and one man killed.

The True Delta has a report of the loss of the United
States tin-cladßodolph, by the explosion of atorpedo,while
participating in the attack upon Spanish Fort. The corre-
spondent states that two others (names not given) were
blown up in a similar manner. Four persons were killed
upon the Rodolph and 15 wounded. The grand attack on
the rebel works was to have commenced on the 3d inst.
Another correspondent, from the same locality, under
date of the first inst., writes :

" The military situation is very encouraging, although it
has assumed the proportions of a regular siege. By private
advices, not yet confirmed, the rebel loes inside Spanish Fort
is 550 killed and wounded out of 4,000. Our total loss (an
estimate of two corps) is probably the same. Proportion of
killed small. Brigadier-General Mythe (a new man) is in
command at the fort. The rebel communication with Mobilq
is entirely suspended. Steele (7th corps) is investing Fort
.Blakeley, six miles above Spanish Fort. Thomas, with the
4th corps and 35,000 cavalry, is expected in the rear of
Mobile. Nothing definite has been received from him for
several days."

New Orleans, April 8, via Cairo, April 13.
A despatch to the New Orleans Times from Spanish Fort,
dated April 5, says:—
"A furious fire was opened on the rebel forts last night
from our entire line. During the bombardment a small ma-
gazine in Spanish Fortexploded. The damage is unknown.
.Quiet prevailed on the sth. Deserters report from 18,000 to
20,000 troops in and about Mobile, including all the State
reserves, and about 2000 in Spanish Fort. The loss outside
Spanish Fort up to the 4th inst. amounted to about 500
killed and wounded. Adjutant-General Thomas arrived at
New Orleans on the morning of the 7th. Mobile papers of
the 4th inst. announce the capture of Selma, Alabama, with
23 pieces of artillery and a large amount of Government
property."

MUSIC AT ASTLEY'S.—Ire understand that the
prospective engagements made by Mr. E. T. Smith include
Mr. W. Harrison, who will appear at Astley's in the drama
of " Rob Roy."—The Orchestra.

MR. JOHN CAULFIELD died on Monday last,
aged 56. He was for some years ago well known •at the
Theatre Royal, Haymarket, and was afterwards Chairman
at Weston's Music Hall. For some time he fulfilled the
same duties at the Oxford. He was buried on Thursday
at Brompton Cemetery, when many professionals, espe-
cially from the Oxford, were present, and his father, now
aged 93, was one of the mourners,—,Era,