The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1865.

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(IRYSTAL PALACE.-EASTER
DAYS.—The REAL HOLIDAY RESORT.—The only
place to spend a pleasant day —Wet or Dry.

CI.RYSTAL PALACE.-EASTER HOLT-
-I.J DAYS. Great Success of the Holiday Amusements,
under the direction of Mr. Nelson Lee ; also, of the
WIZARD of the NORTH'S performancew. _ _

Open at Ten. Come early. Extra trains from London-
'bridge. Victoria, Elackfriars, Kensington, and all Interme-
diate stations.
ONE SHILLING. Children, Sixpence. Charge to the
Wizard of the North's performance, Sixpence.

oRYSTAL PALACE.-EASTER 'TOLL
N..) DAYS. - GREAT SUCCESS.—EXTRA ATTRAC-
TIONS.—The WIZARD of the NORTH and Miss ANDER-
SON in their WORLD of MAGIC" and "SECOND
SIGHT," in the Concert-room, at intervals daily.
Admission to the Concert-room, Sixpence extra.

Mvcrrwtoecarpov.

FGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY
(THE LATE ALBERT SMITH'S ROOM).
OPEN TO-NIGHT with Colonel STODARE'S entirely
New Entertainment, MAGIC and VENTRILOQUISM, and
every evening at Eight, and Saturday afternoon at Three.
Stalls, 35.; Area, 25.; Gallery, Is.
A. NIMMO, Acting Manager.

11/1-R. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.
11. IL JOHN PARRY, will appear in their new entertain-
ment, entttled A PECULIAR, FAMILY, by William
Brou,gh. New scenery by T. and W. Grieve. To conclude
with AIRS. ROSELEAF AT THE SEASIDE, by Mr. John
Parry. Every Evening, except Saturday, at 8. Wednesday
and Saturday afrernoons, at 3. ROYAL GALLERY OF
ILLUSTRATION, H, Regent-street. _

Unreserved seats, is., 2s. ; stalls, as. ; stall chairs, 6s. May
be secured in advance, without fee, at the Gallery.
OPERA DI CAIIE/CA., every Tuesday and Thursday
at 3, and Saturday at 8.

m H X F O R D,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
ORPHEE AUX ENFERS, FAUST, and LA CIRCAS-
SIENNE will be performed during this week Principal
art!stes : —Mons. Lavessiere, Signor Spagnoli, M. Marini, Mr.
Green, and Misses Ellison and Barrie, with full Band and
Chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Comedy, by Mr. George Hodson (the celebrated Comedian
and Mimic), W. Randall, Little Bob, Miss Kate Balfe, Lea
Freres Talliott, the Grotesque, D'Aubans, Madame Rams-
den, and Les Freres Stonette.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Every Evening at Half-past Seven. Admission—area, 6d.;
stalls and balcony, ls.; private boxes, 106. 6d.

CIANTERBURY HALL.
'kJ The Oxford, and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
HODGE PODGE,
(According to Act of Parliament).
CANTERBURY HALL—EVERY EVENING
at half-past Nine o'clock.
In addition to the other attractions of this Wonderful
establishment.

VASTER HOLIDAYS.—Mdme. TUSSAUD'S
EXHIBITION. Established 30 yearrj, at the Bazaar,
Baker-street.

A. full-length Portrait model, life-size. of the late
RICHARD COBDEN, M.P., taken during the period of the
Great Anti-Corn Law League Agitation, may be seen in the
Hall of Kings.

NEW ADDITIONS.—ModeIs, life-size, of the YOUNG
KING of GREECE, and MURRAY, who was Regent of
Scotland in the time of Mary Queen of Soots.
Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS.-NOTICE.-RE-
ENGAGE SIENT of J. LEVY, the Celebrated Paga-
nini Cornet-a-Piston, will appear EVE ttY EVENING at
Nine, Ten, and Eleven o'clock, and perform on Distin's
Patent Light-Valve Cornet.

Conductor—M. LUIGI CIISTL
Manager—M. GRENET.

ARMY CONTRACTS.—
TENDERS will be received at this Office until 12
o'clock noon, on the 2e3th of April, from persons who may be
willing to enter into CONTRACTS to supply

BREAD AND MEAT
in such quantities as may be required, for the use of her
Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places,
from Ist June, to 30th November, 1865.

LONDON DISTRICT.
L Brompton House, Knightsbridge and Magazine Barracks,
Hyde-park; and Kensington.
2. Regent's-park, and St. John's-wood.
3. New Barracks, Chelsea; and Ordnance Survey Office,
Pimlico.
4. Wellington Barracks, Buckingham Palace and St.
George's Barracks.
5. The Tower.
0. Hounslow and Kneller Hall.
7. Hampton Court.
8. Windsor.
9. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shoreham.
10. Sandhurst.

Separate Tenders for Bread and for Meat must be made for
each 01 the above-mentioned Stations or Barracks, as sepa-
rately grouped and numbered.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on application at this Office, by letter addressed to the
Senior Commissariat Officer, or in person, between the hours
of 10 and 4 o'clock.
Tenders on the printed forme must be properly filled up
and siened, and no Tender mill be noticed unless delivered
at the uader-mentioned Office,under closed envelope (marked
on the outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies"), before
12 o'clock noon on the 28111 April.
Deputy Commissary- 3-eneral's Office,
5, New-street, Spring-gardens, London, S.W.,
6th April, 1865.

CONSULT Mr. A. ESKELL'S popular and
V reliable TREATISE on the TEETH before having
recourse to the Dentist. " The expense is not great, and it
will well repay perusal."
Published by John Clements, Little Pulteney-street ; and
may be had through any bookseller, from Simpkin, Marshall,
and Co., Stationers'-hall-court. Price, 7d.; in cloth, lad.

'IL CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA,

(From the Times; Correspondent•)
NEW YORK, April 4.

" Victory," " Victory," " Richmond is ours."
" The head and backbone of the rebellion are
smashed." " The iConfederacy is at an end."
" Lee is flying with Grant at his heels." " The
United States are one, inseparable, and in-
vincible." " Woe be to the nation that offends
them 1" Such are but a few of the exclamations, more
or less founded upon truth, which are heard on every
side, and which yesterday and to-day have been re-
peated with every variety of emphasis and ornamen-
tation in all places of public resort. The North is in
ecstacies. Thefirst symptoms of the coming triumph
were apparent on Sunday, when extra editions of
the Herald and other papers were cried through the
streets announcing the series of movements on the
Saturday which gave Grant possession of the South-
side Railroad and the line of the Appomattox, and
virtually, as the event proved, of St. Petersburg and
Richmond. The papers were taken into the churches,
and Mr. Lincoln's telegrams in
many instances read
aloud to the people from the pulpit. In Mr. Beecher's
church at Brooklyn the War-Christianity of the pas-
tor and the people declared itself in a mode which
was considered highly pious and patriotic. Mr..
Beecher read the despatches, before commencing the
services of the day, with unctuous emphasis of joy ;
and the whole congregation, male and female, rose
to their feet and greeted the news with reiterated
rounds of applause, stamping of feet, and waving of
handkerchiefs.

Yesterday morning, when the evacuation of Rich-
mond—anticipated the evening before—was autho-
ritatively announced, Broadway and its tributary
streets suddenly swarmed with excited multitudes—
thousands of flags were flung outfrom steeple, house-
top, and balcony ; the bells of the churches rang
merry peals, and the guns in the park and battery
fired salutes. All business suspended, and public
meetings were extemporised at every open space
where a crowd could collect or an orator get a
convenient elevation on which to stand and
address the people. Wall-street presented the
appearance of a fair. The Gold-room and
the offices of the brokers and bankers were
abandoned, and the Loyal League, or some of
the more prominent members of that flourishing
association, unable to restrain their exultation, took
possession of the balcony of the Custom-house, and
being joined by every one who felt strong within
him the necessity of making a speech to his fellow-
citizens, speedily attracted a crowd which rendered
Wall-street impassable. At one time there- could
not have been fewer than 10,000--tlie sensation
journals say 50,000—people present, composed of
bankers, merchants, gold speculators, their clerks
and employ 6, and all the multifarious population of
the port and shore, composed of carters, porters,
stevedores, and sailors. They roared and shouted,
and swayed to and fro with delight at every allusion
to the great victory or at any boast of the power
and greatness of the restored Union, and what it
would do if any effete old kingdom or empire of
Europe presumed to cross its path, or bite a meta-
phorical thumb, to aggravate so great, so vigorous,
and so victorious a people. Some unknown person
—possibly a clergyman—on the balcony called for
the Doxology, and leading off to the tune of the Old
Hundredth with a powerful voice, the multitude
took up the strain and sang with great effect
" Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him all creatures here below."
and worshipped God instead of mammon for at least
once in their lives. The crowd enjoyed its own
performance exceedingly, and being in the musical
vein favoured itself and the on-lookers by giving
" John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave,"
" The star-spangled banner," " The red, white,
and blue," " Hail Columbia," and other popular
airs with genuine delight in the sound of their own
voices. When there were no more songs to be
sung the speechmakers took possession of the arena
and made the most of the opportunity. One emi-
nent Loyal Leaguer declared amid vociferous ap-
plause, " that this was the most glorious day the
world had seen since the day of the Crucifixion."
He did not, however, inform his hearers who the
divine victim was on this occasion, or perhaps re-
flect that the South, if as irreverent as himself,
might have accepted the comparison as readily as
the North. There was much more to the same effect,
though in varied phraseology, which seemed to be
as greatly to the taste of the Puritan clergy and the
staid and sober members of the New York Chambers
of Commerce,
many of whom were on the balcony
to the right and left of the speaker, as to that of the
rowdy Irish carmen and porters who mingled in the
crowd. The Wall-street meeting ultimately ad-
journed to Union-square, after dinner time, when a
repetition of the morning's performance was given,
with the addition of music, Chinese lanterns, and an
illumination. In the evening the Loyal League
opened its club-house to its friends, and as the
hall porters were not over particular, everybody
who applied was admitted. The champagne is de-
scribed, with true American hyperbole, as having
" run in rivers," and as " Copperheads" and
" traitors" were as free to partake as Republicans
and negrophiliete,
the uproariousness of the celebra-
tion is likely to be long remembered in New York
by scores of people who never before tasted liquor
more refined and aristocratic than Lager beer or a
" whisky skin."

And while scenes such as this were enacted in
New York, the same kind of performance went on
all over the country. Mr. Lincoln being at the
front with the army preparing for a triumphal entry
into Richmond, the Chief Magistrate had no oppor-
tunity to witness or take part in the rejoicings of
his people ; but his Ministers at Washington were
severally drawn out, and invited to declare them-
selves on the great subject of the day. A general
holiday having been declared in Washington, the
clerks of the Post-office and the Treasury turned
out in procession, and being joined by the Loyal
Leaguers, the firemen, and the general population
of the city, both white and black, marched with
streaming banners to Mr. Seward's house, and called
upon that eminent functionary to make a speech.
The Secretary lost no time in responding to the call,
and, knowing the temper of the crowd, made several
telling innuendoes against Great Britain, which ap-
pear henjoyed and appreciated.
“I am about r
foreign despatches," he
to aNe beenw thoroughlyritingm y
said. " What shall I tell the Emperor of China? I
shall thank him in your name, fellow-citizens, for
never having permitted a piratical flag to enter the
harbours of his empire." This was slap the first at
England, and was highly relished. " What shall I
say to the Sultan of Turkey ? I shall thank him for
always having surrendered rebel insurgents who
have taken refuge in his kingdom." This was slap
the second, aimed apparently at the Canadian autho-
rities, and hitting Great Britain, but indirectly.
" 'What shall I say to the Emperor of the French V'
A voice in the crowd called out, " Tell him to get
out of Mexico." Mr. Seward was too discreet and
prudent a diplomatist to heed the interruption, much
more to approve it, and merely said that " he would
tell the Emperor to go to Richmond and get the
tobacco so long held there by the blockade, pro-
vided the rebels had not used it up." This fell
rather flat upon the auditory, and the Secretary
proceeded with a suggestive and welcome topic, and
went on to declare what he would say to Earl
Russell. "He would tell Earl Russell that British
merchants could now get plenty of cotton in the
ordinary way cheaper than they could by running
the blockade. Furthermore, he would say that
the war was not for empire, as the Earl
had once asserted, but for the rights of
human nature ; and that if Great Britain would
only be just to the United States" (he did not specify
any act of injustice), " Canada would remain un-
disturbed by the Federal Government so long as she
of the noble Queen to volun-
United States."' prom
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these excerpts it will be seen that although Mr.
Seward insinuated some degree of displeasure
against England, he was magnanimous enough to
tolerate, and, indeed, patronise the dear old creature,
provided she would be on her good behaviour and
act justly to that great and tremendous Power of
which he is the Grand Vizier. The speeches of the
other Secretaries and of General Butler, who hap-
pened to be at Washington, and was called for by
the crowd, were less provocative of comment than
that of Mr. Seward. The best was that of Mr.
,Stanton. " Let us," he said, " humbly offer up our
thanks to Divine Providence for His care over us,
and beseech Him to guide us in our duties here-
after, as He has carried us forward to victory ; to
teach us how to be humble in the midst of triumph,
how to be just in the hour of victory ; and to help
us to secure the foundations of the Republic, soaked
as they have been in blood, so that they shall last
for ever and ever."

To-day the jubilation at the capture of Richmond
is not quite so effervescent as it was yesterday.
Wall-street has the head-ache after its debauch,
and has this morning been informed, unofficially,
but none the less authentically, that the victory was
a good deal more theatrical in its character than the
first accounts led the public to imagine. Wall-
street is in consequence in lower spirits, and the
Bulls are sending up the price of gold again at a
rate that, if persisted in for many days, will be de-
clared disloyal. It is asserted on high authority—
though not yet mentioned in the newspapers—that
the evacuation of Richniond really commenced on
the 24th of March ; that the attack on that day by
the Confederates upon Fort Stedman was a feint to
throw General Grant off his guard and veil the real
movements of the bulk of the Confederate army ;
that the battles before Petersburg were consequently
fought by only a third of Gen. Lee's forces ; that
both Mr. Lincoln and Gen. Grant were aware by
the 25th or 26th that the evacuation had com-
menced ; that, when Gen. Sherman visited Gen.
Grant and the President, he also was made aware
of what had been done, and was hurried back to his
command in hot haste, lest in his absence General
Joseph E. Johnstone should be so largely rein-
forced by Gen. Lee as to justify the Confederates
in a combined attack on the long victorious columns
of the hero at Atlanta. Whether the victory be
substantial or illusory, it is not pleasant to describe
the spirit in which it has been received. I am, how-
ever, compelled to say that to the best of my judg-
ment—from what is to be read in the newspapers,
to be heard in society, and to be studied out of the
whole public opinion of all classes, rich and poor,
learned and unlearned, American and semi-Ameri-
can—the prevalent feeling is not one of thankful-
ness at the prospect of peace, but of exultation at
the strength which the North has exhibited. Mr.
Lincoln has made no sign as yet of any conciliation,
or offered any terms to the Confederate shut those
of absolute submission. The Vice-President, who has
recovered the power of speech, if not of reasoning,
talks of hanging the Southern President " 20 times
as high as Haman," and of condignly punishing all
other traitors great and small. The more promi-
nent members of the Republican party speak in a
similar spirit., though with more decency of expres-
sion ; though the journals of this city, with a better
appreciation of the true duties of the Government,
with scarcely an exception, urge upon Mr. Lincoln
the expediency of offering a general amnesty. It is
generally expected that a proclamation in .this spirit,
though not, perhaps, to the full extent of including
Mr. Jefferson Davis in the list of those whose
offences are to be forgiven, will be immediately
issued from Richmond, whither Mr. Lincoln has
proceeded, and where Mrs. Lincoln has gone to join
him.