The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-11 00:00:00

TILE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION.

We are able to gratify public curiosity with re-
spect to some of the pictures which will appear in
the approaching Exhibition of the Royal Academy.
Mr. Grant, R.A., send; an admirable full-length
port rait of the Earl of Derby addressing the House
of Peers. Mr. Herbert, R.A., sends a fine picture
of the Sister of Lazarus going early to the tomb
of our Saviour with spices and myrrh. In this work
great attention has been paid to the correctness
of the costume, which is beautifully painted, while
the expression of the head is full of pathos. Mr.
Millais, A.R.A., contributes two pictures, one, a
Nun digging a grave, and the other a very elaborate
picture of an Apple Orchard in full bloom, with
many figures of young females in the foreground.
Mr. Dobson, also, has two pictures ; the first repre-
sents David teaching the youth of Israel the use of
the bow ; the second is an exquisite head of a young
girl, telling her beads. Both these works sustain
the artist's high reputation. Mr. Thomas Brooks
sends one of his best productions, entitled " Scrip-
ture Consolation," which represents a clergyman
reading the Bible to two young orphan women, one
of whom, as her appearance indicates, will soon be
" where the weary are at rest." From Mr. Solomon
we have a fine work, " The Acquittal," intended as
a companion picture to his " Waiting for the Ver-
dict," and destined, we think, to obtain even greater
popularity than that did. Sir Edwin Landseer, we
are glad to say, will adorn the exhibition with four
pictures equal to his former works. One is a grand
picture, 12 feet long, of a stag pursued by dogs in
water. This work is remarkable for a beautiful
effect of rough lake water, and a charming repre-
sentation of a rainbow. The animals are full of
character. The second picture is a poor dog waiting
for the crumbs from the rich dog's table ; here a
terrier is depicted waiting patiently for the frag-
ment of a beef bone, the remnant of a repast which
a fine mastiff has been regaling himself with. Sir
Edwin's third work is a charming picture, painted
for her Majesty, of a Scotch Lassie leading a white
calf over a stream ; and his fourth derives its name
from part of a line of one of Monre's immortal
songs, being entitled "My own stricken deer."
This is a beautiful work, full of poetic feeling ; in a
starlight scene a spirit of the air is observed lament-
ing over the poor deer. From Mr. Thomas Faed
we have the most important work which has pro-
ceeded from the artist's Audio, entitled " A Sun-
day in the backwoods of Canada ;" the sub-
ject is a family group listening to the reading of
the Scriptures, and the picture is painted for Mr.
Holdsworth. There are three pictures by Mr. W.
Stone, A.R.A.; one of these represent a boy accom-
panying his father for the first time in a night's
fishing at sea; the anxiety of the mother and the
considerate attention of the sisters are ably depicted
and the finish of the work isTemarkable. Mr. Stone's
second picture bears the title of " Too Late," and
the subject is a proposal of marriage to a young
Boulougne fish woman, who has accepted a previous
offer. The third picture, " Broken Friendship," is
the result of two females discovering that thev both
admire the same " nice young man." Mr.-Frith
sends only one picture, and, strange to say, it is a
portrait—that of Mr. Charles Dickens. Mr. F.
Wyburd is likely to increase his reputation by the
picture which he has sent to the Academy this year;
it is a scene from " Undine." Mr. F. Goodall sends
an Italian scene, which was not finished in time for
last year's'exhibition. Mr. O'Neil sends a companion
picture to his last year's " Eastward, Ho !" entitled
" The Return." Mr. A. Egg's picture is Cromwell
invoking assistance from the Lord before the Battle
of Naseby ;itis a moonlight scene. Mr. J. Philip's
is a Spanish picture, a lovers' quarrel. Mr. Hook .
has four capital Coast scenes: Mr. Sidney Cooper
has three pictures ; and Mr. Cook four.—Ths
Bulletin.

WILLS OF PERSONS RECENTLY
DECEASED.

The will and five codicils of Vice• Admiral the

Right Hon. Edmund Baron Lyons, G.C.8., K.C.H:,
D.C.L., G.C.M.G., Commander-in-Chief of her Ma-
jesty's Fleet in tho Mediterranean and Black Sea,
was proved in the London Court of Probate, in the
principal Registry, on the 28th of March, by the
Most Noble Henry Granville Fitz Alan, Duke of
Norfolk, the son-in-law, and the Right Hon.
Richard Bickerton Pemmell Baron Lyons, the son,
the surviving executors. The personalty was sworn
under £45,000. The will was made on the 16th of
August, 1850, and a codicil on the same day. His
lordship has bequeathed to Lady Lyons for her life
his mansion at Bath, with the books, china, furni-
ture, plate (not bequeathed to the son, the present
Baron), and the carriages and !horses for her use,
and a life interest arising from his real estate, and
from the residue of his personal estate. He leaves
an annuity of £2O to Mrs. Fountain, a servant in
the family, and a legacy of £2OO to Mrs. Flacco,
who for many years has attended upon Lady Lyons.
His lordship bequeaths to his son (now Lord Lyons)
all his shares in the Alliance Assurance Office, the
bust and portrait of Sir Richard Bickerton, and
the plate not left for the use and enjoyment of
Lady Lyons. Reference is made to his Lordship's
marriage settlement, whereby, on the decease of the
last survivor of himself and Lady Lyons, it was their
joint wish that a sum of £5OO should be at the dis-
posal of his daughter, the Baroness de Wurtzburg, to
purchase some token as a memorial of the attach-
ment of her father and mother ; and as their
younger son, Capt. Mowbray Lyons, has since died
in the late war in Therapia, his lordship has
directed that £2,000, part of what would have been
his son's portion of the estate, should be left to his
said daughter, the Baroness ; the rest of the estates
under settlement will be inherited by Lord Lyons ;
and upon the decease of Lady Lpons, his lordship
bequeaths £6,000 to his said daughter, the Baroness
de Wurtzburg, and the residue to his son, the pre-
sent Baron, the daughters being amply provided
for. The documents are all signed "Edmund Lyons,"
his lordship not having made any testamentary dis-
position since his elevation to the peerage.
The will of the Venerable John Williams, M.A.,
Archdeacon of Cardigan, canon of St. David's, and
Prebendary of Brecon, of Llandovery, Carmarthen-
shire, was proved in London, in the principal Re-
gistry of the Court of Probate, on the 30th March,
by the executors, Miss Jane Eliza Williams, the
eldest daughter, and Robert Cunliffe,Esq., solicitor,
Chancery-lane, the son-in-law. The personalty was
sworn under £6,000. The Archdercon bequeaths
to his said eldest daughter, for her own absolute use,
his library of books, and all his letters, correspond-
ence, and literary remains ; and directs that she
may publish, for her own benefit, within 12 months
after his decease, one edition, of 1,200 copies, of any
such of his works as she may select. He bequeaths
to trustees in trust the copyright of all his works,
and directs that they may publish any of his works
at the expense and risk of the estate, and may con-
tinue those in course of publication ; and leaves to
them the residue of his property, to pay thereout
to each of his unmarried daughters a sum equal to
£1,700, and the remainder amongst all his daugh-
ters equally. The will is short, and bears date the
15th of December, 1858. He died on the 27th of
the same month, at Bushey-heath, Herts.
Letters of administration of the effects of the Hon.
Mary Yelverton, of Thane Cottage, Ainsworth, Pem-
brokeshire, who died on the 7th of February last,
intestate and unmarried, were granted by the
London Court of Probate, on the 29th of March to
her brother, the Hon. William Henry Yelverton,
of Whitland Abbey, Carmarthenshire, as one of the
next of kin, her father and mother having died
during her lifetime. Her ladyship was the daughter
of the second Viscount Avonmore, and the sister of
the present peer.—lllustrated London News.

THE REPAVING OF REGENT-STREET.—At a spe-
cial meeting of the vestry of St. James's Westminster, on
Saturday, the subject of the repaving of James's, was
brought forward. The Rev. J. E. Kempe, the rector of the
parish, presided. Mr. Crane, ex-churchwarden, moved the
adoption of the report of the paving committee, an abstract
of which has already appeared in our columns. The motion
was seconded by Mr. Medwin. An amendment was, how-
ever, moved by Mr. Duff, to the effect that the report be re-
ferred back to the committee for information as to the con-'
tract. The road, he said, was an utter failure, and it ap-
peared from the report that some £4,000 or £5,000
had been
spent to benefit chronometer makers and photographers
the amendment having
been seconded, considerable discus-
sion ensued, in which the Hon. Fred. Byng, Mr. Downes,
Mr. Chinnock, Mr. Sandford, Mr. Beal, and others took
part. At the suggestion of the rector, Mr. Duff ultimately
withdrew his amendment, and a middle course was adopted,
namely, that the vestry, looking upon the paving of Re-
gent-street as an experiment, approves the report of the
committee as to the amount of care devoted to the work
specially committed to them. A resolution to this effect
being carried, it was arranged that the committee should at
once proceed with the repairing of the new roadway, and
committee that the sum of £2,000 should be transferred to them from
the worksLA Rm mmG
A
ittececlaDt
ACCIDENT.—On Saturdaynextmeetingo m
f the vestry.oirAin;
the inhabitants of Nelson-street,' Greenwich, were corm-.
derably excited, owing to the sudden embedment in the
roadway of the wheels of Bray's traction steam-engine, of
five tons weight, which was proceeding from Penn's factory
with a main shaft, weighing 22 tons 8 cwt., belonging to
the ship Howe, lying in Woolwich Dockyard. It appears
that the engine was steaming up the road at the rate of
about three miles an hour, when, in order to avoid some
newly put down macadamised stones, it was turned towards
the kerb, but that part of the road being ever some cellars
attached to the houses, it is supposed the roadway, being
weakened by the ponderous weight upon it, suddenly gave
way, exciting the highest fears that something fearful would
be the result. The traffic on that side-the road was at once
stopped, and a large crowd assembled, requiring the exer-
tions of Inspectors Mott and Ellis and several polies officers
to keep them clear from probable personal injury
labouring
men of extrication was going on. A number of
_1
powerful
men were immediately obtained, and, by means of
steam power,
e the
jacks and iron levers and plates, with h
the
delay the_ sound earth, without any further accident,
they fortunately succeeded in raising theeavi?Triaanse weight
delay being little over an hour.