The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-24 00:00:00

VIC SUN,' 1,11.40ND0N, MVENING, APRIL 24, 1862.

ment had nothing whatever to do with it," said LATEST NEWS(
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Colonel M‘MunDo ; " the whole thing was carried
out by the will of the Volunteers." An acknow-
ledgment of course received with resounding plaudits
last night by the Volunteers who listened to it.
Of those Volunteers now becoming daily more
and more skilled in the use of the rifle, there
are already 160,000 at least. Out of these
160,000 returns have very recently been ob-
tained of as many as 102,000 in corps
actually formed into consolidated or administrative
battalions, corps consequently having adjutants
duly appointed to them. What is certainly remark-
able in regard to these 102,000 of whom we have
now received these well authenticated and perfectly
reliable returns, is the fact that there is only a
falling off of 480—of less than 500 out of corps
numbering in all 102,000 riflemen. Proof positive
that the spirit of the whole movement is still admir-
ably well kept up. No wonder that, in recollection
of facts like those, and in remembrance of what he
himself had witnessed on Monday last in his official
capacity as Inspector-General at the Review near
Brighton—no wonder that Colonel M'MURDo could
declare as he did last evening at Willis's Rooms,
that he felt more pride than ever in returning
`tanks for the Volunteers.

2HB OPENING OF THE INTERNA-

TION.d.L EXHIBITION.

PARIS, Arm 24.

The Moniteur of this morning states that the
delay granted in Europe and Algeria for the con-
version of the Four•and-a-Half per Cent. Rentes
expired on the 15th inst.

The amount of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent.
Rentes converted amounts to 1321 millions of
francs, and the number of Obligations Trentenaires
to 604,439 f.

There still remain 401 million francs of Uncon-
verted Four-and a-Half per Cent. Rentes, and
70,721 Obligations Trentenaires.

The following are the words (by the Poet Lau-
reate) to be sung to Professor Bennett's music at
the opening of the International Exhibition :---
Uplift a thousand voices full and sweet,
In this wide hall with earth's inventions stored,
And praise th' invisible universal Lord,
Who lets once more in peace the nations meet,
Where Science, Art, and Labour have outpoar'd
Their myriad horns of plenty at our feet.
0, silent father of our Kings to be,
Mourn'd in this golden hour of jubilee,
For this, for all, we weep our thanks to thee 1
The world-compelling plan was thine,
And, lo I the long laborious miles
Of Palace ; lo I the giant aisles,
Rich in model and design;
Harvest-tool and husbandry,
Loom and wheel and engin'ry,
Secrets of the sullen mine,
Steel and gold, and corn and wine,
Fabric rough, or Fairy fine,
Sunny tokens of the Line,
Polar marvels, and a feast
Of wonder, out of West and East,
And shapes and hues of Fart divine I
All of beauty, all of use,
That one fair planet can produce,
Brought from under every star,
Blown from over every main,
And mixt, as life is mixt with pain,
The works of peace with works of war.
0 ye, the wise who think, the wise who reign,
From growing commerce loose her latest chain
And let the fair white-winged peacemaker fly
To happy havens under all the sky,
And mix the seasons and the golden hours,
Till each man find his own in all men's good,
And all men work in noble brotherhood,
Breaking their mailed fleets and armed towers,
And ruling oy obeying nature's powers,
And gathering all the fruits of peace and crown'd with
all her flowers.

TURIN, APRIL 24.
Negotiations are in progress for the modification
of the Bank statutes.

It is intended to increase the capital of the Bank
:o 100,000,000 lire, and to entrust it with the
ssuing of the coinage,

AMERICAN MAILS.—The Liverpool, New York,
and Philadelphia Steamship Company's steamer Edinburgh
sailed yesterday from Liverpool for New York, with the
mails, about 30 cabin passengers, and a large cargo. The
Canadian mail steamer Nova Scotian will be despatched to
day (Thursday) for Quebec and Montreal, with the Cana-
dian and United States mails. _ _ _

JOHN BROWN'S Sox.—The rebellion in our land
is being conducted in the most barbarous spirit. The devil
of slavery presides over it. When our soldiers entered
Winchester, Va., they found in the Medical College the
body of John Brown's son, killed at Harper's Ferry, first
skinned, and only the frame and muscles retained. It
stands at full length in one corner of the museum, labelled
"John Brown's son—thus always with Abolitionists."
There it stood, a monument of Southern barbarity, the in-
tegument taken off, and the muscles, veins, and arteries all
preserved, the top of the cranium sawn off, and the lips pur-
posely distorted in disrespect.--American letter.
PLYMOUTH, Wednesday.—The full-rigged ship
La Hogue, 1,331 tons, Captain John Williams, belonging
to Messrs. Dunbar and Sons, from Sydney January 16, has
arrived in the Thames. She brings 106 passengers and a
cargo, including 2,284 bales of wool, 109 casks of tallow, and
25 tons of copper ore. La Hogue does not appear to have
encountered so much ice in the South Pacific as other ships
recently arrived. On Feb. 3, in lat 51 S, long 136 W, she
passed three icebergs; on the 6th, lat 52 S, long 1 17 W,
one ; and on the 11th, lat 55 S, long 92 W, another; this
was the last observed on the passage. She rounded Cape
Horn Feb. 18, and crossed the Line March 22. The wind
throughout the voyage was exceedingly light, with many
calms ; during 23 days only 60 miles per day was made on
an average. La Hogue spoke, March 20, the schooner Wild
Wave, from London for the Cape of Good Hope ; 23d, the
bark Chilena, from Liverpool for Callao; 26th, the bark
Chelydia, from London for Coquimbo ; April 1, the bark
Eden, from Colombo for London ; 4th, the American ship
Garnet, bound south; sth, an Austrian bark, 7,183, from
Matanzas for Montevideo ; 16th, the ship Kalos, from
Antwerp for Quebec ; and 19th, the American ship Victoria,
with loss of masts ; the master wished her to be reported,
but declined to say where he was from or whither he was
bound.
CAPTAIN WILSON, OF THE EMILY ST. PIERRE.—

At the annual meeting of the Liverpool Mercantile Marine
Association yesterday, there was present Captain Wilson,
of the Chip Emily St. Pierre, whose gallant recapture from
a Federal prize crew we noticed yesterday. During a tem-
porary absence of Captain Wilson from the meeting, Cap-
tain Inglefield, R.N., alluded in highly eulogistic teams
to his coolness, daring, and gallantry, saying that he did
not care whether he were Confederate or Federal. The
conduct of Captain Wilson, he said, proved most satisfac-
torily that the mercantile marine contained men who, in
times of difficulty and danger, were in every way qualified
to stand side by side with the officers of the navy. The
remarks of the gallant commander were received with loud
applause.

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THE MURDERER CLARK.—It will be remem-
bared that George Clark, a joiner, was convicted at the
Newcastle-on-I yae Spring Assizes of the murder of Mr.
Mark Frater, a tax collector, in the street of that town, and
that he was sentenced to death by Mr. JusticeWilles ; but,
in consequence of the eccentric conduct of the prisoner
on his trial, and subsequent examinations made by medi-
cal gentlemen, it will also be recollected the sentence of
death was subsequently respited by the Home-office.

There has since been considerable difficulty with regard to

the disposal of the convict, through the Newcastle borough
justices refusing to sign a certificate that Clark was
insane, though the two medical men appointed by them to
examine the convict made a report to them to that
effect. The difficulty has been got over, however, by a
private intimation which has been sent to the governor of
Newcastle Gaol, to the effect that the Queen has coM.
muted the sentence on Clark to that of penal servitude
for life.

ILL-TIMED HOLIDAYS.—The holiday on Good
Friday at the Exhibition building was practically extended
to Saturday, and there is little prospect of more work being
done to-day than was done yesterday. Easter is always a
period of enjoyment with the British artisan, and this year
fine weather comes to justify his idleness. The clatter of
2,000 hammere in and about the building will probably not
be heard again in full vigour until Thursday, and the Ex-
hibition managers are getting nervous about their prepara-
tions. The hundreds of half-built cases which choke up
every gallery and passage, the piles of shavings, the un-
finished trophies, the quarrels about space between exhibi-
tors and superintendents, and the disputes about free tickets
between the exhibitors and the commissioners; the im-
mense mass of divided labour which no central authority
can control or measure, with a hundred other disturbing
influences, make ➢lr. Sandford's managership anything but
a bed of roses. Not more than seven clear working days
now remain before the curtain will be drawn up upon the
industrial drama; and upon the character of the show, and
the enthusiasm excited by the opening, will largely depend
the financial success of the undertaking.

ROSLIN CHAPEL.—The ancient chapel of Roslin,
near Edinburgh, which is visited by almost every Scottish
tourist, was on Tuesday last opened for the service of the
Scottish Episcopal Church. The chapel, which is one of
the finest remains of Gothic architecture in t7._ cotland, was

founded in 1446 by William St. Clair, Earl of Caithness,
and is the property of his representative, the Earl of Ross-
lyn. It has been restored with the utmost care by its noble
proprietor, and has now been opened for stated worship for
the benefit of the Episcopalian residents in the district. The
service on Tuesday was conducted by the Bishops of Edin-
burgh and Brechin, aided by Mr. Cole, the incumbent, and
other clergymen. The sermon was preached from Psalm
xxvi., 8, by the Bishop of Brechin, whose discourse was
mainiya defence of the applicat on of high art to the uses
of religious worship. The restoration, which was rather a
cleaning and repair than a rebuilding (the edifice having
escaped Reformation zeal, and suffered little spoliation but
from the hand of time), has brought out many beautiful
carvings long crusted with the dust of ages, and shown the
enrichments of its interior in almost their original freshness.
The chapel, which will be still open to visitors as hitherto,
will, no doubt, in its restored state, prove doubly attrac-
tive.