The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-20 00:00:00

CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED.

We learn that no hopes are entertained of the recovery
of Major Calvert. He was very low this morning. Go-
vernor Wells is much improved, and doing well. Mr.
Handy, of the Dispatelt, was out yesterday, receiving the
congratulations of his friends. Mr. Chesternaan was on,
the street this morning, and looks well, but is still quite
weak. The other wounded, so far as we learn, are im-
proving.—Richmond State Journal, May 5.
RICHMOND, May 4, 1520.

To-day the churches were filled and the city presented
a Sabbath appearance. In the United States Circuit
Court Chief Jititice Chase, in response to the resolutions
-of the Richmond bar regarding the late calamity, said :
"Human emotions are but poorly expressed by words.
When the first vague rumours of the terrible event in
this city, which has been so fitly named `the great
calamity,' went through the land a few days ago all hearts
felt a shock like that of a sudden and awful personal
bereavement. Then, as the tidings came more distinctly
over the wires and the fearful disaster took shape and
form in the minds of the people, it seemed for a time to
oppress all hearts like a nightmare, the pulse of life
throbbed heavily, and human utterance failed under the
crushing sense of sorrow which pervaded the land;
soon the currents of feeling began to flow, and now, for
many days, heartfelt expressions of condolence and sub-
stantial manifestations of sympathy have been flowing
towards Richmond like a great tide. No right-minded and
true-hearted man can help feeling this vast development of
unaffect©d good will, so strikingly devoid of everything like
sectional or party feeling, the gleams of radiance which,
in God's good providence, so often brighten the darkest
clouds of human grief. When, two days since, we took
our seats upon this bench, our eyes and hearts alike
missed familiar faces upon the bar. Let us thank God
that those whose voices were oftenest heard here, yet sur-
vive; may the Great' Physician comfort their sorrowing
househOld and give them speedy and complete restora-
tion. But there were other members of the bar who will
never again join in honouraple contentions. One has gone
in the ripened fulness of ripened years; another, with
the distinctions of his profession clustering thick upon
him, having-already won these heights of public estima-
tion, from which the escort to the highest seemed easy
and sure ; another, younger, yet mature, treading with
firm steps the upward paths of usefulness and nour.
How terribly does such a calamity as this rebuke our vaia
expectations, how impressively does it admonish every
one of us to look beyond the shadows of time to the
realities of eternity. It is said among those dying—
crushed under eat mass of ruins—there were some who
could yet exchange a few faint words with their com-
panions in that fearful place. None of them which have
been related by the rescued have impressed me so much
as that of one mangled and broken sufferer, who still,
found strength to exclaim :

` Oh ! Death, where is thy sting ?
Oh ! Grave, where is thy victory ?' "

"What a triumph was that ! What a testimony to the
incomparable worth of Christian faith ! So, in the very
depth of this awful distress and anguish open springs of
human sympathy and fountains of sublimest heavenly
comfort; let us take these lessons to our hearts. This is a
day of humiliation and prayer. The churches will be
filled with worshippers. Let us carry into them not
merely the burden of, sorrow, but also the consolations of
faith, ever remembering that all is God. If He but wave
His hand the rains collect, the winds blow shrill and
loud, till, with a smile of light, on sea, on land, lo ! He
looks back from the departing cloud. His will be done."
Intelligence was received to-day from Mayor Fox, of
Philadelphia, that additional funds had been raised there
for the sufferers here.—New York Herald.