The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-23 00:00:00

CONFIRMATION OF THE PRINCESS

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OSBORNE, Jaw. '
The confirmation of her Royal blighnees
Princess Louise took place yesterday at Whipping-
ham Church, by his Grsoe the Archbishop of
Canterbury;
Precisely at 12 o'clock her Majesty arrived at '
the church, accompanied by Primo= Louise, '
having been preceded by their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Prinoessof Wales, Prinome Helena,
Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Beatrice.
Her Majesty and the royal family having taken
their places on either aide of the chancel, Primes.
Louise stood at the communion rail, within which
were the Archbishop, the Dean of Windsor, and the
Rev. George Prothero.
The service commenced with the hymn, " Come,
Holy Ghost, our souls inspire." The Archbishop
then performed the ceremony. The hymn, " 0
happy day that fixed my choice," was next sung,
after which the Archbishop delivered a charge.
The Queen was attended by Lady Churchill,
Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Boma
Lascelles, Lieut.-General the Hon. C. Grey,
Colonel Ponaonby, Colonel Sir T. M. Biddulph,
Major Elpbinatone and Mr. Buff.
Among those who bad the honour of being in-
vited to be present at the ceremony were Countess
Blucher, the Hon. Mrs. and Mies Grey, the Hon.
Mrs. Wellesley, Colonel the Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps,
Lady and Miss Phipps, the Hon. Lady Biddulph,
Miss Hildyard, Mdlle. Bauer, Mdlle. Norelle,
Dr. dinner, and Mr. Sabi.
The Countess of Morton and Captain Grey were
in attendance on the Prince and Prineesi of Wales.

A Cabinet Council was head on Saturday at the
official residence of the Ant Loaded the Treasury
in Downing-street. The ministers present were—
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey,
Earl Rumsll, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell,
Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the
Right Hon. T. Miner Gibson, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers.
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A letter from Coburg states that Queen Victoria,
the King of the Belgians, and all the royal family of Eon.
lead will arrive there in May mixt and that the betrothal
of the Priomos Helena with the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Saxe•Weimar will then take Oboe.
The Earl of Winchilsea has been suffering from
a very severe attack of gout within the last fortnight, but
is now is a fair way of recovery.
The marrimps of the Earl of Coventry and Lady
Blanche Craven, third daughter of the Earl and Countess
Craven, is to be celebrated on Wednesday next at St.
George's Church, Hanover-square. Tim Earl and Countess
Craven will receive a numerous and distieguished party at
a breakfast to celebrate the event.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli has issuod cards of
invitation for a dinner at his residence, Grosveuor•gate, to
a party of members of the Hones of Commons, on Monday,
the 6th February.
Lord Palmerston has consented to become the
president of the Southampton Hortioultaral Society.
The provisional committee of the proposed Civil
Service Club having at length concluded their laboura, a
circular submitting the prospectus of the club will speedily
be issued to members of the serviot It is proposed that
the club should consist ol 1,200 members, of whom 200
should be original members elected by the committee, and
going in at a reduced antrum fee. For ordinary members
the entree.* fee will be 25 guineas, the animal subscription
air guineas. Oa the committee are Lord Bory, Sir Charles
Eastlake, P.R.A., Mr. Anthony Trollops, Mr. Psnieri,
Hon. Spencer Poosouby, &c.
At Her Majesty's Theatre, Mr. Levy's operetta,
Peneltinello, has given place in the bills to M. Ommod'e
Tam/ (the English version, of come), with Mr. Swift as
Faust, Signor Marohesi as Mephistopheles, Mims Cottrell as
Sobel, Mr. Forbes as Valentine, Mrs. Barrington as
Martha, Miss Louie' Py.eand Miss Anna Hiles (alternately)
as Margaret. The !eland of this work has been attended
with the best results, sod with the new pantomime of
The Lion and tee Unicorn, including the extreordinary
effect of the "Visible leviable," makes an attractive enter-
tainment. An English version of the long-expected opera
of Lora, music by M. lfaillirt, is announced for Saturday.
A prospectus has been issued of the Metropolitan
and St. John's-wood Railway, as authorised line of 21
miles from the Bakerotrest station of the Metropolitan
Railway to the Finchisproad elation of the Hempstead and
City Junction Railway. There with three stations on the
route—one near Lord's Cricket Gonad, one near the Eyre
Arms, and the third at the Swiss Cottage--and the Metro.
politer& Company have agreed to work and maintain it for
50 per cent. of the gross receipts. Ultimately an extension
of a mile is contemplated to a central part of Hampstead.
The proposed share capital is 300,0001., in shares of IW.
The ifoniteur de is Motto publishes an account
of the shipwreck of the three-masted barque John Williams,
belonging to the London Missionary Society. That ship,
which visited Tahiti arc frequently within the lass twenty
years, ailed from Papeete on the 12th of Merck, 1864, to
aoromplish a mission in several of the South Sea bleeds,
sad then to proceed to Sydney. Mu had on board as pas-
elegem M. Banff, a very aged missionary, accompanied by
his wife, his Arley, and niece from lasagne with the Rev.
M. Boyle from Aitutaki, all proceeding to Australis. The
John Williams was becalmed in June last near the Island of
Dmeger,nitnated between the Nubias and the Archipelago
of Samo► All *sarong of the captain to tow the bark off
the land with boats were ieeffeeteal, and she drifted rime
and sunk. The captain, passengers, and mew were saved.
but all their property was lost. la July last they won
able to quit the Navigators' Islands la a small pallid for
Sydney. " Thus," says the Ifoniteur de la Platte,
" perished in a calm a ship which bad so often surmounted
the hurricane on the course she bed travelled so long as an
iastrament'pf trade, civiliatioa, and religion."