The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-18 00:00:00

CONFIRMATION OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS

PRINCESS HELENA.

OSBORNE, APRIL 17.

The ceremony of the confirmation of her Royal High-
ness the Princess Helena took place to-day, at Whipping-
ham Church, in the presence of her Majesty the Queen,
their Royal Highnesses the Princess Alice, Prince Alfred,
Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold.
The Bishop of Winchester officiated, with the Dean of
Windsor and the Rev. G. Prothero, rector of Whipping-
ham.

At 12 o'clock her Majesty and the royal family arrived at
the church, and took their places in the chancel.
The service immediately commenced, and at the conclu-
sion the bishop delivered a charge.
The Queen was attended by the Countess of Gains-
borough, Lady Caroline Barrington, Lady Augusta Bruce,
the Hon, Lucy Kerr, Lord A. Paget, and Lieut.-Col. Du
flat.

The ceremony was conducted with the strictest privacy,
in consequence of the late severe bereavement which has
fallen on her Majesty and the royal family.

DEATH OF THE ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET.—
Sir John West, G.C.8., expired this morning (Good Fri-
day) at an early hour, at his residence in Eat n-square.
MADAME LIND-GOLDSCHMIDT.—This benevolent
lady has volunteered her gratuitous assistance to the com-
mittee which has undertaken, at great expense, to restore
and enlarge the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Northam')
ton, one of the few round churches of the Knights Templars.
The Messiah will accordingly 133 performed next Wednes-
day morning in the Co-n Exchange in that town, and
Madame Goldschmidt will sing. The applications for
tickets have been very numerous.

THE GREAT EASTERN.—Mr. C. E. Dixon, agent
at Liverpool for the Great Ship Company, yesterday made
an application to the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board for
permission to again lay down moorings in the Mersey for
the Great Eastern steamship, her late moorings having been
removed in consequence of their causing an obstruction to
navigation. Mr. Dixon stated that the vessel would re-
commence running to New York
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THE NAVIGATION OF THE DANUBE.—The Euro-
pean Commission, created by article 17 of the Treaty of
Paris, has just published the statistics of the navigation
during the year 1861 at the mouth of the Sulina, the only
entrance to the Danube yet rendered practicable. These
returns include the traffic of the Turkish and Moldo-Wal-
lachian ports in the Lower Danube, and give a very just
idea of the importance of the rich provinces traversed by
that river. From the document it appears that 2,859 mer-
chant vessels, measuring 473,914 tons, entered the Sulina,
most of them in ballast; and 2,883 vessels, of 480,944 tons,
proceeded outwards, loaded with produce, almost exclu-
sively corn. The steamers of the Austrian, French, and
Russian companies, which run regularly and carry both
passengers and merchandise, are not included in the above
return. The number of voyages made by these steamers,
inwards and outwards, was 222. Lastly, the total number
of sailing and steam vessels of all kinds which have gone
through the Sulina pass, either way, was 6,224. Of that
number seven were wrecked near the mouth, three sank
in the roadstead of Sulina, and one in the river, in -conse-
quence of a collision. Besides other produce, 8,240,000
hectol. of corn were exported from the Danube, and of that
quantity 1,700,000 hectol. came to French ports in about
500 vessels, among which were only five merchant vessels
under the French flag. The freight of those 1,700,000
hectol. from Galatz to Marseilles, calculated at the average
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The climate in British Columbia is one of the
finest, healthiest, and most pleasant to English people in
the whole world. The English language is spoken thera :
the laws and government, and the social habits of the coun-
try are English : the church is English, and when there
are children, there will be schools in which the best traits
of English life will be preserved and honoured. There is
no more hunger or fear of hunger there. A little half-bred
nurse-girl gets £2 a month wages; and domestic servants
might soon ]ay by a little fortune if they were not sure to
marry presently. What would it not be to our best Coven-
try or Lancashire workmen, at this moment trying to make
their clothes hold together by one more patching, or sitting
with their hands before them, pining for something to do
and something to eat; what wauld be to them, or to the
weary, dazzled, sinking London needlewoman to go where '
everybody would bid for their services, where they would
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"obtain, without an hour's delay," as one of the clergymen
writes,
and even eighty pounds per annum
wages, "silty,tog setllerwvietaht,
innumerable offers and promises of
It would
marriage V' be nothing to them that prices are
high, and the cost of living great (which accounts for the
enormous rate of wages) ; for they would be maintained by
their employers first, and their husbands if they choose to j
marry.—Once a Week,