The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-16 00:00:00

TO OUR READERS.

SPORTING LNTELLIO F-NCE.

A !ate edition of the gfpreas is published every
evening during the racing Ileason, containing the
results of the day's races.

THE dead season, as the conceit of Cock-
neys calls the brightest months of the year, is
lively enough—out of London. If in Pall-mall
there is suspended animation, if the Park is de-
serted, the mountains, the moon, and the coasts
are populous with the weary victims of society.
Scotland and Wales are teeming with escaped
prisoners of fashion ; and the sister island no
longer bewails an Exodus, but welcomes an
immigration of much that is highest and noblest in
the realm. While the Prince of WALES is march-
ing with his " company," and studying the art
of war at the Curragh, the venerable liztrav
BeociiH•M is presiding over • council of
civilization in Dublin, and a few days hence
Her MAJESTN will be at home among her
warmhearted Irish people. This year, indeed,
the dead season has opened with more than its
usual icint. August ia always a brilliant month
in those placid waters of the Solent where our
pleasure navy spreads its snowy wings. This year
a constellation of royal personages has suddenly
appeared on that fair horizon. Nor could the con-
tinental monarchies be more worthily or happily
represented than by this succession of royal
guests. The Crown Prince of PRUSSIA and
his Princess Royal of Eirozanu ; the gallant King
of SWEDEN and his sailor brother; the sailor Duke
of Oroaro in command of hie corvette ; and the
sailor Archduke MAXIMILIAN of AUSTRIA and his
amiable wife, the Princess Gemstone of Batmen,
are all unexceptionable types of royalty as English-
men know and respect it—active, enlightened,
energetic, generous, unostentatious, full of sym-
pathy for national freedom, progress, and power.
This is monarchy as it is in England, worthy of
the reasonable loyalty of an understanding people,
and fortunate are the nations whose loyalty is
reasonable homage to true worth !
When a foreign sovereign visits England, the
principal "lions" he goes to see are probably
Portsmouth Dockyard and Woolwich ArsenaL In
these latter years a review at Aldershot is also
" underlined." Fourteen thousand British sol-
diers are quite enough to show the stuff and
mettle of a nation of shopkeepers. We dare say
the Scandinavian King. as he glanced at that tight
little army on the Hampshire ridges, was satisfied
with the moral of the spectacle—which has more
to do with quality than quantity.
The visit of an Austrian Archduke to Southamp-
atnpton is not in itself an occurrence of unwonted
interest or importance. That busy and prospe-
rous town—so old and yet so new—is in
truth a brilliant illustration of English maritime
and commercial enterprise. Within a quarter of a
century Southampton has sprung from compara-
tive insignificance to the rank of a rival of Liver-
pool, and the steam fleets that throng its ample
docks are among the marvels of the age. South-
ampton Docks are, in fact, one of the " sights" of
England, and a sight to arrest the attention of a
man so intelligent, inquiring, and attached to his
noble profession as the Archduke MAXIMILIAN. On
this occasion, however, the visit of the Lord High
Admiral of the Austrian Navy was understood to be
a special compliment, and the authorities of the port
and borough were resolved to pay signal honours
to their imperial guest. A new line of steamers
from Southampton to Trieste ha. been talked of
since the return of Mr. IRocarot and Mr. LEvca
from Vienna last autumn, and the honours paid to
the Archduke MAXIMILIAN at Southampton were,
unconsciously perhaps, a national return for the
honours paidtothe Member for Sheffield and his Gal-
way colleague in the Austrian capital. At least the
conspicuous premises of the two " promoters " on
this occasion spinets to warrant such an interpre-
tation. So the town was decked with Hags, the
bells were ringing, and the platform battery was
firing a salute, when the Lord nigh Admiral of
Austria arrived on Wednesday. Certainly, no
foreign prince could be more worthy of this
honourable welcome at an English seaport than
the Archduke )Isxmiztax, if winning frankness,
simplicity, and gentleness of character, rare attain-
ments, and all the characteristics of a true sailor,
should make the brother of an Emperor • favourite.
If personal qualities in • governor could have re-
conciled Italy to foreign rule, the Archduke MAXI-
MILIAN might almost have made Austrian domina-
tion tolerable, if not popular, at Venice and Milan.
The ARCHDUCHESS, too, was welcomed at South-
ampton as • lady by name and lineage possessing
an hereditary title to the affection of England, and
for her own sake universally and justly beloved.
Austria, as personified by its Imperial House, has
never appeared before the English public in so
amiable and advantageous a guise. Nor was the
opportunity wasted. It was quite a " rebabili-
" tation " of Austria. In • Liberal, if not Radi-
cal, borough, where the proscribed and exiled Go-
vernor of Hungary was once received with all the
honours duo to a sovereign misfortune, " Austria "
was acclaimed on Wednesday as • liberal and con-
stitutional Power, under the auspices of the Mem-
ber for Sheffield, whose later genius for com-
bining strokes of political and commercial capi-
tal is worth all his earlier reputation as a
Reformer. The ARCHDUKE'S speeches, pronounced
in good English, went straight to the hearts of
his audience. They were the speeches of a sailor,
an admirer of England, and • thorough "liberal."
of course Mr. Romarek's was the speech of
the occasion. It betrays all the speaker's habitual
modesty, and even more than his usual diffidence ;
the courtliness of Vienna, slightly tempered with
the sharpness of Sheffield. Mr. ROEBUCK'S

text was the " constitutional government"
now established in Austria. This was a
text which the member for Sheffield, in
his new capacity as • " well conducted and
" well thinking ' radical, was ready to improve.
And he really succeeded in persuading his willing
hearers that the " Reichsrath " at Vienna, in
which a fraction of the Austrian Empire is repre-
sented, for deliberative purposes was to all intents
and purposes a "Parliament," and that the prin-
ciple of " self-government," in the English
sense, was in full operation throughout the Aus-
trian dominions. Mr. ROEBUCK represents the
Emperor FRANCIS Joseen as a maligned, misun- I
derstood, and calumniated man, whom all right-
minded Englishmen will gladly encourage in his
thankless task of teaching his scattered subjects to
be free. Mr. Rorm-ce is doubtless justified in
believing that Englishmen would gladly see the
Austrian Empire regenerated by constitutional
government, and endowed with new vigour by
liberty, because a powerful and a free State in
Central Europe is the surest guarantee of Eu-
ropean liberties, and the stoutest barrier against
the overweening ambition of Napoleonism. Does
Mr. ROEBUCK perceive in that invention of •
lteichsrath a free and equal representation of all the
nationalities that compose the Austrian Empire,
and not rather a contrivance for losing and hiding
the real and unavowed principle of government in
a Itabylonish assembly, where none but the
Minister at Vienna—the hider—can find it with
his secret magnet I We are not disposed to
quarrel with the promoters of • lino of
steamers from Southampton to Trieste about
the rights or wrongs of the Hungarian'
question. But Mr. ROEBUCK, as a Parliament
man, is not a mere member for " • contract." He
is nothing if not political ; and the passages in his
speech at Southampton, in which he touched upon
the true sources of English power and prosperity,
were equally felicitous and statesmanlike. It may
have been convenient in such a presence to forget
that this famous Imperial Constitution and Parlia-
ment was never so much as dreamt of at Vienna
until defeat in Lombardy had reduced the blindest
and heaviestof despotisms to impotence and shame.
I tut for the intervention of another military despotisin
—wiser in its generation—the system of Menu-
Wu and SCH WARZEN BMW would not only be
governing the Empire of Austria to-day, but it
would have stamped out the liberties of Piedmont
and crushed the hopes of Italy. It was, doubt-
less, not convenient to Mr. ROEBUCK in such a
presence to remember that the constitutional
government for which Hungary is struggling
against Austrian violence and bad faith is as
ancient and as respectable as our own, though we
cannot venture to say of the Diet at Pesth, as Mr.
Roes re says of the House of Commons, that "every
" knave and fool has • representative and avoice" in
it. We will not, however, be so churlish as to decline
the complimentary assurance of the Austrian Am-
bassador that in Austria there are " the self-same
" capacities for goodness and greatness, and
" freedom," as in England. No doubt there are ;
especially if, as we suppose, Count A PPONY I was
referring more particularly to his own country.
The fanatical prejudice against Austria with which
English liberals are often charged has never been
anything but a deep sympathy for the peoples who
compose that Empire. Count A PPONY I cannot
desire more earnestly and sincerely than all
Englishmen do that the " union of our two
" countries" may be "ever stronger." "The in-
" terests of Austria and England can never
" clash. They are allies formed by nature."
All this is very true and acceptable. Only, in our
political dictionary, " countries" mean peoples,
not dynastic or governments. The natural
allies of England are liberty and justice. We
trust that the Archduke his.umiustr's experiences,

Mr. Rornycz's admonitions, and Count APPONYA
confessions, may fructify at Vienna.
With liberty Austrian commerce, already repre-
sented by an admirable mercantile marine, will
rapidly increase, and with increasing commerce
will grow up an Imperial navy not unworthy to
be commanded by the gallant and generous Arch-
duke MAXIMILIAN.

Tan CrrY 801.1c1T01..—Mr. Pearson's friends will
be gratified to lean that, after a Gael oceonlialtee of the
medial an wholes,' Mended Idle, kb family Wag aesund
that all deagerens symptoms bed enbrided„ Ind la all pro-
bability lee might hi a few weeks resume bin elide! duties
with safety, midi( the overexertion of Wad and body to
which We fang and were illness wpm to be ascribed.
TIM LAID MD. HIRAM' ISORAM, M.P.—An
ekinnt but uneekentatioup ruentunent has ben erected in
the cemetery, Bastes to the late larnented member and kis
son. It feel granite, is the form el as obelisk, oe
a nmesin and bean the folk/win ineeriptioos :
" In ranseallenene el tiny much loved son, Herbert Ingram.
Died Mb esplember, Ma. aged 15 year. Sacred to the
101001, of npbnskmd, Herbert Ingram. Esq., H.P., whom
ramie ben mese. He died the Bth September, 18110,
=ffie }era The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away ;
be the Mao of the Lord.'—ffrornford Merce.7.
DRAYS AND FORD/AL or W. ALWARD, LSQ.—
Is oar obituary el het week (nye theThrfoo and Chesterfield
Reporeer) we had the melancholy duty of announcing the
sudden death of W. Alkard. Eaq., of Burton Closes, Bake-
' well, a magistrate of this oonsty, and who, at the last
quarter meow but one, presided in the moond court,
in the unavoidable Omega, of Mr. Nedield, the deputy
chairman. On Monday afternoon week be bad given the
natineal school childree • trot in hie ornamental and
beautiful grenade, when he appeared in his usual health,
and seemed pleased at the gratalication of the children. He
was, however, attacked by apoplexy about 6 o'clock in the
evening. The stamina of Dr.. Evans and Condon was
imponhately secured, bet the sufferer breathed his last at 11
o'clock the sung eight, seserneg a very deep regret to the
surrounding erneabenrheed, acid the most inconsolable
anguish so his bereaved wife and family. He haves ten
elaildn-e, and the public will miss SI reedy, useful, and able
ma::immte. The reaming of the lamented gentleman were
interred oo listarday in the New Cemetery. The funeral
procession was lam an extensive scale. Two mutes pro-
ceeded the hearse, which was drawn by four home, and eight
mourning meshes containing the sons sod friends of the
deceased followed, the pavan metope of the deceased, of
Sir Joseph Parnes,_, Mr. Howarth, and Mr. M'Conoell
bringing up the rear. H.P.it appearances of the town on the
day of the femoral epve namistekeable Masses of the high
respect in which dseemaed was held in a plies where his
character sod active kindliest, were known and appreciated,
and which has experienced a loss that will be long felt. The
pall was bores Irry Sir Joseph Pastor, IL P., Mr. Ramey,
Mr. leaddicom, Mr. Wagstaff*, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Marsh.
Am oog the Inende present were the Rev. H. B. Corsi*
Vicar of Bakewell, who read the service ; the Rev. C. B.
Jacksoe, Mr. Harker, Mr. F. Harker, Mr. T. J. (disbars,
Mr..fackson, M.P., Mr. Loogsdoc, and Mr. Nadel&
Norm LANCASHIRC ELTAVION.—The Li=
Coo r ier, a conservative paper, yesterday eveaing_pu
a second editioe, alleging, on " relieLle authority," that Mr.
Chatham, disappointed with the melts of the maven on
his behalf, had determieed to withdrew from the eastern,
re as to cave the expenses of polling booths, clerks, ire.
This preposterous fiction was promptly oontreelicted by the
liberal committee, who designated this stateeneet as not
oily untrue, but as a decided eigu of weakness on the part
of the conservative interest. (Pa 'Change, too, much in
feeling was engendered by this statement, especially as none
of the other daily men had vouchaded to notice the
rumour.

Tee GREAT Ex wtemow or 1862.—The New
Booth Wake Commissiosien are using ever• exertion is
order that the colony may be creditably represented at the
cloning World's Mr. Ix addition to the facts mentioned in
our last summary, we may state that the director of the
Botanic Gardens (Mr. Moore) has started oa a tour for the
collection of vegetable and botanical specimens from various
districts of the colony. As regards the other departments,
numerous exhibits have already been promised, and some
actually east is. The commissioners are now making ar-
rangements for a kcal exhibition, which it is intended to
bad in )4yd/sty prior to the articles being forwarded to
They have secured the use of the School of Arts'
bEilltia period of eight weeks, awl bays rented the large
warehouses formerly in the occupation of Messrs. Fairhurst
and Co. as a place for the storage and packing of such arti-
cies as mey be entrusted to them on behalf of the colony.
Mr. Edward Hamilton, the London agent of the New South
Wales government. hsa bees appointed to act for the colony
as special commissioner in England. The Sydney Exhibi-
tion will he opened about the beginning of October next.—
Sydney Morning Herald.