The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-15 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1861.

THE ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA AT

SOUTHAMPTON.

MR. ROEBUCK ON ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA.

Yesterday afternoon his Imperial Highness the
Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria, accompanied by
his illustrious Archduchies, who is a daughter of the King
of the Belgians, arrived at Southampton by special train at
half-past one o'clock, for the purpose of isspecting the docks
and ascertaining the facilities of the port, with • view to
its selection as the terminus of the line of steam pockets
projected to run between Austria and England. Their Im-
perial Highnesses were received with much enthusiasm ; the
principal streets of the town were gaily decorated with flags,
the bells were rung, and • salute of 21 guns was tired from
the platform battery. At the railway terminus their impe-
rial highnesses were met by the mayor and corporation, the
resident naval officers in the town, the principal commercial
men connected with the port, and others. The mayor
(Mr. Alderman Coles), having welcomed the Archduke and
Archduchess,

Mr. C. E. Deacon, the town clerk, read the subjoined
address, which was elegantly inscribed on vellum in illumi-
nated writing :
"To Hi Imperial Highness the Archduke Ferdinand
Maximilian of Austria, Lord High Admiral, Ire.
" We, the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the ancient
borough of Southampton, in common commit assembled,
having observed with much gratification that your Imperial
Highness is on a v Ito oar moat gracious geese and her
Missertees Consort, accompanied by $ distinguished relative
of our beloved Sovereign, the meet amiable and exalted
Princess the Archduchess of the Imperial House of Austria,
desire most cordially and maps:dully to welcome you to the
shores of this kingdom and to express the great satisfaction
which your recent arrival at Southampton has afforded.
" As a commercial town and port we look with great in-
terest to the prospects of largely increasing the intercourse
with continental uations by the influence of that commer-
cial treaty which the government, the legislature and
reof this country have so grisly adopted, and looking
vast empire of Austria and its immense productions,
together with its extensive and industrious population,
we sincerely trust to see large and profitable exchanges
of productions nod manufactures for the permanent benefit
of both countries awl people in the prosperity of which we
know our most gracious queen to be deeply interested,
and our sovereign s faithful ally, the Emperor of Austria,
to have earnestly at heart.
' "We rejoice on this as upon all occasions, when the
reunion of the members of our beloved sovereign's
family gist.' her Majesty the opportunity of those
interchanges of affection and proofs a dornestie
ha for which the court is so eminently distingished,
and earnestly trust that the visit of your Imperial High-
ness and the .trchilucheas may be full of satisfaction and
happineNa to yourselves. We cordially desire that this
country may again be honoured with so distin-
guished a visit, and that you will receive the assurances of
our fervent respect, as well as our hope and desire for long
and peaceful, and permanent commercial relations with
Austria, her illustrious and imperial sovereign, and great and
thriving people.
"Given under our common seal at Southampton, the 10th
day of August, in the year of our Lord DOH."
The Archduke MAXIMILIAN, whose pronunciation was ex-
cellent, replied in the following terms :—" I thank you
cordially for the flattering words in which you have been
pleased to address me ; but above all I thank you for the
way in which you have welcomed me, associating me as you
have done with your own beloved and honoured queen. It
has indeed been a source of boundless gratification to the
archduchess and to myself to feel that close ties of Isla-
tioaship unite us to a sovereign more exalted even by her
own private virtues than by the almost unexampled great-
ness of the nation over whom she reigns. I rejoice,
too, that in me you should do honour to that
noble profession to which England owes so much
of her glory. lam proud, very proud, of being a sailor,
and the object of my utmost ambition and constant efforts
will be to contribute as much as in me lies tithe advancement
and prosperity of the Austrian navy. My country is now a
constitutional one like your owe ; and as it is full of apti-
tudes for freedoru—(cheers)—end aa it in many respects re-
sembles England more than any other European bind, I live
in the conviction that each day will see stronger sympathies
spring up between Great Britaio and Austria ; and that,
therefore, the two empires will be politically and commer-
cially drawn towards each other. It is always with
the most heartfelt delight that I revisit England, for no one
admires more sincerely than I do her greatness and its
causes—(cheers)—and nothing could afford me more genuine
satisfaction than the warm greeting which I have this day
received from the representatives of so important • commu-
nity as Southampton. (Loud cheers.)
The illustrious visitors then entered a carriage, mom.
ponied by the Mayor and Colonel Barlow, and drawn by four
greys, and were drives round the docks. Other carriages
contained Count Apponyi, the Austrian ambassador, the
Countess Lot:ow, Mr. J. A. Roebuck, M.P., Mrs. Roe-
beck, Miss Roebuck, Mr. J. Orrell Lever, M.P., Mrs. Lever,
Mr. Vandenberg, the Austrian consul at Portsmouth, the
aldermen and councillors of the corporation in their roles,
and a number of influential gentlemen from London and
Manchester, as well as those belonging to the port. After •
tour of the docks, the ships in port of the Royal West India
Mail, Peninsular and Oriental, and New York Companies
ware inspected with evident interest. The ships were
dressed with flags. The Archduke wore the collar and badge
of an Austrian order, besides several other decorations. The
visitors and those assembled next embarked ou board the
South Western Company's steam-ship Havre, in which they
steamed gently down the Southampton Water, viewing the
freest scenery, the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at
Netley, kr. The Portuguese corvette Bartholomew Dios,
commanded by his Royal Highness the Duke of Oporto,
dreamed ship, manned yards (a very pretty sight), and fired
• royal salute. Her Majesty's steam frigate Dauntless fired
a salute ; and the boys.of the Royal Naval tnsiniugship
Eagle also manned yards. While on board the Havre, the
Archduke expressed to the Mayor his gratification at the
reception which he bad received, and his pleasure and agree-
able surprise at the facilities of egress and ingress which the
port of Southampton pommies for ships of the largest ton-
nage in any weather and at all times of tide. In the comae
of the inspectioo, Colonel Barlow, Chairman of the South-
ampton Dock Company, presented to his Imperial High-
ness an elaborately-houod description of the port
and docks, accompanied with a map. The Havre
returned to the Royal Pier, where the party disembarked
and proceeded to the Victoria Assembly rooms, where at
four o'clock a magnificent dejenner was provided. The
Mayor preside], and there was a distinguished party pre-
sent, the Archduke being on the right and the Archduchess
on the left of his worship. The band of the god Hants
(Southampton) Rifle Volunteers was stationed on the lawn,
and performed is the interval' between the toasts ; and
Christy's Minstrels sang a soleatioo of their choicest concerted
songs. The Town Clerk reed letters from Viscount Pal-
merston and Earl Granville, stating their inability to
attend is coesequenee of their engagements to sign the
Princess Alice's marriage contract, a circumstance the an-
nouncement of which was received with enthusiastic ap-
plause.

The MAYOR proposed in succession the toasts of " The
Queen," "The Emperor of Austria," "The Royal
Family," and " The Health of the Archduke Ferdinand
Maximilian, Lord High Admiral of Anatria."
The Archduke MAXIMILIAN, who roes amidst reiterated
applause, said—Geatlemen, deeply moved at the kind man-
ner in which you have received this toast, I express my best
sad most cordial thanks, sad I propose to you on this ooca-
ekm to drink to the prosperity, the power, and the greatness
ei England—the elevated model of nll free, active, and in-
dustrious nations. (Great cheering.)
The Hon. R. H. Durrox, M.P., proposed "The Navy,
the Army, and the Volunteers.

Captain Pansy, R.N., admiralty superintendent of packets
at Southampton; Colonel Cameron, R.E., and Colonel
Grimetes, severally responded.
The Archduke MAXIMILIAN—GentIemen, I propose the
toad of "The Mayor of Southampton "our amiable host,
who bee received us so well. (Cheers.)
The XATOR acknowledged the compliment.
Mr. T. FALN zr proposed "The British House of Com-
awns "

Mr. Rocsuce, M.P., said—Mr. Mayor,—lf on an ordinary
ono:anion I should feel diffident of my powers in attempting
to reply in returning thanks for the toast of the House of
Commons, I should do so now particularly, for we have, sir,
now amongst us one who is a near relation of • great
monarch who Lu attempted to bring about in biz dominions
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constitutional government, and I would a that in so doing
he has met with all those prejudices, those ignorance', sad
those mistakes that constantly attend men who attempt todo
good to their lellow-bainp. He has attempted to bring into

the mintry which he rules—a pm% a aumormdlag satatry
is Imapa— a constitutional gewarameat, at whisk we afford
is sinkable a type. He has not attempted to maks say part
ad art empire supreme over the rest, but be has attempted
to minks all equally alike, and to make them to be equally
eugemseted in the Imperial Parliament of Austria. Now
liteAs I say, is a thing that ought to enlist itself in every
ishmaa's mind, and however there may be persons
who endeavour to mislead us, however there may be per-
sons governed by interest. to induce us to believe the con-
tras, of what is the truth, the empire of Austria at the pre-
mei time is attempted to be made a constitutional govern-
ment by the imperial relative of our honoured guest on this
ceemioo. He has to meet with great difficulties—difficulties
which we know, for we have attempted and accomplished
the same thing—(hear, hear, and rbeers)—we have made
hoot& communities, differing in language sod in religion,
cies *sited empire. (Hear, hear.) That be is attempting
sow to do. That he is belied, that he hi maligned, that he
is admopresented, belongs only to mankind ; but let him
be aimed that he will be cheered onward on his path by
all well-conducted and well•thinking Englishmen—(cheers)
—sad that they will endeavour to do all they can do to aid
him In his great and beneficent teak. Now, sir, when we
have this honoured guest at our table we wish him to catry
bag to that country which ho adorns the feelings which
MR ball his imperial relative what he is about to accomplish.
Whitt is it be sees now around him ? He has been this day
theliegh the docks of this town. They are the results of in-
divided enteepries—(tiear, hear)—enterprise that has Man
allowed to attain its end because of the good government
that he sees here established. And how is that good go-
vernment attained? Simply by enabling the people to make
their own laws ; and this is the lesson that ought to be
read to every monarch in Europe. (Cheers.) England, if
she has a positiou—and she has a position—among the
nations of the earth, derives it solely from herself ; it is not
any royal power which has given it to her ; it is not
any beneficent deity which has given to her that which
we possess ; we have wrought it out for ourselves—
Englishmen have produced what England now yields to the
world. But I would ask our imperial guest who now adorns'
this table what is it he has seen amongst us that most marks
the people among whom he DOW
.is ? is it the mercantile
Beets coming in from every sea, wafting to our shores
f reightkmanufactured and made by every people upon earth?
Is it this? No, it is not this. Is it our manufactures that
so macifest our power, now so accomplished over nature that
we have made the powers of nature our slaves? No, it is
not this. It is that Eaglishmen are obedient throughout
everything to the law, and above everything that the law is
made by themselves. And I will tell him, and through him
that great head of his nation, that a nation which governs
itself is best governed, and that a nation that governs
itself is the most gratifying to those who have the nominal
sovereignty over it. As his imperial highness has seen
on this occasion, wo very nearly adore our Queen—(cheer)
--she is a constitutional monarch, heading the nation—
I will not say the first, for I would not be vainglorious,
bat among the first that the earth affords. Is she not great ;
is she not Incurs ; can she not go from one end of her king-
dom to the other, and be met by acclaiming multitudes? If
she were an absolute monarch she could not do this. His
Imperial Highness bag to-day seen multitudes met together,
bat be has met no soldiers. (Hear, hear.) The law is not
thrust down our throats at the point of bayonets. Every
well conducted man is a policeman, because we have made
oar own laws. And I honour that great monarch, who from
his high mountain has seen that there are things below him
worthy of regard, and that he has made the people of
Austria to thoroughly appreciate the value of what the Em-
peror of Austria is doing. And the people of England fully
appreciate and I believe understand the greatness of what
the Emperor of Austria has been doing. It ha. grown
slowly upon them. He is not attempting to make one party
superior to another, or one part of his great dominions
superior to another, but he is attempting to give all alike
constitutional government, Hewitt be opposed by interest,
by faction, and by demagogues ; but let him depend upon
the people of England, they will support him throughout
all iris difficulties. They tram from experience what those
difficulties are, and they will hail him as one of the great
benefactors of mankind. Now, sir, we enjoy all these
things because we govern ourselves, and, governing our-
selves, we have a House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) I
have brought round my argument from the point at which
we startel. The House of Commons does all these things.
Small wits may urge their petty power to descant upon the
mistakes we make ; but I would ask, where do you meet
850 men together and there shall not be a fool amongst
them! (Laughter.) That there are fools amongst
us nobody is more willing to allow than I
am. I undergo that from day to day ; I
suffer what you do not ; but nevertheless that
is a great assembly representing England, the great
England, and they represent it worthily. Depend upon it,
if you get rid of us, the House of Commons—and I have
unfortunately been 30 years there—you will get rid of the
distinguishing mark of England. (Cheers.) We are a free
people, free to speak that which we do feel. If we mis-
take—sad Oaf knows that it is the forth= of men to
make mistakes—nobody is soready to tell ate as the people.
_ _

Grumbling is the great business of life, and I am quite
sure that of the faculties of the House of Commons grum-
bling is the most important. Where in despotic countries
people are coerced till they feel ► temptation to rise in
arms against the government, in England every man who
feels a grievance writes to his member or to some member
—I wish you knew the letters I receive—(laughter)—and
if he does not find a voice it is very remarkable, for the
knave, the fool, has always found a representative and •
voice in the House of Commons. (Laughter.) Nevertheless,
the House of Commons has made England what it is ; and
in Da name, fully understanding my own inefficiency to
do so, I return thanks, and I hope that its example may
be of the same value to the rat of mankind that its good
government has been to England. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. DEACON proposed, "The Public Companies," and
Colonel 11AELOW responded.
Mr. J. R. STY.BIENG, president of the Chamber of Com-
merce, proposed " The Commerce of Austria and England."
Count Apron t—l find it very difficult, I assure you, to
express my grateful sense of the honour you have done me,
The good wishes of Englishmen for Austria go straight to
every Austrian heart, and it is not only the many struggles
borne together in the pest which should attach the two
canaries to each other, it is also • certain undeniable
resemblance in character, feelings, and pursuits. (Cheers.)
Whilst I inn called upon to represent the Emperor, my
insater, at the court of your universally honoured Queen,
I have happily often had the occasion to study in the vari-
ous classes of society all that is so great in England. And
it is with sincere pride that, looking back to Austria, I re-
cognise in her many of the self-same capacities for goodness
and greatness, and I will also say for freedom. (Cheers.)
It is the fond belief of those Austrians who know this
country well, that their own must one day he more closely
formed upon her model than can be any other continental
state. For my own part, gentlemen, I confess tha my
ardent hopes for the ever stronger union of our two faun.
tries rest upon the fact that all their interests are the Name.
It is almost impossible to conceive any case in which the in-
terests of England and Austria could clash. They are allies
formed by nature. (Cheers.) Again, permit me to tender
my heartfelt thanks for the honour you have done me, by
coupling my name with the wishes expressed for the welfare
of Austria by so enlightened a community as this.
Other toasts followed, and the distinguished visitors left
for London by special train.

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TOM THE PROMOTION Or
SOCIAL fliciancit—The Right Hon. Lord Brougham arrived
is town by the lent train on Monday night, and drove
direct to the Yieeregal.lodge, where he remains the guest
of his Becellesey the Lord-Lieutenant. Yestesday (Tam-
de') morning the noble and learned lord visited the Royal
Irish Academy, aad thence proceeded to the Bank of Ire-
land, Trinity College, and other places in the city, and re-
tained to the Viceregal-lodge to lunch. On Saturday next
the degree of LLD. will be conferred upon hie lordship,
and probably wpm other visitors in COUDOZiCS with the
association, is Trinity College. Amongst the arrivals yes.
tenlay went—the Right Hoo. Edward Lucas, Miss Twining,
who will read papers on the subject of " Prison Discipline ;"
sod Profaner Katchouowsky, of the University of Charkow,
Russia. A t the distinguished strangers entered as
member, of the9ooial Science Congress Sr. the following:—
Waller XlCialay, M.D., Waive of Sanitary Com.
mitten, Paisley ; Sir win Leighton, Loton Park,
Hampshire; Berea Van Golfs, judge, Berlin; Colonel Old-
Amid, Bewswords, Rants; Rev. John R. Brougham, Mrs.
Breeshem, and Him A. It. Brougham, Templefort, County
Cavan.—Sseedere Zinn.