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

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SOUTITAMPTOA:

Yesterday afternoon his Imperial Highness the
Archduke Frederick Maximilian'of Austria, accom-
panied by his illustrious Archduchess, 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 inspecting the docks and
ascertaining the facilities of the port, with a view
to its selection as the terminus of the line of steam-
packets projected to run bgtween Austria and
England. Their Imperial Highnesses were received
with every demonstration of enthusiasm ; the prin-
cipal streets of the town were gaily decorated with
flags, the bells were rung, and a salute of 21 guns
was fired from the Platform Battery. At the rail-
way terminus their Imperial 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 Arch-
duke and Archduchess,
Mr. C. E. DEACON, the town clerk, read an ad-
dress, which was elegantly inscribed on vellum in
illuminated writing.
The Archduke MAXIMILIAN, whose pronunciation
was excellent, 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 for the way in which y ouhave
welcomed me, associating me as you have done
with your own beloved and honoured Queen.
It has indeed been a source of boundless gratifi-
cation to the Archduchess and to myself to feel that
close ties of relationship unite us to a Sovereign
more united even by her own private virtues than
by the almost unexampled greatness 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 to the advance-
ment and prosperity of the Austrian navy. My
country is now a constitutional one like your own ;
and as it is full of aptitudes for freedom—(cheers)
—and as it in many respects resembles England
more than any other European land, I live in the
conviction that each day will see stronger sympa-
thies spring up between Great Britain and Austria,
and that, therefore, the two empires will be politi-
cally and commercially 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 satisfac-
tion than the warm greeting which I have this day
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accompanied by the Mayor and Colonel Barlow,
and, drawn by four greys, were driven round the
docks.

The visitors and those assembled next embarked
on board the South-Western Company's steamship
Havre, in which they steamed gently down the
Southampton Water, viewing the forest scenery,
the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, S:e•
The Havre returned to the Royal Pier, where
the party disembarked, and proceeded to the Vic•
for is Assembly Rooms, where, at four o'clock, a
magnificent dejeuner was provided, supplied by
Fisk, of the High-street.
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left
worship.
The band of the 2d Hants (Southampton) Rifle
Volunteers were stationed on the lawn, and per-
formed in the intervals between the toasts ; and
Christy's Minstrels sang a selection of their choicest
concerted songs.
The Town Clerk read letters from Viscount Pal-
merston and Earl Granville, stating their inability
to attend, in consequence of their engagement to
sign the Princess Alice's marriage contract, a cir-
cumstance the announcement of which was re-
ceived with enthusiastic applause.
The MAYOR proposed in succession the toasts oy
" The Queen," "The Emperor of Austria," "
Royal Family," and " The Health of the Ar eh-
duke Ferdinand Maximilian, Lord High Adrniral
of Austria." He expressed a fervent hope that the
Archduke and Archduchess might enjoy ac happy
a life as our beloved Queen and her Consort, and
he wished them with all his heart, long life, pro-
sperity, and happiness. (Loud che'ers.)
The Archduke MAXIMILIAN,
who rose amid
reiterated applause, said,—Ge
;ntlemen—Deeply
' moved at the kind manner in u
hich you have re-
ceived this toast, I express v,
best and most cor-
dial thanks, and I propose to my
You on this occasion,
to drink to the Prosperity, 'the power, and the

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ess England, the elevated model of all fres,
iv , industrious nations. (Great cheerino.)
The Hon. R. H. BUTTON, 31. P., proposed " The

mow, the Army, and the Volunteers."
Capt. PATEY,II.N., Admiralty Superintendent of.
Packets at Southampton, Col. CAMERON, R.E.,.ancP
Col. GRIMSTON, severally responded.
The Archduke MAXIMILIAN—GentIemen, I plo-
pose the toast of " The Mayor of Southampton,"
our amiable host, Who has received us so well.
(Cheers.)
The MAYOR acknowledged the compliment.
Mr. T. FALVEY proposed " The British House of
Commons."

Mr. ROEBUCK, M.P., said—Mr. Mayor, if on an
ordinary occasion 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 a great monarch, who has
,attempted
to bring about his dominions constitutional
government, and I would say that, in so
doing, he has met with all those prejudices,
those ignorances, and those mistakes that constantly
attend men who attempt to do good to their fellow
beings. He has attempted to bring into the coun-
try which he rules—a great, a commanding country
in Europe, a constitutional government, of which
we afford so admirable a type. He has not attempted
to make any part of that empire supreme over the
rest, but he has attempted to make all equally alike,
and to make them to be equally represented in the
Imperial Parliament of Austria. Now that, I say, is
a thing that ought to enlist itself in every English-
man's mind; and however there may be persons
who endeavour to mislead us, however there may
be pess,--- s governed by interest to induce us to
heliev, ontrary of what is the truth, the em-
pire ,f ust at this time, is attempted to be made.
a constitutional Government by the Imperial re-
lative of our honoured guest on this occasion. He
has to meet with great difficulties—difficulties which
we mow, for we have attempted and accomplished
the same thing. (Hear, and cheers.) We have made
!stile communities, differing in language and in
religion, one united empire. (Hear, hear.) That he
is attempting now to do. That he is belied, that he
is maligned, that he is misrepresented, belongs
only to mankind ; for let him be assured, that he
'sill be cheered onward in his path by all well-con-
ducted and well-thinking Englishmen—(cheers)—
and that they will endeavour to do all they can to
assist him in his great and beneficent task. (Loud
cheers.) Now, Sir, when we have this honoured
guest at our table, we wish him to carry back to
that country which he adorns the feelings which
will tell his Imperial relative what he is about to
accomplish. What is it he sees now around him ?
He has been this day through the docks of this
town. They are the results of individual enterprise
—enterprise that has been allowed to attain its
end, because of the good Government that he sees
here established. And how is that good Govern-
ment attained ? Simply by enabling the people to
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make their own laws; and this is the lesson that
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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 benefi-
cent deity which has given to her that which we
possess ; have wrought it out for ourselves. Eng-
lish 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 now is ? Is it the mercantile &eta
coming in from every sea, wafting to our shores
freights manufactured and made by every people
upon earth? Is it this? No, it is not this. Is
it our manufactures that so manifest 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 Englishmen are obedient
throughout everything to the law, and above every-
thing, that the law is made by themselves. Aud
I will tell him, and thrcugh him that great head.
of his nation, that a nation which governs itself
is the best governed, and that a nation that go-
verns itself is the most gratifying to those who
have the nominal sovereignty over it. As his
Imperial Highness has seen on this occasion, we
very nearly adore our Queen—(cheers)—she is a
constitutional monarch, heading the nation. I will
not say the first, for I would not be vainglorious,
but among the first that the earth affords. Is she
not great, is she not secure, can she not go from
one end of her kingdom to the other and be met
by acclaiming multitudes ? If she were an abso-
lute monarch she could not do this. His Impe-
rial Highness has to-day seen multitudes met to-
gether, but he has met no soldiers. (Cheers.)
The law is not thrust down our throats at the
points of bayonets. Every well-conducted man is
a policeman, because we have made our own laws.
And I honour that great monarch who from his
high position 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
Emperor o Austria is doing. And the people
of England fully appreciate and I believe under-
stand the greatness of what the Emperor of Austsia
has been doing. It has grown slowly upon them.
He is not attempting to make one party suprrior
to another, or one part of his great dominions
superior to another, but he is attempting te, give
all alike constitutional government. He will be
opposed by interest, by faction, and by dema-
gogues; but let him depend upon the people of
England ; they will support him through all his
difficulties. They know from experience what
those difficulties are, and they will hail him as one
of the great benefactors of mankind. (Cheers.)
Now, sir, we enjoy all. these things bees use we
govern ourselves, and, governing ourselves, •we have
a House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) I have brought
round my argument from the point at vliicli we
started. 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 650 men togethe r. 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, never-
theless, that is a great assembly representing Eng-
land, 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
ps—no
been thirty years there—you will get rid of the
distinguishing mark of England. (Cheers.) we
are a free people, free to speak that whicl2, we do
ple.sta Grumblingke feel. If we mistake—and God knows that it is the
fortune
to
body is so
'is the
great business of life, and I
am quite stirs that of
ready toefl u mens as t o make
people.
mistakes—nobody
the faculties of the t h
e House of Commons, grumbling
in
is the most important. Where despotic coun-
tries people are coerced till they feel a. temptation
to rise in arms against the Government„ in
overnment„ England
every man who feels a grievance writes to his mem-
ber, or to some naem b member-1 wish you knew the let-
ters I receive (1 h aug ter)—and if he does not find
a voice it is very remarkable, for the knave, the
fool, has always found a representative and a
voice in the House of Commons. (Hear.) Never-
theless the House of Commons has made England
what it is ; and in its 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 rest of mankind that its good government has
been to England. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. DEACON proposed " The Public Companies,"
and Col. BABLOW responded.
Mr. J. R. STEBBING, President of the Chamber
of Commerce, proposed " The Commerce of Austria
and England."
Count APPONYI—I 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's heart ; and
it is not only the many struggles borne together in
the past which should attach the two countries to
each other; it is also a certain undeniable resem-
blance in character, feelings, and pursuits. ear.)
WtheEmperorhilst I am called upon to represent
my master at the court of your universally-honoured
Queen, I have happily often had occasion to study
in the various classes of society all that •
s so great
in England. And it is with sincere pes • l
pride that,
looking back to Austria,l any of
recognise in her m
the self-same capacities for greatness,
and I will also stayfreedom. odness and
(Cheers.) It is
the fond belief ffor
who know this
G those Austrians
country well th day be more
a their own must one
t
closely formed upon her model than can be any
other Continental State. For my own part, gen-
tlemen, I confess that my ardent hopes for the ever
stronger union of the two countries rest upon the
fact, that all their interests are the same. It is almost
impossible to conceive any case upon which the
interests of England and Austria could clash. They
rt.'ze 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
in se enlightened a community as this.
Other toasts followed, and the distinguished visi-
tors left for London by special train.

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The Antwerp journals say that the rifle match,
snaolf Gtbuaart
which is about to take place in that city, will be attended
cblals,2soeuro osf teheelaNiracturio
the National Guard of Sc;haerbeek, Saint-Gilles, Ander •
person designated by hi tn, to be painted
lccht, Ghent, Mons, &c. Numerous prizes are to be given,
dci;f,,Barusnaseblys, by the corps of
the principal being a portrait of the winner, or of some
artist, M
genover.