The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-19
An American at the COrOna ION Festivities,
at southampton, England.
From the Hampshire (Epg) Advertiser.l

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From the Hampshire (Eng) Advertiser.l
In no part Of the country could it have been pos
sibe to celebrate the anniversary of Her Majesty's
coronation with zeal, liberaty, and enjoyment
than in Southampton The town had resolved
making holiday and most heartily was the resolution
carrie out The terrific scenes enacted in another
country, and the malignant. though impotent, at
tennts to foment disorders at hor" made the ,u,
Of Southampton eagerly seize such an opportunity
coronation of testifying their loyalty to Queen Vic
tora, and attachment to the throne and institutions
Of the country. All business was suspended-every
shop was closed, and though
The sky was overcast,
And heavily in clouds brought on the day
the bells poured forth their melody and thousands of
people we're to be seen at early hour Fastening to
leave upon steam boat excursions in the channel
the Soent and railway trips to Winchester, Salisbury,
Portsmouth, &C.
In Southampton the ancient order of Foresters had
a grand celebration at the beautiful grounds of the
through the principal streets Of the town, with flags,
banners, and music, the officers mounted and attired
in forest costume, and the whole Of the members
capital dinner.
We have spoken in the above notice of the ceebra-
ton OF the handsome appearance Of the Foresters in
mary those who observed them to give the autho.
rity for their dress, which extract from Todds
Illustrations of Cover and Chaueer"-
The poet has been sufficiently minute the description of the
yeemans hatlments ~ concluded says he 'hat he
his SSs
Tvs that Sd p with feathers according
Warrior has shown that among the stores at Farnham Castle
arcas chords and sagite mggnG the latter which
tam s ans 's 1 ssap
winchester among stores at Taunton
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Observes De are siggiaadi per vaictto Regis
hold whatever degree Of YeOman
& & the % his MS w a s cr they s
comm only used by arehers and in the present instance
and his dagger other are added silver christopher on his
ointment called cso esq seiay By the stat T.
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was he Mr. s s
Of h'S isn ' our Of y s
shoulders painted OF engraved upon it subject exceedingly
uced and probably not less SO in the days Ghancsr Hc
sGTnE to this the of the sumuay law
The Mayor and a considerable number of the Cor
poraton magistrates of the town Sc, dined together
The council chamber was tastefuly fitted up with
flowers, evergreens, flags and streamers TARGETS
quadrile band played in the magistrates room, and
the following gentlemen sat down to dinner:-The
Mayor in the chair; on his right D. NJ Wilcox, Esq,
NJ. p, J. r. Croskey, American Consul, g. Atherly,
Esq, and Captain Glynn his left, A. +. Cockburn,
Esq M. P, the Rev. 7. L. Shapcott f. II Hutton, j..
Bernard, G saintsbury, and Dr. W. Bullar.
The MAYOR next proposed the health of gentleman
on his right, r. Creskey Esq Consul of the United
ton Company. That gentleman had been the
OF bringing to this port portion of the trade of Ame
rca and of making them more intimately acquainted
with their transatlantic brethren (Great appause)
Mr. CRosKEY, on rising was received with great and
repeated cheering and begged to return his most sim
cere thanks for the high compliment they had paid to
his country to himself and to the interests he repre-
septed In these days of progress it small
pement to have oneself associated in toast with the
StPam-the mighty Of
world whether as applied to the weaving of fabrics
for the comfort Of mankind, or to the Intervening Of
the web Of amty between nstions- (cheers) but when
their courtesy had chosen to wish success to the
Ocean Steam Navigation Company company still
in it's infancy, before toasting the older and
powerful companies that have exercised important
an influence the destinies of the port Of South
BANGED that he could find no words adequate to ex.
presskhis appreciation OF their kindness II would be
work Of to wish to the already
successful companies he had alluded to. They stood
before the world among the greatest ACHE
the present age, and his most sanguine wishes would
be realized were the Ocean Steam Navigation Com
pany to attain an equal degree of perfe ction and
prosperity Their company had many difficulties to
neutrality-suspicious. always attendant upon new
difficulties IL not altogether overcome are fast dsap-
pearlpg The kind wishes Of their friends as on the
present OCCASION would cheer them In the
Of their enterprise to successful ISSUE He would
request permission to make few remarks with ree-
renee to the object for which they had that
ming celebration of the coronation Of the Queen:
and let him assure them that although an. American
and Of consequence republican, he could neverthe-
less appreciate and applaud the feeling which unani-
mousy pervaded that meetingthe feeling of loyalty
tother sovereign (Repeated cbeering) In the United
Stater they hold that to be the best citizen who
is most jealous in his obedience TO the laws or the
many thousand Europeans who annually take up their
residence amongst them they always those to be-
come the most worthy citizens who have been good
and loyal subjects under their own form of govern
Z, ment From their earliest infancy they had been
taught TO consider the feeling Of to be essential
to the character Of true American, as It is held In
this country to be essential to the character true
EnPlishnan (Cheers.) With Americans loyalty
was more Of an sbstractionit confined to an i'm
plic,t obedience to the will of the majority with
Epgisbmep there was a charm poeticai halo thrown
around the feeling by ts being identified with Sc
Of attachment to the person Of their sovereign. And
thrice happy were they Tor being blessed with
who untes in her person all the virtues OF divine
woman with the attributes of q Queen. repeated
cheerinR They would believe him when he said that
he proud of being an American. America was the
land o his birth where first his careless childhood