KING HUMBERT'S VISIT TO VIENNA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6498, 24 December 1881, Page 5

KING HUMBERT'S VISIT TO VIENNA.

The King and Queen of Italy were welcomed back with enthusiasm or. the frontier, as they returned from their brie! visit to Vienna. The political resuit* of their journey cannot be chronicled with the same certainty as the festivities which attended it Its significance is beyond question, and has excited the anger of the extreme Republican party. Biciotli (Hnbaldi made a speech At a meeting, in which he described the Go re foment as prostituting the cation, and preparing an alliance with those who still held Italian land in subjection. ‘ Young men,” he said, “prepare yourselves to fight the enemies of Italy wherever they are entrenched —on the frontier, in the Vatican, or in the Quirinal.” The police were received with shouts of “Down with the Holy Alliance.” The incidents of the Boyal visit, and the order of the ceremonial entertain meats, bore a general resemblance to the Imperial meetings with which custom has made the world familiar. The reception at the railway station was a brilliant spectacle. The next, day there was, of course, a grand military parade. The scene was on a plateau just outride Vienna, towards which crowds cf all ranks eagerly pressed. The Boyal party was enthusiastically received. On# correspondent relates that the charger destined for Sing Humbert took fright at the white plume of bis helmet, and was so restless that he could not mount. “ o!es t 4, .'re ccc./ar, MajrsUf* said the Emperor Francis Joseph, which the King accordingly did, but it was cf no me. So the Emperor offered his own horse to the King, but that also resented the crest. A third was brought, and its eyes covered while the King mounted. The following morning King Humbert and the Austrian Crown Prince Budolph took part in a hunting party a few miles out- of the city. “Some 600 "men (in the continental style often condemned in this country) urged the quarry towards a net drawn news (he opposite end of the field, where the Boyal huntsmen were stationed. Id the first start some 400 hares and several partridges were killed. The Stag, who had fir«V'- f (-.?er.t to keep his three rides constantly loaded, shot no less than ninety cares, hi the second start, he and Prince Budolph each kilted over a hundred.” In the evening there was a grand banouet, served on sitter and gold. After the fifth cr:rse, the Emperor pledged his guests, and King Humbert replied, expressing in a few words his desire that the cordial relations between the two countries should be drawn closer, to the increase of their prosperity. Later still there was a gala performance at the opera, during which the Italian Premier (Signor He; retijji was observed in animated conversation with Count Andrwsy. On Sunday morning the Imperial family and their' * licyal guests attended mats in the Court chapel". In these various ceremonials the beautiful Queen Margherita figured conspicuously. On Monday Jait the King and Queen starred hornsward. It it understood that there whl ho a return visit next year. Thu* once again i* Italy reasserting her claims—quietly 1: may be, but surely—-to a place in the coinbinatioiis of Europe.— Argn* Correspondent.