The New York herald., 1876-01-23
Mr.. Boucicnult in London.

Mr. Oakley Hall has sent US, as a matter
of important news, a cable despatch, dated
the 2lst inst, which he received from Mr..
Boucicault in London. This interesting
document is as follows -
LONDON, jan 81
To oAKEY HALL. No 13 West Forty second street. New
York;
Profound excitement here among English popua-
tion; 5000 failed gain admission last night AdelphL
Carriages nobility surround theatre Manifestation
apprehended tonight Saturday public dinner in
London Home Rule Association convened; passed
resolutions Public reception offered Dublin, Cork
English press whipped. BoUcIcAULT
We are obliged to Mr.. Hall for his kind
attentions, but ore obliged to say that his
courtesy is far more valuable than his news.
For more than week we have had reports of
the excitement from our London CORE
spondents, whom he seems to have bewitched,
although they have unaccountably failed to
send the startling information concerning the
carriages of the nobility. The manifestation
which was apprehended did not come off on
Friday night, and we suppose that Mr..
Boucicault has postponed it-as he some
times does his plays-for the benefit of
more thorough rehearsal
Mr.. Boucicault is the Admirable Crichton
of the modern drama If he does not write
quite as we'll as Shakespeare he adapts much
better. He can not only write play, but he
can put it on the STAGE officiate as prompter,
as scene shifter, as call boy, paint the
scenery, direct the box Office and the orches-
ira, and act the principal character with in
imitable grace He is his own great adver-
tising agent In this capacity he is without
rival. He had the genius to enlist
Mr.. Disraeli in his service and the Prime
Minister of England is put in the position of
those old men who 60 about the streets be-
tween two boards on which is inscribed
''Go to the Adelphi tonight" /" Don't fail
to see Boucicault as Conn p He compels
the British aristocracy to recognize the Irish
drama. He makes the British press his un-
conscious instrument He is capable of
writing letter to paper and accompany
ing it with an editorial denouncing himself;
then replying in another note Indignantly
vindicating his reputation, and sustained by
an editorial retraction also from his own bril-
liant pen. We do not say that he wrote
all the articles in the London journals, but
there is little doubt that he inspired some of
them. He is at once both of the battle
dores and the shuttlecock, too, and can keep
himself up indefinitely He is the most
wonderful of managers If o rebellion in
Ireland we're necessary to the success of
'The Shaughraun" Boucicault would organize
it and probably lead the Fenian troops him.
self Why should he not2 He has whipped
the English press, and the Irishman who has
done that ought to be able to whip the Brit
ish army
This remarkable cable despatch is proba-
bly, revelation to Mr.. Hall. He now sees
how "Crucible" might have been made as
great success as "The Shaughraun. He
should have written to Governor Tilden a
long letter demanding the capture Of Tom
Fields and Genet; he should have had all the
hacks in New York engaged to block up the
streets he should have spread reports that
the Tammany Hall people intended to attack
the theatre. and he might have got up an
indignation meeting of New York lawyers
to censure him for deserting the Bar. Mr..
Boucicault would have done all this and
more. He is evidently now meditating some
new coup in London. Those carriages, those
people, those dinners, those mobiles, that
whipped English press and that Prime Min
ister are not invoked for nothing. Some
thing profound and dark and mysterious
is going on in the Adelphi Theatre. We
should not be astonished if Mr. Oakley Hall
should have a cable despatch soon announc-
ing that Mr.. Boucicault has received pri-
vate note from the Queen asking him to leave
London, or that he has been imprisoned in
the Tower and supplied with ream Of
paper ink al lb.. box Of new French plays
and an old Irish subject