MR DION BOUCICAULT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 26, 23 October 1885, Page 23

MR DION BOUCICAULT.

iiSSS? tl 7- I™* waß * nde ™<* to Mr. Boucicault on J9th September by the Irish citizens of Sydney, when about 400 ladies Gntt*" n 5 ci T Wer V pre ?i' lQ ™P ] y™g to the toast of «o5 ft 0"*0 "* Mr. Boucicault said that h« really felt much oppressed by SP?hIAS P ?hlAH UP °^ hl8 l . Bhollldei:sby the worthy chairman^ SitKh hk- ,1 great a man, and in point of fact he had his doubts about it now. As regarded his literary work JiTY 1 ? * Bur ß r B , ed^ he ° he was informed by his friend fn IredSi« D w esp f! all y the late Du ke of Leinster, that his Irish 2l£S c dOlQg ft Very * reat deal of B° od in KigUnd. H e assured them no one was more surprised than he when 25 years age the D uk e told htm that many people had reformed their idels of the "OolKT ry f " m t h< TCtUreßT CtUreB lhey bad Been OQ the 8ta 8« £ he w iS • « ZZ n 'n T c th l n £ went B 0 far that in th « following year her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort visited the Lakes of KUlarney where the scenes of " The Colleen Bawn " never took place He mentioned this because he visited these scenes subsequently? and Z £t en k7k 7 n he b ° at M Cn *° aU tbe B P° ta to which the Colleen Bawn was taken by Danny Mann, and to the one where he subsequently ITS*? £ £ Wa " °? lj I 2I 2 Weekß ■*> that he thTS of Sydney Harbour, and as he saw around him the lovely panorama gradually developing itself, and reminding him of the Lakes of Killarney, the Lakes of Cumberland, and the head waters of the Susquehanna, he said that he wondered whether the actors were worthy of the scenery, because in great scenic pieces they were not hZ y vi 8°"8 °" v 6 had f ei j : tha public, 1,500 a night, since he had been here, and should have seen 30,000 of them before his season closed ; and he could say that the reputation he had heard of them in New York and London was deserved— that they were the most critical, delicate, and appreciative of audiences. Yet they were most generous, and he could say that he had done his best to please them. The reception he had met with in the theatre had culminated here, and this reception would never be forgotten by him When he first came to Australia he was struck by the absence of beggars : and Sf f had fou T nd . that tbe P«acipal explorers had been Irishmen and that in the Legislature, at the bar, and in other posts of trust and honour, Inshmen, were to be found. They fled from their native country because taere was no hope and no scope for them in it They left Ireland despairing, but when they entered Sydney harbour they saw there, as it were, the inscription, "All ye who eater here leave despair behind -(Applause.) And it wai the same thing ia America. The Irish -American citizens had the same feelings and the same liber y as hia hearers had. The fanatical crowd who had caused such excitement lately were but a drop in the bucket, and could not be considered with the Inshmen who were loyal and true During his stay in America from the Chief Justice of New York (Mr. Daley) to the Bonanta king of San Francisco (Mr. Mackav) he had met with Irishmen in every position, and he could speak of the benefit to them of self-government, or, as he was going to say, •Home Rule. He would recount to them a little anecdote illustrative of the lelations between England and Ireland When he was in Pans, 30 years ago, a hatter named Gay, whose shop was in the Rue Vivienue, used to take the shape of his customers from the sites recorded in a large album : but this would not do, any more than English hats would fit Irish heads. In crossing from New York to ban Francisco he noticed one remarkable circumstance and that was that no policeman or soldier was necessary to keep that ereat people of 65 millions in order. They were kept orderly by their innate respect for their own laws, as was the case in Sydney and Mcl bourne ; whereas in France and Germany he saw nothing but men in uniform and numerous members of the gendarmerie. England seemed to always possess the ambition of geographically belonging to a group of islands off Europe. She bad always aspired to preserve the balance of power, and had wasted millions and millions upon it • she had poured out her blood like water ; aud the only result had been the unification of Germany. Bismarck, if he would but speak would saj, " Why turn your face to us in the East, where wa hate you, instead of turning to the West, where ia America and Australia, you. have English-speaking races? Why not make a federal union of English-speaking races ? " There should be two or three Pacific cables and several good lines of steamers, to bind the English-speaking races together by their commercial interest-a league of 100 millions of Engliah-speakiog people. If there were a Wdr what would become of the Australian telegraph wires, whicn would crocs the territory of half a dozen hostile nations ? Would they not be cut up? Of course they would. But if tbe Australians had a line across the American Continent it would never be stopped because war between us and the American nation was impossible — (Applause.) He thought that such a scheme as this was practical and inevitable. In his wanderings over the world he had found Irishmen everywhere, for the sun never set upon the brogue of hig native lanu. He wished all bid heaiers increase and prosperity and that their children and children's children would perpetuate the Irish name. -(Loud applause.) — Sidney paper.

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