The New York Herald

Slashing Criticism-Vermin in A ParoxysM.

A very singular movement has just been made by two of the small penny papers in Boston, the Bee and the Mail, to crush the Keans. Templeton. Augusta, and heaven knows how many more of our first-rate artists Pelby & Hamilton of the National Theatre come out in the Bee, with a letter abusing, with the most amusing ferocity, the Keans, Mr. Hackett, and Madame Augusta; and the Mail has quite a waspish attack on Templeton. The whole assault is laughable in the extreme. The writer seems absolutely frantic with rage, and cuts up the most fantastic capers, for all the world, like an ill- natured school-boy. suffering under the birch of his master. Pelby abuses the Keans because they would not accept of his terms! Funny, indeed!- As if an artist had not a right to claim as much as he thinks his services are worth, and to refuse terms which he regards as below his value. Macready was, it seems, in the same scrape at this establishment. Well, this is rather modest in Messrs. Pelby & Hamilton. Actors and artists who do not choose to accept the terms they may think proper to offer, are to be blackguarded in the news. papers as avaricious and what not! The attack on Templeton is ludicrous in the extreme-evidently emanating from some miserable creature who fancies himself an injured and neglected musical genius, and is gnawed with envy at the extraordinary success of the great vocalist.

These rabid assaults remind us of the attacks which have been made by some of the lowest London papers on American actors and artistes; and even on some of their own best native performers.