The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-09 00:00:00

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JERROLD.

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e public journalist, among whose varied duties
it occurs to chronicle the deaths and deeds of those
persons whose position or whose merits entitle
them to some special record, has but a sorry and a
painful task ; for though with fluent pen he can de-
fine the honours and titles of rank, and easily pay a
few stereotyped compliments to departed greatness,
yet when the dart of the Great Destroyer has mor-
tally wounded one of his own close—am who,
perhaps, a few years ago was striving and working,
as he now is, for fame and fortune—one, to whose
words of advice and approbation he has listened
with respect and delight, and whose hand
be has often clasped in friendship--when
such a death happens, his duty is irksome to him,
and he feels as though he were parading his own
private sorrow before the public gaze. In the pre-
sent instance, however, not only the entire English
reading world, but every man who honours brilliant
genius, fearless independence. and frank sincerity,
will share our grief, for we have to announce the
death of Mr. Douglas Jerrold, which took place
yesterday, half an hour after noon, at his residence,
'Kilburn Priory. By this event English literature
has last its most caustic and epigrammatic writer,
London society its brightest wit, and cant, of every
kind, its bitterest foe. As a champion, he was in-
valuable; no matter how strong the fortress to
be attacked, let Mr. Jerrold but once see, or
fancy he saw, that right was on his side,
and the vulnerable points in the enemy's citadel
were discovered with unerring eye, and raked with
the most galling fire of sarcasm. Point out to him
an injury, with almost Quixotic haste he leapt into
the lists with outstretched sword fer its defence, and
few there were who cared to try the temper of his
blade. His satire was of the brightest, keenest,
most temchant order ; and though perhaps no two
men were ever so much feared by or made such on-
slaught among their foes as Christopher North and
Douglas Jerrold, yet their weapons and tactics were
utterly different, for while big, burly, lion-headed
Wilson laid about him with loaded bludgeon,
mangling, trampling, and smashicg all within his
reach, the shining lancet of Jerrold struck to
the core of the evil with anatomical precision, and
laid bare itsfoulness to the scorn or pityof the world.
Douglas Jerrold was born in the year 1803, at
Sheerness, his father being manager of the theatre
there. Bred amongst sailors and shipping„it was
natural that his early thoughts should turn towards
a nautical life, and, after much useless remonstrance,
his father obtained for him a midshipman's commis-
sion on board a man-of-war. Tiring soon of this
profession, fur which, on account of his delicate
health, he was physically unfitted, the young man
was, in accordance with his own choice, bound ap-
prentice to a printer, and, in pursuance of his new
calling, came to London, where he first made the
acquaintance of the late Leman Blanchard, a fellow-
apprentice, and commenced a friendship which was I
only to end with the death of the latter. After es.,
during years of drudgery at the mechanical duties
of • compositor, the cacoi;thes scribendi, innate in
young Jerrold, developed itself ;and his first literary
production, an essay on the opera of Dee FreiseAsitz,
was dropped by him anonymously into the
editor's box, of the newspaper on which he
was engaged as workman. This article at
once revealed his genius, and after much questioning
he declared himself as its author. Henceforward
more suitable work was found for him, printing was
given up, and literature became his occupation.
Before he had reached his twenty-first year, he pro-
duced at the Surrey l'heatre the since widely-cele-
brated nautical drama, Black-Eyed Susan, fee the
proper technical phrasing of which his prelims
naval experience had well qualified him. The eassl
cess was tremendous, and for a long time the deems
was presented by the same company on the Mlle
nights at two different theatres, the Surrey aad
Drury-lane. The Rent Day, a drama of English
domestic and rural life, followed, and was equally
successful. It is by these two melodramas,
and one other, The Prisoner of War, and
by his two principal comedies, Time Mohr
onder', and Bubbles of the Day, that Mr.
Jerrold will be best known to posterity as
a dramatic author ; his later writings for the
stage, though replete with sparkling dialogue and
pungent allusion, lacked a sufficient interest of plot
to render them palatable to an English audience.
Shortly after the starting of Punch Mr. Jerrold was
solicited to join its staff, and, until the hour of his
death, was uno of its most valued and moat constant
contributors. In its pages appeared some of his
happiest efforts ; among them "Punch's Letters to
his Son," "The Story of a Feather," and the im-
mortal " Candle Lectures," serial papers which were
the town-talk of the time, and which were looked
for week after week with the greatest interest. In ,
July, 1846, he commenced a weekly newspaper, I
which he afterwards disposed of; and for the last
five years he has been the editor of Lloyd's Weekly
Newspaper, the sale of which it was understood he
bad more than trebled. He also edited two maga
sines, the Illuminated and Douglas Jerrold'.
ping Maya:ine ; in the first was published his
" Chronicles of Clovernook," in the second his story
of "St. Giles and St. James."
The immediate cause of Mr. Jerrold'e death was
disease of the heart, accompanied by violent spasms
of the stomach. He was sensible to the last, and
died surrounded by relatives and friend". He leaves
behind him a widow, three sons—the eldest of whom,
Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, is making fur himself a name
in literature—and two daughters, of whom one is
married to Mr. Henry Mayhew.
We have briefly chronicled Mr. Jerrold's more
important works, but among his friends his memory I
will be kept vivid by the recollection of • thousand
flashes of wit and sparkles of quaint fancy. a thou-
sand unwritten bons mots and repartees, any one of
which would have been sufficient to establish the
reputation of a lees gifted man—let us also add, by a
thousand acts of kindness, done by stealth, and un-
willingly acknowledged.

MEDICAL REFORM.—Lord Palmerston has ap-
pointee 2 o'clock this day (Taanday) to metre a deputation
rTURI the maims cullegm of physicians sad s of the
r.sonis
United Kingdom. at his prima. residence, Piccadilly, on the
sulject of the medical billa now before parliament.
INCOnroRATED LAW SOCIETT.—At the Trinity
Term, 1857, examination of candidates fee admiadon on the
roll of &tome'ss and solicitors of the superior courts, the ca-
nniness ounnileted the following gentlemen as the only caa-
didotes under the age of 26 who deserved honorary d-
tine of the ant class ,—Edward Bidden, of Birmingham,
who served hie clerkship to Mr. Samuel Belden, of Binning-
ham, end Mews. Hugo Keeney, Thistansen, and
Hughes, of 17, Buckler* , Loudon; Walter Browne,_of
Lepton. Nottinghamshire, w served Iris elerinhip to Mr.
Hugh Bruce Campbell, of Nottingham. Ths council of the
liworpormed Law Society have accordingly awarded a prize
of bouks to each of thaw candidate*. The examiners have
also certified that the following candidotes pawed examine.
dons very little inferior to Moss who have been rcp.rted for
prism Jorph Fellows, jno., of 198, Piocadilly, London,
who served his clerkship to Mr. Joseph Fellows, of 198,
cadilly ; William Stewart Forster, of Lewisham, who mind
his clerkehip to Meters. Frees, Goodfned, sad asolmeltry of
Linroln's-ina • 2. Wdliani Henry Reedier, of Ellassoiro,
who served his clerkship to Mr. Georg! Salter, of Ellesmere.
—By order of the council, HONAIIt M:01101, Btoolll7.
Law Society's Hall, June 4.
ATIIINASUM LIFE ASSCRANCE SOCIETT.—At a
meeting in this matter on Friday last, the following claims
against the estate wens brought in :—Prince of Wales Lite
ss Aurance Company, 10,600 J. • Eagle Assurance Company,
2,000 L ; Memo. Agar, 4,000 i. • Mr. T. Kingston, 1,4004.
with numerous others of anklet amount; in all about
20.000!. Mr. Burton, rehabs to the estate, opposed the
I claim of the Prince of Wale' Insurance Company, sad that
of /401e10 Apr, on variousiepl grounds; and Mr. Bloom,,
chief clerk to Vice-Chancellor Wood, determined not to ad.
mit them as proved debts, bat as claims only, mending the
claimants to establish them by action at common law. With
re.pect to the other claims, arrangements were made by
whmh the proofs. wino admitted at venous reduced aniounts.
VALOAOLE entacn PREFERMENTS VACANT.—
By the death of the Honourable and Reverend Frederick
Plerdell Bouverie, M.A., Canon Re:Mention, of the cathe-
I Aral church of Salisbury, and Prebendary of the prebend of
Netherbury in Ecclente anciently finnded in the same ca-
thedral, which twit phi* rather soddenly at the
home, Pewwv, Wilts, on Saturday mottling tut, thre:ta
lowing 'slung° meferments we vacated : The Rectory of
Potency, to which he was instituted in 1816, worth, accord-
' ing to the "Clergy List," inclusive of glebe, somethingmore than 1,000!. person= ; the Rectory of Whippinghani,
in the lris of Wight, to which he was instituted in 1826, on
the presentation of the Laid Chancellor (in whose patronage
it is), worth, on the same authority, about 7601. per annum ;
and &Connery and Prebendal Stall In &Reber, Cathedral,
to which he was nominated in 1826. The deceased nveread
gentlemen, who wa. a fourth eon of the late Lard Radnce,
was bon on the 16th of November, 1786.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, Momper Eve:into.
After a great many abortive attempts, I believe
the following has been agreed upon as the list of -
liberal candidates for Paris :-51.1Lieljaalayalpf
the Journal des Du bats, Ilethmont, Minister of Jus-
tice under the Republic, Basin, of the Siecle, General
Cavaignac, Carnot, Minister of Public Instruction
under the Republic, Vavio, ex-representative, Per.
dinand de Lastcyrie, Ocmdchaux, Finance Minister
under the Republic, Darimon, of the Frew, and
Olivier, son of Demosthenes Olivier the well-known
representative. The names of several more opposi-
tion or non-official candidates in the departments
are now known. In .the Seine and Marne the
Marquis de Bethezy, formerly a peer of France, '
opposes M. Beauveryer, and bays in his address,
*You will not expect from me any declaration
et principles. The mission of the Corps Legialatif is
sow one of devotedness and of almost abnegation.
My position is a guarantee for my independence, my
bee for my country is a pledge of my moderation."
M. A. Boeviel, an advocate of tho Court of Casea-
tion, offers himself in the liberal interest at Peri-
pen:. Baron do Remand, ho was Prefect of the
Saone end Loire in December, 1851, opposes the •
government candidate at Macon. A M. Alphas=
Bonabeau is a non-official candidate in the Sierra.
At Rouen, Al. LCVSN 0.4)C11r, the late member, has
withdrawn in consequence of the prefect having
taken the extraordinary course of recom-
mending him jointly with an opponent,
IL Pouyer-Questier. The reason for this
alight to M. Levavaaecur is that he is an advocate
for the abolition of cuatoms duties upon all raw ma.
kraals, a proposition for which the burgesses of
Rotten are not ripe.
General Cavaignac has arrived in Paris from
Rolland.
The Bourse continues to be in a declining state.
The Rente fell lac. for cash and 20c. for account,
closing at 67fr. 35e. and Var. 90c. Mobilier was
much depressed, and fell 42fr. aoc. The Lyons
Railway fell 13fr. ; Mediterranean, 10fr. ; Northern
and Orleans, 7fr. 50e. each, and mat of the other
lines from 2tr. 50c. to Ste.
The King of Bavaria left Paris at half-past nine
this morning, by a special train to Strasburg.