The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

rorTGr AS JPIZROLT/S prwr.RAL.

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This afternoon the moral remains of the hte
Douglas Jerrold, Esq., were con,igned to their
last resting pl i,ce in Norwood Ceme e'y.
The funeral cortege arrived s ortly after 2 o'cl ek.
It cons,sted simply of a hear.-3 aud th eo or fo•,r
m.rurning co whes cont tining ttio tea ives and
friends of the deceased.

On the b idy being taken from the hearse it was
met by a very L.rge ass rnbtAge of literary friends
of the doceas-d, and by th m ac..ompanied to the
13,-aut ful c,iap 1 attic ,ed to the eenrie cry.
The servi. e y he Ch .r.:e for rile
burial of t!ie dea t h vinl ben . sail, th 3 i.o .y as
conveyed f. om the ch.pel t t:e gr wi,ich
it was 1 we. e i in the pre,en.e oft vary 1 roe c.,n-
course of i.orr .w ng fronds.
The fo lowing tr.bute to p or Jeirol 1 is
taken Lout the Sunday Times of yesterday :
Aru:.ng-t those iarg a.id --houldered
men, who have endeavour d bone tiy and hopeltuly to
help the woad onwari., the tamidar tonal teat I .1141
never in.:re encounter at the corner of 'tie kerb, or by
chance-medley brush coats with io an omnibus —the
staunch-hearted, k.-en-witted D utlas evfr
hold a proinnent rlace. 'Many ar, 4: e that never identi-
fied the figure win that of tne must epigrammatic
talker and writer of his age, must have no-
ticed occasionally amidst the t,irong, !miming
between Tainple-bar a d Waterloo-bridge, a pa,-
seuger of short stature, with a sharp thin face, pale and
thought-worn, woose iignt blue eyes glanced keenly
aside as ho walkel along, with a quick eager step, dis-
couraging interruption, and who.e long whitisti hair fell
over the collar of nis trick coat, wnicn revealed toe cus-
tomary eye-glA,s dangling from his neck. Wnen that
figure met toy gaze it was not ac the to ~ous dramatist,
essayist, and journalist, that [ weir. ly regarded nun ;
nor as the brilliant wit whose spire ling repartee., bitter
as some of them were, yet served as wholesome tonics to
the social system. To my Mind, he was ever the in. ar
nation of hopefor any literary aspirant who was seeking,
however hamay-, to follow the devious track of the sause
proiession. 'flinty years ago, wuen a young ardent
writer of 26, Jerrold was still, though comparatively
unknown, and certainly unappreciated, pouring torte
his treasury of thought- before a putnic that scarcely
rec .gnised amongst them The currency of the true inerit
of genius. Ae a hack-dramatist, Knocking off novelties
for tie C .burg, at he rate of one a tortnigat—as, even
then, a journalist, pioneering the pate of progress, and
teaching the people that the true source of power was
the awakening of their oan sell-respect-as song-writer,
pantomime-connector, and advsrtiseinent-einbe usher, for
to atl these nh .ses of minor authorcratt did his potent
pen rea..ily lejid itself in these early days, the Jerruldian
image ever seemed to toe the encouraging embodiment
of the worth of patience and perseverance, and whose
oracular response to the inquiry of the Ii early student,
would be, "Learn to I.bour and to wait." Tae world
will come at last to know its ben factors, and in tee
meantime. Let it roll round till thy iinie conieth
Also from the Sunday Times we extract the three
fallowing deliy,hifil witiici,:ms—thoroughly Jer-
ruld ia :--

He asked me one day in the green-rocm of the Hay-
market, what could be J Oxeriford's weave in train)
latiug Tartuffe,' wetn tuere ..beady existed au English
version of the play (inea.,i,,g 'Toe Hypocrite') wifii
which the Euglish pu 'lie were very well satisti,d. I
told him I supposed the piece had been done to
order.'

" he said, 'that must be it; and I have no
doubt but that will be done to a good many orders '
"S yiog number two was uttered in the same green-
room in tuy Heart, g.
" cl specimen of the genus 'swell' enters I the room,
and introduced himself to Jerold His ez u e for that
liberty was mutual acquaintance wit-i an actress inure
rernarsabie for htr bta,ucy and tahnts than tor—wtl,
than for other rccowineod.tums.
" The spiv II said, • I behve you know a very par,icu-
lar friend of •uine, Mrs. ---1'

•` • I•have toetwith au ac,resi of that name,' Jerrold
replied. • But she cauuut be the very particuiar mend
you atlude t ).'

" P.adun me, it ii the same person.'
"' Pardon me, the lacy I speatt ut is not very var.
titular,'

" One more specimen and I have done. Jerrold was
an excessively nervous ,sass, and off the tirst repre enta-
Lion of any of his pieces suffered indescribable torments.
A brother dratnatt.t—r,markable for dies ccesstul spe-
cimens of fair adap:ation or imitation' from the Freoch
—on one such occasion uous,tic to rally the ireiniilin,4
scribe, by stating that ne himself never felt auy uervtul--
Leas on the first promotion 4f his own pieces. ' Oil,
my boy,' sail but then you are always pu
sure of success. Your pieces have all been tried be-
fore.'

ARRIVAL OF THE ABOHDUKE MAXI-
-111 ILI A. ,‘ OE A UzTRIA.

YOH, rs VI.OUTLI, JUNE 14.
The Archduke Maximilian of Aut:tria arrived at shit-
head this taunting, in the Austrian hadd e-sloop Em-
press Edzibeth. Tne Cumberland, 70, fltg ship Rear-
Admiral Wahis, saluted the Austria. flag as tne ship
came up to Spithead. His Exccilettcy tiie Count Ap-
;Amyl, the Austrian ambassador, woo hal b-en at this
port for the last three .:aye, with Counts Karulyi
Coutek, went out in the Sprightly, steamer, Mager-
Commanding George All gree, his Imperial High-
ness ; as clso Lad CuaiLs Fitzrcy, t-querry to her Ma-
jesty. Toe.neutena,it-governor, Maj -r-Geueral Bveton,
and bear-Admiral Martin, un tue part et the Cornrow,-
der-in-Chiet, Admiral Sir G. Squi,ur, who is ihdisposed,
went out in the Fire Queen. steamer, Master-Command-
ing Paul. A.. two o'clock tuis aternoun tue Ehpress
ibeth came into harbour with the Austrian national
and imperial flags flying at her mast-iteads, which were
saluted by the garrison and by tau Victory, flag-snip,
with 21 guns each. Toe Archduke disembarked at Cla-
rence-yard, and proceeded by a. special train, which was
waiting, t,) Windsor at three p.m. As the Austrian
ship came into harbour, in cnarge of toe government
pot, sent out to bring her in, the Victory's crew lilan•
ned yards. Tue Empress Eiizabetti remains in baroour,
chafing.