New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-01-23

infant. There was fearful STORM anu hiShb aun'he
Channel horribly rough and Mrs. Thackeraywas seized
with brain fever And through all that terrible night
and from shore 10 shore, sat Thnckeray. notion
less bearing the infant in one arm, sustaining INC
wife with the other utterly unconscious OF the terror "
cthers--for there was dangcr-or OF external tunu''
His wife never recovered from that brain-ievcr
and was worse than lost to him forever afterwafd'
This accords well with what another high authority
said that than be was admired as an author
he was loved as man, This union in one man of ex
IRENE satirioal power with deep personal scnsbty
not very unusual In the better class Of Englishmen
and is tcrsey indicated by Emerson when he declares
that the two sexes co-prcsent in the English
mind One il reminded of IL when Nelson. dying II
Trafalgar says: kiss ne, Hordy' and turns TO sleep
Those who knew Mr.. 1hsokcroy were rcmiaied Of ii
by many anecdotes. One found him in Paris when he
lived there IN early life. putting Napo!eons in
piIl-bo1 on the Id Of which written, "One TO be-
taken occasionally" When asked ly his fiiends what
lie was doing, he replied bashfaly, "We, there is an
Old person here who says she very ill., and in distress
and "'ioncy suspect that this h the SOFT OF medicine
she wants. Or. Thackcray Intends 10 leave it on her
him IT," Indeed IL WIS IN act Of generosity which
lost lin the Gnc Little fortune which L. Inherited.
WHOM nc was = s.adsn. at Cambridge, where he was
tie COZ taAt ranion Of Alfred TcnniSon and f. d.
MarIicp he went security for felows!udcnto large
a,ror,i. and the student having gone to America. and
not having returned nor RENTED tie money, lr.
1hscscloy pad it all, and wa thereby Impoverished
II was COMMON when hc first recognized IN the IT.
e,ar Grid 10 hear this blunt and faithful portayog Of
lie o. he saw Il charged witL being cynic and misu
throne n eyc-stouo which sought out only ~ hcmiahcs
and NOTES OF The eye ami hcn described them % the eye
Itself But it was long before tie critics were nsuo
10 feel that they he'd estimated him as fariy as icy
had said he estimated human nature; tai the hand that
described Decsy Sharp was 10 less 4, home ~ dem
eating Ethel Newcome. And 10 credit OF this Toest
so,c vi Fielding it should be said chat, WLt he
was known 10 be particularly sensitive the charges %
cynicsm brought against him he was rot thereby IN
dnced TO swerye IN ota from ruth to bis genius, bat
went with bis living representations OF the ch'ae-
teIs which he found III real life.
Il has already been mentioned that in early life Mr.
Iirckorsy aimed to be artist. Indeed, be- spent
sone years in Germany with this view, though his at
tanments never reached beyond the spirited Sketches
Which illustrate some OF his works. He had not
said Mr. CYuikshank, be walked on, hc patience TO
hc an artist used to tell him that to De artist
to buirow along underground like mole, heaving ny
Litle mound here and there for long distance. 10
sad ne thought he would presently break OCT into
another element and stay there" Nh. IhEcke.3y's
own words at a Royal Academy dinner nay BE- quoted
in this connection In iittlo speech, he said, II can
remember when Mr. Dickens was very young man, and
had commenced deighting the world viii some charm
inc humorous works which were cooIcd ght green, AID
came on. month. thai this young man wanted -
artist iUustrate his vritings and Tecccct wshiaS
NJ 70 his chambers with two three drawings in my
hsnd. which strange to say. he did not find suitable
But Tor that unfortunate blight which came over my
alfscel existence it woud heyc been my pride AID N.Y.
pleasure TO have eDdeayorcl day 10 lind Place
these walls for OF my performances" The sphere
in which Mr. Thsckeray could alone have ever found
his liberty was clearly that in Which he so cDg lived
and aboled: hut into his writings he carried his iw-
. pus snt artistic gifts and they hive enabled him 10
create a new style IN literature. He ccriainy me
reores giier in the English language OF this genera
tlon. Every sentence an etching. Not line or
moyemen. OF any figure was LETT out, indsnct,
ord he reader ii every step surprised b. te vitality
aud pctUiesqueness If hi words. Few have ever J'd
biz novels without finding the end that they minds
h,e become picure-galleries covered with the por-
traits of tho characters they have been reading aDort
Indeed there is an impression made by his works thas
those claracters conceived became TO the author
himself distinct forms, which he could be US pleased
and as Indignant with any Of Lis readers.
" Il would be pleasant said my companion, as We
walked o. under the sofi Indian-Sunmer day, %
thuS OF Thackersy resting ly the side of Douglas
Jerrod; bul Jerrod buried at KeDsal Green.
remember well the day when were standing ut the
grave Of The poor suicide Lamar Blanchard ut Chaplain
WAY, that Jergold said he wished 10 he buried at
spot hald by which he pointed out ard there he was
buried. Poor BlanohaIa'-
At this moment the hcarse passed rs; Cruiks'enks
lip quycied. bis eye grew moist. and the old grief
passed away bc.ofo the present. As We walked We
oyortooS John Leach; the two artists looked into one
anothnrs eyes and shook hands. hn word passed.
now turned to look at those who entering the oc-
ecry There could indeed he the carriages If the
sis,ocrac snd wealthy but also the humber classes;
and indeed there WIS much evidence at the grave 10
show that the English pecrle-and any particular
c!a,selt their bereavement OF the genial ard gifted
author There were too. it was observable many de-
psgtnenis Of intellectual life representative actor 81
the art.t the editor and the novelist the poet and ne
clergyman al we're there TO mourn over one whose
y mind AMI heart were Il hundrod-gated city. Among
those who gathered around the coffin in the cemetery
chapel observed Robert Browning, Charles Dickens,
Anthony Tlollope Mark lemon. G. II. Lewcs, Thco-
dore Martin Isaac Butt, ". p; w. H. Russell LID,
NrL.aWrence Barr.ster; j. L. ODowd, Barrlster;
- Mr.. Higgins Jacob Omnium). Robert Bel, Howell
% Morgan High Sheriff of Merchandising; DR. Ridge,
the ArohdeacOn Of London Master OF the ChareThonss
in which Ar. blackberry educated, Mr.. Milais. k
A.: Mr. Leach Shirley Brooks, Mr.. Creswe, II. Cole.
, g. Be L. Gruneisen. Charles Matthews, the actors
Mr Tom Taylor. sirJ. Carmichael, j. Hollingshead,
II MIR. Dallas Mr. O'Neile, Mr.. Creswick. i. A.. NJ.
Louis Blanc, Mr.. Walker Mr.. +. Piggo.t Miss BRAD,
= don author OF Lady Audley's Secret