New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-01-18
FROM LONDON.
Mild Winfer-Christrnns Weather Ia Town
and Conntry-Denth OF Iiinckcray-
The Crnwiey OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Opinion on ihe Verdiot-The sehleswig-
LJolsfcin DiaIeulty-Smcricnu Affairs
from the Briiish Point Of View.
From Our Special Correspondent,
LONDON, Dec. &C, 1863.


LONDON Dec. &c. 1853.
A mild, balmy, Spring-like day, with an I'M
wonted amour. Of sunshine gaddenng the crowded but
comparativel. quiet streets aad sobcrycheorfll ssy
overhead. these constituted our London Christmas. on
the day subsequent 20 which sGiressyou. It's pleasant
atmospheric character the welcome from wha;
had preceded il. Tho weather having been almost uni
fornly dull raw and sunless for two weeks; indeed
once disagreo0ble depressing and unwholesome-Iust
the sort in fact, TO induce belief In the questionable
proyorb about green YGlo making AT ohurclysrd,
for combination OF which should not look In the 20
turns Of tho Registrar General People went about
IN town wondering at the ailaness OF ING season ss
well as universal inhuenzs affecting one Ike mo con-
biued infections Of damp undesshirt very bad 'o
throat ard violent cold IN tho head, No-.u
allow them 20 do. From the cosnt.y, 800, We
had tilings 81 tho unnatural ameuuy o. the
Winter and Tho seasons dihcreace" suggestive
II that Elzabethan htcled into Immortality IN Tie
MidsGmmer's n gifts Dream, from which L spare you
GA obvious quotation. Gardens get retain tho accns
toned 1oweFs OF sumner the rosc, the stock ana tho
scarlet gcran I'm; CoOscbcrres are an caf ana the SUI
looking with Southern eye upon them. nave prenlA
urely DlosSomcd, aud exceptionally come into exist
once: the wheat crops spfOut fnrwardly ia Tie ncs
careless OF tie frosts inevitably awaiting thclni The
turnp has not ceased growing and tho fields ere IN
timely bcdccked with Springs modest herbiuger ihe
pale primrose. Generally the season resembles autumn
rather than Christmas p!As the influenza ueiore nllea
o. Wherefore the wealth rHisc slake tier leaus as
uustfuly fell back their rcinnitcenoes ma desire
" teasonabe" weather az nthnt adjective necessarily
implied something dscgrceable-is most ana suoN'
Miutry winds and priyGtion. For that matter, low
ever to-day ought to satisfy hem for look forth from
my window on an atmosphere OF mis- ana miA@ie upon
u prospect VI mud and el.siening umbfoiips
with our CHEEKY Christmas morning comes sad news,
which tho world had not expected 10 have Heafu ID.
many u day-the Sudden death OF William MHsepeaee
Thuckoray There ia nothing that can write on thc
uhect hci may not suggest ilsclG az peftneny ana
fe,inciy t. you in Nowiork es Ia Us IN London, Tor
nnrues Ike his who has gone are TO monopoly tAey
belong 10 IA mankind and 10 ciiuHatOn OLy the
death OF the more popular aud universally loved nfes
Dickeus--may he long be- spared 20 nsl--eoud have
rr,ate, more intense feeling OF regret md uheclon
bringing with 10 n tooltGe Of rccocotious, shared ~
tens OF thousands OF all he has given to u, ior Nlic
the world IN OF should DO Infinitely the better wiser a.
happier. These remain as his enduring moment Tor M
time, aud We who slow 10 und"rftanu ara 10 %
nr.ciate him AT ms rirht value are beginning 80 take
thought Of the intellectual stature OF the giant Who Las
lived among aud departed from us. By.end 10y. when
we arc little further removed, We shan be amIcO *
IT,. Why do / praise this mani" asked Charlotte
Bront6 long ago singing him out, with SHAT clear VIZ
ION VI hers; " Because "a quote from meror)
think see In him fr higher purpose than commons
recognize In him the foreos. that noble band OF piO
neers WHO ahoring 10 restore the warped state OF
things among ns. They say he is Ike fiedirg-so
ho is, but an eagle is Ike a tulturei
Fielding could stoop TO carton, but Thhokeray,
never" True all Off and he possessed an eagle ke
vision into tho hearts Of men. looking right through
their deeds and behavior into what lay beneath and
told sometimes sadly, sometimes scornfuly. what be
found there but almost always with Infinite human
derness for the weak aud loving And II the m0urntl
burden Of odnifds raRitas 10 too prevalent like solemn
undcrtone, throughout his writings. wonder at
III Only wisdom like that oil Shakespeare (aided, per.
baps by constitution can attain perfect serenity.
Never think since ho died. has there passed eway
Englishman no conyersant with his kind and capable
and honest In telling the whole truth about II lham
Makepeaeo Thackeray Peace be with him Only the
other day people squabbliIg about admitting him
TO small dgntyand now where Is the place We would
not assign HINT
gossip after mention OF Ihackcray, bnt u must be IN
dertaken. Tho news of tho week Is DUH Ike the
weather the fact OF Christmas engrossing moro atIen
ton from Brtain-at least Londonors-than any
Ienccs domestic Or tose'gu. Lst me sndssv0s " run