New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-28
CHARLES DICKENS.

TIE London Daily Ne,rS of the 18Th inst.
,epors rs follows the Dickens funeral at Westminster
Abbey
The mortal remains Of Mr.. Charles Dickens were de
posted in PoetscOncr. Westminster Abbey, at an early
hour yesterday morning. on Friday last, The day on
which Mr.. Dickcnss amontod death became known Dr.
stanley the Dean Of Westminster had an Interview with
fr Charles Dickens the younger, and proposed that our
great English author should be inferred in WestmnstcT
Abbey From that time until Monday evening the matter
under earnest consideration. Mr.. Dickcnss family
took counsel with their fathers dearest and Oldest
friends and after due debeauon and consultation on
the terms Of the written instructions they held asked
the Dean Of Westminster whether it would be possible TO
have certain conditions compiled with II they eoSehteu
that the interment should be at Westminster
The answer was satisfactory, aud Charles Dickens es
without Of his inuncons respecting ms unefa nav
ing been violated surrounded by poets andnen OF genius
Shakespeares marble eigy looked yesterday into MS
open grave his feet Dr. johnson and David Gar
rick his head Is by Addison and Handel. while Oliver
Goldsmith Rowe, southey, Campbell, Thomson, Sheri-
dan Macaulay and Thaekeray, or their memorials, en-
circle him and Poets Corner" the most familiar spot
in the whole Abbey has thus received an lustrious adj
ditlon TO its peculiar glory Separated from Dickenss
grave by the statues Of shakespeare souhey and Thorn
son. and close by the door to poets Corner" the
memorials OF Ben Jonson, DIR. Samuel Butler, Milton,
spenser, and Gray; while Chaucer, Dryden, Cowley,
Mason shadwe and Prior are hard 10y, aud tell the by
Ihgse poets near our princes sleep
The 90 months which Geoarey ChaTcer Spent as clerk
al the works Of the reign of Richard IT, were the indi
rect cause OF the special sanctity with which English
where Dickens rests His death in the house made over
to him in virtue OF bis official position by the keeper Of
The entrance OF 81. Benedcts Chapel; and from the
century later TO yesterday Poets Corner has been
whom England has regarded as her greatest best
"a
gave. Then came what Dean Stanley terms the cry
aud countercy the ashes OF Shakespeare, OF whom
Ny SisEe.fsare h.e viii not lodge thee by
Chaueer spencer. or bid Beaumont lie
A Htile farther oE TO make thee
AMI ,a art IT f siy a, while neg 1Ry S9G 5 do I've
The remains OF Shakespeare were il is needless 10
peat, removed. the anahema Of the poet against
those who should dig his bones dig his dust pre-
Guiding the attempt and the statue OF him, which stands
~ Dckens's grave was not erected until a century |
giant him favor the What tn Of the monarch the
reply Of Eighteen inches OF square ground, the regal
Gre an associated with his tomb well the o rare
Ben JOnson" and the medallion on which the sculptor
by mistake put The buttons the wrong side Of the
cost The thousands who visited the Abbey yesterday,
az by visiting Dckens's grave will fluid an ample store
o traditions such these in the records Of this Southern
Dickens's obsequies simple he desired. The
that special train left Rochester at early hour
Yesterday morning. and that II carried his remains
soon clegpheu 70 l1huOh put every arrangement nad
been completed beforehand and there one in the
AbpeN, no one 10 IONOW the three simple mourning
coaches and the hearse, to obrude upon the |
ln1urners. The waitngroOm at Charingcross station
apart for the latter for the quarter Of hour
they remained there; the Abbey doors closed |
directly they reached IT, and the mOurnin
were not permitted wait couple Of cabs and
single brougham took the funeral party away when
last rites over, that paSsers by
ware that ceremony being conducted and ID
was until good hour after that the south tTansept
began to MI. There were no coaks, no weepers no |
bands, scarfs, feathers. OF the |
dismal frppery of the undertaken. We yesterday |
bade the reader turn TO that portion OF "reat Expect
I'm which the funeral of Joe Gargery's wife Is de-
ecTibed he will there find full details OF the miserable
things omitted in the same part of the same volume be
will lind reveTent ausiOn 10 the time when those noble
passages read which remind humanity how il
6rau ght nothing into the world, and take nothing
and how it eeth like shadow, and never contin
meth long in stay :" and will think Of the solemn
in Westminster Abbey yesterday morning. with
tho Dean reading solemn burial service the organ
Ginning in subdued and low, and the vast place empty
for the little group Of heart stricken people by
open grave. plain oak eOiin with brass plate bear