New-York tribune., 1870-08-18

mhor OF 81 @ aons & Stories are extant the way In
which Yarmouth elections were manasea ~ t'I ar
were nonresdents and had to be brought no 10 am Gea.
Yarmouth at election times ~ n 1ne e IL is re-
StS that shin chartered TO convey out burgesscs from
d Toodo NV was ID detained or Yarmouth until the poll had
I ~ oanpan having been paid by the other party
10 find tie wind adverse The incident OF tne upset or
coach conveying voters which gave them gratt
ons cold BATH has been more than tradition In Great
Yarmouth for last 40 or 80 years and b related with
variations clever maneiyer' at every election
Tracy Tupman IL said to have been {" q certain Mr..
Winters mddle-aged young nan. who used to be |
seen on fine afternoons ceiing the bellies in the
Ladies' Mill at Hyde Pg.fk. Mrs. Bardell was Mrs. |
Ann Eiiis' VINO X 20 an eating-housc near Doctors
CoIninonsi clustering Sergeant Bumpus was the
orlp .nal Of Sergeant Buzfuz; and Mr.. Justice |
Stareleigh was caricature, by no means eA- |
travaEaut, of Sir Stephen Gaselee. MIR. rang
the tmcu,ent Bow-street magistrate i'll oliver
Twist,r was faithful portrait OF hr.
Laing, London police magistrate, whose conduct
had long been subject of bitter criticism IN the
newspapers. "0liver Twist caused ms removal
The literary gentleman" mentioned af Mr.. Nincen.
Crmmless farewell supper, who Rad dlamauDoa
in his time two hundred aud forty>seyen movers ss
fast as they had come out-some OF them faster than
thcv aad come out--and literary genaeiosh III
conseouence,r was the late w T. MOncrief who
I
Nickleby" before ID was thrce-fourths written ana
sliped Dickens in consequence to alter the deRone-
sseRf of the novel. Traies is said to have been SIR
! T. N Talfoura, Esther Snmmerson Miss Sophia
Iselin sisterin-law of Noxon, the ps'llsher; ana
Detective Buckett, the well known Inspector fleld'
with wha-a Dickens made several stterestiDg tours
| of observation
In 1sbey Son." several characters are said to hnve
been T from life Mr.. DOmbcy is supposed 10 reint
sent MI Thomas Chapman, sipownr WHOSE onfSss w.
oppo$'e the Wooden Mdshipman % haa ,ne tho go, p
meeting Mr.. Chapman at dinner, Nt Lpgh > sae sUp ~
tO esd the rgidty of his nanDac was only eluasc ~
hoIt snrcft as IL bs knew not hos bend-as sta, in
fa az lie had swallowed the drawing room pofer n
CIR pmap undoubtedly identical With Dombey; We have
asessenger of tte commercial house OF Dqn9eJ 4t J %
sen one Perch sctualy IaiSon from funny lltle oid
% ap naned stephen Hale who Eas part clerk Ptt neS @
in Mr. S'Rmons Gs NoTe 0a SSl %o o st S Very
small shop in LesdenhalS exactly 4ppos1e a e m t
.soEnrsed ehrcnometer, barometers Telescopes, com
passes charts maps se1tsnts quadran,S, H ana ~
ships the keeyanE OF ships or & sne
sna shop stan figure carved in wood, and curiousy
painted, of miniature inioshpman, with alarge 4uad.
rant in his hand il about taking an observation Wha
. is more the Rle shop and the Wooden Mdsnpman may
he by the curious aaerning Leadenhas'. 70 nis
him in S52 He may been swept away by what Is
called improvements" Capt Cutie was % one Ravlo i
duced Dickens the day when, with Thomas ChaJ
s9mel Rogers he went TO see Crosby Hail. BshOpgate
ST. the restoratian of wl.eh had IS42 been COM
peted with great taste and skill This is all that remains
of dwelling OF Richard ILL., repeatedly mentioned by
Shakespeare The bay-window, or oriel Is the ehefd
OF the domestic architecture of Old London and
the stone carving sharp when first cut four cen
turies ago The party nay exact informant tells me- pro
also in Bishopgatest where at the proper charge OF
lunch OF he six constituted that social party only
one survives On that day, however, Dickens booked
Capt. Cutie, though he did not appear In Do"oey Son
until five years later.
DR.. Mackenzie tells good story from his own OBJ
servation to show how thoroughly "Pickwick" was
appreciated by the lower classes:
remember when lived in Liverpool having small
job to done-the picking Of lock- in default OF lost
keyand went TO the lodging OF whltesmth, as ne was
him reading Pekcek, then in course of publication to
an audience of 20 persons, literally men, women, ana
ling to purchase each nnmoeE ont and out they hESd I
them read it, at the rate of two pence day There
up before after lapse of Ss years. the ringing
thorough enjoyment Of Sam welers quaint language,
ready tears the white smith, who read with
great Judgment and feeling told them OF the death OF
the poor Chancery prisoner, III the Fleet
A sketch contributed year or two since to Al the
Year Round and many times reprinted since his
death shows how thoroughly Dickens understood
the devices of ging-letterwTiters but our read
ers will be surprised to learn that he himself was
constantly their prey:
Though he waged perpetual war against those
audacious, plausible aud unconquerable Ishmael-
eanis Of london he was Constantly their victim They
beset him. in all manner ways with all sorts of app
%en Sre sSq than SS half upecns that he was by
an old hand with new story, he generally yielded He
and would say, with smile, Well may be taken in;
ever eTe fdSe for having not attended to So
would write courteous little letter. regretting that his
vented his being as useful as he desired begging
his correspondent would accept the ncosed
seen some little blets in the archives of auto
graph collectors ehe beggars knew that note from
ao roull
two from Mr.. Waller, the autograph dealer in Feetst
have heard ar ad 81 ns III a wbo re n M
turn the money under improved circumstance told me-
personally had literally relieved him if he
| ceiving instead OF conferrIng a favor.
Here is a surprising trait in his intellectual char
acter, which DR.. Mackenzie must tell in his own
| words:
| Byron. he underyalued Shakespeare saying for
great poet he is too careless, and his inest plays
self, like Shakespeare, was fond OF inToducing
ultra natural situations Nevertheless ne nad no aIpre
citation of the gravedigger's scene in Hamlet and the
smotherng scene in Othello He maintained they were
opai and realistic adding aIshould like to see Sheridan
Knowles try such scenes the stage now they would
Tennyso. although he thought browning still greater
He once declared in at Of enthusiasm that he would
than any work of modern times. He once horrihed
Charles Knight editor Of shakespeare by calling Hanist
that prOsy chap" and said that "no audience could
stand his dreary sooques unless they had known them
praise. When walter Savage Landor was praising
Diekenss STYLE and asking him where nc got H. he Said'
Wordsworth and Dickens did not take to each other.
Indeed, there mutual contempt RelWeeA lleln,
days alter the gentleman whose guest Wordsworth
n the suburbs Of London asked the Poet how he ked
for young men, and, after pursing up his lips IN man
ner peculiar 10 him. aud swinging one leg over the other
slowly answered: "why, an not much given to turn
srtc ,, on people meet sn, as you AJAX me- will can