New-York tribune., 1879-09-03

exposed. Going out upon the slippery stones and
upon few idle and rckety boats. fonld the range
Of windows with red curtains matching the noses
of the regular customersr | looked in at the door.
long passage opened vista Of pleasant bar-parlor,
or whatever it may have been, or the nver SIDE.
aud have no doubt should have seen Miss Abby
Peterson If had gone TO the end. Several water
side characters were drinking beer at the lead
covered counter. waited upon by sharp
young woman, who seems to have replaced
Bob Gliddery. Instead of the little room
called Cosy" where the Police Inspector
drank burnt sherry with Lightwood and Wray-
burn, there was apartment labelled The Cluh."
A party of Irregular customers" ali evidently con-
nected with water or mud. sat around table; be-
vond question they were Tootie. and Mullins, and
Bob Glamour. and Captain joey; and at 10 o'clock
Miss Abby would issue from the bar-parlof. ana
send them home II The SIX jolly Fellowship
Poriers" is stin cxtant have seen H.
have spoken Of the story OF the pursuit of Ladv
Dedlock in " Bleak House" The climax Of that re-
markabe narrative is the finding Of the fugitive
cold and dead. with one arm arounS Fail of the
dark little graveyard where they buried the mys-
te.iOus wcopyisl, "Nemo, aud where poor Jc' ths
crossing sweeper at night and swept the stones
his last tribute to the friend who vas very good
TO HIN There are three striking descriptions of
yard pcstifcrous and obscene--a beastly scrap OF
ground which Turk would reject savage
aboininatian. and "a Cafire would shudder at. With
houses looking on, Oh every side, save where
reekng litile sunue, of a court gives access TO tr
iron gafe-with every yiliiny Of lille III aciioh
close on d. an. and every poisonous element OF
death in acton close life; here they lower our
dear brother down foot two; here sow him ~
corruption to be raised in corr1Dtion; an avengng
ghost at many SICK bedside; shameful testi-
mory 30 future ages how civilization and barDaT-
ism walked this boas,iul island together The
exact situation o. the graveyard = mot defined in
the novel bus it is evident that il cannot have been
very far from Lincolns Inn. and l bad been told
that 1t was in the eighborhood Of DrGry Lane. So
strangely hidden away is it among close and dirty
houses that it was only after three long searches
through al the courts thereabonts that found the
"ree1ng little tunnel, aud twice passed the en-
trance without observing II. Opening out 0f DruTy
Lane. al the back and side OF the theatre sanetwogS
OF narrow Tagged passages built mp with tall tenc
meuts There are rag and wa-te-papcr shops IN this
retreat two OF three dreadful little grecngroc,rs
stalls paWnbroker's. a surprising number OF cob
bers and in the heart 10 the place. whoFc me aey
vldens into the sembanc- OF a dwarf,d court. -
colony OF dealers IN theatrical hnory, dancing
shoes pasteboard rounds of beef anu outlets, stage
quis Cour. Oil the one naud Russell Corr. on the
other and a miserable alley called Cross couri
which connects them is what appears al first signt
% be a solid block OF tenements. The door Of
one cf thcse houses stood open, aad through
a barred staircase window at the back OF
the entry / caught a glimpse Of patch Of grsss-a
sight so strange "a Tai. pars OF London that went
around TO tho other side OF the block 10 examine
further. There found the " reekrg little tunnel
II j. merely sione-paved passage about four feet
WIDE through the ground floor oi a tenement
Iouse-doors open into II. rusty ron gate clJses
il at the further end. Here Is the pestiierous and
ob,e ,ue cnurchyard.' completely neuncd in b. tbe
na5iiatioas OF the living. IOmbstOues are st mp
against tae wall. OF the houses. and most OF the
graves seem 20 lave been made without any snch
memorial. Perhaps a church stood there once,
but there is none now. When the people of the
block shut their doors AZ night they shut the dead
ia with them. INSIDE tie gate lay various rubbish
"A woman- boot. broken cOai-.cutt!e, TIC foot OF
a tn candrstick fragments oi paper, sticks, bones
traw,-unmeutOlablc aD0minatiO.s. Burials are
no longer allowed there. but the dsAOuorEg Of tic
oil graves seems to 20 briskiy. DARK ami
srDoke-laden. fog-dripped moisture hung "ser the
c.ty a. Turned away from the black and muddy
cemetery and picked my way through the foul
courts into the uists OF Cbanccry Lane.