New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-17
BLEAK HOUSE.
QUAINT RELICS OF OLD LONDON.
brought out By Thomas WhltIaAor


From The II. Jamcss Gazette.
Ere long another ., the fast-vanish!ng localities
peoped by the genius u ihe master novelist MA tna
actcne more real 70 rs IN some respects ti1n their
pr,scot lnDabitanU, Will he noneistsht. Ehie'!.8
lInconsnn field, i'om Great Queens, TuIn 10 Sne
enlegs nE ode eyea!ng from chambers where "lawycS
lie Se mass,I' "a mas bcn.n1n s ,ncI.nt TSdos
gatcway and visiting MIR enaesby, the law stationer
ing Where @Scmo. tho myserous law writer lives.
\ little to tie sor,h OF old buildings, on the
Chichester Rents. the latter approached through a
tunnoIlcd Passage "loussde me Ilrre runs publ,
very neat about me Guns ana buttons, "io Hs,a
tIed pcrqulsiuons through the court, Owed into ue
on tissue paper those sensational reports Of the IN
quest Which had Just been held at ina, well known
Arms Solsp is the present on ship Tavern. II
stands at The mead Of the court facing On one s e
tanly ancient enough and tho first floor can sun
be seen the Identical long low room where the coroner
presented 20 the harmonic meeting his admirable I'M
personation Of that important official
was the famous rag.and bottle shop, whose soaked
proprietor died from spontaneous combustion M, Mr
on ns sn m hO0 The %Her w o Des,
thinks 1t must have stood In Bishops Court hard by
being old narrow. drcary decaylns, and mournnl
people rs thu poor law-wrltcr and crazy Miss Elite
would have made q home
But a careful study Of every HllnsiOn made BY
P PemSertoS to ' pT locally T " KrS sSop
spoken q as lyins and Sens the shadow q the
Court exactly answers TO This description. on the
contrary the only likely at the next to
New square Krooh's must therefore be sought for at
Nos. and In the " Rents now occupied by law
Ss au Sp on thu the c HS s aous s Of
or and entirely blinded BIZ The WALL 50 often referred
@o1on s and s wards in Gy one T morning
Old squa-e, Invited them 70 come and see her Lodgings
sas s'pa she stopped most
narrow back street. (saryad. leading to Carey
the wall OF the Inn and she WINS at home. she
lodgc in garrett at The top Of RrooFs shop described
cspe& tho light Within compile ' Of yards. She lived
In pretty iarSe room from Thch she had glimpse
Wow by the tall houses n od Buildings. 1t Is during
this visit that the poor little Creature draws aside the
ton to number Of bird cages hanging there. whose
Lay Jane en- the he cat Is forever . nv
and hours.' This Is conclnsiye tesil9onny for no
seses an attic with an oaisdc parapct. The windows
are mostly dorners or flush win ne vail while from
c ether s o r'f roS be Saa & cs aSV ss
tested by sondi1s cSss 70 the hall and looking through
nSG o Sw Ns widow wH 81 me
bottle shop may be identified IN miserable back
the second door Of TIL; dismal Ia s a.
horn and Brook by his own hands from an over
dose Of opium. ITO hemmedin churchSArd, pestif-
crous and obscene, they take dear brother here
departed. and lower him down foot or two" on
n na steps sr s to this sn Dame 1udn
OF the iron gate and seeming TO embrace it, This
St t, as, bard to find but walk nB r.
into Russell Court leading into Dmry Lane. and mid.
consecratcd ground" The little tunnel Of court is
much as II was forty years aso. But the lamp is
gone and tho old Iron gate is not the one depicted by
II. X. Browne. Children play as best they can
on the a'phaed surface Of the hemmcdi area. where
who had been VERY good to him put into the ground
| "werry nigh the top"