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mninecl unconscious until Thursday, .Juno 
Oih, at 0.20 I*. M., ?fheu he died. Tuesday, 
.Tune 14th, at six o’clock in the morning, his 
remains were conveyed from his late resi¬ 
dence at Gad’s Hill, by train, to Charing 
Cross station, London. There waited at the 
station a plain hearse, without the usual 
English trappings, and three plain coaches, 
in the tirst, coach were placed the children 
of the deceased, CHARLES and Hauuy 
Dickens, Miss Dickens and Mrs. Charles 
Com. ins. In the second wore Miss Hogarth, 
the sister-in-law, and Airs. Austen, the sis¬ 
ter of Dickens, Mrs. Charles Dickens, Jr., 
aud John Forster. In the third coach 
wore Frank Beauj>, Charles Collins, Mr. 
Oweky, Wilkie Collins and Edmund 
subsequently “All the Year Round.” In 
the latter “A Tale of Two Cities,” “The 
Uncommercial Papers,” and “Great Ex¬ 
pectations ” successively appeared. In 1864, 
“ Our Mutual Friend ” was given the world ; 
since which time his writings have been 
confined to brief sketches and essays, until 
the present year, when tlm first chapters of 
“The Mystery ot Edwin Drood" appeared, 
and was being published at the time ot his 
death. It was not completed, hut it Is un¬ 
derstood that his notes are left in such a 
state that it will be concluded in accordance 
with his purpose, though of course not in 
the manner in which he would hayc done it. 
Wednesday evening, June 8 th, Mr. Dick¬ 
ens was attacked with apoplexy, and re¬ 
in 1836 and 1837, as “Sketches by Boz.” 
The success of these papers resulted in the 
“Posthumous Memoirs of the Pickwick 
Club,” which produced a great sensation in 
all English circles. He subsequently ac¬ 
cepted the editorship of Bentley’s Miscellany, 
whore “ Oliver Twist” appeared, followed 
by “ Nicholas Nickleby.” In 1840 “ Master 
Humphrey’s Clock” appeared; in 1842, 
“American Notes;" in 1814, “ Martin Cliuz- 
zlewit;” in 1846, “ Pictures from Italy, “ pre¬ 
ceded in 1843 and 1845 by his Christmas 
hooks. In 1847 ’48 “ Dombey & Son ” was 
published; iu 1849-’50, “David Copper- 
field;” in 1853, “Bleak House;” in 1854, 
“Hard Times;” in 1850, “ Little Dorrit 
in 1850 he started “ Household Words,” and 
CHARLES DICKENS 
other officials, and placed in the Poet's 
Corner, at the foot of Handel, aud at the 
head of Sheridan, with Macaulay and 
CuMBEHf.AND on either side. The usual 
flowers were strewn upon the bier. Dean 
Stanley read the burial service, the coffin 
was deposited in its Anal resting place, aud 
the funeral of Dickens was ended. 
And so loving Charles Dickens is laid 
in AVestminster Abbey, the English burial 
place of kings and of the priests ot industry 
and letters. He lies 
~ |3 with Chaucer, Beau- 
~ mont, Drayton, Cow- 
- r.EV, Dryden, Milton, 
iSjggjjiJP!| _i ; 7 Gray, Shakespeare 
! i| Thomson, Goldsmith, 
g Addison, Ben. Jonson, 
It and others whom the 
SSi I British people have de- 
MDraiB'i® j|I I lighted to honor and re- 
jjptHilliii I IH member. And this na- 
mm [I Y- tional honor is given to 
Pjiuilca |!t the ashes of Dickens. 
v$*b- II He wanted to lie under 
I the green grass among 
i the people; the people 
\V<|»5 II preferred he should rest 
x xX'vUli H i in death upon the pedns- 
UK tal to which their hearts 
\Vil| J lifted him spontaneous- 
' V^ffl I ly. They thus express 
Msjrafe yH I - their appreciation ot his 
\a|I work in life. 
V, \\\m\ \» Cuari.es Dickens’ 
- VI career teaches an im- 
||a y portant lesson. He 
\y|\ \ wrought, unselfishly, ap- 
M =“ parently, for others. He 
did not affect ideas 
tm,- above the common life 
WVvWV of the people. He sought 
uWnVvW to ameliorate their con- 
Im \\\v ditlon, to lift t hem above 
mm\\ l \ ' the abuses and wrongs 
\W\\ It f which weighed them 
I 111'IIP ; d° wn - He attracted the 
1 !•. attention of the more 
I | j powerful and influential 
3 classes to the wrongs 
| ■ ! - t and oppressions which 
i ! j, Y law, and caste and cm- 
i | |'l| : lj - — ruption imposed upon 
Millin' ^ the many who eom- 
H j I III j posed the working fonn- 
I I IJlf - dation of society. His 
ml Ij lias been an earnest 
j til - work. His gains have 
I llfl l : been the outgrowth of 
I ill f[ gratitude. His success 
III j' lias been won by an ne- 
l j !k live, humane sympathy 
/ /j| with common life. lie 
1 Mf/fjjll r Miiij has catered to no nris- 
Mtl/i! /' Jl tocracy. Where it was 
W/f/ / M li unnecessary to his pur- 
y/ff- // /Jm ■ pose to condemn lie has 
/ // Jmk I been silent, albeit there 
/ JmM : | K was material for denun- 
• M ' i ciation. lie has had a 
/JH I single eye to his own 
B M 1 |i grand purpose—not to 
Hri j ||| pull anybody down, but 
to lift up such aa he 
M i might. How lie has 
warmed our hearts 1 
S || j How he has quickened 
|j our observation! How 
gtnHHEijgiisiis I .... 
r'-J he has tickled our n»i- 
-i bilities, and always with 
|ggggjj3|||| I the successful purpose 
Pl|ff - of making us feel nun c 
- -" r - keenly and kindly to 
- wards those who were 
mrnSSmmi I . ■ wnim i subjects of our laughter. 
Last week, just as we were going to press, 
we received the intelligence or the death of 
Charles Dickens. His death has awakened 
throughout this country expressions of re¬ 
gret which indicate how closely he had in¬ 
tertwined himself in the affections ot reading 
Americans. His kindly, sympathetic and 
humorous pictures ol character and lile 
have had no more appreciative readers than 
among the American people. He has won, 
cause ol ms gracciui re¬ 
traction, as well as by 
the evidence contained 
iu all liis writings that 
he was a Democrat in 
the noblest sense of the 
Word, and lived and 
wrought for the welfare 
of the humbler but not 
i L -s wot thy middle class¬ 
es, which compose the 
vital and vitalizing ele¬ 
ments of the British Em¬ 
pire. No matter what : 
his faults, Charles 
Dickens has given all 
who have read liis works 
an appetizing relish for 
the phases of life which 
are oflcnest overlooked 
by writers who seek 
public applause. And 
all this lie bus done with 
untainted reputation — 
with clean skirts, so lar 
as ministering to any 
morbid and sensual ap- 
peti to is concern© d. 
Would that this could 
be said of all fiction 
writers. But it must 
not be forgotten that 
what is called fiction in 
Ciiari.es Dickens’ wri¬ 
tings is most real—is, as 
a rule, more nearly a 
iranscript of the reality 
than many of the works 
ol great artists who, with 
paiutand pallet, pretend 
to give us scenes from 
nature. But we are not 
to write an eulogy of 
Dickens. He needs 
none; and if he did, 
ours would not he the 
presumptuous pen to at¬ 
tempt such a labor of 
love. 
Cri vs. Dickens’ father 
was John Dickens, w ho 
held a position iu the 
Navy Pay Department. 
The former was horn at 
Landport, Portsmouth, 
England, in 1812. Af¬ 
ter the war of 1812, Mr. 
Dickens’ father remov¬ 
ed to London and be¬ 
came a reporter on a 
daily paper. Charles 
entered an attorney’s 
office as a clerk; didn’t 
like the business, and 
began reporting on the 
1 Morning Chronicle, in 
1 which paper first ap- 
3 ^ peared “ Sketches of 
iv English Life and Chur¬ 
ls acter,” which were af- 
„ ter wards re-published, 
