18 JUNE 1870, Page 2

Dickens was privately buried in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday last.

He had explicitly directed a private funeral, and indicated the place in Rochester Cathedral where he wished to lie ; but his friends very wisely judged that the national wish has more authority over the disposal of the body of a great English- man, than any desire of his own. No man's right of property in his body can well be deemed to last beyond the moment at which he parts from it. The Dean of Westminster himself read the Burial Service. Dickens lies a little more than a yard from the southern wall of the Poets' Corner, between Richard Cumberland's grave and that of Lord Macaulay.