At length Malihran's remains have been conveyed from Manchester to
Laecken, near 131ussels the residence of her late father, and of her living mother, Madame Garcia. This lady went to Manchester, and, after a long negotiation with the Festival Committee, obtained their consent to the disinterment, upon payment of all expenses : these, it is said, will amount to 121301. altogether. The faculty for disinterment, the first that bad been granted in Chester diocese for about a hundred years, having been obtained, it was resolved to remove the body in the night-time, to prevent the assembling of a crowd, and consequent dis- turbance. Accordingly, on Monday night, several gentlemen, accom- panied by constables, workmen, and gravediggers, went with a wooden case to hold the coffin, to the vault of the Collegiate Church. We quote the Manchester Herald- " As soon as the party arrived, one of the sexton's assistants commenced the work of shovelling away the earth from above the coffin. The grave being about five feet in depth, there was scarcely four feei of earth above the coffin- lid ; and this was soon thrown out with the busily-plied mattock of the grave- digger. The scene was at this period a very striking one. About twenty- five persons, in cloaks or great-coats *groulied around and bending over the deepening grave that was about to yield up its truant; their uncovered leads by the glare of the lights (placed on the stone door of the chancel) thrown into bright relief from the surrounding gloom ; while the light was not strong enough to reveal more than the dim outline of screen, and aisle and arch, and sculptured monument around, and in the far distance the /Lint rays of the moon gleamed through the windows, eel ying but to show the gloom of the silent edifice within. All was hushed; necessary questions were asked and answered in suppressed whi-pers; and no sound was heard but the grating spade of the gravedigger. Ten minutes sufficed to clear out the earth above the body ; but, from the great weight of the leaden coffin, it was no easy task to excavate below it sufficiently to admit of a rope being passed under. This was at length done, and a thick cord was pie-sed uoder the head of the coffin ; but as soon as it was attempted to raise it by this means the cord snapped, and in this way considerable delay ensued. Three cords gave way : at length a strong rope was procured in the neighbourhood ; it was passed under ; and the coffin was raised."
A hearse conveyed the coffin to the Mosley Arms Inn ; where Diadem Garcia and Be Beriot's agent, Mr. Fiennes, were staying ; it was then taken by them to London, and is probably by this time re- interred in the church of Laecken.
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