Madame Malibran's funeral took place on Saturday, at the Collegiate
Church of Manchester. Six mourning coaches, about twenty private carriages, and sixty of the principal gentlemen of the town followed the hearse. Among the mourners, were the Earl of Wilton, Sir George Smart, the Boroughreeve, Mr. Thomas Potter, and Mr. Beale. The interior of the church was crowded. As the procession entered, the " Dead March in Saul" was performed. The Reverend Mr. Wray was the officiating clergyman. One of the last airs sung by Malibran, " 0 Lord have mercy on me, for I am in trouble," was played on the organ. A small marble slab will be erected over leer tomb! The Malchester Festival Committee have published an account of the circumstances attending Mafibroses illness, as far as they could ascertain them ; but it contains no fact of interest not previously known. The Coroner had proposed an inquest on the body, as there were sonic surmises of foul play : but the Committee, having investigated the circumstances, declared that there was not the least occasion for any further inquiry ; and the Coroner was satisfied.
D. Belluomint has sent two communications to the newspapers,— one vindicating the conduct of De Beriot in leaving Manchester immediately after his wife's death, on the ground that such is the universal custom in De Beriot's country. He had himself carried off De Beriot, in a state of helplessness produced by extreme grief. Belluomini also mentions several particulars of Malibran's illness. It appears that for some time past she had been under the homosoptithic doctor's care; but was in the constant habit of over-exerting herself, in opposition to his advice. To this over-exertion, and the refusal of proper diet, her death is attributed. It has been stated in a Manchester paper that she was prematurely delivered ; but this is in effect contradicted by Bel. luomini, and there is no evidence of its truth. De Beriot sent a courier to bring his wife's remains to Brussels, whither he had gone to make preparations for her funeral; but it is understood that no disinterment will take place.
A subscription is about to be set on foot for the erection of a monument to Madame de Beriot. —Brussels Paper.
Brabam has not been as well as usual, and exhibited symptoms of indisposition in his performances at the Liverpool Festival, this week. One day he had a bleeding at the nose. The dealers in a certain kind of maudlin excitement were evidently on the look-out for another catastrophe ; but the vocal hero, we are happy to say, disappointed their expectations, and still lives to wear his old laurels, if he has not won fresh honours.
The Chrvnique de Paris states that Grisi and her husband have separated; and this the more easily, as the marriage contracted by them in England is not acknowledged valid by the laws of France.
The Italian Opera at Paris opened for the season on Saturday night with Bellini's I Puritani, in which Grid, Tamburini, Rubini, and Lablaehe, were successively received with acclamations. The audience was not, however, a crowded one, and did not include much French beau monde. Among the company were a number of Spaniards of distinction, whom revolution has driven from their country. The ex-Prime Ministers Count de Toreno and M. Isturiz were observed seated almost close to each other.—Morning Post.
Cherubini's opera of All Baba and the Forty Thieves has been translated into German, and was recently performed at Frankfort-on-theMayne, before a full audience, with the most perfect success.
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