The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-14 00:00:00

THE LATE MADAME MALIBRAN.

On Sunday afternoon a courier arrived in this town from
Belgium, bearing a letter from M. de Beriot to Mr. Beale, in
which he states that he cannot return to Manchester on,account
of his being confined to bed by severe illness. He expresses a
hope that the courier will arrive in time to stay the funeral, and
announces that two of his relations will leave Belgium immedi-
ately, with fail authority to take charge of the body, and convey
it to Brussellq, where it was his wish it should be interred. A
meeting of the committee was called on Monday to take this
letter into consideration„and on the circumstances attending
the funeral being minutely explained to the courier, he express.
ed himself perfectly satisfied. A letter was immediately sent
to M. de Beriot, .detailing all that had been done under the
authority given by him to Mr. Beale, and the courier remains
in town to await instructions as to his further proceedings. On
Wednesday, the relative of M. de Beriot to whom allusion is
made in one of the letters noticed above, arrived in this town,
and had interviews with several members of the committee:
ne urged upon those gentlemen the wish of M. de Beriot to
have the remains of the deceased conveyed to. Brussels for in-
-terment there, and the anxiety of the Belgian people generally
to bestow such honours upon her as were customary amongst
them on great tweasions. The answer he received was to this
effect:—That the deceased having been interred within the
walls of the Collegiate Church, those who had the custody of
the body could not suffer it to be exhumed without a faculty
from the Ecclesiastical Court. That in the application for such
faculty, very strong grounds of necessity must be laid before
the court, audit might, and no doubt would, be strongly oppos-
ed by the inhabitants of Manchester; who had interred Madam
de Beriot with all those marks of respect which were due to de-
parted genius. That even if the faculty were obtained, the
warden and fellows of the church w multi not be compelled to
give up the body in defiance of the.wishes of their fellow-towns-
inen..and th it, in the present temper of the people, its removal
was not likely to meet -with public-sanction. The gentleman
was told that the conduct of M. de, Beriot, in leaving the town
so precipitately, and confiding the funeral of his wife to strangers
had created the deepest disgust in the minds of the public; and
if be thought that the show of affection which he displayed in
now wishing to remove the body to his own neighbourhood was
calculated to reconcile the people of England to his conduct,
or to lessen the disgust they felt, he was very much mistaken.
It might be in compliance with some foreign custom, he was
.told, that M. de. Beriot had pursued his line of conduct, but he
was reminded that M. de B. had resided long enough in Eng-
land to know what were the customs of this country, and that
he ought not to have set them so completely nt defiance as he
had done. Whether any ulterior proceeding will be taken by
M. de Beriot we know not; a letter from him is expected in the
course of the day ; in the meantime his relative and the courier
who arrived on Sunday are awaiting in this town further in-
structions.—Manchester Courier.

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. THE TEA PLANT IN Assam.—The result of the researches
of the tea-deputation dispatched to Assam, under Dr. Wallich,
respecting tea-plant in that country, gives every reason to ex-
pect that tea will heroine in a short time a prime article of ex-
port from India. The plant has been found in extensive na-
tural plantations and the localities are such as to encourage the
belief that it exists far more extensively than has been actually
discovered, and to warrant the conclusion that Assam. and our
northern frontier generally, will afford the most handsome field
for tea-cultivation of every variety. The researches of the
deputation have not been limited to the tea-plant ' • the botani-
cal and geological features of the country have been noted;.
and Dr. Wallich states that he has never seen or heard of, so
ricit.a Flora as that of Assam.—Asiatic Journal. . - '
-ANECDOTE OF TWO NIGHTINGALES.—It is well known to
the natural historian that there are a small number of birds
.whictr.will, in case of danger.tnenacing them, remove their
eggs- from one nest to another. Among these are the hedge-
sPnrrow, .the quail, and the cuckoo ; the last-mentioned has
leen observed to perform the task with its beak. A French
.-fterrtteman, named Denisvaux, recently made known the.fol-
g curious and interesting circumstance, which he himself
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- witnessed at the. period of an inundation. He had observed a
nest, "which was supported by a little bunch of twigs only a few
inches above the surface of the water, with four eggs in It; but
OR -a second visit he discovered that it only contained two, in-
stead of four which he had seen the evening previously.. His
first supposition. ~,
water. .He.walkerlaaBZ that they had fallen accidentlly into the.
when to his surprise 'hkey.rand returned again in a few minutes,
both mood there was but one left. Shortly
afterwards he saw
another nest with 2,1:4113 near the ground, making to-
wardsabout forty or fifty paces tromdtittecipitation, at a distance of
uariginal; and hastening pp.
to it, he found to his astonishm,net
the four eggs from the nest which
i:aeiclorti,ie dangerousapp•that it contained all
way the Parental anxiety its preptimity to the rising waters. Pis from
owoefVer, no means
the birds had
ocabeerving in what
instructed them to perform their difficult andydsll;ZPl,lllB tilldltr-
'taking .not hating had any suspicion of what the little 1 rogues
were after.