The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-19

teresting, from the fact that many Boomer orators
are to be present.
Necessity compels 10 omit our notices of the
| atrical and musical matters. All the places Of
amusement which we visited last evening were well
filed, and on gancng at the bills of fare in another
column it is pretty certain that they will all be again
| crowded tonight Madame Sontag appears in the
Barber of Seville She again introduces the charm
ing singing lesson, in which Master Paul Julien, the
brilliant young vionist is to assist. This alone will
be worth the price of admission.
The annual election of officers of the Mercantile
Library Association was held az Clinton Hall yester.
day. The members voted adverse to the proposed
removal Of the library up town.
We publish report of the testimony taken at an
inquest held upon the body Of Mrs. Eliza Weinecke
who was supposed yesterday morning, to have been
poisoned by her husband, Doctor Henry Adophus
Weinecke. The impression was not sustained by the
verdict of the jury. The unfortunate man found
dead ia Tammany Hotel from the effect of dose of
poison which he took after the death of his wife.
See narrative elsewhere.
The trial of Captain Farnham for manslaughter.
in causing the death of several persons on board the
steamboat Reindeer through negligence and natten-
ton, was commenced yesterday in the United States
Circuit Court, before Judge Belts The case for the
prosecution closed and the evidence for the defence
will be opened this morning. A report of the pro-
ceedings, SO far they have gone will be found un
der our legal intelligence.
The Coroner's jury yesterday found verdict Of
premeditated murder against John Fitzgerald, in
taking the life of his wife, by shooting her with a
pistol.
The Almshouse Governors met last evening, and
received acquisitions for supplies, with communica-
tons from the officers employed in the various insti-
buttons under their control Mr. West offered reso-
luton, to the effect that application be made to the
Common Council for accommodations more suitable
to the transaction of the business of the department
1t was referred to the Committee on Conference.
The Board adjourned until next Tuesday evening.
Last evening, the Hon. Arson Burlngame deliver
ed very able lecture, on the subject Of Now and
Then" at the Broadway Tabernacle. He argued that
the present was better than the past; that though
men and their systems perish society lives on that
it advances in regular order its fixed laws ascer-
tanabe, and that their logic requires conditions in
the future beyond the reach of our most gorgeous
imagination.
The avalanche Of news from all quarters compes
to defer the publication OF many local reports and
much general reading, among which we will enume
rate the following Reply Of the Cuban Junta to a
Washington correspondent relative to the feasibility
of repubhcanizng Cuba; Proceedings of the Aims
House Governors; Lectures, by Miss Bacon on "Ori-
entail Empress by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, on
"the Conservative and the Progressive and by Hon.
Zadock Pratt, on Tanning" For the foregoing, and
many other deferred articles, we hope to make room
tomorrow.