The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-28
NEW YORK NEWS.-MAY 9th.

MAGNIFICENT OPERA NEGOTIATIONS FOR NEXT AU-
TUMN.-The negotiations which have been in train
for some time for the transfer of of the London
Opera companies to New York for the ensuing Au-
tumn and Winter season, have now been nearly
finished.
1t appears quite certain that an engagement has
been almost completed with Mr.. Lumley, the mana
ger of her Majesty's theatre, London, and that he
will bring to this country in August next his entire
opera and ballet company, with which will be given
from fifty to one hundred representations in New
York, Philadelphia and Boston.
One of the most remarkable facts connected with
this movement is that WikOff, the great American
cheyalier, and Barnum, the still greater American
charlatan, have been the principal negotiators in
arranging the plans for the vast enterprise which
is a combination of Barnum's great coup with Jenny
Lind, and Wikoff9s American campaign with Fanny
Elsser. The present enterprise includes both at
tractions-opera and ballet-in one grand combi-
nation.
The Society of Friends (Hicksite) closed their
yearly meeting in this city yesterday, in their spa
cious meeting house in Twenty-seventh street,
Sixth avenue. The speakers yesterday were Sarah
Hunt, of Philadelphia; William Dorsay, preacher
and very clever man; Richard Cromwell, of New
York, and James Thorne, an intelligent farmer,
who resides somewhere up the Hudson. Next Sun
day the Orthodox Friends commence their meet
ings, which will also last one week There is,
therefore, prospect of pleasant weather for some
time vet. Won't the Friends be good natured
enough to cut their meetings short this year? By
doing they will receive the thanks of the com
munity.
1t was alleged at the meeting of the Commission
of Emigration yesterday, that the agent of the
steamship company on board the steamer Glasgow,
which arrived yesterday, had booked passengers for
inland travel at much higher rates than charged
at Castle Garden The matter is to be Investigated.
The number of emigrants which arrived to the 26th
inst. 20, $40, large decrease compared with
last year, when it was 81 ,52l.
The ball at the British ConsuIates on Monday last
h.,n
liant affair. The house adjoining the Consus resi-
dence kindly lent by its for the OCCASION
and whilst the receptions took place in one, dancing
was vigorously kept up in the other. The rooms
were profusely ornamented with flowers and ever
greens-the flags of England and the United States
of course, forming prominent part in the decora-
tions.
The steamship Africa, which left Liverpool on
the 18th instant, is due at this port. She will
bring three days later news. The steamship Moses
Taylor is due from Aspinwall, with fortnight's
later news from the Pacific, and the semi-monthly
mails and shipment of treasure from California.
The preliminary examination of Henry Dwight
the alleged railroad defauter, which is going on be-
fore Judge Russell, postponed yesterday till
Wednesday next at II o'clock in consequence of en-
gagements of counsel.
Young German woman named Sophia Messman
committed suicide on Tuesday night, at her resi-
dence, No. 162 Delaney street, by taking arsenic-
1t appears that for some time past her husband had
spent most OF his time at lager-bler saloons, and
this made her very unhappy. Deceased was 10
years of age, and leaves two children
An Irish woman, named Murphy, wife of William
G. Murphy, keeper of a rumshOp corner of Park
street and Mission place Five Points, died yeser-
day, and according to rumor, from violence occa-
stoned at the hands of her natural protector.
Last evening, while Mr.. Hiram Cranston propri-
etor of the New York Hotel, quietly seated
at the head of his table, dining he approached
hv a n oh
physician, who, it is stated, without giving the
slightest intimation or making any threat, seized
full bottle of champagne, standing in front of gen.
tleman seated near Mr.. Cranston, and struck him
on the head with it twice, the first blow shatterng
the BOTTLE and stunning Mr. c., the second striking
him to the ground At the time Galardet
struck and wounded severely Capt. Granger, of the
army. So quietly and suddenly was the assault
made, that although Mr.. Cranston was surrounded
by friends and servants, every person appeared to
be paraysed and powerless for a few moments
Gaillaudet, however, was Immediately arrested,
and lodged in the Fifteenth precinct station house