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In July a trotting course was opened on the ground in front of the " Kensington House " of William Niblo, on the east side of the Old Boston Road at Seventieth Street, which he had opened several years before.

July 14, a committee of citizens who had previously been associated for the purpose of revising the existing municipal laws, and submitting a report thereon, with such recommendations as they deemed proper, was organized; the late Mayor William Paulding being appointed chairman.

September 1, Charles Kean made his first appearance at the Park Theatre in " Richard III.," before a great audience. Booth was playing tragedy at the " Bowery " Theatre at this time, and the rival performances were very interesting to the public. Kean may be said to have laid here the foundation of his great reputation. He returned to England in 1833, when his countrymen acceded to the American opinion of him. He revisited this country in 1839, and again in 1845 with his wife (Ellen Tree), when they made a highly successful tour through the States, returning to England in the spring of 1847.

September 1o, John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York, died at Auburn, N. Y., and on the 16th occurred his funeral, a very solemn and impressive sight. The procession is said to have contained five thousand persons, and the streets were thronged through which it passed. The funeral service was performed in Trinity Church. Bishop Hobart was a great man and born ruler, and a very eminent citizen of New York. He at one time became engaged in a polemical discussion with Dr. Mason, who was termed the Goliath of Calvinism, and of Hobart's defence the lines of Sir Walter Scott in his " Lady of the Lake " were aptly quoted:

" While less expert, though stronger far,
The Gael maintain'd unequal war."

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