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Vauxhall Garden was at this time a place of very general resort for residents of the upper portion of the city. It occupied a considerable space between the Bowery and Broadway, Fourth and Art streets (Astor Place), surrounded by a board fence, with the main entrance at about the middle, on the Bowery (Fourth Avenue) side. The fence was lined within with boxes, or rather stalls, each containing a narrow tale with seats for two persons at each side, at which tables light refreshments were served. The garden contained walks, trees, shrubs, flowers, etc., and in the centre was a large building in which theatrical performances were given, with interludes of songs, dances, etc The Astor Library now occupies part of this site. The beginning of Vauxhall was, so early as 1799, under the enterprise of a Frenchman named Delacroix, but I learn it was in 1807 that it assumed the condition of garden and theatre according to the description here given. At a later date it became a favorite place of public meetings, etc., and finally disappeared about 1848 or 1849, soon after the Astor Place riot.

In May Henry Wallack first appeared in New York, at the Anthony Street Theatre (the Park being in ruins). He was in high favor with our public for years, as a most effective actor in all-round parts. He was at one time stage manager of the National Theatre under his brother James W. His last appearance was in the autumn of 1858, as Falstaff. His wife, a person of singular loveliness, first appeared also in May of this year as a dancer, but soon adopted the drama, and remained attached to the Park Theatre for some ten years.

September 1. The New Park Theatre was opened ; the poetical address on the occasion was written by Charles Sprague, the well-known Boston banker and man of letters. The new house had room for an audience of twenty-four hundred; the stage measured fortyfive by seventy feet.

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