New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-10
CITY ITEMS.

the broadway Tabernacle before the Mercantile Libra
| nv Association.
Pow Ell CHAPLIN will deliver his lecture on Hsnp-
den this evening before the Mechanics Society, Of NO
| az Broadway.
Rev.s SIX swEErsAS, will deliver lecture at the
Union Congregational Church, it being the hr't Oh
series On the Associations Of Life
A. A. STARR gives lecture and exhibition OF the
HYDRO oxygen Microscope a, Metropolitan Hall.
A Grand Temper nee Demonstration will take pace
~ METROPOLITAN Hall at which John B. Cough VIII de-
liver an address.
Rev HENRY GILES will deliver the lecture at the
the Brooklyn Institute 70 night
AtNrsLo's. the Sontag Opera Company commence
their short season with lie Figla del Reggmento IN
which Madams sontag will be the Vivandlere, a cnar'
scter in which she has received much praise Inc u
steal excitement is running high and the two operas
will divide and delight the town ike vertable hed and
White Roses NibIo's MANN 9TH neighbor CHE Metro
potsn HoteD will tonight furnish more than hundred
of the operate audience.
AT the BROADWAY Madame Alboni gives Us LA
soppanbua," herself as Anime" The repetlhon oil
ala Figlia was very generally called for; but the
manager determined on variety well a. satisfaction
and variety 1t is After the Opera will come ballet
At Burrows Laugh and Grow Fat" an original
coedetta will be played for the fret time, In wnlcn
Mr. H. Watkins will make his first appearance Of this
theasr The popular drama of "Paris and London"
will also be repeated
At WALLcK's Sheridan's " School for Scandal VIII
be given with an excellent cast embracing Blake Les
ter, Miss Laura Keenc, and others. Also, 1.-TWO Can
Play at that Game"
A, BARYUms MUSEUM, Tom Thumb, "The village
Gossip" THE Forty Thieves" &c. afternoon and
evening
Atthe CIncus there is a new Programme and the
first appearance of two or three leading performers
WOODS MIrsrRELs-The usual variety Of Ethiopian
Melodies, Dances &c
RIsIEY's Panorama Of THE THAMES is now on ex
withdrawing faith al representation Of some OF the
most noted scenery in the central portion of England
BRYAN's Gallery Of CHRISTIAN ART lie still open TO
the public.
DEATH OF Ex-ALDERMAH CLAYroN.-Edwn
B. Clayton, Esq, who was go severely injured few
days since by explosion Of gas Mt his residence No
4l9 Broomest. died last night, after much suffering
Mr. Clayton was a well known and highly respectable
CITIZEN ststioncr and paper dealer of long standing
and extensive business relations. He was the Alder
man of the First Ward in 1894 Ia the days when the
title Alderman was not an offense and disgrace.
He was intimately connected with modern improve
ments in the lower portion Of the City, and for many
years labored increasingly for the widening of Thames
st. and the extension of Pine-st TO the North River
Mr.. C.'s funeral will take place Tuesday afternoon
from bis late residence. lie was 62 years Of age
DEATH OF THOMAS S. HAMBLrS.-This gentle-
man, the well known manager of the Bowery Tneater
died at his residence, No. 4l6 Broomest Saturday
night, aged SO. Mr. Hamblin born in London in
May 1900 and fret appeared the stage at Sadlers
Wes in "Rolla" and shortly after lin 1870 at Drury
lane as Truman" in George Barnwell" Mr.. Ham.
bin came TO this country in 1926 appearing at the Park
as Hamlet" He played successfully In several cities
but mostly in New-York where, In 1880, he becam,
the manager Of the Bowery. That theater was de-
sroyed by fire in 1885, but forthwith rebuilt by Dime
ford and others In 1893 1t again burnt, and in
1889 rebuilt In improved style by Mr.. Hsmblin. In
le45 the Bowery was burned down for the fourth
time, and Mr.. Hamblin became the manager of
the Park Theater The fiery demon still pursued
him, for the 10th of December, ls45 the old Park
was burned for the second and last time Mr. Hamblln
a msn Of great energy and bold enterprise, and
was never discouraged amid these manifold mis-
fortunes. lie had many warm friends and some i'm
placsble enemies but the public almost universally
followed his footsteps and supported him literally As
an actor Mr. Hamblin possessed the valuable accesso
res Of fine person. good voice and careful education
His Macbeth &c, always correctly If not forci
bly, done. He appeared more seldom in comedy,
but always with success. One of his most pop
ular pieces was the great spectacle of The
Last Days of Pompeii" in which he played Gar
bsces." Probably great share of the sense OF
the heroic which peculiar class of his admirers felt
for Mr. Hambin resulted from the fact of his going
into the Office of The Neto York Herald several years
ago, and giving Mr. Bennett most unmerciful COW
hiding by way of reply certain attacks made through
that paper Such briefly described was his career as
a caterer for the pubic amusement, and we will
No further seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frsiltles from their dread abode.
His funeral will take place on Tuesday afternoon
PLYMOUTH CnURCH-At the business meet
ing Of the Plymouth Church on Thursday evening last
the salary of Rev Henry Ward Beecher its pastor,
raised to 900 per year 1t e. 500 last year and
g., 500 previously.
IL The Eighth of January was scarcely
noticed in this City, cotton as it is few flags were
the only signs of respect for the Anniversary of the
day which made Gen. Jackson once immortal and twice
President.
u The Peoples Ferry to Staten Island,
from the foot of Libertyst have commenced running
their boats to Townsends dock At Clifton, stopping
both going and returning at stspleton thus making
landings on the Island to the great accommodation OF
the public.
~ During the past week the proprietors of
he Croton Mills in Cherryst, kept open house. and
fed whole armies of citizens with the bread cake, &C.
produced the spot from their patent raising -four
These mills employ about 20 men, and use more than
Go00CO bushels of wheat per snnurn.
PEOPLES LEcrUREs.-Lieut. NJ F. MAURY,
u SIN, of the National Observatory, Washington,
gives the fifth lecture of the Peoples Course the
Tabernacle tomorrow tuesday evening The sub
ject he has chosen is "The Sea and the Circulation of
its Waters He nrnnnses 10 explau the causes Of the