and beautiful temple in Chambers-street, has taken the town captive.
_I Puritani_ was first produced, and to overflowing houses at each
representation. _Belisario_ is now running a similar successful career. We
shall have occasion in our next to advert more at large to this very
popular establishment, and to notice in detail the _artists_ (with and
without the _e_) who compose its prominent attractions. . . . SINCE the
direction given by an afflicted widow to some humane persons who had found
the body of her husband in a mill-race, full of eels, 'Take the eels up to
the house, and _set him again_!' we have seen nothing more affecting than
an anecdote of a widower at St. Louis, who, on seeing the remains of his
late wife lowered into the grave, exclaimed, with tears in his eyes:
'Well, I've lost sheep, and I've lost cows, but I never had any thing to
cut me up like this!' As CARLYLE says, 'his right arm, and spoon, and
necessary of life' had been taken away, and he could not choose but weep.
. . . THE typographical error to which our Natchez friend alludes was
corrected in some two or three thousand sheets; hence we dispense with his
trifling errata. 'I remember a clergyman in New-England,' once wrote an
accomplished contributor to us, 'that when 'the rains descended and the
floods came and the winds blew,' carried away in the pulpit in the height
of his ardor the wrong house, and left that _standing_ that was built upon
the sand. After the service was over I ventured to observe to my uncle,
Parson C----, (whose assistant had been preaching) that this seemed to be
a new reading to the parable, and that I wondered when Mr. A---- had
discovered his error, as he did at the time of re-iteration, that he did
not correct it. My uncle defended his curate, and observed that if he had
_then_ corrected himself, he would have carried away _both_ houses, which
was utterly in opposition to all Scripture. Part of the audience, said he,
were asleep; and many of the rest so drowsy that, so long as one of the
houses was taken off, the moral was enforced upon their perceptions as
well by the one as the other. If he had made a _thorough_ correction, he
would have roused the attention of the whole parish, and nothing else
would have been talked of for nine days. When a man has made an error he
had better let other people make a discovery; and this truth, my lad, said
he, you will understand better when you grow up.' Let us conclude with an
ex