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The Atlantic Steam Boat company, in England, have received subscrip- tions to the amount of $1,200,000, and ten per cent of that has been paid in ; a sum amply sufficient to carry their plan of running steam boats from Europe to America, into operation. Their capital is limited at &600,000.
sylvania, " to inquire into the propri- ety of making immediate provision for the total abolition of Slavery in that State." We hope it will pass.
Rev. Mr. Holley .- It is stated that this gentleman has resigned the Presi- idency of Transylvania University.
Governor Wolcott has appointed the 24th of March to be observed as the Annual Fast in Connecticut.
A writer in the Democratic Press asserts that the American ship in the service of the Turks against the Greeks, is the Erin, which sailed from New- York, and her captain's name is Law- rence.
It is said that Com. Porter has de- termined to enter into the Mexican service. At the last advices he was taking leave of his friends in Washing- ton, preparatory to his leaving that city.
James Wills, of Philadelphia, de- ceased, willed the Mayor and Corpo- ration of the City, about 90,000 dol- lars, for the purpose of erecting an asylum, to be denominated Wills' Hospital.
Capt. Synimes gave a lecture, a few days since, at Washington, on the structure of the inside of the earth. Why don't Capt. S. join the Russian Expedition ?
One hundred and sixty Saxon sheep; lately imported, are to be sold at auc- tion, at New-York, March 21st.
An Atheneum is in contemplation in Portland, Me.
There are one hundred and one places of Public Worship in the city of New York.
Dr. Peaco, a skilful surgeon, has sail- ed for Cape Montserado, as surgeon and agent for the colony.
The body of Mary Richardson, lost in January last, was found below the
Slavery .- A committee has been appointed in the Legislature of Penn- Pawtucket falls, R. I. a few days since.
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AND CITY RECORD, MARCH 11, 1826.
CITY RECORD.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
Wednesday, March 1 .-- Resolved that the safety and convenience of the city require that Green Street should be widened by taking a strip of land bounded as follows, viz. beginning at the easterly corner of the house occu- pied by Lawson Valentine, on the southerly side of said street, and run- ning north-westerly on the line of said street twenty-four feet eight inches to the easterly corner of the house be- longing to Wm. W. Motley, then run- ning south-westerly on the front of said house five feet nine inches, then running south-easterly about seventy- five feet to the north-westerly side of said Valentine's house, thence running north-easterly five feet eleven inches to the point of beginning, containing 438 square feet of land, agreeable to a plan of S. P. Fuller, surveyor, dated Aug. 1, 1825, and said street is widen- ed and laid out accordingly.
Petition of Ruggles Slack and oth- ers, praying that they may use the Ward room of Ward No. 12, for a place of public worship. Committed to Aldermen Carney and Jackson.
Resolved that the whole Board do meet in Hanover Street near the head of Elm Street, for the purpose of con- sidering the expediency of widening the same by taking a piece of land be- longing to John Gray, for that pur- pose.
Monday, March 6 .- The Mayor communicated a vote and request of the Trustees of the Washington Mon- ument Association, that the Statue of Washington, (from the chisel of Chan- try,) be placed in the centre of the new Market House. Read and refer- red to the Mayor, Aldermen Carney, Welsh, Oliver and Robbins, with such as the Common Council may join.
The two Boards concurred in the appointment of a joint committee, consisting of Aldermen Welsh and O !- iver, Messrs. Barry, Morey and Dorr, to report a statement of facts, and what grant ought to be made, and in
what manner, to the widow and child- ren of Jonathan Houghton, the watch- man, who was murdered when on du- ty in the service of the city.
Petitions of Jonathan Loring and Jesse Shaw, for reimbursement to them of $410 44, expended in repairs on their houses, made necessary in conse- quence of the level of Pinkney-street being reduced, were committed.
The Committee on Neck Lands, were authorized, by a joint order, to select not exceeding twenty-five lots of the City's Lands on Washington Street, and to cause the same to be sold at Auction, in April en-uing.
A committee was appointed to make inquiry relative to two lots of land, one for a School house, and the other for a Market house, which by the terms of the act annexing South Boston to this city, were to be set off to the city.
A committee was appointed to ascer- tain on what terms and at what expense the gun house on the common may be removed, and to select a suitable place for a new one.
IN COMMON COUNCIL.
Monday, March 6 .- The commit- tee on the subject of leasing Deer Island reported that it is inexpedient to make any reduction of the present rent, which Mr. Spear is to pay by the terms of that lease, viz. . $450 and that no further measure be taken on that subject. Concurred.
Ordered that the sum of eighteen hundred dollars be added to the ap- propriation for ' lamps, oil, and super- intendence,' and that the sum of eight hundred and sixty dollars be with- drawn from the appropriation for 'instalments of the City and County debt,' and that the sum of nine hun- dred and forty dollars be withdrawn from the appropriation for the 'City watch.' Also, that the sum of one thousand dollars be added to the ap- propriation for the 'internal health department,' and that the same amount be withdrawn from the appropriation for the ' female High School.' This order being twice read, was passed and sent up for concurrence.
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
The Committee of Finance was in- structed to report, at the next meeting of the Council, what compensations the several officers under the City Or- ganization ought to receive during the ensuing municipal year.
The Auditor of Accounts reported the estimates of the Moneys necessary to be raised for the expenditure of the ensuing financial year, commencing on the 1st May, 1826, and closing the 13th April, 1827, [Amount $328,920.] Read and referred to the Committee on accounts.
An order passed, making an addi- tional appropriation of $3000 to com- plete the fence round the lands of the House of Industry at South Boston.
The Committee of Conference on the part of the Common Council, on the differences existing between the two branches of the City Council, in regard to the number of Assessors to be chosen for the ensuing year, made report, recommending that the Com- mon Council insist on their vote of non-concurrence on the subject ; which recommendation was accepted.
Adjourned to Monday next at half past six o'clock.
[KP It will be recollected that the Common Coun- cil voted to increase the number of Assessors from three to five ; and the Board of Aldermen from three to four ; and that the Boards reciprocally non- concurred with each other on the subject. Commit- tees were appointed by both boards to confer on the subject matter of the difference ; and both, it ap- pears, voted to recommend to the Boards by which they were chosen, to insist on their proposed num- bers. If no accommodation takes place the number to be elected will be three, as usual.] -- Cent.
SPRINGFIELD VILLAGE.
This thrifty village is situated upon the Chickapee. Two miles and a half from its mouth are situated the Boston and Springfield cotton factories, and the fall from thence to the Connecti- cut is fifty five feet. The factories (we learn from the Canal Report) were commenced, but little more than two years since, and there have alrea- dy been erected two large brick facto- ries, five stories high, containing seven thousand spindles and two hundred and forty looms ;- cighteen brick and two wooden edifices, chiefly intended as dwelling houses, and affording tene- ments for fifty four families .- States.
From the (Newport) R. I. Republican LIBERTY TREE.
The Boston News Letter of Jan. 7, contains a Deed, (p. 27,) which has fre- quently been published here of a large Button-Wood Tree, at the north end of Thames-street, with the land ad- joining, given by William Reed, Esq. in 1766, to a number of gentlemen in this place as Feoffees in trust for the Sons of Liberty ; and inquires into the present state of the land and Tree thus conveyed to our Fathers. We are ashamed to say that the informa- tion we can give on this subject is any thing but creditable to the town or its inhabitants. The Tree, which was given in the original decd, having been destroyed by the British during the Revolutionary war, one of the same species was planted on the spot in 1783, which was carefully enclosed and grew to a large and beautiful size. Since the death, however, of the vene- rable William Ellery, one of the orig- inal feoffees who felt an interest in its preservation, and who may be said, in the evening of his days, to have dwelt under its shadow, the Tree and its en- closure have been miserably neglected. The paling which enclosed it is en- tirely torn up, and the tree itself most unmercifully lopped.
It is due, however, to the praise- worthy feelings of some of our public- spirited citizens to mention, that a PLATE has been recently attached to the Tree, commemorative of the prin- cipal events we have stated, with the names of the donors, feoffees, &c. and that hopes are entertained that some measure will be speedily taken by the Town to re-invigorate and preserve the mutilated remains of this venera- ble memorial of the " times gone by."
RELEASE OF AMERICANS.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Thomas M. Rodney, Consul of the United States in Cuba, to Mr. Clay, Secretary of State, dated Havana, 4th February, 1826. "I have now the honour to inform you, that I yesterday had the pleasure to effect the release from prison of the remaining part of the crew of the brig Noble, viz. Bruce, Perry, Armstrong. White, and Thomas Young."
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MUSEUMS.
Perhaps there are no collections of natural or artificial curiosities in the Union, to be compared with those of European cities. Peal's museum in Philadelphia holds the first rank, in this country, and we are possibly a little selfish in wishing to have the New-England take the second, al- though New York possesses a grand establishment. The New England Museum was first opened for exhibi- tion, July 1, 1818, by Mr. E.A.Green. wood, superintendent and one of the principal proprietors. This museum has swallowed up all the other estab- lishments of the kind that have been established in this city, and has gained a high reputation. Although we are perfectly familiar with the general ob- jects of curiosity in this extensive and valuable cabinet, we cannot attempt a description of the contents of its differ- ent halls, but refer our readers to the Museum itself, where the philosopher, the artist and the naturalist will al- ways find the highest intellectual grati- fication, so far as it may be excited by contemplating the rarest wonders of creation.
We here subjoin a short descrip- tion of the Royal Museum of Paris, which may be termed the Museum of Paintings.
" The Louvre, in its present state, contains upwards of one thousand two hundred pictures ; and the gallery of sculpture consists of nearly one thou- sand fine specimens of the art, with va- rious degrees of merit. Besides these there are 4,000 plates by the best masters, proofs of which are sold for the benefit of the establishment ; and 450 drawings by the great masters, forming part of a collection of 20,000. which belong to the museum.
This museum was formerly the boast of Paris, and the wonder of the world.
The establishment was founded on injustice, and enriched by spoliation : it has therefore felt the hand of retri- · bution, and has been shorn of its prin- cipal glory.
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covered with a fine collection of pic- tures from the Luxembourg, Versailles, and other royal residences, and partly from private collections. The cata- logue also consists of paintings and specimens of foreign sculpture.
The works of the noblest masters of the present French school all re- main ; and in addition to them, the amateur may yet study some of the most exquisite performances of Alba- no, Berghem, Caracci, Champagne, Correggio, Cortona, Cuyp, Del Sarto, Dominichino, Guercino, Guido, Mu- rillo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Romano, Rubens, Ruysdael, Salvator Rosa, Snyders, Teniers, Tintoretto, Titian, Vandyck, Paul Veronese, and Leonar- do da Vinci.
The grand staircase leading to the gallery of the Royal Museum, was con- structed by Fontaine. It is ornamen- ted with twenty two marble columns of the Doric order, and with various sculptures by Taunay, representing attributes of the arts and sciences, tro- phies of war, &c. The paintings on the ceiling exhibit the revival of the Fine Arts ; some of them are by Abel de Pujol, and others by Meynier.
The first saloon presents a curious collection of the very earliest works of the French and Italian artists.
The next saloon contains the de- servedly celebrated battle-pieces of Le Brun. They are some of the noblest performances of that excellent painter.
The traveller now enters the great gallery, which is divided into nine parts by arcades, supported by Corin- thian columns and pilasters, and adorn- ed with glasses, candelabras, altars, antique vases, &c. That part of the gallery which joins the Tuileries is al- so decorated with twenty-four small marble columns, and twelve busts of celebrated painters. It is impossible to convey an adequate idea of the effect formerly produced on the mind, on entering this magnificent apartment, 1400 feet in length, and crowded by 1900 paintings of the most eminent masters of every school. The appar- ently interminable length of the galle- ry continues to excite surprise, and
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the skilful arrangements of the paint- ings that remained, and of many others that have been added to them, certainly do not convey that feeling of naked- ness and desolation which the strang- er might expect, and which some travellers have described.
Among the performances of Le Brun, the traveller will notice that in which the wife of Darius presents her son to Alexander ; the moving ex- pression of her countenance, and the confusion marked on that of Sysigam bis, who had mistaken Hephæstion for the monarch, are admirable.
The defeat of Porus, by the same artist, is in a different style, and ís justly considered to be his chef- d'œuvre.
The works of Nicolas Poussin were not eclipsed amidst the constellation of excellence by which they were sur- rounded ; they are now brought into more prominent notice, and will not fail to please. The Israelites gather- ing Manna in the Desert is deserving of considerable praise ; and the Sketch of the Rape of the Sabines will not be viewed without interest.
The Hall of the Caryatides is re- markable as the scene of the enter- tainments of Catherine de Medicis. This superb piece of architecture was constructed under Francis, from the designs of Lescot ; but the relievos were executed by Goujon, and the or- naments by Ponce. It is 140 feet in length, and 41 in breadth. The prin- cipal object of curiosity in this apart- ment is the tribune called Goujon, supported by four caryatides in alto relievo, resembling those of the Tem- ple of Erectheus at Athens, and con- sidered the chef-d'œuvre of this emi- nent master. Over the tribune is a fine bas-relief in bronze, executed by Benvenuto Cellini, in the reign of Francis I, to ornament the palace at Fontainebleau, and below is a beauti- ful bronze door of the 16th century, ornamented with eight bas-reliefs by Andrea Riccio, which formerly adorn- ed the mausoleum of the family Della Torre at Verona. At the opposite end of the hall, facing the tribune, is a
handsome chimney-piece, decorated with statues of Flora and Bacchus, at- tributed to Goujon.
On the ground floor is the Galerie d'Angoulême, consisting of five rooms, which were opened in 1824. They contain many curious specimens of ancient and modern sculpture, amongst which are two groups by Canova, rep- resenting different parts of the story of Cupid and Pysche ; Diana, by Jean Goujon, which formerly ornamented the entrance of the Chateau d'Anet ; a slave, by Michael Angelo; and the Milo of Crotona, brought from Ver- sailles.
This museum is open to the public on Sunday, from ten o'clock until four ; but students and foreigners are admitted every day except Monday, on producing their passports.
Paris contains six museums, which are all distinct in character, and grand beyond conception. In the Royal Garden of Plants, there is a museum, divided in apartments, which possess the rarest curiosities in nature, and the most splendid works of art. Af- ter passing through the galleries, the traveller will probably direct his at- tention to the menagerie. Several li- ons, tygers, panthers, hyenas, and wolves, amuse or terrify the spectators by their howlings. A succession of wooden fences extends bence to the Cabinet of Anatomy. They are ar- ranged with considerable taste, and many of them afford a very instructive lesson in zoology and botany. Where it could be accomplished, the trees and shrubs of the animals' native climes, or the vegetables in which they most delight, flourish within their enclosures. Several boars inhabit some sunken en- closures, formerly occupied by bears. Two camels are perfectly domesticat- ed, and more than earn their subsist- ence by turning the wheel of the ma- chine which supplies the gardens with water. The varieties of antelopes, deer and sheep, are numerous.
The aviary contains a collection of every bird known in France and the neighbouring kingdoms, arranged ac- cording to their species and habits, but
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does not boast of many rare speci- mens. The pheasants and monkeys may be seen on application at the Bu- reau.
The Cabinet or Museum of Natural History is at the end of the garden. The building is more than 600 feet in length. and its external architecture is simple and plain.
The manuscript figures of Aldro- vandi, and the Hortus-siccus of Haller, are no longer to be seen ; but the her- bals of almost every celebrated French botanist are open to inspection. At the entrance is a statue of Buffon, with its well known vain-glorious and profane inscription.
Five halls are occupied by an im- mense collection of minerals. The first room contains the earths and stones. They are arranged according to the classification of Haüy, and mostly by his own hand. Many of the calcare- ous spars, the gems, and the quartz crystals, are very beautiful.
In the second hall are the ores, and they present a most superb display.
The third apartment affords speci- mens of the primary and secondary rocks, with every variety of French marble.
In the fourth is an assemblage of peculiar interest. It is composed of the animal remains of the an- tediluvian world. The bones of the mammoth are perfect, and strike the beholder with astonishment. The skeletons of numerous animals, now unknown, or extinct, are exhibited here. Cuvier arranged the innumera- ble specimens of this division.
All parts of the world have contrib- uted to this collection. Among other wonders, are the fragments of an ele- phant's tusk, which, when complete, must have been at least eight feet in length. Several cases are filled with the bones of the Siberian mammoth, or elephant, the American mammoth, or mastodonton. There is a specimen of the hair of the mammoth which was found in 1805, preserved in a block of ice on the shore of the Icy Sea, in the country of the Tonguses in Siberia : when extricated, the dogs de-
voured its flesh, which must have re- mained in a state of complete preser- vation for a long period. After the bones of Rhinocerosses, Hippopotami, and Tapiirs, come those discovered by Cuvier in the plaster-quarries of Mont- martre, and of which he has constituted several new genera of extinct quadru- peds.
In the next apartment is a more pleasing collection of a similar nature, comprising the vegetable remains of former times, and particularly the impressions of ferns, leaves, and plants, procured from coal-mines, and establishing the vegetable origin or connexion of this fossil. A part of this hall is occupied by numerous specimens of volcanic productions, principally from Naples, Sicily, and the Lipari islands.
Two other apartments on this floor belong to the museum of Zoology and contain the reptiles and the fish tribes.
The long gallery on the second floor is occupied by quadrupeds and birds, generally preserved in a most admirable manner.
There are the cameleopard, brought from Africa by Vaillant, the bison, the lama, and the vicugna of Peru, an enormous whale ( the squalus maximus,) taken on the coast of France, Roman cattle, elks, dromedaries, &c. Many specimens were presented by the late Empress Josephine. There is a regu- lar arrangement of the whole, which adds considerably to their interest and value. In different parts of the galle- ry appear busts of Tournefort, Linnæe- us, Adamson, Daubenton, and Four- croy. The only paintings are two-a lion tearing a goat, and an eagle pouncing on a lamb.
The insects principally occupy large cases in the centre of the gallery, where is likewise a pleasing arrange- ment of the eggs and nests of most spe- cies of birds, and a beautifal assort- ment of corals, and other marine pro- ductions.
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