New-York daily tribune., 1843-09-02
Letters from Dir. Weed .,..... No. AlV.
,,orre,noudence Of lhe Albany Evening journal.

! that q new Unltcd States Loan was taken by Oui
OWN people, is the occasion Of much Congrattid-
ton to. d.v III and about the Bank of England
The shock to American credilwas not occasioncd
half SO much by the inability of Illinois and IN
diana, as the Reputation OF Mississippi, and the
indifference Of Pennsylvania. The insolvency OF
The Bank of the United States, and the robbcrics
committed by the North American and other
/ Trust Companies, though swallowing up millions
oi English capital, would have had 10 injurious
effect upon our pccuniarv character as d Nation
50 long as the State Governments preserved Their
faith and asserted their integrity. Nor is the
money we owe them wanted or required. They
only ask that, like bassanio, VIC should eV!ncc a
determination to
Come fr, off from the great debts wherein,
Something too prodlgaI, me hath left US gagged
had heard so much of the BErTlsn MusEUM,
! from those who had seen II. and read so much
abou, it from Tourists and Travellers, that had
come to regard it as a New ! ork or Albany Mu-
scum upon large scale; and went there to-day
because it was one Of the many London Lions,
not cXpccting TO be particularly interested. Those,
therefore, who have been through this institution,
can Judge of nv amazcmcnt when It's wonders
were revealed to me. Earth and Ocean, have
been literally " "plundcrcd" to make up this end
less COLLECTION vi uldl NdIhS VI SNIiie, VI
or crceps, or crawls. You have here an cpitomc
OF all and more than all, that Noah received into
the Ark ! shall not of course, be absurd enough
to attempt to describe what saw but do want
to give you some inkllng-somc FAINT notlon-of
what this Empire has, by extraordinary muni-
cence gathered together for the gratuious IN
struction and qualification of visitors. But the
attempt will be lame and impotent, for | could
+l,, rt.In S1n nj
an expense of forty-hrce pounds sterling, or
S2l5. The catalogue of printed books alone, in
the library, published by Longman Il Co costs
1 pounds e sEli!lings.
There are 81 cases of Rapacious Beasts" :"
containing from one TO fifty different animals Of
thus species There arc thirty cases containing
Hoocd Beasts each with iJom five to filthy
specimens, while those Of the species too large
for cases, arc arranged upon the floor IN front.
There are 30 cases of Birds of Prey each con-
tanning from an hundred TO an hundred and fifty
specimens. or this number there are over forty
different species Of the Eagle. OF "Noctuma
Birds" mostly Of the owl and bat species, there
arc five large cases. and over four hundred spcc-
mems. OF other birds, embracing, should inter-
every known variety, there arc l3l cases. each
containing from one hundred to three hundred
specimens OF" Shells there are 1orty-one cases
upon the tables with specimens too various and
too numerous to be even estimated Upon the
walls, over the cases, hang the portraits OF ll0
N1onarchs, Nobemcn, Artists, or persons dis
tinguisIed for their learning virtue all by emil
ncnt artists, among which are two fine pictures
of Cromwell, two Of Mary Queen Of Scots,
Queen Elizabeth Sir Hans Sloane, SIR Isaac
Newton, Martin Luther, SC. &c.
In another gallery arc IL cases containing more
than a thousand specimens OF Reptiles" There
arc also 90 cases filled with Handed Beasts,
embracing every species OF ape, monkey and
baboon of which there are between two and three
hundred There is such an approximation be-
tween tue highest order OF this tribe, and the low
est species OF the human race, that the organ ol
speech is alone wanting to form a connecting
Ink. The finny tribe, in all their varieties, are
arranged in cases which fill gallery an hundred
feet long. England, you know, abounds In
minerals, minute and beautiful specimens OF
which arc displayed here. Sixty cases are dc
voted to omineralogical collections, arranged IN the
same manner as IN our State Geological Museum.
This collection however, III several respects, Is
not as complete as that obtained by our lndctati-
gable biologists There are ll05 different spe
cmcns OF minerals, with labels describing their
properties.
but 'c gallery o Aaii2oillsS 5Ie' ,'''
a9ntl9 anu cAc,ags o day o1d rn, suffice
mao ohy an n1u mira' el1aa WI, arc;cr Grcc
Two large oac,.os 'i' loo ana ~, ,csn $50. bnst Of
anu a,oSn haaa s',' os Anolo statntc Of Thalia
,Fhan apaI ar iiS Merc"s A"rcps heads of Paris and
ule iIoV ?, of Dccbanal;ans !, hns Of Scyc-
l s'el'a egd glO"p a( Nero bust Of Sarccllus with
luS asar,;o, .n,, pr;,,n snnnca,;nr Achilles TO de-
li so , sl' hd hoJv i,, Of G Hector Hcrcues with
inGi 70 .i.li ',,o 10y no ~. &C. Sc .Tbcrc are
clup @ rn sss .nar;n uG alrriSs N devoted to Greek
lo'I mort S's'ous d o,bcrs 10 Rr;i;sb
"il1 i.o.'i.a ~ Coros co,ta;n ,nny thou.