The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-23 00:00:00

THE TOWN MUSEUM

A SPECIAL meeting of the Town Council was held on
Wednesday last, one of the prominent items of business

being to consider the recent propositions respecting the
library, museum, and gallery of art in the town. The
report was given at length, but the resolutions on it con-
sisted of two parts.
The Derby collection may be considered as secured to
the town, on terms that are at once equitable and explicit.
There are to be trustees, twelve in number, when the
parish comes to have but one rector; six of whom will be
ex officio, and six elected by those from qualified gentle.
men in the town and neighbourhood. The curator will
not be absolutely chosen by these trustees, but he will be
selected by the Town Council from three, whose names
they will submit. The Town Council are to be responsi.
ble for the suitable preparation and preservation of the
specimens; the collection is to be open to the public at
least four days in each week, as well as a fifth by special
permission ; and suitable additions may be made from
time to time, with the concurrence of the trustees, pro-
vided that these are specially marked. The guarantees for
the fulfilment of these condition are the following :--44Ji

shall be cnmpetent for the trustees on the one hand, and
the Town Council, or any committee of it, on the other,
to bring any matter in difference before the head curator
or keeper of the British Museum, for the department in
question, whose order or decision shall be final, and be

acted upon as the case may be, with power to the trustees
to enforce the same if necessary, by mandamus, or by
application to the High Court of Chancery, or to the
Court of Chancery for the county palatine of I
in a summary manner, at the cost of the Corporation."

To all these conditions Lord D..rby has given his consent,
and has signified his intention of presenting a valuable
collection of eggs, as an accompaniment to the specimens
of ornithology. The Council have unanimously confirmed
the arrangement, and have added a vote of thanks for the
new and unsolicited donation.

The collection of the Royal Institution is for the present
lost to the public, and is the property merely of the nominal

proprietors. It will not be open even on the

well-known

free days, the first Monday in erch month, as the Council
have withdrawn the £lOO a year which they paid for this
privilege. The chairmnn of

e committee, in moving

account of

the confirmation of the report, gave a
the various arrangements that had been suggested from
time to time, and pointed out the only one of three
possible courses, which he thought the Council ought to
follow. The plan of joint management had been re-

jected, and that of transfe
Royal Institution, to
tains them, had also been rejected

ons of the

,gether with the building which con-

there wa

it that of the town going
on. Much

he contended, no el
forward independently with its
was said not bearing directly on this point, but in reply to
arguments and observations uttered "in another place ;"

own collect

and these remarks derived additional force from the con-
trast of Lord Derby's liberal conduct, with that of some

n the financial statement of Mr.
Picton and Mr. Samuel Holme, it appears that it would

in our own town.

not be advantageous either to purchase or rent the pre-
sent buildings of the Royal Institution ; that a better

.11" for the "

can be easily obtained. It is

probable, therefore, that no impediment will occur to the
production of a Town Museum on an extensive scale ;
the credit of the Council is now implicated, and we hope to

see the project seconded by their intelligence also

The town clerk's reply to Mr. Bennett's question seems

to say that concentration of museums is not yet an im-

possibility. When the cont

plated Act of Parliament

has become law, when suitable accommodation hag been

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