7 MAY 1864, Page 2

The prize proposed for the best design, for the new

Museum of lalatirral History which is to be :erected in South Kensington has fallen to Captain Fowkes. The committee to which the task of selection was assigned included men like Lord Elcho, Mr. Tit*, and Mr. Fergusson, they were quite unaware to whom the

-design belonged, and are said to have been little pleased when they conference on the 10th, 11th, and 12th May—to end, as usual, with discovered the truth. It is odd that nothing can be done at South a conversazione on the evening of the 12th. The object of the Kensington which is not either a job or, when honest, looks like conference is to discuss the means of making the local institutes