A local paper, prone to balderdash and babblement, noted for its rigmarole, loose, hyperbolical language, indulges in a jeremiad about the want of a Museum. It seems, according to this mendacious journal, that the great hardship of walking from Lisson Grove, or the district of St. Mary to the British Museum in Great Russell Street, or to Kensington is “desolating hearts that might be bright,” and that setting up a Museum in the wastes of Marylebone by “Government friendship,” or expense, is “unhappily a universal want; a want that private enterprise cannot meet,” and then with some insolent rant about Prince Albert, and “the evil tendencies of our Parish Senators,” this low class Marylebone Mercury advises a run on the British Museum Natural History collection, and so “preventing our neighbours from ABSORBING all that is to be had.” Well for the consolation of this miserable, mean print, and the languishing and desolate in heart, pining for a “splendid museum at somebody else’s expense,” I would prescribe the procuring the Libraries’ Act for “promoting the establishment of Free Public Libraries and MUSEUMS in Parishes.” If a Museum is a “want” in this Parish, which, with the proximity of the National Collection and Kensington Museum, I deny; you have only to adopt the Act. But I earnestly recommend the not attempting too much at once. LENDING Libraries and NEWS Rooms are the great want, and NOT Museums. Why will MR. ROUPELL, M.P., in advocating a South London Museum persist in IGNORING Mr. Ewart’s _Museum’s_ Act? Why this anxiety to rob the National Museum? Why this whining for government aid? Adopt the Libraries Act, if you really require a Museum for South London; but you want _News Rooms_ open to all comers, _not_ Museums.