There are
three exhibition rooms in each wing, which may be thrown into one. There
are also various rooms for the use of officers and others connected with
the Institution, to which access is obtained from the hall and other
parts of the building. The whole cost of this elegant pile is stated at
about 50,000_l_. The Institution is under the direction of a President,
twelve vice-presidents, and a committee, chosen from a body of nearly
700 hereditary and life governors, of whom the former are contributors
of forty, and the latter of twenty-five guineas each.
These Views are from well-executed engravings, by Fothergill, of
Manchester, which we recommend to the notice of tourists, for memoranda
of their visit, as well as of the due rank of Manchester among the
provincial towns of the United Kingdom.
Among the other public buildings of Manchester, are the Exchange, a
handsome Grecian structure; the Hall of the Literary and Philosophical
Society, universally known by its excellent published memoirs; the
Portico, and other public libraries; theatres, hospitals, churches,
bridges, &c.
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PRAYER.
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