evidently not" all iron, and steel, and smoke." Of the latter indeed, to the no small annoyance of the ladies' muslin dresses, and the gentlemen's cravats, there is a superabundance; and in the articles of dust and dirt, it may, perhaps, surpass most of our English towns; but, with all its defects, Sheffield has much to recommend it, and we very much question whether Mr. S. does not speak from report rather than personal observation. "These Cyclops, however," he continues, “have very pretty country-houses, all fresh and green, round their smoky workshop,-mostly on the slope of a hill, from which the view is very extensive, over a rich and fertile country." These comprise the whole of Mr. Simond's observations on one of the most extensive manufacturing towns in the three kingdoms, while, in many instances, he has occupied several pages in the description of places which, to us at least, are utterly destitute of attractions. His generally copious style is here laid on one side, and though he seems frequently to possess the faculty of saying a great deal on a barren subject, we are sorry to find him almost unable to say a word on a good one. These Cyclops, as he emphatically calls them, may indeed exclaim as they peruse his remarks, "Quam multa! quam paucis!" for though there is but little for the world, there is much for themselves to meditate upon. However, to prove to them that all the world does not entertain so mean an opinion of them and their place of residence as this pretended Mr. Simond, or this real itinerant Frenchman, or whatever he may actually be, we here produce the opinion of a celebrated landscape painter, already quoted in the Northern Star, for April 1818. He observed, "that he had not met with any country upon the whole island, where there were so many places in which a man would choose to fix his abode as in the vicinity of Sheffield." From Sheffield our author conducts us by two or three gradations to Birmingham, of which town he speaks in the following terms :-" At Birmingham, where we have been two days, we have been employed in seeing wonders of ingenuity and skill applied to the most trifling, as well as to the most important objects, with Mr. W., a merchant of this place, who was so obliging as to be our guide. The manufactories are mostly of hardware and glass, and are less unhealthy, although more dirty, than those of Manchester and Glasgow, which require heat and confined air, and clog the lungs with floating particles of cotton. By means of late improvements, the smoke of innumerable coal-fires is consumed, and the atmosphere much clearer than formerly. I do not know how far the improvement is applicable to common house-fires; if it was, London would gain much by its adoption. "I shall certainly not undertake to give a circumstantial account of all we have seen, having a very confused recollection of it. In one place, 500 persons were employed in making plated ware of all sorts, toys and trinkets. We saw there patent carriage-steps, flying down and folding up of themselves as the door opens or shuts; chairs in walking sticks, pocket umbrellas, extraordinary cheese-toasters, and a multitude of other wonderful inventions, upon which much ingenuity seems wasted. In another place, 300 men produce 10,000 gun-barrels in a month; we saw a part of the process,- enormous hammers, wielded by a steam-engine, of the power of 120 horses, crushing in an instant red-hot iron bars, converted them into thin ribbons. In that state they were wrapped round a rod of iron, which determines the calibre, and the edges welded together. Bars of iron for different purposes, several inches in thickness, presented fo the sharp jaws of gigantic scissars, moved also by the steam-engine, are clipped like paper, Iron wire, from an inch to the tenth of an inch, is spun out with as little ef fort, and less noise than cotton-threads on the jennies. Large mill-stones, employed to polish metals, turn with so great a velocity as to come to pieces by the mere centrifugal force, and the fragments have been known to pierce the walls or break through the roof; some means have lately been invented to prevent these accidents. Streams of melted metal are poured into moulds of all sorts; and copper is spread into sheets for sheathing vessels under rollers, moved also by the steam-engine, like paste under the stick of the pastry-cook. "The people look healthy, and the women, of whom many are employed, remarkably well. I observed in neither sex the green hair of which Espriella speaks. This remark of his seems to have made a greater impression on the good people of Birmingham, than all the unfriendly things he said of them. "Notwithstanding the great scale on which manufactories are conducted, the immense power and high perfection of the machines employed, which shew that nothing really necessary has been spared, and that there is no want of capital, yet the buildings themselves are, for the most part, poor and shabby, and evidently added to at different times, as if they had grown round a common centre. It is plain they have been extended successively, and with the gradual increase of the business, and that the means have not been exhausted on external appearances. Prudence is a pledge of success, not merely by the direct saving resulting from it, but by the good sense it evinces. The excisemen I have mentioned may certainly be considered as a blot in the picture of national prosperity; what an army employed in collecting the money necessary to pay the army! Nothing could exceed the good-nature and politeness with which the chief persons at the principal manufactories showed and explained the process; and, what is more extraordinary, the workmen stopt in many instances their work, (paid by the piece,) to give us some practical explanation and answer questions. No money asked, and very little given." From Birmingham, by way of Warwick, Oxford, &c. our author conveys us again to London, where we must beg leave to take a final leave of him, yet not without a friendly admonition to speak less positively of subjects which he knows little or nothing about, and less partially concerning those with which he is well acquainted, if he should ever favour the world with another "Journal, &c." On the whole, however, we confess we have been considerably pleased with his company, for although he entertains very peculiar opinions on many subjects, and though he is ever introducing "par excellence "" as he calls it, French phrases, evidently for no other purpose but to display his acquaintance with the language, and to prevent his readers from suspecting him to be an Englishman ; there is, nevertheless, much to be found which is particularly calculated to amuse and instruct the generality of readers. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. Interesting Remains.—About seven miles East of Grantham, by the Bridge-end turnpike, on the side of a hill commanding a view of the coast at Boston Haven, were lately discovered very considerable remains of ancient buildings, tessellated pavements, and other indications of a fixed military station of the Romans. Further search by digging and removing the earth continues to be made, and new subjects daily present themselves. Already various apartments have been laid open, and a high treat afforded to antiquaries, who are daily floeking to the spot. The interesting remains are in the parish of Haceby, and were first discovered by some labourers who were paring away the side of the road: they extended a considerable way into field on the estate of Earl Brownlow. Tessellated pavements belonging to three distinct apartments near the road have been uncovered; and as the work of slow and careful search proceeds, similar ingenious and beautiful pavements are beginning to make their appearance at some distance, on the South-east side of the field. One of the apartments is a sudatory (or sweating bath), the flues and furnaces of which are very distinct. We understand that Sir Joseph Banks, and other competent judges, agree in opinion that it is the Causennis of the Romans which has been discovered. The place has from ancient tradition been called the Roman Hill,” but nothing had been before discovered to fix a belief of its having been occupied by that people as a residence or station. It is from Causennis that Camden derives the name of one of the three great divisions of that county, Kesteven (or Cayseven.) Its situation has been conjectured to be at Bridge Casterton ; but it is now believed that the true situation is found at Haceby, and that the estate of the Lord Lieutenant of the county will prove to contain one of the most interesting pieces of antiquity in the kingdom. British Museum.-This national reper torium of literature, the arts, sciences, and antiquity, deserves far more praise and estimation than it usually receives in the public journals. The arrangements of the whole house, in all its multifarious departments, and the recent addition of the Elgin Marbles, form a collection that ennobles the Government. The Public, who are received gratuitously and attentively without tickets, or any other previous obstacle or ceremony, on the first four days of the week, except Sunday, find, when they have entered their names in the vestibule, every attention and ready explanation. In addition to the scientific gentlemen who are appointed to preside over the respective departments, there is a number of other officers who are present in all the rooms to afford information and facilitate the enquiries of visitors, or the accommodation of students, readers, and artists; and to show to what minute attention these regulations are carried, any stranger may apply for the inspection of any work or curiosity, any book or morsel of preservation, and he will be conducted to it instantly, and assisted in his inquiries or further researches, with every requisite civility and attention. The recent acquisition of the Burney Collection will form a new series in the arrangements of classical curiosities. Potatoes.-A new sort of potato, called the bread-fruit-potatoe, from its uncommon productiveness, is getting rapidly into estimation. Mr. Inman, of Spaxton, near Bridgewater, planted last year in the common way, in a heavy soil, without manure, or any extra attention, two potatoes of that variety, weighing four ounces; the produce was 264 ounces; being an increase per acre (allowing six sacks to be the proper quantity to seed an acre) of 196 sacks. Heligoland beans may be cultivated with the bread-fruit-potatoe, with success, by dropping about half a bushel per acre in the channel with the potatoes when planted, as they grow and ripen at the same time, without deteriorating the crop of potatoes. It should be understood that the bread-fruit-potatoe requires more steaming or boiling than the common sorts. Periodical Journals and Newspapers published in the Austrian Empire:-The number of periodical Journals (not newspapers) published in the whole Austrian Empire, is 31. Of these 13 are published at Vienna, in Italy, 2 at Prague, 3 at Saltzburg, l'at Grätz, 2 at Pest, and I at Presburg-20 in the German language, 8 in the Italian, I in the Hungarian, 1 in the Sclavonian, 1 in the new Greek lanjurisprudence, 3 to medicine and surgery, guage:-2 are dedicated to theology, 2 to 2 to natural philosophy, 1 to the military sciences, 2 to history and statistics, 1 to economies, 4 to the belles lettres, 1 to music, 10 to miscellaneous subjects, 1 for youth. As literary journals, we mention the admirable Biblioteca Italiana; the Hungarian journal, called Tudomanyos Gyüjtemeny; and the chronicle of Austrian Literature. In the whole monarchy there appear 31 Newspapers; viz. 17 German, 7 Italian, I Latin, 2 Hungarian, 1 Bobemian, 1 Polish, 1 Greek, I Servian:-Of these, are published in Vienna, 2 in Bohemia, 1 in Moravia, 4 in Hungary and Transylvania, 2 in Gallicia, 1 in Styria, I in Carinthia, 1 in Saltzburg, 1 in Tyrol, 2 in Illyria, 7 in Italy. With the exception of the Austrian Observer, the Wanderer, the Vienna Bohemian Gazette, the Ephemerides Posonienses, the Magyaz Kurir, the Servian, Gazette, and the THAETPAPOZ, these papers are chiefly read for the advertisements and miscellaneous intelligence. LITERARY ANNUNCIATIONS. The Rev. James Raine, of Durham, has circulated a prospectus of the History and Antiquities of North Durham, with engravings from designs of Mr Edward Blore, in a folio volume. James Morier, Esq. has in great forwardness, a Second Journey through Persia and Constantinople, in 1810-16, in a quarto volume, with maps, coloured costumes, and other engravings. Lieut. Col. Johnson is printing, in a quarto volume, a Narrative of an Overland Journey from India, performed in the pres sent year, with engravings of antiquities, costume, &c. Macklin's Bible, with its splendid engravings, is preparing for re-publication, on an improved and far less expensive plan, in atlas 4to. including a preface and historical accounts of the several books, by the Rev. Edward Nares. Captain Light, of the Royal Artillery, will soon publish in a 4to. vol. Travels in Egypt, Nubia, the Holy Land, Mount Le banon, and Cyprus, with plates. Capt. Bonnycastle, of the Royal Engi neers, is preparing for publication, Spa nish America, or an Account of the Dominions of Spain in that hemisphere, illus trated with maps. T. Walford, Esq. will soon publish, in 2 pocket volumes, the Scientific Tourist through England, Wales, and Scotland.The Scientific Tourist through Ireland is also in the press. A splendid edition of the Æneid, preparing for publication at Rome, at the expence of the Duchess of Devonshire, is in great forwardness, and will probably appear in the month of September next. 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