"6. A Shakspeare Club, for sustaining the drama, consisting of 80
members, who subscribe a guinea per annum, once a-year bespeak a play,
and partake of a dinner, to which the sons of Thespis are invited.
"7. An Infirmary on a large scale, and munificently supported.
"8. Two Schools, in which sixty boys and sixty girls are clothed, fed,
and educated.
"9. A Lancasterian and a National School well supported, and numerously
attended.
"10. Sunday Schools attached to the twenty-three congregations, besides
others.
"11. A Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, in much
activity.
"12. Dorcas' Societies, connected with the churches and chapels, to
assist poor married women during child-birth.
"13. A Bible Society on the usual plan.
"14. Two Medical and Anatomical Schools.
"15. A thriving Mechanics' Library.
"Several of these institutions rendezvous in a spacious building called
the Music Hall. The concerts are given in the upper room, a suitable
saloon; and beneath are the Subscription Library, the Commercial
News-room, and the Museum of the Literary and Philosophical Society."
_Manufactures._
"The staple manufactures of Sheffield embrace the metallic arts in all
their varieties. The chief articles are sharp instruments, as knives,
scissors, razors, saws, and edge-tools of various kinds, and to these
may be added, files and plated goods to a great extent, besides
stove-grates and fenders of exquisite beauty.
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