One of its noticeable celebrities is the house in which Lord Chesterfield resided.

It is now occupied by a Wesleyan minister, who elaborates his sermons in the very room, I believe, in which that fashionable nobleman penned his polite literature for youthful candidates for the uppermost circles of society.

In the centre of the market place there is a magnificent monument erected to the memory of the late Lord George Bentinck, who was held in high esteem by the people of the town and vicinity.

The manufactures are pretty much the same as in Nottingham.

They turn out a great production of raw material in red sandstone, very much resembling our Portland, quite as fine, hard and durable.