a market-town of England, Warwickshire, on the slope of a hill, 7 miles N.N.E. of Birmingham. It is for the most part regularly laid out and well built; and it contains a handsome parish church, partly built by Bishop Vesey, in the sixteenth century, and containing some ancient monuments; a Roman Catholic chapel, a grammar-school, and several others; a public library, and a neat brick town-hall. South-west of the town lies the Coldfield, a bleak tract of 13,000 acres, stretching into Staffordshire; and to the north-west and west is Sutton park, a pasture-ground of about 3500 acres, given to the poor of Sutton by Bishop Vesey. There are no factories in the town; but many of the people are employed in the making of hardware in the vicinity, and within the limits of the parish there is a celebrated factory of music-wire. Pop. 4574.

SVEABORG, or SWEBORG, a fortified town of the Russian empire, Finland, on seven small islands in the Gulf of Finland, immediately S.E. of Helsingfors, the harbour of which it protects. It has docks and dockyards, and is a station of the Russian fleet, and the chief fortified place in Finland. Pop. 3500. For an account of the bombardment of Sveaborg by the British, June 9, 1855, see RUSSIA.