ILLUSTRATIONS. MAP OF SUSSEX. PLAN OF BRIGHTON. ARMS OF BRIGHTON. VIEW FROM CHAIN PIER. CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL. CHART OF LONDON AND BRIGHTON AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. The Editor will be glad to receive any suggestions from Tourists making use of this Guide-Book. Communications to be addressed to the Publishers. BRIGHTON. [Hotels: The Grand; The Norfolk; The Royal Albion; The Queen's; The Clarendon; The King and Queen; The Bedford; The Albemarle; The Royal; The Royal Crescent; The Old Ship, etc. There are also numerous boarding-houses. 50 m. from London by rail-53 m. by road; 8 m. from Lewes ; 9 m. from Newhaven; 5 m. from the Devil's Dyke; 28 m. from Chichester. Conveyances, daily, to Lewes and Shoreham. Flys, 1s. per mile, and 6d. for each additional mile; 3s. per hour, and 1s. 6d. for each additional half-hour. Bath Chairs, 1s. per hour. Baths: Brill's, Creale's, Hobden's, and the Turkish-Bathing Machines, 6d. each person. Railway journey to London occupies 1 hour 20 minutes by express. Population, including Hove, 128,440.-Average number of visitors, 35,000. As it now stands, stretching from the Hove to Kemp Town, Brighton may be considered as a triangle, the base of which, along the shore and the cliffs, is three and a-half miles, and the perpendicular, from the Steyne to the barracks beyond the level, nearly a mile long. The Steynes, south and north, with the gardens on the Level at the bottom of the valley, divide it into two parts, the westernmost being much larger and busier than the eastern. The principal building efforts have been made along the cliffs east and west; but the hills have also been crowned with houses, and preparations are still making for a future increase. "Brighton," says Hazlitt," stands facing the sea, on the bare cliffs, with glazed windows to reflect the glaring sun, and black pitchy bricks shining like the scales of fishes. The town is, however, gay with the influx of London visitors-happy as the conscious abode of its sovereign! everything here appears in motioncoming or going. People at a watering place may be compared to the flies of a summer; or to fashionable dresses, or suits of clothes, walking about the streets. The only idea you gain is, of finery and motion." Thackeray, in THE NEWCOMES, writes of it more eulogistically :-"It is the fashion," he says, "to run down George IV.; but what myriads of Londoners ought to thank him for inventing Brighton! One of the best physicians our city has ever known, is kind, cheerful, merry doctor Brighton. Hail, thou |