Brighton College, Brighton. Wood engraving, 1849.

"Brighton College. This College was opened in January, 1847, in a building at Brighton, hired temporarily, and with forty or fifty pupils. The education which the establishment offers is not materially different from that of the public grammar-schools; a more systematic attention to mathematics and modern languages in subordination to classical training being perhaps the chief distinction in the instruction; while the discipline chiefly differs in the absence of flogging and fagging. It is conducted on the principles of the Church of England, and has been uniformly and cordially supported by the Bishop of Chichester, who is patron. The Principal is the Rev. Arthur Macleane, of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Vice-Principal and Mathematical Lecturer is the Rev. Henry Cotterill, who was formerly Fellow of St. John's, Cambridge, and Senior Wrangler; and the Classical Lecturer is Mr. George Long, formerly Professor in University College, and Lecturer on Roman Law in the Middle Temple, a gentleman well known for his classical and varied attainments. These gentlemen are supported by a sufficient number of classical, mathematical, and foreign masters. The funds for erecting the necessary buildings are being raised by means of transferable shares, entitling the holders to presentations: this is, therefore, what is usually called a proprietary college; but the projectors had the foresight to guard as far as possible against the evils of that system, by placing the internal government, with the appointment and removal of the masters, in the hands of the Principal; all other matters being under the control of a council, chosen by the proprietors, and presided over by the Earl of Chichester. A college, such as this, with the advantages it possesses in respect to situation and staff, offering a sound religious education at a moderate expense to the upper classes of society, will, doubtless, be extensively supported. The College is intended for 600 pupils. At present there are about 170, of whom somewhat less than one-third are sons of gentlemen residing in Brighton. The ages of the scholars vary from nine to nineteen or twenty; those about fifteen being placed in the senior department. There are three scholarships of £30 a year each, tenable for three years at Oxford or Cambridge. Behind and around the building, of which a lithographic view, by Mr. Hawkins, has lately been published by Mr. George Bell, of 186, Fleet-street, are several acres of playground. The College building, which is designed by Mr. G. Gilbert Scott, assumes, roughly speaking, the form of three sides of a quadrangle. The principal range, facing south, contains in the centre the main entrance, with the hall and staircase, and above, the library; while on each side are ranged spacious and lofty class-rooms, and private rooms for the masters, approached by spacious corridors. This portion of the building is all that has yet been erected. Towards the west of this main range will be built the great schoolroom, which will be about 100 feet by 35 feet, and will be raised upon arches, so,as to afford a covered play-ground below. To the east will be the Principal's residence, and the chapel; the latter being approached by a cloister, which will also extend along the principal range of building. The building is in the style of the fourteenth century. The material is flint, with dressings of Caen stone. The whole, as will be seen by our view, is designed with a certain amount of that picturesque irregularity of outline which characterizes our old collegiate buildings, and which enables the observer readily to distinguish the different parts by their external forms and positions. The first stone was laid in June 22, 1848. The building is well situated on the East Cliff, standing back from the town, and facing the sea."--Illustrated London news, loc. cit.