1862.—Easter Monday, Volunteer Review on the Race Hill, under Lord Clyde.
1862.—John O’Dea, a private of the 18th Hussars, shot in the Barrack yard, Church Street, by Private John Flood, of the same regiment. Flood was tried at the County Assizes and condemned to be hanged, bus the capital sentence was ultimately commuted to penal servitude for life.
— Water found in the Warren Farm Well.
— Temporary Church of St. Mary Magdalene erected and opened in Broad street.
— October, Police Station built on the Level.
— November 5th, the author of this work died suddenly in his 52nd year.
— November 27th, first Brighton and Sussex Fat-Stock Show hold.
— December 12th, Mr. Lewis Slight, jun., Borough Accountant, committed suicide by hanging.
FOOTNOTES
[1] Temple Sydney’s History of England, published 1772, at Shakespear’s Head, No. 17, Paternoster Row, London.