The Albany.—The _Albany_ consists of a series of chambers, or suites of apartments, intended for ‘West-end bachelors.’ No person carrying on a trade or commercial occupation is allowed to live within its limits. There are two entrances, one in Piccadilly and one in Burlington Gardens. The chambers are placed in eleven groups, denoted by letters of the alphabet, A to L. There are about 60 suites of apartments, many of which are occupied by peers, members of parliament, honourables and right honourables, and naval and military officers. Canning, Byron, and Macaulay, are named amongst those who have lived in this singular place. Hotels and Inns.—It has been conjectured (though probably in excess of the truth) that at all times there are 150,000 strangers residing for a few days only in the metropolis; and to accommodate this numerous transient population, there is a vast number of lodging and boarding-houses, hotels, and other places of accommodation. There are upwards of 500 better-class hotels, inns, and taverns. There are about 120 private hotels not licensed, and therefore do not keep exciseable liquors for sale. There are about 5,200 public-houses licensed to sell wines, spirits, and malt liquors. There are more than 1,964 beer-shops, where malt liquors only are sold. The fashionable hotels are situated west of Charing Cross—as, for instance, _Claridge’s_, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square; _Fenton’s_, St. James’s Street; _Limmer’s_, George Street, Hanover Square; the _Clarendon_, in New Bond Street; the _Burlington_, in Old Burlington Street; _Grillon’s_, in Albemarle Street; _Long’s_, in Bond Street; the _Palace_, Pimlico; _Wright’s_, Dover Street; _Morley’s_, Trafalgar Square; _Hatchett’s_, Dover Street; _Maurigy’s_, Regent Street; _Marshall Thompson’s_, Cavendish Square; the _Albemarle_, Albemarle Street; the _Hyde Park_, near the Marble Arch; the _Alexandra_, Hyde Park Corner; &c. In and about Covent Garden there are several good hotels for single gentlemen; among others, the _Cavendish_, the _Bedford_, the _New_ and _Old Hummums_, and the _Tavistock_. One or two others, in Bridge Street, Blackfriars, are excellent hotels. Foreign hotels of a medium class are numerous in and about Leicester Square. Another class of hotels or inns are those from which stage-coaches at one time ran, and which were resorted to by commercial and other gentlemen; for example, the _Golden Cross_, (now renovated and extended,) near Charing Cross; the _White Horse Cellar_, Piccadilly; the _Bell and Crown_, Holborn; the _Castle and Falcon_, Aldersgate Street; and the _Bull-in-Mouth_, (now called the _Queen’s_,) opposite the General Post Office, in St. Martin’s-le-Grand. These have all become comfortable middle-class hotels, with railway booking-offices attached; but the fall of the stage-coach trade has lessened their importance to a great extent. To these we may add certain large inn and tavern establishments at other parts of the town—such as