In and about London, we may mention, are sundry extensive and highly-respectable taverns, which, though principally designed for accommodating large dining and other festive gatherings, lodge gentlemen with every comfort. Among these may be mentioned the _London Tavern_; the _Albion_, in Aldersgate Street; several in Fleet Street, near Blackfriars Bridge; the _Freemasons’ Tavern_, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; and so forth. There is, besides, a class of taverns whose chief business is supplying dinners and slight refreshments, also the accommodation of newspapers, and which are resorted to chiefly by commercial men. Each of these has a distinct character. _Garraway’s_ and _Lloyd’s_, at the Royal Exchange, were once coffee-houses, but now are associated with marine intelligence, stock-trading, and auctions; and in Cornhill, opposite, the _North and South American Coffee-house_ supplies American newspapers; and here also are to be seen the captains of vessels who are preparing to sail to different ports in the western continent and islands. At the _Jerusalem_ and _East India Coffee-house_, Cowper’s Court, Cornhill, information relating to East India shipping and captains may be obtained. _Peele’s __Coffee-house_, in Fleet Street, is celebrated for keeping files of newspapers, which may be consulted; this accommodation, as respects London papers, may also be had at some other places. Other economical Reading-Rooms are noticed in the _Appendix_. Chop-houses, Coffee-shops, and Dining-rooms.—The next class of houses of this nature comprises _Chop-houses_, but also doing the business of taverns, and resorted to chiefly by business-men—as the _Chapter_, in Paternoster Row; the _Mitre_, the _Cock_, the _Cheshire Cheese_, and the _Rainbow_, in Fleet Street. Many such houses are to be met with near the Bank of England, in Cheapside, Bucklersbury, Threadneedle Street, Bishopsgate Street, and the alleys turning out of Cornhill. The _Ship and Turtle_, in Leadenhall Street, was a famous turtle-house; and others are noted for some specialty.