London contains a very numerous class of _Coffee-shops_, of a much more humble, though perhaps more useful nature, at which coffee, cocoa, tea, bread and butter, toast, chops and steaks, bacon and eggs, and cold meat, may be obtained at very moderate prices; a few pence will purchase a morning or evening meal at such places; and many working-men dine there also. There are about 1,500 houses of this class in London. There is another class of _Eating-houses_ or _Dining-rooms_, resorted to for dinners by large numbers of persons. _Lake’s_, _His Lordship’s Larder_, and one or two others, in Cheapside; _Izant’s_, and several others in and near Bucklersbury; the _Chancery Dining-rooms_, in Chancery Lane; the _Fish Ordinary_ at the _Three Tuns_ in Billingsgate, and at _Simpson’s_ in Cheapside; and several dining-rooms in and near the Haymarket and Rupert Street—may be reckoned among the number. A good but simple dinner may be had at these houses for from 1s. 6d. to 2s. 6d. At the _St. James’s Hall Restaurant_, in Regent Street; _Blanchard’s_, Regent Street, corner of Burlington Street; the _Albion_, Russell Street, near Drury Lane Theatre; the _London_, Fleet Street, nearly opposite the Inner Temple gate; _Simpson’s_, in the Strand, opposite Exeter Hall; and last, but by no means least, at _Speirs and Pond’s Restaurant_, at Ludgate Station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway; a very fair dinner may be had, at prices varying from, say, a minimum of half-a-crown up to a greater cost, according to the state of the diner’s tastes and finances. At the _Gaiety Restaurant_, adjoining the Gaiety Theatre, a good dinner may be had. At Cremorne Gardens, too, there used to be a good _table d’hôte_ for 2s. 6d. Temperance Hotels.—There are several good houses of this character. Among others may be named _The Waverley_, King Street, Cheapside; _Angus’s_, Bridge Street, Blackfriars; _Anderson’s_, Theobald Road; and _Ling’s_, South Street, Finsbury. THEATRES, CONCERTS, AND OTHER PLACES OF AMUSEMENT.