Street, Regent Street, and Piccadilly. If first-class accommodation is required, the best method of obtaining it is to apply to a house-agent in this neighbourhood, who will also supply a list of furnished houses with their rents. A lower class of lodgings, but still respectable, and very suitable for people who wish to be economical, and yet within easy reach of the principal sights, is to be obtained in the quiet streets leading from the Strand towards the river.

A very common arrangement in middle class boardinghouses is to charge a fixed sum per day or week for bed and breakfast, the boarder obtaining his other meals at dining-rooms or coffee-houses. In this case he has not the exclusive use of a sitting-room.

RESTAURANTS AND DINING-ROOMS.

These are scattered up and down London in great numbers, and are to be found of all degrees of goodness and badness.

GENERAL DINING-ROOMS.

WEST END.-Verrey's, Regent Street, corner of Hanover Street, has long been noted for the excellence of the fare, chiefly French, and proportionately high charges. Good general diningrooms are the St. James' Restaurant, St. James Hall, Regent Street; and the Wellington, 160 Piccadilly; the Albany, 190 Piccadilly; Feetum's, Regent Street, corner of Burlington Street ; and Campbell's, Beak Street, Regent Street; John-o'-Groat's, Rupert Street, Haymarket; Pye's, Church Place, Piccadilly.

CENTRAL.-At Simpson's, 103 Strand; the Albion, Great Russell Street, near Drury Lane Theatre; and the London, Fleet Street, corner of Chancery Lane-a good plain dinner with a glass of malt liquor, may be obtained at a minimum cost of 2s. 6d.

CITY. Izant's, 21 Bucklersbury, and other places in the same Street; His Lordship's Larder, Cheapside; Commercial Dining-Rooms, Cheapside; Hill and Lake, 49 Cheapside, and 13 Gracechurch Street.

ORDINARIES. Salutation, Newgate Street (5 o'clock). Three Tuns Tavern, Billingsgate Market (1 and 4 o'clock).

HOUSES FOR SPECIAL DISHES.

Turtle at the Ship and Turtle, Leadenhall Street.

Chops and Steaks-Ned's, Finch Lane; Joe's, Finch Lane, Cornhill; the Cock, 201 Fleet Street; the Rainbow, 15 Fleet Street; the Cheshire Cheese, Wine Office Court, Fleet Street; Dolly's, Queen's Head Passage, Paternoster Row.

Boiled Beef-Williams', Old Bailey.

A-la-mode Beef-Jaquet's, Clare Court, Drury Lane.

White Bait.*-Season, June, July, August-Lovegrove's East India Dock Tavern, Blackwall; Quartermaine's Ship, and the Trafalgar, Greenwich.

SUPPER ROOMS.

The Albion, Great Russell Street; Evans' Covent Garden; Cider Cellars, Maiden Lane; the Coal Hole, Strand; the Cock, 201 Fleet Street; the Rainbow, 15 Fleet Street, etc.

COFFEE-HOUSES.

Except in the City, coffee-houses have no longer the importance for the middle classes they once possessed, having been superseded by our modern clubs. But in the neighbourhood of the bank, there are certain establishments of this description, which are the rendezvous of commercial men, and where files of newspapers connected with commercial matters are kept ready for consultation.

Deacon's Coffee and Dining House, 3 Wallbrook, has a file of the Times, extending back nearly seventy years, and files of many other newspapers.

Garraway's Coffee House, 3 Change Alley, Cornhill, much frequented for light luncheons; many sales by auction take place here.

Jamaica Coffee-House, 1 St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, which persons connected with the West Indian trade frequent.

Jerusalem Coffee-House, 1 Cowper's Court, Cornhill, the haunt of merchants, captains, etc., connected with the trade of India, China, and Australia, and where files of papers published in these countries are to be seen.

* The white bait is a fish from two to three inches long, closely allied to the herring, pilchard, and sprat, known to zoologists under the name of clupea alba. "The fashion of enjoying the excellent course of fish, as served up at Greenwich or Blackwall, is sanctioned by the highest authorities, from the Court at St. James' Palace in the West, to the Lord Mayor and his Court in the East, including the Cabinet Ministers and the philosophers of the Royal Society."-Yarrell's History of British Fishes.

New England, and North and South American Coffee-House, 59 and 60 Threadneedle Street.

There are upwards of 800 coffee-houses distributed over the metropolis, chiefly frequented by the humbler classes, to whom they are of great use, in affording a temperate meal at a cheap rate. The fare supplied consists mainly of tea, coffee, and cocoa; chops, steaks, ham and eggs. Under a recent regulation, wine may be sold at these houses. Newspapers, as well as the monthly and weekly literary periodicals, are to be seen in most of them. A cup of good coffee is to be had at Verrey's, 229 Regent Street; Kilpack's, 42 King Street, Covent Garden; Ries's Divan, 102 Strand; Groom's 16 Fleet Street; and Pursell's, 78 Cornhill.

HACKNEY CARRIAGE FARES AND REGULATIONS.

Those who have occasion to make much use of cabs will find of great service a small red book, published under the authority of the Metropolitan Police Office, and to be obtained at any bookseller's, price ls. It contains an authorized list of fares, and gives the distance in yards from numerous points in London to others.

There are many places in the public streets called cab stands, where cabs are in waiting to be hired, but vehicles may frequently be met with proceeding along the streets. Every hackney carriage in the street, with the Stamp Office plate upon it, is to be deemed as plying for hire, unless actually hired; and the driver, in case of dispute, must produce evidence of his carriage being hired.

Fares by distance-Within four miles of Charing Cross, the fare for cabs is sixpence a mile (1760 yards), and sixpence for any fractional part of a mile. If taken beyond that distance the fare is one shilling a mile, back fare not being allowed in either case. For any stoppage or number of stoppages, amounting to fifteen minutes, the driver is entitled to sixpence, besides the distance-fare, and sixpence more for each additional fifteen minutes for which the carriage is detained. If the driver be not paid

when the hirer alights, it will be considered that he is ordered to wait, and he must be paid accordingly.

Two persons are to be carried in a cab at a single fare; for each additional person sixpence for the whole journey is to be paid. Two children under ten years of age are to be considered as one adult person. An infant in arms is to be considered a person, and must be paid for extra, if there be two other persons in the cab.

The driver must drive at a speed not less than six miles an hour, unless the hirer requests him to drive more slowly.

Fares by time.--If it is intended to pay by time, this must be stated to the driver at the time of hiring the cab. The fare by time is 2s. for an hour, and sixpence for every 15 minutes beyond. If taken out of the four-mile circle, and there discharged, the fare beyond the circle is to be charged by distance at the rate of 1s. a mile. A driver cannot be compelled to hire his conveyance by time before six in the morning, or later than eight in the evening. If more than two persons employ the cab, the extra person or persons must be paid for as before. If the driver be ordered to drive at a greater speed than four miles an hour, he will be entitled to an additional sixpence per mile above the four miles per hour. He is bound to drive to any place not exceeding six miles from the place of hiring, or for any time not exceeding an hour.

Luggage. A reasonable quantity of luggage is to be conveyed, either inside or outside the carriage, without extra payment; but when more than two persons are being carried, and there is more luggage than can be taken inside, twopence must be paid for each package carried outside.

Tickets, etc. The driver of a hackney carriage is bound, when hired, to deliver to the hirer a card, with the number of the Stamp Office plate affixed to his carriage. He is also bound to produce, when requested, a book of fares for inspection. The regulations as to the fares are to be distinctly painted inside and outside every hackney carriage.

Disputes. If any dispute should occur between hirer and driver, the hirer may require the driver to take him to the nearest police office, where, if a magistrate be sitting, he will adjudicate on the case at once. If it should be after the closing of the police courts, then the driver is to drive to the nearest police station, where the complaint will be entered, and decided by the magistrate at his next sitting.

Property left in hackney carriages should be inquired for at the office of the Commissioners of Police in Great Scotland Yard, Charing Cross. A driver is bound to take property which has been left in his carriage to the nearest police station within 24 hours. The owner will receive it on proving his title to it, and on payment of the expenses incurred.

Turnpike or Toll Gates.-On most of the roads leading out of

London are stationed these vexatious barriers, which persons on horseback, or driving in a vehicle, cannot pass without payment, according to a settled rate of toll. After paying the collectors, the money is laid out on the repairs of the roads. The repairs now done, amount, it is said, to £40,000 a-year. Various attempts have been made to get rid of the nuisance, but as yet without having discovered any plan which is satisfactory to all concerned. A list of tolls leviable at every gate is conspicuously painted on a board, and should be referred to in case of doubt. Tolls are levied on several of the bridges, not only on vehicles, but on foot passengers.

OMNIBUSES AND THEIR ROUTES.

There are many lines of omnibuses from one part of London to another, the routes of which will not be understood by a stranger unless he consults a map. They are principally in the hands of a company, styled the London General Omnibus Company, established a few years back, in imitation of the Parisian system. Notwithstanding the promises to employ new roomy vehicles, the omnibuses continue to be very inconveniently small. The system of correspondence with which they started has been abandoned. The use made of these conveyances in London is very great, and in the principal thoroughfares, several omnibuses are in sight at one time. It has been ascertained that 1800 of these vehicles pass the Angel, Islington, daily. The highest fare is seldom more than sixpence for the whole distance, with a lower charge for shorter distance. The top of an omnibus affords a good means for seeing the streets of London, and the exteriors of the principal buildings. Before taking a seat, ascertain that the omnibus is going to the place you wish to be taken to. Inside the door there is a list of fares, which the stranger should consult before paying. In case of overcharge take the conductor's number from his badge, and apply to the nearest police office. The number of passengers to be carried in and upon an omnibus is to be conspicuously painted inside; and no more than the proper number of passengers is to be carried under a penalty of £5 each against driver and conductor.

BAYSWATER-BANK AND LONDON BRIDGE STATION. Route:-Notting Hill Gate, St. John's Church, Royal Oak, Regent Circus, Oxford Street, Cheapside, Bank, London Bridge. Fares, 3d., 4d.; all the way, 6d.