Star.
London, England, 1831-01-08 00:00:00

CITY. ONE O'CLOCK.
What we stated in our City article ten days since, that
Count Pozzo di Borgo had received his credentials from the
Emperor of Russia to be his Arnbssador at Paris, is now
confirmed by the express from Paris this morning, and if we
may credit the assertion of General Scbastiani in the
House of Deputies, no war will take place between Rus-
sia and France, consequently the poor Poles will be left to
their fate, which we fear, wiU be very unfortunate.
Consols which left off yesterday at 821 I, opened at 821,
owing to the Rentes coming 2 per cent. higher. In the
Foreign Market nothing doing.
We have no foreign arrivals or any ship letters.
According to the New York Courier, the commercial
condition of Martinique has become deplorable ; the Courier
states, that bankruptcies daily occur, and the existence of
the best houses was threatened. Tha crisis is attributed to
the events of the month of July in
ClParis.
TY. TIVO O'CLOCK.

Consols hare continued the whole of the morning at
820 for the Account. A good deal of business has been
done in the Foreign market ; Brazil is rather better-52.

What difference between England and the other nations
of Europe, has led to results so different? There are more
acres in most of them, as many men—men as active and
intelligent, often finer climate, and greater luxuriance. A
medern writer asserts, that the whole difference in the re-
sults lays in our Banking System. Social security, gene-
rated confidence; and confidence, that credit which facili-
tated the creation of Local Banks ; which establishments
first assembled the floating currency as a fulcrum of power,
and then doubled or trebled its strength, by issues of small
paper, to effect all manner of small payments. The result
was the prosperity of every valuable local enterprise, and the
appropriation of every local product to beneficial purposes.
Behold, however, the blight produced by the panic, so mis-
represented and neglected, and by that offspring of closet
system, Peel's Bill!

THE KING'S COURT.

BRIGIATON, Jisr. 7.

1111 MAJESTY, accompanied by the Princess AUGUSTA,
drove for a considerable time yesterday in a chariot and four,
with outriders.
The QUEEN rode on horseback, and was accompanied by
Prince GEORGE of Cambridge, Miss MITCHELL, Sir P.
SIDNEY, and suite. Her MAJESTY rode to Hooe, through
Brunswick-terrace, the West Cliff, &c.
His MAJESTY gave audience to Sir Jou N GORE.
The calls at the Palace were very numerous. Amongst
those who left their names were the following:—
The Marchioness of Wellesley, Sir John Gore, Miss Cator, Count
and Countess Ludoff, Mr. Fox, Dowager Lady Ellenborough and
Mims Law, Lord and Lady Bridport, Marquis and Marchioness
Choiseul; Sir D. and Lady Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, Lady and
the Misses Burdett, Lady 0. and Miss Stewart, Lord John Townshend,
Mrs. and Mina Hoare, lady Ventry, Lady Heron Maxwell, Misses
Maxwell, Sir Robert and Lady Wigram,
Her Majesty had a select evening party ; her private
band was in attendance. Her Majesty is an exquisite mu-
sician. The music selected for the evenings is all of the
most scientific description.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DiAus Alarm Tun Ihr.—Dublin, 1 ; Waterford, 1 ; Guerrney

and Jgrsei, I.

DLit., Jas. 7.—Arrived the Souvenir, Bajie, from Nantes. Ar-
rived from the River, and sailed, the Earl Stanhope, Salmon, and
America, Donald, for New South Wales.
Poo:mourn, Jas. 7.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived the Nassau, Hoven,
from Rio Janeiro ; and his Majesty's ship Cordell*, from Woolwich
lavitaroot., Jas. 6.—Arrived the Dispatch. Crabb, front Smyrna.
Off the port, the Horeb, Bibby, from Demerara ; Mary, BPDooald„
from Quebec; and Ellen, Jenkinson, from Lisbon.
Gomm, Jam. S.—Arrived the Venus. Dory, from Rio Janeiro.
THE COFFEE SHOPS OF LONDON.

Within the last twelve or fifteen years, a very remarkable
change has taken place in the habits of the middle and in-
telligent classes of the London population, worthy of notice
by moralists and politicians.
The improvement to which we allude, and which we are
sure our Readers will coincide with us in thinking indis-
putable, has arisen, as good sometimes comes out of .evil, or
to adopt the doctrine of MANDEV ILIA, as partial evil is
universal good, in a great degree from our commercial mis-
fortunes. The fall in colonial produce, particularly in Coffee
and Sugar, which has been to an extent to deprive
even the growers of profit, has at last brought the use
of these articles within the compass of all clas-
ses of society; and the consequence has been, the esta-
blishment of the coffee-shops,, to the success of which, in
our opinion, we have to attribute the greatest part of the
favourable change in moral habits and intellectual improve-
ment, which we have observed as so perceptible in the in-
dustrious and economical dames. _ . .

Tea mid coffee are wholesome and refreshing beverages,
and, by habit, constitute two meals per day of nearly all
classes of the community, from the prince to the artisan.
But till the circumstances we have mentioned, and the con-
sequent happy contrivance of coffee-shops, they were,
at public places, expensive enjoyments; and except
at the superior kinds of coffee houses and taverns,
not very conveniently obtained. But now these agreea-
ble luxuries are accessible for 2d. 3d. 4d. or 6d.
according to quantity and eatables, and hence the coffee-
shops are generally filled with a large and intelligent part of
our immense population.
The intellectual appetite, which is now as craving as
the stomach itself, is also fed gratis ; for most of them
take a morning paper, nearly all an evening paper,
among which the Star enjoys a liberal preference, and on the
tables are to be found the pamphlets of the day, some of the
cheaper periodicals, and one or two of the best Sunday
papers. Thus, they are schools of general intelligence; and
we need not quote a favourite poet to prove, that tea and
coffee harmonise peculiarly well with reading and enquiry.
In truth, the London Coffee-shops are the greatest conve-
niences that have arisen of late years—they are comforts,
without vices, and they merit every encouragement frame
the Magistrates and the Legislature. At first, like
every thing new, they were viewed with absurd jealousy;
their hours of opening and shutting were restricted ; and
their advantages were not duly estimated by the prejudiced
sod short-sighted. Every social institution may be absurd,
but sound policy should always be guided by a basses of
As advantages and disadvantages ; and in regard to cam-
ships, the advantages are as one thousand, and the disad-
vantages only as one.
Their extension through the town, is the best proof of
their acknowledged convenience. Better coffee cannot be
drank in France or Italy than is made in must of them ;
for in this art. as in all others, - practice produces perfec-
tion. In consequence, we do not overrate the number,
wiles we state, that there are in London, and its
mbar* at least one thousand of these establish-
ments, where fifty thousand persons, of good manners and
simpectable character, take at least one meal per day, or
ensue intermediate refreshments • While in them is acquired
a fund of knowledge calculated to make their visitors in-
telligent
marabsreof society.
•
• Yesterday a Court of Directors was laid at the Rea India
gam. whoacz Albert Scott was swots isso the coo-
nand of the .Irassittart, cosigned to Denial and
China.

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