New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-18

usfy, uas' d'ef s1ppe-pery, I'VE drsah tsa
really ~ good - had drank I, in China"-vk,os
proves hat the tsdsipkipg ~ss then 9 novelty
wia the English nobility
In 1858, celebrated FreAch traveller introduced
eonee after einner. and II was regarded q q CHIN.
buf ten years later, The Iarkah eIabssssdor at Ps,s
mace fashionable Sewerage, BY charming As
eyes Of lie "0rsn with tho bhiiisnt porcel.la eu,s
In wneh was served-the napkins hinged win
gold and ne lurksh slsves on their knees prs.ep,-
ing it 10 the ladies. In 1872, q eoHos.ho.se "a.
opened in Pars; but the cation prev .Ied "A AN
beer and wine, and 20 smoke and mix with lov con,
psny, in the fret CT r.ehouses. Aher q tine. ho,t,
ever, tie literary men, the artists and toe vu e,,.s.
Hshed heir respective cof.e houses, and 20 VIZ,
they nightly resoied, TO irhle The rssh and frarsna
steam OF tic aromatic berry, and enjoy eopseuisl
Fellowship.
Coffee vas introduced into England a. eNi, an
1852, By Turkish merchant, whose Greek servant
knew Tow "io roaat ana mako it, He opened n
coSee- house and sued the following hAod.bul:
TIE virtue Of the cofse-drnk FIRE, pubneils
made and cold in England, by Pa.7va Ro,sc, In 81.
hichsels Alley, Cornhn, at the sign Of his owp
heed" =
Asfrst the coheedrink bad greater popularity
and influence in England than the ea-drnk; and In,
icle, spc the cHrous and, for .ime the history Of
heie cofte-houses was the history Of the manners,
morsls and politics OF the people. The several
cssses Of socet.-the mercantile men the men Of
letters and he Of fas ,iop had rneir respostvS
cofee-touses; and The Taller vas dated from each,
alternately, to cepict the OF gregarous hu-
nshity ss they rise
At lepgth, theee coli e.houses becsne pls,es Of
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aee that they "nour,h sedition, spread Lee, and
"scar dolize great men, and might become CO nnon
"puisauce and King Charles the Second shut them
up by proclamation The charscterof coffee. ouses.
ano the gro With of the f.sOijn OF coffee drinking are
indicated in " Broadside ssainst Coffee, published
in 1912:
Confusion huddles all into one scene
Lie Soahs arb, tbe clean and the snelesn.
For now as! the dreneh has credit GOT
Ard he's no gentle an who d.iuNs
ThMsueh dwarf should rise to saeh stature,
But Custom Ia buts remove nom Nature
There we're those, however, who s,renu )usly con-
fenced that coffee houses and coifee-drinhpg wers
grea. public blessings; that the ntrodacton Of this
liquid among the laooring classes Of soce,y weaued
them Gon strong liquors; tia, this cofce-drink
hath caused a great sobriety among the nations
"fruery. apprentices aud clerks used to take their
orning. draugh OF ale beer or vine which often
",he good-elows, 10 this wakeful apd civ. drink
But the custom of drinking coffee, among the
laboIirg classes did, not long prevail In En-
gland. TIE popular prejudice against il 6aaiy pre-
vailed, and tea drinking became, and is now, the
more popular and prevailing custom, while the Con-
trary practice prevails in France and the CONT
rtnt and, in thi, Republic. as well o, In South
America, coffee drinking is lar more popular anf
prev aliDg, in all places Of Pablo resort.
The use Of coffee ss beverage 1t Ia ssd, was frse
discovered by the Prior of a monastery. A goat (.
herd il formed him that his cattle, in BIO vsns upon
the C fl,e-'ree, were made wskefa! q, night, and
would sport and bound ugon the hills; SO The Prior
tried it upon his monks. to proven, their sleeping 8.
uo,ins, and il checked their sumbers. II grows ia
Arabia Persia, and America; vas assd as drink ID
Persia and Arabia Felix four hundred yesrs ego; ID
Egypt end Syria in 1911; coffee houses we're opened
in Con,teninople In 1884, AMI its use as besersss
in France and England was sdop cd aoou, two hun
dfed years siI CO.
One hundred and thirty years ago, the use Of tes
was reg arded by Ger ain polite 4, economics In En-,
lsnd "a juri, u tie Agricultural interest," BY pref
vsbtiDe the use Of malt The language Of the con'
plai1t and proposed remedy reads thus: The csus>
"of the mischief we complain OF Is the excessive uie
"of tea which has become SO common, thstthe moan
"sst families even, Of Iaborirg people, maze heil
"mornDg's neal Of it, and thereby wholly disase Al
(Which heretofore their accustomed drink
"sId the seine drug supplks all the laboring womei
with their afternoons entertain ments to the exclu
"ii'n of twoper ny sle The remedy proposed is, "
Impose prohibtory duty on tea and penalty % 4
" those who uss the seducipg poison
In 1918. a com nitee Of The British House Of Com.
mons reported the suggestive fact that millions
"pounds of sloe, Hcorice, and shesves, are every
"yesr mixed with Chinese teas in England "
The consumption Of tea by the whole clvikse{
world in 1880 was ststed az $4,000 600 pounds, 81
which England used 3o,oooOoo pounds. In is4e'
England imported 3so6s, 600 pounds Of tea, on which
was paid in duties eco Ooo, 900.
The consumption of tea in the UDisei States u
is4s was ,ss 900 pounds and Of cOes $50, oot
pounds; ord in 1850, the value Of the tea impoEss
was a. ga, ooo and Of coffee sla, 900. OrsEeo.