The Marquis of Hastings in Hermit's year lost, and paid,
100,0001. in bets upon the Derby. The facts were mentioned in most English papers, were indeed notorious to the world, and the Marquis was received when he next appeared" ith immense cheer- Mg. Thomas Russell, a bookmaker, this year did in a small way the same thing, was accused of keeping a betting house and of betting, and was on Monday fined 1001., with the alternative of six months' imprisonment. Moreover, all persons found betting with him were arrested, and owed their discharge to the lenity of the magistrate, the papers which record the trial recording also the vast meeting at Tattersall's to settle bets, the big bookmakers sitting quite openly at special desks, with their books and piles of bank-notes before them. Has no one of the men -fined pluck enough or humour enough to lay an information against Tattersall's, and try, once for all, whether there are two systems of law in England ?
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