Rev. J. W. HORSLEY, M.A., J.P., Rector of St. Peter’s, Walworth, for ten years prison chaplain, during which time 100,000 people passed through his hands, said betting was a frequent source of trouble. In one gaol there was a whole wing set apart for these prisoners. It was now increasing more than ever. He considered the example of the aristocracy greatly to blame; and said that if the King would stay away from race-courses where professional betting went on it would do more than anything else to assist in putting an end to it. IV OPINIONS OF EMINENT MEN ON BETTING AND GAMBLING THE LATE CHIEF-JUSTICE RUSSELL.—“Street betting is a most undesirable practice. A state of things exists which, if it can be stopped, ought to be stopped.” Mr. Justice WILLS.—“When I first came upon the Bench I used to think drink was the most fruitful cause of crime, but it is now a question whether the unlimited facilities for illegitimate speculation on the part of people who have no means of embarking on it are not a more prevalent source of mischief and crime even than drink.” Mr. Justice HAWKINS.—“I know nothing more likely to ruin a young and inexperienced man than the system of betting which goes on around us.” Mr. Justice GRANTHAM.—“Gambling with bookmakers is the cause of more crime and misery than anything else in the land.” Mr. Justice DARLING.—“No one could attend the Civil and Criminal Courts without knowing that many persons spent a much larger amount of time in betting than they devoted to their own business.” Mr. HORACE SMITH (London Stipendiary Magistrate).—“Nearly every case of embezzlement I try has resulted from betting, and then to pay their losses they rob their employers.” Alderman SUTTON (Newcastle Magistrate).—“The working men of the north of England put money on horses, and when they lose take their employers’ property.” CHAIRMAN OF MAGISTRATES (Seacome Bank embezzlement case).—“The whole secret of the wrongdoing seems to be in the systematic agency employed all over the country to tempt men from the path of rectitude and virtue.” Mr. BROS (London Stipendiary Magistrate).—“Betting is generally the downfall of clerks and servants who are charged with embezzlement.” CORONER FOR MID-SURREY.—“The poor lad, like many thousands of others, was led away by the fallacious idea that he was going to make money by backing horses. Men earning fifteen or twenty shillings a week cannot afford to lose sixpence in betting.” CHIEF-CONSTABLE OF SOUTHAMPTON.—“Street betting is a disgrace to the town. One man is making £1000 a year by it.” BIRMINGHAM OFFICIAL RECEIVER.—“Half of the bankruptcies which come before me are due to gambling.” General WAVELL.—“I have been speaking to an officer, who says it is perfectly piteous to see the way our young soldiers, drummer boys, trumpeters, and others rush off to get the halfpenny newspapers, not to ascertain how their comrades are faring, but simply to get the betting odds and nothing else.”