Gambling; Great Britain -- Social life and customs
Limited Liability Act (1862) increases stock gambling, 50
Liverpool, Bishop of (Dr. Chavasse), on betting, 215
London, Common Serjeant of, on betting, 217
Lords, House of, Report of Committee (1844), 27
Select Committee of (1901-2), Report, 28, 38
summary of, 203
betting among artisans, 155
press and betting, 166
recommendations of, 191
women gamblers, 69
Loria and elections, 127
Lotteries abolished, public, 138
and sweepstakes, 138, 161
newspaper, protected by 8 & 9 Vict. c. 74; 140
put down by Parliament, 63
Lowther, M.P., James; evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 209
Luck in gambling, 8
Luton Town Councillors and betting, 215
Machines, gaming, 137
Maclaren, Ian, on Bridge, 81
Magistrates, a Chairman of, on embezzlement and betting, 214
Manchester, Chief Constable, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 206
Marginal groups, gambling prevails among people classed in, 118
Miscellaneous gambling, 23
Monte Carlo tables average daily profit, £500, 181
Moseley Commission, 155
Municipal bye-laws against betting, 154
National Debt, stockbroking begins with, 46
Newmarket betting-posts, 22
Newspaper lotteries protected by 8 and 9 Vict. c. 74; 140
Newspapers encourage small betting, 113
Odds against the backer, 104
One pound shares and Stock Exchange gambling, 51
“Options,” 56
“Pari Mutuel,” 193, 194
Pauperism, betting next to intemperance a cause of, 91
Pedestrianism, a note on, 219
_Petit Parisien_, competition forbidden in, 142
Philip of Macedon and gambling, 124
Play a factor in life, 11
Police abet gambling in clubs, 145
Portland, Duke of, about tipsters, 135
Postmaster-General, powers _re_ betting circulars, 197
Post Office, monetary interest in betting of the, 31
powers over lottery matter, 141
proposed increase of powers, 161
_Powell_ v. _Kempton Park_, 149, 154
Press competitions and coupon gambling, 140, 142, 143, 162
gives facilities for betting, 191
_Prisons and Provinces_, 84
Produce Exchange gambling, 41
Prohibitive Acts insufficient to prevent gambling, 130
Property, right of, 4
Public excluded from betting circles, the general, 22
Public-houses, proposed Bill to make betting in, illegal, 157
Public opinion, the necessity for creating a sound, 174
Pure gambling, 16
Race-horses, poisoning of, 210
Raffles, Government inaction in the matter of, 176
really illegal, 139
Rawson, Admiral, on gambling, 38, 216
Remedy, bookmaker’s suggestions for a remedy, 110
Renals, Alderman Sir J., on street betting, 215
Repression of gambling, 170
Richmond, the Duke of, on cash betting, 26
Ridley, Mr. Justice, on betting, 217
Roulette, 137
Russell, Chief-Justice, on street betting, 213
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