It had been established as a social club for gentlemen, but its real character was that of a betting crib or gambling house; or “hell” would be the more expressive term. There are hundreds of such establishments in this great city――betting and gambling is one of the vices of the age. A case which has but recently come before the Lord Chief Justice furnishes us with evidence as to this fact. A Turkish gentleman instituted proceedings in an action for libel against the proprietor of a well-known newspaper. The paper in question contained an article, in which the plaintiff was denounced as a professional gambler or “black leg.” It was proved in evidence that both parties had lost and won as much as fifteen hundred pounds in one night. The gambling transactions were not confined to this country, but were practised in France and Germany. The case will doubtless be fresh in the recollection of most of our readers, and comment thereon would be superfluous. After arriving at the club, Mr. Kempshead spoke a word or two to the man in the hall, ascended the stairs, and entered a large room on the first floor. He was followed by Peace, who was introduced to several of the members of the club by his friend Kempshead. The object which first attracted his attention was a long table which ran along the centre of the room, the farther end of which was about the distance of three feet from the opposite wall. At its end was a fine light gas chandelier; each of the lights had over it a large green shade, which was much of the same character as those used in an ordinary billiard-room. And under the lights was the apparatus with which the game of roulette is played. This consists of a mahogany frame about eighteen inches square, and three or four inches in height; on it is fixed on a pivot a horizontal wheel about a foot in diameter, the top of which is divided into thirty-seven alternate red and black squares, each of which is marked with a number. Surrounding the wheel is a little slanting ledge bounded by a raised edge. The centre of the wheel is held by a thick brass handle, from which extend four ivory branches. The whole machine is something like the toy “teetotums” fixed in boxes, which are sold freely in the shops. From the apparatus described, extended along the table, is a green cloth divided by lines worked in white silk into the large portions. In the margin on one side of the top division is worked the word “under,” and on the opposite side the word “over.” The margin of the middle space contains the words, “even” and “odd,” and at the opposite sides of the last section of the green cloth are two squares of cloth, one black and the other red. The cloth is also divided into thirty-seven equal squares. The uninitiated reader will by the foregoing description be able to form a tolerably accurate notion of the gambling machinery used in playing the game of roulette.