"A new stratagem has been hit on to gain early intelligence of the drawings of the ensuing Irish Lottery. As _Pigeons_ are found sometimes not to fly quick enough, some of our speculating Lottery Rooks have been for some time past trying experiments on high eminences in North Wales, by exhibiting rockets about seven o'clock in the evening. It is to be seen whether this mode of communication can be rendered sufficiently intelligible, to answer the purposes of fraud."--(_Times, Nov. 4, 1796._) * * * * * "It is said, and we hope with truth, that the Archbishop of Canterbury, at the head, and with the concurrence of the Episcopal Lords, means to introduce a Bill into Parliament to prevent _gambling on a Sunday_. An act at present does exist against this pernicious practice; but the penalty amounts to a fine, that the Groom-porters at Hazard, or the Dealer at Faro, can with ease pay by the _profits of an hour_. The punishment for the offence of playing any game of chance on a Sunday is, by this new intended Bill, to be _transportation for seven years to Botany Bay_. The owner of the house, by a particular clause, is more severely dealt with. _He_, or _she_, permitting such gambling, shall be transported for life."--(_Times, Feb. 13, 1797._) "PUBLIC OFFICE, MARLBOROUGH St. FARO BANKS. On Saturday came on to be heard, informations against Lady Buckinghamshire, Lady Elizabeth Luttrell, Mrs. Sturt, and Mr. Concannon, for having, on the night of the 30th of last January, played at _Faro_, at Lady Buckinghamshire's house, in St. James's Square, and Mr. Martindale was charged with being the proprietor of the table. "The evidence went to prove that the Defendants had gaming parties at their different houses by rotation, and that when they met at Lady B.'s, the witnesses used to wait upon them in the gambling room, and that they played at _E.O._, _Rouge et Noir_, &c., from about eleven, or twelve, till three, or four, o'clock in the morning. After hearing Counsel, the Magistrates convicted _Hy. Martindale_ in the penalty of £200, and _each of the Ladies_ in £50. The Information against Mr. _Concannon_ was quashed, on account of his being summoned by a wrong Christian name."--(_Times, Mar. 13, 1797._) [Illustration: Dividing the Spoil, St. Giles's.--1796.]