These 20 Tables are divided into nine houses, four of which are situated in the Palais Royal. To serve the seven tables of _Trente-et-un_, there are:--francs 28 Dealers, at 550 fr. a month, making . . . . 15,400 28 Croupiers, at 380. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,640 42 Assistants, at 200. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,400 SERVICE FOR THE NINE ROULETTES AND ONE PASSE-DIX. 80 Dealers, at 275 fr. a month . . . . . . . . 22,000 60 Assistants, at 150. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,000 SERVICE OF THE CRAPS, BIRIBI, AND HAZARD, 12 Dealers, at 300 fr. a month. . . . . . . . . 3,600 12 Inspectors, at 120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,440 10 Aids, at 100. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,000 6 Chefs de Partie at the principal houses, at 700 fr. a month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,200 3 Chefs de Partie for the Roulettes, at 500 fr. a month. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,500 20 Secret Inspectors, at 200 fr. a month. . . . . .4,000 1 Inspector-General, at . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,000 130 Waiters, at 75 fr. a month. . . . . . . . . . .9,750 Cards a month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,500 Beer and refreshments, a month. . . . . . . . . . .3,000 Lights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5,500 Refreshment for the grand saloon, including two dinners every week, per month . . . . . . . . . 12,000 Total expense of each month . . . .113,930 --------- Multiplied by twelve, is. . . . . . . . . . . .1,367,160 Rent of 10 Houses, per annum. . . . . . . . . . .130,000 Expense of Offices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000 --------- Total per annum. . . . . . . . . 1,547,160 If the `privilege' or license is . . . . . . . 6,000,000 If a bonus of a million is given for six years, the sixth part, or one year, will be . . . . . . . 166,666 --------- Total expenditure . . . . . . . .7,713,826 The profits are estimated at, per month,. . . . .800,000 --------- Which yield, per annum, . . . . . . . . . . . .9,600,000 Deducting the expenditure . . . . . . . . . . .7,713,826 --------- The annual profits are. . . . . . . . . . . fr.1,886,174 --------- Thus giving the annual profit at L7860 sterling. We omit the profits resulting from the watering-places, amounting to fr. 200,000. One of the new conditions imposed on the Paris gaming houses is the exclusion of females. Thus, at Paris, the Palais Royal, Frascati, and numerous other places, presented gaming houses, whither millions of wretches crowded in search of fortune, but, for the most part, to find only ruin or even death by suicide or duelling, so often resulting from quarrels at the gaming table.