The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-29 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day

LIVERPOOL MEETING—Tau atr.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH)
JUVENILE PLATE.

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Ptarmigan _ 1
Mrs Croft filly
2
My Honey
3
Seren ran.
SEFTON PLATE.

Royal Boy
Obassepot.
WELTER CUP.

Elammerton
Fitzwilliani
Pleniputwatiary

I

d

Four ran.
MOLYNEUX CUP.

Alyosotis
Good llop3
Victross ......

1

Six ran.

CHELMSFORD RACES—This DAT.
GREAT BADI)OW STAKES.

Capsule
S wallow f

Aglte

Seven ran.
*** The above are all the telegrams recetrea up to
the time of going to press.
We shall give the remainder in a FOURTH EDITION.

RACING

IXTURES.

Worcester
1, 2
Newmarket July 6, &c.
Carlisle
Hendon .... 9, 10
Pontefract l9, 13
-
Nottingham l3, 14
Southampton 13, 14

Down Royal Corpo, l4
Airdrie 15
iteading 15, 16
Kuutsford 16
iluutiugdon 2O, 21
Stamford ''', 23
...
Goodwood 27,23, 29, 30
.118 ER...

SEPT
Margate 2
Ipswich 2
West Drayton 3
Warwick... 7, 8
Curragh (Royal) 7,8, 9
Abingdon 9, 10
Doncaster 14, Is, 16, 17
Hampton 21, 22

Riohmond 21, 22
Lichfield
Western (Ayr) 22, 23
Hendon 23 24
Monmouth... -. 23, 24
Newmarket let 0ct....28, &c.
Lanark... 29 30

AIM
Deauville 1
Ripon 2
Brighton 3, 4
Tiverton 4
Brighton Club 5
Lewes 6, 7
Egtiam lO, 11 i
Wolverhatrpton lO, 11
Windsor 12, 13
Bromley 17, IS
Stockton lB, 10 I , 20
Dover 18 1

UST.
1 Oxford
Hungerford 24
York 24, 25, 26
Croydon
Plymouth 26,27
Searbor3ugh 30, 31
Badon Baden 3l
Great Yarmouth 31
Derby Summer ...31, Sep 1
Weymouth 31, Sep. 1
Canterbury 31, Sep. 1

DECISION UNDER TILE BETTING ACT.

At the Marlborough-street Police-court, yester-
day, Mr. T. Hawkins, tobacconist, Oxford-street,
who was charged with keeping and using his house
as a betting-house, contrary to the 16th and 17th
Viet., cap. 119, appeared before Mr. Tyrwhitt to
learn the decision of the magistrate.
Mr. Beard appeared for the defendant.
The evidence was to the effect that the police
went to the defendant's house, asked the price of
horses, and, having offered to make bets, were told
to go outside the shop, and on doing so they made
bets and gave money to the defendant. They also
made bets in the shop, and received money which
they had won by betting.
Mr. Tyrwhitt--I adjournel the case when before
me last week as I wished to look into the law, this
being the first case of the kind before me. I am
now prepared to give my decision. The Betting-
house Act, 16th and 17th Vict., cap. 119, passed in
1853. After a long abeyance recent events appear
to have revived its action. That its enactments may
be put in force against the class of smaller offenders
is evinced by the present prosecution, but little
more can be said for the instituting it, for the
Legislature seems to have contemplated establish..
'rents where, as a matter of
_regular money-hunt-
ing trade or business, betting was carried on sys-
temically in the ways descriled in the act, and have
accordingly attached corresponding penalties of
I,rge amount. Thus iu many of the cases whtre
m ,gistrates in the north have convicted under
this act, regular betting-house tackle has been
produced in evidence, such as a business like
array of account or betting books, with receipti
or doctun;nts in the nature of " assurances to
pay or give hereafter money, &c., on an event
relating to a horse-race" (the words of the act).
Now, in this case the cloy: search of the whole
pretWw_.s pro luced only club sitbscripti .n cards,
telet..raph messages, and memoranda relating to
them, with one solitary card, headcd "Newmarket
Craven Meeting." We must nut xelude that evi-
dence when we come to c,msida that of the detec-
tives, who bought cigars f Win the defendant, and
afterwards offered to bet, leading him on to
take their bets at first elsewhere, and on a later
day, one or two in the shop itself. Ido not say
that a cigar shop, or any other shop, may not ho
brought within the act if the surrounding circum-
stances showed distinctly that the trade was only a
blind for the real business of the place, if that real
business was the " using" that shop for the purpose
of the occupier betting with persons resorting thereto
for that purpose. But is there here sufficient evi-
dence to show that any such colourable keeping
of the shop existed ? and, on the whole, I think
there is not. Putting an end to betting pure and
simple has not, I apprehend, been attempted by this
act, nor does it seem to have contemplated a bet
with a person who buys a cigar in a shop, and by
thus making tl,e shopkeeper's acquaintance in-
duces hint to bet, but was intended to repress
the mercenary pursuit of gain on a business
scale by " opening places as betting-houses or
offices in the way of gaming-houses" (the words
in the preamble). however, if acts of betting con-
tinue to take place in any part of the defendant's
premises they will afford strong evidence of the
place being used in an illegal way. I therefore
caution the defendant as to his future conduct, but
dismiss the charge. I have arrived at this conclu-
sion after some doubt, but without affecting to lay
down anything out of this case; it is enough to say
that it does not appear to me to be one which were
1 to convict my decision would be confirmed on
appeal to the sessions.
Charge dismissed.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam Short ... 12 2 ... 12 21
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 41 . 12 4f
* ••
Antwerp — ... 25 4.4 ... 25 52f
Brussels — ... 25 474 ... 25 52f
Hamburgh — ... 13 12 ... 13 124
Paris Short ... 25 40 25

... _ Ditto - 3 Ms. ... 25 42 45-
f ... 25 471
Marseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 121/ ... 121}
Vienna — ... 12 6if ... 12 72}
Trieste — ... 12 67} ... 12 721
Petersburg
• • •
Copenhagen.-.
a. 9 20 ... 9 29
Berlin
... 6 28} ... 6 29
Madrid..
Cadiz
... 49 ... 49f
Leghorn
... 26 60 -, 26 70
Milan — ... 26 60 ... 26 70
. ..
Genoa — 26 60 ... 26 70
Naples
Palermo
... 26 60 ... 26 70
Messina
Lisbon — ... 51i ...,. 62
Oporto — ... 51i ... 52}

Rio Janeiro
New York

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