Star.
London, England, 1824-08-17 00:00:00

G A MING-HO USES.

' The-following calculation gives some idea of what must have
beeri made, by the points of the game, at all the principal
Hells," for *elan ten years. Three years back, thereevere no
fewer than 22 of them : seine were occasionally closed, but 15
Were in full operation at the same time, such profitable concerns
they Were' sure to prove to their keeperi. At some, play was
continued with little interruption. from one at Mikan to 12 o'clock at
night, and at ethers all hours throughout the night. They are now
reduced to about a dozen in number. The games played at meet
other of them are raged weir, roisfetteont-sleue claque, and 3
it allot • which a bank Is put down agreeably to the means
of . the parties to be played. spinet, the -limitation of stakes
varying according to ice Went. Thus some play Is. to £5, Ohm
2s. 6d. to £lO, and ss. to /11%11, and /100, the bank amoontbag
generally to 20 times the mks. The banks have certaiq
,uints in their favour, Wee each of which the Wakes of the players
in effect haw half: thus each player leases a whole stake on two of
those points. Let the stake.beols..Sie tepees 4100, it is all the same.
At tongs d. noir (played with cards),. these points come up upon en
average two in 68 rants, dealt In one hour, le per cent. per stake,
er 100 per cent. per stake per hour phut the player. At rade*
(played with a small ivory bank a cylinder), two in 38 events turned
in half an hour three per met. pet stake, or 100 per cent. per stake
per half hour against the player. At un-elear•cinque (played with a
large ivory ball, with 48 spots, 24 black, 16 red, and 8 blue), six in
4n events rolled inane hour, six per cent. per stake, or 100 per cent.
per stake per hour against the player. At Notch kets:and (played with
two dice and boa). four in 56 events thrown in one hour, five per
teat. per stake, or 100 per cent. per stake per hunt against the player.
The money risked at these" Hells" up to three years ago, was much
greater than it is now. However, take an average of time and
sults, and we shall not be far off a right judgment upon the sub-
ject. Suppose the hours of effective play at all the " Hells' to
hate been five hours per day all the year round (Sundays excepted),
from the year 1844 to 1824, ten years, and that the whole of the
stakes upon each event at each " Hell" in the aggregate amounted
to no name than £500; then /300 per hour, .21,500 per day,
£9,000 a week. £36,080 per month, .2468,000 per year were
worked Into the different banks by such certain points alone. Hail
of this may be said to be composed of money won a-head of the
bank, which thus falling front day to day back again hue it, is
merely nominal ; but the other half is bard money from the pockets
of losing players by the risk of which they have no chance of win.
ning a penny. The half is £254,000 per year, which in there.s
years. amounts to the eat sum of £2,340,000. This is exclusive ell
whit has been got by cheating. and upon the equal chances, wlddi
cannot-be remotely gnawed at, but it must have been very mask
doable, as the large masses of plunder gathered by one et other el
tbilitepers are -over wad aberrtheirentravagant expenditure fee
ten years, which came out of h. There are on an average to each
Her three prop/kW:4i, fOltstresspeens anstfouir waiters an/por-
ch-Iff all deem; peremis;.ffikeen. Beg% eleven to each, awake 165
..,TiceHr iliyp." keepers oplY shale the OWerpine et,plnoder after
ag wages and their homyy eilwnwas and they being three IQ
n all forty4te, who tack In the ratio of the extent of their
ghe.fortunee. therefoce, which have been collected by some
mby this torrid *poem• of robbery are immense. Many of
have been am:wail:Sate/from banks originally lot assawatlai
than .esbo rack -and Manyircen even mvith les& The
. realty sickens at the-Nebel, axle.at the sad 'relied= that these
:urns are composed of the papinataiss, In pm dr in, large or
,11; of thousands and thheiapds, all of whim have bees more asr
injured, and most enthelt ruined and endear.

T.
Manchester.Gpseiti. says,44 We have much plea.
stating that the journeymen dyers have received
Ivance of wages, and that the majority of them are
peaceably at work." • '

EXTRAORDINARY OPERATtoi.--Lait week was per-
. at the General Hospital Ship, Sheerness, by Mr.
iSITSON, the Surgeon, the amputation of the thigh,
double flip operation; without the vie of the Tour.
; as inomarada by Mr.LISTON, of Edinburgh.
immanent also employed the dissecting forceps to,
, the arteries, as Mr. berms has long recelfi-
mended and practised (With exttamAinary'success. The
mion did not occupilonger than one minute and a
and not six ounces of hi-Odd were lost ! The pain
patiecit was of cgurse .comparatively
the first time, we. believe, that this operation has
performed. on this side of theTweed.—.tiled. Ad'
~me days ago an attempt was made to poison a
aopkeeper of ..Marstiam-itreet, Westminster, named
Roberts, by' a feenale whom he had taken into his ser-
- about sit weeks ago. He had missed some articles
chess since she became his servant, but no suspicion
entertained that she was the thief, although her
had hired her without a character. He sent her

one occasion for meat forth dinner of his family,
ipposing that it was not fait weight, he ordered it
. weighed. The quantity proved- to be extremely
ticient, and he mentioned his determination to " pull
'p" the butcher on the subject. He. however desired
servant to make some broth of the meat, but he took
ale of the delicacy, as be found that the taste was
.caliarly disagreeable. The woman, in reply to his
complaint, told him, without being at all confused, that
't was nothing objectionable in the broth, and that
had been as usual careful in making it. A person
was at dinner, observed that she gave a very slight
itity to the child, and that she took still less herself
Ittherts asked whether the acrid taste in the broth
not soot? but she answered that nothing offensive
got into it. In the evening she absconded, taking
her all her own clothes, and some of her mistress's.
box, however, contained some evidences of guilt it
clutlier kind, for in it were found several duplicates,
the examination of which, it appeared that she,
been in the habit, ever since she entered the house,
stealing her master and mistress's clothes and pawn.
, them. In the middle of the night Mr. Roberts was
:rued with a burning sensation in the stomach, and in-
Int vomiting for some hears. Nature, however,
tiled, and in the morning the symptoms abated
to
nsiderably. When he stated the circumstances, and
*nsations, after having taken the broth to a surgeon,
ads informed that he had certainly takers poison.
1%4 duldhad been also affected with vomiting, but the
• was comparatively slight. The woman took gas
Z. she left the house to wash all the vessels into
'e.l the broth had been poured. She has hitherto
all attempts to apprehend her.

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