The New York herald., 1862-11-22

Richmond-How Regacry snd Has
cality R1a In the Blood.
The London papers received BY the last
mails from Europe are full Of comments upon
the conduct Of "Hon" Robert Lawley and
other sprigs Of the nobility and gentry
OF England who frequent the turf, as being
mixed up in transaction by which Mr..
Ten Broeok was entsapped into fraudulent
bet of $500 against $5 about the spelling Of
the word reindeer" Two Of the confederates
first made sham bet of s25 even on the word,
owner Of winning racehorses in England or any
other pigeon who might fall into the trap. Ten
Brock dropping into the club, the subject Of
the bet was introduced, when he offered to
bet CLEO to E1 that the word was spelled
'reindeer," and not "raindeer." The bet was
accepted, ON the condition that Johnson's Die
tionary should be the authority. Ten Brock
assented, because he never saw the word spelled
any other way But the confederates pre-
viously knew by consulting that dictionary that
| itspelled the word "raindeer," the only dction-
AIRY which does SO. Thus one of them made bet
upon what was to him certainty, and taking at
the same time an odds of one hundred to one,
his victim being Of course in the dark. 1t is
held among honorable betting men everywhere
that q man who bets on anything certainly
| known to him loses the bet, because his act is
a fraud, and not fair bet, in which there is
| always risk.
Now, what is Hon. Robert Lawley's part in
| this transaction. 1t seems that Admiral Rous,
as one of the members of the Jockey Club,
hearing of the facts, felt that the honor of the
| club was at stake. and insisted upon exposing
| the case in the newspapers. ThereupOn Mr..
Lawley comes out repudating his own formal
testimony, and declaring that "it was given
under dictaton and contrary to his real belief"
that "when he testified in writing that he had
heard Captain Stewart admit that his bet with
Colonel Burnaby was bubble bet, he only did
| it because Admiral Rous insisted upon it, and did
| 30 contrary to the remonstrance of Mrs. Law
ley, who was present at the conversation
Thus TO lying the "honorable" gentleman adds
the meanness of dragging his wife into so dirty a
business.
Now it turns out that this Bob Lawley, the
son of Lord Wenlock, is brother Of Frank Law
ley, the reliable special correspondent of the
London Times, lately at Baltimore, and now at
Richmond. They are both ''honorable" men,
chips of the same block. Frank after being
| involved in some dsgraceful stock transactions,
| by which he became a defaulter to the tune of
$3.50, ,00O was compelled to quit his country for
his country's good. But he was just the kind of
man to do the dirty werk of the London Times
in America. Bull Run Russell, by his misrerrc-
sentations, had made this country too hot to
hold him; and drivelling, snivelling Mackay be-
came worse failure, writing in New York
lying accounts of battles many hundred miles
distant from him. Lawlcy makes his debut first
in the Monumental Cityssnd next in the rebel
capital His letter from the latter city, which
we published few days ago, speaks for ITSELF
| II is as veracious as the statements of his
brother Bob. and, as to its STYLE it is evidently
not from the pen Of ready writer-a man hav
ing any regular and honorable connection with
a decent journal. Mackay was q sad
falling off from Russell, and Lawley
is more contemplate in composition than even
| poor Mackay. When the readers of the Times
know that the author of the letters from Rich
mond is Frank Lawley, brother Of Bob, they
will be able to account for the otherwise sin
comprehensive" mendacity Of his correspond
ence. They will fully understand that ''it runs
in the blood And this is specimen of the
literary chifoniers and moral scavengcrs sent
over by the Times newspaper to defame the
country that gives them an asylum. According
to his own account he is hand in glove with JEFF
ferson Davis, who imparts to him the State secrets
of the rebel Cabinet. 1t will not be long
time before Bob Lawley will also turn up some
where in this country as another correspondent
| Of the London Times.
The HAPPY FAMILY OF TAMMANY AND No
FART HALIs.-The democratic nominations for
| Comptroller and Corporation Attorney Of this
city afford an exemplifcation of happy
family which eclpses that of Barnum. A year
or two ago an outside observer would as soon
have thought of the possibility of harmony be-
| tween fire and water of treaty of peace