New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-24
"Her father sold Goals
And che lilled roles
All down at the SavelUy Thcatcr.
But the Countess Cairns
Sworc none Of her BARNS

swore none Of her BARNS
Should marry with coalheavers daTter."
Mr. Gilbert who Is harrister as we'll as an author bas
taken IN the young laiys with great warmth. He
"a sad to insist upon very compensation for breach
Of promise-asking much ~ 100000 sterling or ten
years o Lord Garmoycs entire income from the Mccall
mont property settled npon him. lhoar that 10000
has been offered, enc informant tells me Sl5OOO' 10
compromise the affair." and that has been refused by
Nss Fnneys advisers who threaten 10 carry the matter
before Jury unless Lord Cairns pays up e2O,0Oo.
cannot help thinking them l-ad,scd. for doubt any
English Jury giving more than 10000, If they gave 50
much Five years a mans entire Income II lerse COM
pensaon even Tor Countess coronet looming IN the
future and the sum named Is large fortune for the most
uneIeeptionabc Of potess young ladies' who amer a.! IS
only third or fourth rate singer and actress People
here do not Iash themselves into state Of virtGOus in
diguation about ladies NJ the theatre and moreover the
law Judges and of the country are directly op
posed to what called yindctive or punitive damages
Next I'm social importance the decision Of Sir
lanes Inghan the Bow street magistrate in the bacca
rat case Sir lanes has evidently hGneL mp all the
TINT statute law on gaming. and has concluded by the
common sense decision that the Park Club Is common
gaming house. He has hued jerks, the professional
gambler who the place $500 the members or the
committee who aid and abet the same $500 apiece ana
AL The puutcrs present when the police raid Vas made
slOO apiece Thus Nr. Howard Vincent the Director Of
Criminal Investigations has scored the first point against
the card clubs Whether the ruling or the magistrate
Will be reversed appeal TO the Judges remains to be-
seen but any rate great blow ha@ been struck al
haccarat II Is needless 10 repeat that as matter OF
public policy no method can be more sound than The
making Of gambling difficult, troublesome and danger
0us Old men tell that when there betting shop
in every little tempting lettering errandboys tn In
vest slngs and half crowns on race-horses the mum
Der OF eEhcLcments aud petty arcenles was enormous
among the shop boy class. In the same way. when
Crockpeds was open London the air full OF dis
aster- TO gamblers inst It IS OF Monte Carlo
have seen nearly every game played and am quite suro
that without ready temptation not gambler out OF
twenty would have become II is because every
Ccrclo In Paris except the Jockey Climb Is gambling
house that the remark less the Jockey Club WI
amply 10 Nice and that NewYOrk IT, or has been we'll
supplied With faro banks, that so much gambling taxes
place In those cities The opportunity Is handy Just rs
has been Of late sought make it in London. must
say that thought HomburG. spa and Baden. and sti
think Monte Carlo comparatively harmless They cor
rupt nobody for they cost much money To so TO- ana only
attract vino already corrupted But II "a quite
another thing when @ betting-shOp or gaming house
can he found round every corner In great city, and lot
terry tickets carry passion for gaming into the hdmoest
homes
The high private play at certain Gibbs viii be quite out
Of the reach OF police. IL viii he impossible TO
strain people from playing AZ whist for pony points
they choose TO 90 Pony points signify really high
play. for it II lose sixteen points
sitting. and sixteen ponies amount to e400 sterling "a
nice afternoons work without counting the byebets on
the rub. which may punt 20 hundred OF two more
The Prince OF Wales who is lucky card holder IL re
ponsibe for tho fashion Of pony points But this after
al Affects a very limited number OF people.
am beginning 10 fear that the influence OF Royalty Il
rarely cxerted the side OF Justice and common sense
When Lord Beaconsneld Premier England aud the
Qnecns most humble servor Her Majesty Insisted on
being proclaimed in the teeth OF common sense Empress
Of India where India cannot take precedence OF Eng
land she Is called the QueonEmpre which Is idotc
The other day It undoubtedly the personal influence
NJ the Queen which the Garter tho most
eagerly decoration Ia the world Lord Sydney
harmless nOblenian, Court official who has been
Lord Chamberlain and Is Lord steward Of the
Household viii II be believed among rational human
beings that this foolish appointment was made whe
Lord Sorthbrook. the hed Of the Earrings and a dis
tugIiehed nobeman who has been Under Secretary
India twice Parliamentary Under Secretary for waP has
held the post General of india the greatest
appointment that can be held out Of the Cabinet and k
now First Lord Of tho Admiralty, ruler Of the Qucens
Nayee." has put up with publishing thing Ike the
star Of India
Lord Duderin. too, whose recent diplomatic scrvices
have been brilliant, has to rcst content with the
Grand Cross af the Bath the decoration as that