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shorthand- writer at the expense of the person making 

 the request/ does not seem to have been generally 

 known at the time of the Chetwynd-Durham affair a 

 year or two ago, after which a proposition was made 

 as to the employment of a shorthand-writer at all 

 meetings of the Club, else perhaps it would have been 

 pointed out that (with the exception of defrayment of the 

 expense) not much advance was made, by the conces- 

 sion then obtained, upon the position secured in 1856. 

 In 1857 came the letter, already mentioned, in 

 which Lord Derby vigorously called on the Club to 

 do their duty, and which deserves to be read in con- 

 nection with Mr. Baron Alderson's observations at the 

 conclusion of the ' Kunning Kein ' case, when he said : 

 * Before we part, I must be allowed to say that this 

 case has produced great regret and disgust in my 

 mind. It has disclosed a wretched fraud, and has 

 shown noblemen and gentlemen associating and 

 betting with men of low rank, and infinitely beneath 

 them in society.' There we have it : but for the 

 betting the close association would not be tolerated, 

 that betting which the majority of the Jockey 

 Club have encouraged from the first. Perhaps Lord 

 Derby (whose letter related especially to a Mr. 

 Adkins, a convicted swindler) had in his mind's eye, 

 when he wrote, the race for the Hunt Cup of 1856, 

 when he himself raced in company with the said 

 Mr. Adkins, or that pretty picture in the Cesarewitch 

 of the same year, when Mr. Adkins raced in company 



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