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mitted to the News Rooms and Coffee 

 Rooms, for any one meeting, without any 

 other charge than the payment of one 

 half-year's subscription to each; and that 

 each member attending any other meeting 

 in the same year will be considered a 

 member of the New Rooms, and liable to 

 all the usual charges.' 



On entering the town from the London 

 side, the first object of attraction is the 

 house long occupied by the late Duke of 

 Queensberry, but at present in a disgraceful 

 state of decay. ' Kingston House ' is now 

 used as a ' hell ' (sic transit gloria /) ; and 

 the palace, the joint work of so many royal 

 architects, is partly occupied by a training- 

 groom, and partly by his Grace of Rutland, 

 whose festivities at Cheveley, during the 

 race-meetings, have very wisely been 

 abridged. The Earl of Chesterfield has 

 a house just on entering the town, and the 

 Marquis of Exeter a most convenient one, 

 with excellent stabling attached. The Duke 

 of Richmond, Mr. Christopher Wilson, 

 father of the turf, and several other eminent 

 sportsmen, are also domiciled at Newmarket 

 during the meetings. But the lion of 



