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but if put to the test of a candle, a differ- 

 ence of tint is plainly shown. Let the 

 room be made dark, then, and candles 

 produced.' Now mark the result, which 

 we are sorry thus to proclaim to the world, 

 particularly as the offending party writes 

 Honourable before his name. 'Let the 

 gentlemen be shown into the room,' said 

 Mr. Wilson ; when he pronounced the 

 following verdict : * A wins from B one 

 thousand guineas ! ' 



It was a forgery ! Gentlemen of England 

 dissociate yourselves from persons who have 

 thus disgraced your order; or, if that be 

 impossible, withdraw yourselves at once 

 from the turf. 



On more accounts than one our turf 

 proceedings must make foreigners marvel. 

 Some years since, a French gentleman 

 visited Doncaster, and gave it the appellation 

 of 'the guinea meeting,' nothing without 

 the guinea. 'There was,' said he, 'the 

 guinea for entering the rooms to hear the 

 people bet. There was the guinea for my 

 dinner at the hotel. There was the guinea 

 for the stand, for myself; and (phi .exe- 

 crable f) the guinea for the stand for my 



