198 THK SPORTING WORLD. 



as they are beneficently left to do in the case 

 of gin drinking with all its concomitant evils ; 

 though theft, murder, and a hundred other 

 enormities are the result of the tempting facility 

 afforded to gin drinkers, no check is put on it. 

 It is true if any one is found in a beastly 

 state of intoxication in the street the police 

 interfere, but, provided a man is in that state 

 that he is enabled to stagger home he is 

 permitted to do so, and, unless the brutality 

 he exhibits there is such as to call for the 

 interference of the law after the brutality is 

 committed, no check is put on his career. 

 No, virtually, gin drinking must be encouraged, 

 making out the spirit of the line — ■ 



** And wretches hang that jurymen may dine." 



There are countries where gaming houses 

 pay (or did pay) a certain sum to Govern- 

 ment; it is not so here, but as we have 

 no reason to suppose our legislators and 



