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and other Antipodean centres of horse-racing 

 and betting, and therefore speaks as one having 

 authority, and not as the scribes of the news- 

 papers. 



The glorification of ' Tattersall's ' culminated 

 in the year 1865, when Messrs. Tattersall, at the 

 expiration of a ninety-nine years' lease — which 

 the Duke (then Marquis) of Westminster, 

 actuated, no doubt, by the sentiment displayed 

 by him at Chester in respect of the betting-ring, 

 refused to renew — removed, on April 10, from 

 Hyde Park Corner to the present establish- 

 ment at Knightsbridge. On April 1 1 Messrs. 

 Richard and Edmund Tattersall, cousins, pro- 

 prietors of the said establishment, were en- 

 tertained at a complimentary dinner, whereof 

 Willis's Rooms supplied the scene, and were 

 honoured by the presence of some three hundred 

 celebrants, comprising, in the words of Mr. 

 Edmund himself, ' the highest and the noblest 

 of the land ' (with Admiral Rous in the chair), as 

 well as ' those gentlemen whose names are so 

 well known to the world as the great spirits of 

 the sporting Stock Exchange, who will lay you 



