Confiding Colonists. A recent number of " Truth " gave some extracts from a Melbourne paper of the "impressions" of Thompson, the book maker, who visited England last racing season. Thompson seems to have been drawing the long bow considerably during his interview, for he says that the leading bookmakers in England "are gentlemen, and are treated like gentlemen," and that "jockeys are swells, and keep their valets." If Australians believe this, they will believe anything.
