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WVeY insett anothlie Oettelr. fcfi.Eotrroa -on' gam- i.g-ho.uses.; but we 'confess 'we are not disposed to sympathizevwith -th&e lIes -ind even ruin of -those who vi'sit. 6uch places.' Eky piaa 'Who goes- to a gambling- hlouise 'intends-to wfin~if' he can ,he cannot.win, ex- sept- by some perso0n a loss, he goes, therefore, with the -intentiop and- fiopeoP'njuring 'some one else. If he fails, he faile 'in a d;ioouraba aiid criminal attempt, and deserves all the nffichief that accrues to him. Who can regret that.a man in the'act of committing an assault Is tvounded by thb recoil of his own gun ? Lot us have, therefore, no appealsiu behalf of those who are ruined in the midstof their schemes to ruin others; but as all parties, both winners and losers, ire engaged in a course of-action which the lawr has condemned, let the law visit b6th with equal and alarming severity. If the law considers gambling a ruinous crime, let it be a transportable offence to be seen playing in a gambling-house : if gambling is a mere mnodifi- eation of some of.the necessary passions of human nature, let the gambling-house be legally open to all, in which case the occasional presence oithe respectable (whether from cu- riosity or otlier.mbtivesl might operate as a check on the hea4ilong folly of the inexperienced, or the over-reaching avarice of the initiated. We belleve that more money is wori and. lost in one night in one house in London than in all the houses of-Iaris in a -month. tsLe isotbO-nilindrstqd; we detest gan-,bling, and lookupon-kgamblcfswhether a -winning or a losing one, in minuclh tli ;anmJ1,'9iW I which. ire consider a thief. We quarrel-only yith the inconsistency of the law, which, by comipelling secrecy, destroys: the possibility of 'a moral check; and which, -while it pretends to. punish, inflicts such trifling penalties,j as riely sztvc to protect the rich gamester by seciring him a-maonopoly of his trade against the cncroachhment of iunmbler ealitalists.