Related article: of the bookmaker in France rely upon the employment of the words " all comers " in the Ad, as implying a person ready to bet with any one who had the money in his hand to deposit, and it is further argued that, was it the intention of the Act to suppress every kind of betting, save that of the pari-mutuely then this inten- tion would have been expressly stated. What developments are in store, time will show ; for the present it is enough to know that the police are being enjoined to take energetic action. On the Cheap Diprolene 14th ult., the Prefect of Police in Paris sent a telegram to the Commissaries of Police at Bou- logne, Saint-Ouen, Enghien, Vin- cennes, and Leva Hois - Pemet, instructing tTiem to take striogent measures for the suppression, at the meetings about to take place in their districts, of betting in any other form than that of the /an- mutnel. Offenders were to be expelled from the course, and proceeded against by virtue of the Act of 1 891. I do not feel competent to say to what extent the police of France ** wink the other eye " in cases of this kind. On the 12th ult., two days before the tele- graphic action of the Prefect of Police, I was present at the meet- ing held at Auteuil, and there the bookmaker was certainly plyii^ Buy Diprolene Online his vocation. He was doing this in the small railed space at the back of the stand, and his atti- tude was remarkable for its lack of demonstrativeness. A good deal had already been said aboot the bookmaker and of the appli- cation Diprolene Af Cream 0.05 of the Act of 1 Diprolene Price 89 1 to his particular case, so there was good cause for a subdued demeanour. Not a shout was heard, and here one gained a useful object lessoc, for the business was transacted quite as well without the lung- J i899.3 "OUR VAN. $t 291 power competition that is the Diprolene Ointment dis- agreeable feature of English rings. Having heard that the bookmaker was to be suppressed, I was sur- prised to see the trade in full blast; and one is tempted to speculate upon the reason which impelled the Prefect of Police to defer sending his telegram until the Auteuil meeting was over, though, it is true, there are more to come. Having seen the book- makers at work, one could not, furthermore, suppress the thought that some, at least, of the best known of our own men in that line of business would decline to operate under the conditions en- forced at Auteuil. But here we begin to touch upon the element of national character, which ex- plains the very material differences that exist in the conduct of affairs French and English, the pursuit of racing included. No one in France believes that the book- maker will be done away with, and the difficulty of his Generic Diprolene existence may be solved by his paying a tax on his turn-over equivalent to that of the part-mutual. One cannot, as a frequent visitor of English racecourses, attend a big Paris meeting with- out finding much food for reflec- tion. Whatever he may have heard of the difference existing between racing in France and £ngland, the visitor, fresh from the English racecourse, is still unprepared for what awaits him. The fact that he makes his way across the free portions of the course in company with tens of thousands of the humbler class of racegoer, the majority of whom have come by foot, the distance not being great, should not sur- prise him, for the day is Sunday : and if racing were to be seen for nothing on Sunday on Hampstead Heath or Clapham Common, there would be one or two to look on, I fancy. But what a dreadful crowd it would be ; whereas the Paris crowd leaves little to be desired in the way of demeanour, and is, for the greater part, emi- nently respectable. Quiet-looking families, provided Diprolene Af Cream with folding camp-stools and provision -baskets, make their way to Auteuil in precisely the same way that their corresponding Buy Diprolene types at home be- take themselves to Kew Gardens and Richmond Park, and it is not saying too much to assert that the bulk of the attendance on this Diprolene Gel part of the Diprolene Lotion course is made up of this type of visitor. To what extent the, to an Englishman, novel presence of soldiery on duty assists in preserving order, I can- not say. I do not think that a military patrol here and there would have a seriously deterrent effect with Diprolene Af an evil-intentioned English crowd, and I feel strongly inclined to attribute the order that exists to the absence of pug- nacity in the national character, and the large capacity it has for peaceful enjoyment. Paris, we know, has its full share of bad characters, and, judged by the standard of Epsom, one would expect to find them Diprolene Cream at Auteuil ; but the gratifying truth is that they are not there. There are facilities for keeping them out that do not exist at Epsom ; but what we have to face is the fact that in the open space there is more order and decorum than is to be met with in many English enclosures to which admission is gained by payment. Order Diprolene Online But if we are surprised at the scene in the public area, after Diprolene Online allowing that it is Sunday, that the weather is very fine, and that Auteuil is providing a free spec- tacle within very easy reach of Paris, what are we to say of what we see in the stand enclosure ? Remember, it is early in March, 292 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [April and the racing is steeplechasing and hurdle-racing, and the occa- sion an ordinary one ; that is to say, it is not like the Grand Mili- tary meeting at Sandown, where the racing is by no means the only attraction to the bulk of the numerous fashionable visi- tors. When, at a fashionable metropolitan race meeting, we see the members* enclosure tenanted by numerous ladies, we know that each of them has been admitted by a member's pass. We do not look in the ** Diprolene Ointment 0.05 reserved enclosure " (or Tatter- sali's ring, as it is still so fre-