.1,000
130 Waiters, at 75 fr. a month. . . . . . . . . . .9,750
Cards a month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,500
Beer and refreshments, a month. . . . . . . . . . .3,000
Lights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5,500
Refreshment for the grand saloon, including two
dinners every week, per month . . . . . . . . . 12,000
Total expense of each month . . . .113,930
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Multiplied by twelve, is. . . . . . . . . . . .1,367,160
Rent of 10 Houses, per annum. . . . . . . . . . .130,000
Expense of Offices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000
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Total per annum. . . . . . . . . 1,547,160
If the `privilege' or license is . . . . . . . 6,000,000
If a bonus of a million is given for six years, the
sixth part, or one year, will be . . . . . . . 166,666

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Total expenditure . . . . . . . .7,713,826
The profits are estimated at, per month,. . . . .800,000
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Which yield, per annum, . . . . . . . . . . . .9,600,000
Deducting the expenditure . . . . . . . . . . .7,713,826
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The annual profits are. . . . . . . . . . . fr.1,886,174
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Thus giving the annual profit at L7860 sterling.

We omit the profits resulting from the watering-places,
amounting to fr. 200,000.

One of the new conditions imposed on the Paris gaming houses is the
exclusion of females.

Thus, at Paris, the Palais Royal, Frascati, and numerous other places,
presented gaming houses, whither millions of wretches crowded in search
of fortune, but, for the most part, to find only ruin or even death
by suicide or duelling, so often resulting from quarrels at the gaming
table.

This state of things was, however, altered in the year 1836, at the
proposition of M. B. Delessert, and all the gaming houses were ordered
to be closed from the 1st of January, 1838, so that the present gambling
in France is on the same footing as gambling in England,--utterly
prohibited, but carried on in secret.

CHAPTER VI. THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN GAMING IN ENGLAND.

It seems that the rise of modern gaming in England may be dated from the
year 1777 or 1778.

Before this time gaming appears never to have assumed an alarming
aspect. The methodical system of partnership, enabling men to embark
large capital in gambling establishments, was unknown; though from that
period this system became the special characteristic of the pursuit
among all classes of the com