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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 375, 9 June 1868, Page 3

The Manchester Trades' Union Inquiry Commission have issued their report, which acquits the employers of labour of intimidation, outrage or wrong, and declares that the outrages that have taken place have been instigated by the unions themselves. A London correspondent of a colonial paper writes : — I am afraid that the deathknell of a once famous old English sport —I allude to racing — is being sounded. The reckless gambling which has existed on the turf for the past few years, the ruin of gentlemen who have retired disgvisted from a so-called sport, the introduction of a low and mean betting faternity element into the affair, have combined to reduce a distinguished pastime into a mean and ungentlemanly^ business. Gentlemen cannot compete on fair terms with those betting men who don't understand the word ' ' honour" and who hesitate at no device to fleece the young and foolish, An excellent example of thishas been given lately. The young Earl of Jersey, who is but one year from college, and three years from school, has been " sold up" after the racing experience of a single season. Money lenders actually got hold of the young fellow when he was at Eton, and the ladling was hopelessly in debt before he had taken his degree at Oxford. Another brilliant example of the pernicious system of betting, is the Marquis of Hastings, still a boy, but who is on the verge of ruin. All this iB very sad, and one could almost cry to see the noble timber out down, and the gorgeous estates sequestered and sold for the sake of this reckless and disgraceful gambling on the turf, The upshot of it all is that the stout-hearted supporters of the turf, the noblemen who have, always run fair and hate deceit and fraud as they hate a lie, will have no more of it. The Duke of Beaufort, the king as it were, of the turf, loved and respected by all, quite sickened with the system of modern racing, has sold his magnificent stud and retired from the turf,