§ The Duke of Richmond, in moving the second reading of the Gambling Transactions Witnesses Indemnity Bill, said that the object of it was to afford indemnity to the witnesses called upon to give evidence before the Committee to which the Penalties on Horse-racing, &c., Repeal Bill had been referred. The Committee had found it impossible to make a searching inquiry into Gambling without the examination of persons implicated in transactions for which they were liable to prosecution; and it could hardly be expected that, under such circumstances, they would come for- 1098 ward and give evidence in such matters, when by doing so they would be subject, ing themselves to pains and penalties, unless they were protected by a Bill of Indemnity. He was glad to find that the other House had appointed a Committee, and he trusted that their united efforts would end in the adoption of such steps as would put an end to that excessive system of Gambling, against which he, in common with the people of this country, entertained the strongest objections, and should be most happy to put down. He hoped by means of the Committee of the other House they would be able to remove the prejudice which existed, that the measure for putting a stop to the qui tam actions was brought forward as a protection to the rich and not to the poor: such was not the fact, and he regretted that truth obliged him to state that there was more gambling amongst the lower than the higher classes. He hoped they would be able to procure such evidence before the Committee as would enable them to legislate efficiently on the subject, and to prevent Gambling so far as it could be prevented by legislation among all classes.