its "ten-pin alley." But "billiards" and "ten-pins" are not true "gambling games." The first is patronized rather as an elegant amusement, and the latter as an excellent exercise. Cards and dice are the real weapons of the "sportsman ;" but particularly the former. Besides the English games of "whist" and "cribbage," and the French games of "vingt-un," "rougeet-noir," &c., the American gambler plays "poker," "luchre," "seven-up," and a variety of others. In New Orleans there is a favourite of the Creoles, called " craps," a dice game, and "keno," and "loto," and "roulette," played with balls and a revolving wheel Farther to the South, among the Spano-Mexicans, you meet the game of "monté”—a card game, distinct from all the others. Monté is the national game of Mexico. To all other modes of getting at your money, the SouthWestern sportsman prefers "faro." It is a game of Spanish origin, as its name imports; indeed, it differs but little from manté, and was no doubt obtained from the Spaniards of New Orleans. Whether native or exotic to the towns of Mississippi Valley, in all of them it has become perfectly naturalized; and there is no sportsman of the West who does not understand and practise it." We would close this supplement by repeating the emphatic words quoted above : "There is more gambling in moral England than in any country of my knowing." "No! moral England! You are no pattern for the nations in this respect. You are not free from the stain as you imagine yourself. You have a larger population of gamblers -horse-gamblers if you will, than any other people." THE SABBATH: PATRIARCHAL, MOSAIC, AND CHRISTIAN. I HAVE undertaken to bring before you this evening the subject of the "Weekly Sabbath," under its threefold aspect, namely, the Patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian Sabbath. I do this because I believe that, by a careful investigation and comparison of the Scriptures which bear upon this subject, we may be able to satisfy our own minds on some disputed points, and to clear up, perhaps, some difficulties felt by others as to the binding obligation of the Lord's-day as observed in the Christian Church. It is not improbable that there are some now present who may think such a subject more suited for the exhortations of the pulpit than for one of your lectures from this place. 1 confess that I have myself felt that I am open to this objec tion. I trust, however, that a sufficient apology will be found for the attempt I am about to make, when it is considered that the Sabbath question has already outstepped the pulpit; that it occupies the public mind in no ordinary degree; that it has been made the subject of debate in Parliament, and holds a prominent position in the pages of our periodical literature; while in reality it lies at the very basis of our social happiness and of our national Christianity. |