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FRENCH BETTING CONSIDERATION. The Comite Consultatif des Courses, which is, for practical and administrative purposes, a body like the English Jockey Club, intends to make an inquiry into the whole betting question In France. For this purpose a sub-commlttee was recently appointed, which met for the first time under the presidency of M. Cabaret, at the Ministry of Agriculture. Eleven different propositions were submitted for consideration and these have been referred to M. Edinond Blanc for his opinion thereon. The report of this sub-committee is. looked forward to with much interest by our sporting circles, as several important changes in the present regulations are proposed.