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ENGLISHMEN BOUND TO, BET. At the recent English Glmcrack Club dinner, W. Raphael, the guest of the evening said: "If racing is allowed, betting inust follow, because it is in the Englishmans nature. Are we such saints, aud are all the European nations, and our own colonics such sinners? Perhaps we may be the greater hypocrites." Tills frank statement was approved by a volume of applause from the English Uirf magnates assembled.