The Lords
¶ Were roused from their customary lethargy by three dukes who scathingly attacked the anti-lottery laws under which His Grace the Duke of Atholl was fined £25 for conducting a nation-wide charity lottery which realized £152,000 (TIME, Dec. 4).
To Atholl rallied the land-poor Duke of Montrose who keeps plaintively trying to sell his tens of thousands of Scottish acres and takes boarders at his Buchanan Castle for eight guineas ($43) per week.
"If the present lottery law were strictly enforced in all cases," snorted Montrose, ''half the clergymen in the United...
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