"About the year 1831 or 1832, play first became common. Harding Ackland, a man of great fame at that time, an inveterate and spirited player at anything, "from marbles to man slaughter," as the saying is, opened the first shilling hell in the metropolis (that is to say shilling stakes), No. 60, Quadrant, Regent Street. His speculation was successful beyond all calculation. He created a new school of players. No longer was gaming confined to the artistocratic circle; the shilling hell embraced every order of trademan and commercial clerk, and hence its dire influence on a portion of society quite unable to struggle under its pressure. For serious people can be aware of the destructive fascinations of the gambling vice."