The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-17 00:00:00

NEW LOTTERY

This day, at eleven o'clock, the present CHAN

CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER received, for the first
time, the biddings for a Lottery. The Lottery
Office Keepers who have been for some time the
Contractors, declined bidding, on account of re-
cent losses in the speculation, but a list com-
posed of the most respectable Gentlemen of the
Stock Exchange was formed, and we have, but to
name Messrs. RtcAnno, MIEVILLE, and MAu-
BEST, who signed the Contract this day, for
20;000 Tickets, to be drawn on or before the
31st day of October next, to prove to the public
the good faith that will be kept in every part
of this transaction. We understand that the Go.,
vermnont has sold the Tickets.at the same price
which 'they have received for some time past;
but that AV holt Tickets will be on sale at
the Stock Exchange, at the market price of the
day, to all purchasers who may employ their
Broker's to buy them as they were formerly.
We cannon help wishing the Contractors success
in their undertaking, which will to that part of
the public who purchase Lottery Tickets, be a
considerable saving.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
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receivednXndi' by Express the Paris Papers
Thursday last. Their con-
tents are of great importance, for they not only
confirm the fact that MINA had out-generalted
Marshal Moarecy, and strengthen the hope that
he has obtained some other considerable ad-
vantage over the invaders, but prove that
the Duke d'ArrootmEme himself has sus-
tained some check,-;—that his communications
with France are either interrupted, or are
preserved with very great difficulty—that his
advariced guard has been -drawn back from
Valladolid to Burgos,—that Valencia has, gal-
lantly repulsed ULMAN, into whose hands that
city was alleged to have fallen,—that the
French have been compelled to raise the blockade
of Santona,—that Madrid has been deserted by
ahnost all the respectable inhabitants,—and that
ABISBAL, the Portuguese General 1400, and
perhaps MoarrAo, are now interposed be-
tween that Capital and the Duke d'ANGOtI•
LEME, apparently with the intention of
disputing his further advance ! But it is
from Catalonia,—from MoNcta- or from MINA,
—that additional intelligence is looked for with
the most intense anxiety. The French Govern-
ment have suffered none of the information
which has reached them, of a later date than
the Bth; to transpire. There are letters from
Burges of the tenth,—but beyond the eighth,
the Ptiblic have been permitted to know
nothing of what is passing in Catalonia f
The Journal des Dards reasons upon the
data previously furnished, and endeavours to
spew that MINA was compelled, by the mancen-
vres of the French Generals, to make that move-1
ment which has evidently disconcerted and sur-
prised his adversaries. But even allowing that the
operations of the French were well and judicious-
ly conducted, still it is admitted by theMselves
:that their object was defeated by the skilful and
unexpected movement on the part of MINA, which
the French official account so expressively terms
his having " given the slip" to his opponents,—
and still there is no disposition to give publicity.