The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-18 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Li, .1/2.WING OF THE LOTTERY OF THE

LINGOTS D'OR.
The drawing of the lottery of the Lingots d'Or
.17,0ik place on Sunday, in the circus of the Champs
Elysees. _ _

At ten o'clock precisely the authorities, in presence
of vbom the drawing was to take place, took their
pl • es on the platform in the centre of the Cirque.
lee bureau of control was composed of MM.
Monier-Jupy, Mayor of the 6th arrondissement ;
Beranger, Doyen of the Juges de Paix of Paris ;
Crouzas-Creteil, one of the Members of the Council
of Administration of the Bank of France ; Oudine,
Auditor of the Accounts of the Lottery ; Clement
Reyre, Commissioner-General of the Government; and
Blavier, Secretary-General of the Prefecture of Police.
The machine invented for the drawing of the balls
was then produced, and the seven young children who
were to draw took their places, each behind a machine.
The wheels attached were then put in rapid and
simultaneous movement by means of a handle, in
order to mix the balls well together. After this
operation had continued some minutes the wheels
were stopped, also at the same time, and by means of
a spring, an aperture was effected in each, admitting
the hands of the children, who each took out a ball,
and raised it as high as they could above their heads.
Each of the six wheels contained balls marked from
0 to 9 ; and the seventh, on th=e left., contained seven
balls marked from 0 to 6. The first ball indicated
the millions, the second the hundred thousands, the
third the ten thousands, the fourth the thousands, the
fifth the hundreds, the sixth the tens, and the seventh
the simple units—so that the seven balls drawn and
placed simultaneously in their order of drawing. pre-
seoted a sum forming the number to which the lots
Tne first drawn was the number winning the grand
lime of 400,0001. ; that number was 2,558,115. The
person who won the prize was, by some, said to be
one. Of the enginemen of the Northern Railroad ; by
oth-ri, General Delarue was stated to be the happy
man. The moment the winning number was ascer-
t eine 1 within, it was affixed on a board, fastened to a
lefty pole, wbich was immediately borne by two men
about the Champs Elysees, for the benefit of the public
who had not found room within the Circus. The
saes was done for the other numbers.

The following is the list, according to the order, of
t' ?A numbers that gained the 24 highest prizes of
the lottery :-
Ist ... 2,558,115 400,000 franca
2d 0,320 450 200,000 francs
3d ... 2,087.288 ... 100.000 francs
4th ... 5,283,574 ... 50,000 francs
sth 2,828,291 ... ••
6th 1,338,398 ... 25 000 francs
7th ... 1,732,833
Bth ... 6,472,657 ...
9th ... 1,383 754 ...
10th ... 6,717,264
11th ... :3,703,820 ...
12th .. 5;636,775 ..-
13th ... 6.373 590 ...
14th ... 5,415,786
15th 3,636,306
16th 2,557,871 . •
17th 2,671,870 ...
18th 4,601,769 ...
19th ... 1,710,342
20th ... 0,400,267 ...
21st ... 3,924,269
22,1 ... 2,808,217
231 ... 5,757 864
24th ... 0,337,856 „
Number 2, or that of the prize of 200,000 f., was
gained by a journeyman hairdresser of the rue Mon-
taigne, near the Circus, and close to the garden walls
of theElysee. At the proclamation of No. 13, a
prize of 10,000 f., a voice was heard from the multitude
the Circus, crying out—" Le von, GrL:es
a Dieu! c'est moi, c'est moi 1 j'ai gagn6. Oh! mes
que ma mere va Cre heureuse!" The person
who thus expressed his joy was a young man 20, a
chair-turner's apprentice of tha Faubourg St.
Antoine.

10,000 franca

5,000 franca

No. 8 (9, prize of 25,000 f.) wag won by a sergeant
of the Republican Guard, who waa at the very mo-
ment doing duty ou'side the Circus.
The drawing terminated at three o'clock for the
200 tickets of I,ooof.

The Moniteur publishes the following :—" A
journal asserts that the expeditio❑ about to be sent by
the French Government to the coast of Morocco was
resolved upon when it became known that the British
Cabinet had ordered a similar expedition. This asser-
tion is completely unfounded. The Government of
the Republic is not aware, as stated by that j.)urnal,
that England contemplated to attack the terri'ory of
Morocco. As respects the departure of the French
fl /cilia, which is to repair to Sillec, to support the
demand of satisfaction, hitherto made without success,
for the plunder of a commercial vessel, that measure
has been a long time under deliberation, and would
have been probably adopted earlier, had it not been
for he Ministerial crisis, which occurred during the
month of October.