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

FRANCE.

ItAWING OF THE LOTTERY OF THE

LINGOES D'OR.

['he drawing of the lottery of the Lingots d'Or
k place on Sunday, in the circus of the Champs
Fsees.

kt ten o'clock precisely the authorities, in presence

whom the dra-wing was to take place, took their
yes on the platform in the centre of the Cirque.
The ipbureau of control was composed of INIAL
Monier-Jupy, Mayor of the 6th arrondissement;
B-ranger, Doyen of the Juges de Paix of Paris ;
C:ouzas-Creteil, one of the Members of the Council
or A iministration of the Bank of France ; Oudine,
Auditor of the Accounts of the Lottery; Clement
R-yre, 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, admiqing
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 the left, contained seven
los,ls 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
fieth 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-
sented a sum forming the number to which the lots
corresponded.
The first drawn was the number winning the grand
prize of 400,000 f. ; 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
others, General Delarue was stated to be the happy
man. The moment the winning number was ascer-
tained within, it was affixed on a board, fastened to a
lofty pole, which was immediately borne by two men
about the Champs Elysiies, for the benefit of the public
who had not found room within the Circus. The
same was done for the other numbers.
The following is the list, according to the order, of
the 24 numbers that gained the 24 highest prizes of
the lottery :

Ist ... 2,558,115 ... 400 000 francs
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 franca
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
22d ... 2,808,217
23d ... 5,757.864
24th ... 0,337,856 .
••
Nunabey: 2, or that of the prize of 200,000 f., was
gainer'. by a journeyman hairdresser of the rue Mon-
taigne, near the Circus, and close to the garden walls
of the Elysee. At the proclamation of No. 13, a
prize of 10,000 F., a voice was heard from the multitude
In the Circus, crying out--" Le voila, voila! Graces
a Dieu! c'est moi, c'est moi! j'ai gagnoS. Oh ! mes
que ma more va titre heureuse !" Tne person
scho thus expressed his joy was a young man of 20, a
nt:air-turner's apprentice of the Faubourg St.
toine.

II
10,000 francs

5,000 francs

No. 8 (a prize of 25,0000 was won by a sergeant
01. the Republican Guard, who waa at the very mo-
:nt doing duty outside 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 expedition about to be sent by
;h- French Government to the coast of Morocco was
resolved upon when it became known that the British
C think had ordered a similar expedition. This asser-
tion is completely unfounded. The Government of
th Republic is not aware, as stated by that jr.urnal,
that England contemplated to attack the territory of
Morocco. As respects the departure of the French
flotilla, which is to repair to Sallec, 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
havl been probably adopted earlier, had it nut been
for the Ministerial crisis, which occurred during the
month of October.