The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-17 00:00:00

DRAWING OF THE LOTTERY OF THE

LINGO ES D'UR.
The drawing of the lottery of the Lingots d'Or
took place yesterday, in the circus of the Champs
Elysees.
At ten o'clock precisely the authorities, in presence
of whom the drawing was to take place, took their
Cirque.
The on the platform in the centre of the
The bureau of control was composed of MAL
Monier-Juoy, Mayor of the 6th arrondissement;
Beranger. Doyen of the Jug es de Paix of Paris ;
Crouzis-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 Mile time, and by means of
a spring, at: aperture was effected in each, admitting
the hands os 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
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-
sented a sum forming the number to which the lots
corresponded.
The first drawn was the number winning the grand
prize of 400,000 E ; 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. Tae 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 Elysees, for the benefit of the public
who had not found room within the Circus. The
same was done fur 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 franca
3d ... 2,087,288 ... 100,000 francs
4th ... 5.283.574 ... 50,000 francs
5 2.828,291 ...
6th ... 1,338,398
... 1,732,833
Bth ... 6 472,657 ...
9th ... 1,383,754
10th ... 6.717,264
11th ... .3.703,820 ...
12th 5636,775 ...
13th ... 6.373 690 ...
14th ... 5,415,786 ...
15th ... 3,636,306 ...
16th ... 2,557,871 • .
17th ... 2,671 870 ...
18th ... 4,601,769 ...
19. h ... 1,710 342 ...
20th ... 0 400,267 ...
21st ... 3,924,269 ...
22i ... 2 808,217 ...
23d ... 5,757,864 ...
24 h 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 the Elysee. At the proclamation of No. 13, a
prize of 10,000 f., a voice was beard from the multitude
in the Circus, crying out—" Le voia, voia! Grkes
a Dieu! c'est moi, c'est moi ! j'ai gage e. Oh! mes
amis, que ma rne:e va titre heureuse!" The person
who thus expressed his joy was a young man of 20, a
chair-turner's apprentice of the Faubourg St.
Antoine.

25,000 francs

10,000 francs

-,000 francs

No. 8 (a prim of 25,000 f.) was wort by a sergeant
of the R-publican Guard, who waa at the very mo-
ment doing duty ou'`ide the Circus.
Ti'e drawing terminated at three o'clock for the
200 tickets of I,ooof. _ _ .

The ilioniteur publishes the following :—" A
jourcal asserts that the expedition about to be sent by
the Fronch 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 journal,
that England contemplated to attack the territory of
Morocco. As respects the departure of the French
flotilla, which is to repair to Sallee, 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 the Ministerial crisis, which occurred during the
mouth of October.