The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-25 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
NOTICkS OF MOTIONS FOR, THIS DAY.
1. Mr. Robert Grant—Two Petitions from Robert:Cowist
on behalf of certain bferchasits of London, Claimants
against the French' Government in respect of pro petty
confiscated during the Revolution 2—Similar Peti-
tions from Mrs. Samuels, widow ; and from Nodes
Dickinson, on behalf of certain inhabitants of the Co-
lony of St. Martin—and to move an Addree to the
Crown thereupon.
2. Mr. Wilmot Horton—To move Resolutions on the sub-
ject of Slavery, in furtherance and explanatory of
the Resolutions in 1823.

FRENCH LOTTERY IN' ENGLAND.:

PARIS, JULY 18.-:-The Lottery has this year bean
againer, as compared with.the six months 1827,
of the enormous sum of 2,504;000 franes(loo2oo).)
the greater part of which has` been extracted from
• the pockets of the labouring population. It is
expected, however,-that. next
:year .this odious tax
will be abolished, tor which ciieuniataneethe country
will be indebted to the .influence 'and • exertions of
the Duke and Duchess of Angouleme. Talking of
Lotteries, it may be proper to caution the public
against a new system of gambling, which a set of in-
dividuals are attempting to introduce into' England,
and which is neither more nor less than re-introducing
Lotteries, notwithstanding the Act of Parliament
which prohibits, them; the folloe ing is the plan to be •
pursued, and is said to be the invention of the
Rev. Mr. -- -. Agency offices for the purchase •
of French lottery tickets are to be established in va-
rious parts of the town, and, if possible, ci-devant
lottery contractors, whose names are well known to
the public, are to manage them, under the ambi-
guous name of " agents for the purchase of French
property." It may be necessary here to explain the
nature of a French lottery. Ninety numbers are put
into an urn, and only five of them are drawn out.—
Should any of those numbers selected by the player
be. drawn, they are paid in the proportion of, for
one number only coming out, seventy-two times the
amount staked ; for two numbers, 270 times -the
amount; for- three, 1,700; and so on, increasing in
an immense ratio. Now your readers will easily see
what great odds are against the players, and that any
one venturing Often 'at such a game must be ruined.
in order to' escape the provisions' of the Act, no ne-
, tual sale of lottery tickets will be effected; the per-
son wishing to purchase will go to the agent's, and
desire him to buy a ticket in Paris, for, let, us sup-
pose, one sovereign ; the numbers be selects are 40
and 57—in the event of these numbers coming out
prizes, the amount to be received would be 270/.
A regular advertisement would appear in • all the
English Papers to this effect:--u Paris Lottery,
July 18. Winning numbera 17, •S; 28; 74." As
soon as the individual finds, by the papers, that he is
a winner; he applies to the agent for the money. The
latter tells him that his ticket is in Paris, but that,
for a commission of five per cent. he will
.get hi:n
the money by return of post ; in six days the money
is paid to the winner, deducting the commission ; it
is unnecessary to add, that no ticket had:been pur-
chased, but that the agents or contractors bad placed
themselves in the situation of the French Govern-
ment, and received the benefit of the great odds /in
their favour. This, however, they . would only do
when the amount staked did not exceed from five '
shillings to five pounds; but, in other eases, where,
we will say, 100/. has been staked on a number, the
agents would, in reality, purchase a ticket in Paris,
and,• if the number was a winning one, they would
still be gainers of five per cent, commission. The
very act of mentioning this new scheme will put
people upon their guard; and •we doubt xot • that
when the circumstance becomes known, the Govern-
ment Officers will be upon the alert to pounce upon
the offenders, if they act contrary to the laws
against lotteries.

BIRTHS.
On the 23d instant, at Putney, the lady of Sir Robert
Graham, Bart., of "a son.

' On the 11th instant, at Florence, the lady of Capt. G.
J. Hope Johnstone, MN., of a daughter.
'On the:2Bd instant, •in Finsbury-circus, Mrs. Feederic
Cobb, of a daughter.
. .
On the 24th instant, at Portland-.place, Stockwell-corn ••
mon, Mrs. Frederick G. Godeell, of a son.
On the 22d. instant, at Putney-beith, the lady of Robert
GOsling, Esq., of a son, which only survived a few hours.
• On the 22d instant, at Watsash House, the lady of John
Digby Murray, EN., of a daughter, still born.
On the 28d instant, at Sandhuist, Lady Harriet Paget,
of,a son. • • •
MARRIED. -
On the23d.instant,:at- Amershini,,Afr. Maishall, solici-
tor, so Miss Craft.
Op tbe.22d instant, at Withcote, in the county of Lei-
cester, Edward Dawson, of Whation•Houie, in that county,
Esq., to Mary Finch, the eldest daughter of the late! John
Finch Simpson, of La'unde Abbey, in the same county, Esq.
Oa the 18th instant, at Cowbridge, Henry D. Herne%
Esq.:of the Royal Engineers, to Caroline Susanna, second
daughter of Thomas Edmondes, Esq., of Cowbridge,
G lam organshi re. '
On the 10th instant, at Aberdeen, Mr. A. Cowie,
schoolmaster, Albany-street, Regent's-park, London, to
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of ,the late Mr. Garden, in
Bandley, Alford.