XIV. Le prisonnier furieux et le prisonnier fou
XIV. The Raving Prisoner and the Mad One
Peace between France and Morocco, Marshal Bugeaud's new dukedom, and two fatal accidents at Niagara Falls dominate this issue.
- King Louis-Philippe made Marshal Bugeaud Duke of Isly and promoted Prince de Joinville to vice-admiral, rewarding the commanders of the victorious Moroccan campaign at Isly and Mogador.
- Captain Wallis of HMS Warspite visited the French consul at Gibraltar in person to publicly repudiate inflammatory letters about the French navy published in an English newspaper by men claiming to be his officers.
- Abbé Genoude, the legitimist journalist, lost his fifth or sixth consecutive electoral candidacy at Savenay, yet the Gazette de France hailed his campaign speech as 'one of the greatest events of the age.'
- A monster train of 250 carriages drawn by 10 locomotives carried 7,800 passengers from Leeds to Hull in a single departure, earning the railway company an estimated 20,000 francs.
- Within days of each other at Niagara Falls, a young Philadelphian was swept away trying to carve his name on a submerged rock, and a young woman named Mary Rugg fell to her death reaching for a flower on the edge of Table Rock.
- A Tuscan rural priest, Abbé Cresciogli, was sentenced in open court to five years' convent imprisonment and twenty years' exile for assaults on three young girls — a verdict impossible under the Roman States' secret ecclesiastical tribunals.
- The second instalment of the Dictionnaire des Sciences philosophiques, edited under Victor Cousin, went on sale, featuring articles on Descartes, Confucianism, Condorcet, and de Bonald by leading Institut members.
- Brunel, Gooch, and other Great Western Railway engineers spent six hours inspecting the atmospheric railway from Kingstown to Dalkey, watching the train reach 35 miles per hour mid-ascent after a standing stop.