XV. Le numéro 34 et le numéro 27 · XVI. Un savant italien
XV. Number 34 and Number 27 (cont.) · XVI. An Italian Scholar
Daniel O'Connell's post-prison political position, the Morocco peace treaty, and compressed-air locomotive trials dominate this issue.
- Heinrich Ludwig Tsech, condemned for attempting to assassinate Frederick William IV of Prussia, was sentenced to be broken on the wheel alive — beginning with his feet — yet received the news with 'imperturbable sang-froid.'
- O'Connell, freed from a gilded captivity that still included his own apartments, gardens, visitors, and a chaplain, now urges the Irish to embrace the 'Saxon' name and redirect their struggle to Parliament.
- Rothschild frères deposited their subscription list for the Orléans-to-Bordeaux railway tender at half past eleven at night, competing against three other companies, each having lodged an 800,000-franc security deposit.
- An earthquake in 1843 spared Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe — but a fire on 26 August 1844 destroyed fifty-five houses in its wealthiest quarter, causing losses estimated at two million francs.
- A Paris convent staged a procession through Provins with a life-size wax effigy of a saint, real bones encased within it and a bloody dagger wound at her throat, escorted by two bishops before a bewildered crowd.
- Cook Lucie Mugnier, widow Rouget, was condemned to fifteen years of hard labour and public exposure for the infanticide of her newborn; she collapsed so completely on hearing the verdict that gendarmes had to carry her from the courtroom.
- Agents searching a Paris house for an illicit cigarette workshop found two workers locked inside a closet for two hours who had thrown their tobacco out of a skylight — the concierge who warned them was fined 3,000 francs.
- Engineer Andrand's compressed-air cylinder locomotive, charged to just 8 atmospheres, carried several passengers roughly 6 kilometres at approximately 40 kilometres per hour — with equal force on the return journey.