XVIII. Le trésor
XVIII. The Treasure
The Franco-Moroccan peace, the Warspite letters controversy, and a Paris rape trial dominate this issue.
- King Louis-Philippe's personal letter to the Prince de Joinville, praising the squadron's 'new laurels' at Tangier and Mogador, was read aloud to assembled crews aboard every vessel in the fleet.
- A chaplain aboard HMS Warspite was identified as the author of letters impugning French officers' courage at Tangier; he was expelled from the ship and sent back to England.
- Engineer Napoléon Garella returned from Panama reporting the Isthmus watershed stands 125 metres above sea level — not the 10–12 metres previously claimed — yet still judged a canal 'very practicable.'
- Colonel Eynard arrived in Paris carrying Moroccan battle flags and the 2,500-kilogramme tent of Sultan Abd al-Rahman's son, trophies of the 14 August Battle of Isly.
- At Algiers, Marshal Bugeaud received a banquet and ball in his honour; Saharan chief Ahhmed-Ben-Salem attended in person, having just paid roughly 100,000 francs in tribal taxes on his way to the city.
- An English surgeon named Belaney, acquitted of placing prussic acid before his wife, returned home to North Sunderland only to find his house demolished by a mob, set on fire, and burned to the ground.
- In the Montpellier-to-Cette railway disaster of 29 July — three dead, many injured — a section-man who surrendered the points key was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment and the railway company held civilly liable.
- The Seine Court of Assizes convicted Stanislas Louvet, Bonichon, and Joly of rape, sentencing two to five years and two to three years, after a jury rejected twenty-five of thirty-two charges in a case heard largely behind closed doors.