• A 116-article royal ordinance published in the Moniteur attempts to resolve Algeria's chaotic land rights, imposing a 5-franc-per-hectare tax on uncultivated land to deter speculation.
• British correspondents claim French forces suffered at least 120 dead at Tahiti — far more than Governor Bruat admitted — while Queen Pōmare IV refused all peace overtures from aboard a Royal Navy vessel.
• The King of Prussia is expected in Copenhagen to discuss Schleswig-Holstein succession, the Sound dues, and possible accession of the duchies to the Zollverein customs union.
• The Emperor of Russia has commissioned Liverpool engineers Bury, Curtis & Kennedy to build a seven-arch iron bridge over the Neva, requiring 8,000 tons of iron at a metal cost alone exceeding 100,000 pounds sterling.

• The Prince of Leiningen, nephew of the Vice-Governor of Mainz and kin to the English royal family, will stand trial for striking a female toll-keeper unconscious with his cane over a 10-centime bridge fee.
• Three grape-treaders were found asphyxiated in a vat in the commune of Moingt, holding one another by the hand; one was to have been married the following day.
• The captain of the French vessel l'Iduméen and two young crew members were murdered by islanders in the Andaman Islands after landing to explore the coast, leaving the ship to limp back to Calcutta without its commander.

Theatre

• Director Ancelot of the Théâtre du Vaudeville has sued his actor Laferrière before the commercial tribunal to compel him to perform a role in the new vaudeville Nelly, echoing a prior suit against tenor Duprez over Charles VI at the Opéra.