1844-10-06 · Journal des Débats

XXV. L'inconnu

XXV. The Stranger

Louis-Philippe's upcoming visit to Windsor, Sepoy mutinies in British India, and the Académie des Beaux-Arts prize distribution dominate this issue.

King Louis-Philippe is to embark from Le Tréport on 7 October, travel by South-Western Railway to Guildford, and be received by Prince Albert for a private visit to Windsor Castle — his first time on English soil in thirty years.
General Napier ordered a single company of European troops to strip the mutinous 64th Sepoy Regiment of its colours, then decreed decimation: 59 ringleaders already arrested are largely to be shot.
Hira Singh, the young Sikh regent in Lahore, has dismissed his last three European officers and secured a reported alliance with Dost Mohammed of Kabul, who offered troops to resist any British invasion across the Sutlej.

At the Académie des Beaux-Arts prize-giving, the First Grand Prize for musical composition went to Victor Massé, aged 22, while the Second First Grand Prize astonished onlookers by going to Renaud de Vilbach, aged just fifteen.
Sculptor M. Guillaume received only a consolation medal after a broken rope sent his bas-relief crashing to the ground before judges could assess it, rendering the work too mutilated for the official competition.

A ten-year-old boy in the Basque village of Méharin picked a firebrand from the hearth and ignited forty kilogrammes of blasting powder his sisters were playing with, destroying the house and killing all three children.
A London boxing match near the Kensington Canal ended with 22-year-old Georges Benson dead from a blow above the right ear; his own brother William was among the seconds who voluntarily surrendered to police on a murder charge.

M. Eugenio de Ochoa's newly published Catalogue raisonné des Manuscrits espagnols, compiled across six years for the Bibliothèque Royale and three other Paris libraries, reveals previously unknown Catalan poetry from the fifteenth century.

XXV. The Stranger

Louis-Philippe's upcoming visit to Windsor, Sepoy mutinies in British India, and the Académie des Beaux-Arts prize distribution dominate this issue.

King Louis-Philippe is to embark from Le Tréport on 7 October, travel by South-Western Railway to Guildford, and be received by Prince Albert for a private visit to Windsor Castle — his first time on English soil in thirty years.
General Napier ordered a single company of European troops to strip the mutinous 64th Sepoy Regiment of its colours, then decreed decimation: 59 ringleaders already arrested are largely to be shot.
Hira Singh, the young Sikh regent in Lahore, has dismissed his last three European officers and secured a reported alliance with Dost Mohammed of Kabul, who offered troops to resist any British invasion across the Sutlej.

At the Académie des Beaux-Arts prize-giving, the First Grand Prize for musical composition went to Victor Massé, aged 22, while the Second First Grand Prize astonished onlookers by going to Renaud de Vilbach, aged just fifteen.
Sculptor M. Guillaume received only a consolation medal after a broken rope sent his bas-relief crashing to the ground before judges could assess it, rendering the work too mutilated for the official competition.

A ten-year-old boy in the Basque village of Méharin picked a firebrand from the hearth and ignited forty kilogrammes of blasting powder his sisters were playing with, destroying the house and killing all three children.
A London boxing match near the Kensington Canal ended with 22-year-old Georges Benson dead from a blow above the right ear; his own brother William was among the seconds who voluntarily surrendered to police on a murder charge.

M. Eugenio de Ochoa's newly published Catalogue raisonné des Manuscrits espagnols, compiled across six years for the Bibliothèque Royale and three other Paris libraries, reveals previously unknown Catalan poetry from the fifteenth century.