• At Windsor's St George's Hall, Queen Victoria hosted Louis-Philippe at a gold-plate banquet for sixty guests including Wellington, Peel, and Aberdeen, while the Guards band played Auber and Gluck.

• Captain Bruat's report details the 17 June assault on Tahitian insurgent entrenchments at Mahaména: 441 French troops stormed three redoubts, killing 102 defenders at a cost of 15 French dead including two officers.
• The exiled Spanish regent Espartero, Duke of La Victoria, issued a manifesto from London on 10 October — the very day the constitution required him to hand power to the newly of-age Queen Isabella II.
• The Journal des Débats rebukes Thiers's newspaper for forbidding praise of Louis-Philippe as 'humane and peaceable' while freely permitting insult, calling the opposition incapable of directing either war or peace.

• Calais police commissioner Saillior, drunk past midnight in his bureau, stabbed his English friend Dr. Thorn through the heart with a confiscated dagger and remembered nothing of it by morning.
• The Seine Assize Court convicted the Marcenay couple on 76 counts of forgery; he received eight years' hard labour and public exposure, she five — at the word 'exposure' she cried out and wept.
• A Frenchman with a history of 'harebrained escapades' applied to a London magistrate for a warrant to arrest King Louis-Philippe on his arrival in England; the Morning Post declined to publish his letter.

Music

• Spontini's opera La Vestale, performed at Copenhagen on 18 September for the King of Denmark's birthday, was received with such enthusiasm that the King awarded Spontini the cross of the Order of the Dannebrog.