XXX. Le 5 septembre
XXX. September the Fifth
King Louis-Philippe's stormy return from England, the Tahiti publication controversy, and railway news from across Europe dominate this issue.
- Caught in a tempest at Portsmouth, King Louis-Philippe abandoned the royal yacht, raced to Dover by special train past a blazing fire at New Cross station, and crossed the Channel to Calais amid rough seas.
- The Court of Aldermen of the City of London voided the election of David Salomons as Lord Mayor by ten votes to six, barring him from the office on account of his Jewish faith.
- Commander Bruat, governor of Tahiti four thousand leagues from Paris, triggered a constitutional row by publishing his official battle report in a colonial gazette without awaiting the government's permission.
- A missionary named Joseph Wolff, held in Bokhara, wrote that he suspected his captor Nayer-Abdoa-Samet-Khan of having ordered the 1842 executions of British officers Stoddart and Conolly, and pleaded for the release of 200,000 Persian slaves.
- An Arabic lament addressed to Abd-el-Kader, collected by a French officer in Algeria, describes in verse how the Army of Africa burned harvests, seized livestock, and drove the Arab tribes to flee by day and night without rest.
- A diamond-setter named Viennot secretly pledged clients' jewels at the Mont-de-Piété pawnshop, accumulating fraudulent deposits worth nearly 140,000 francs before being arrested while attempting to flee abroad.
- A murderer reprieved at the scaffold by Frederick William III of Prussia — on condition of annual floggings and ten years in detention — was later freed with seed money and died in Swedish Lithuania leaving a very considerable fortune and universal esteem.
- A captain at the Toulon arsenal claims to have found a process for reconstituting useless coal dust into lumps, potentially cutting the cost of a barrel of coal from 22 francs paid to England to just 9 francs.