XXXI. Italie. — Simbad le marin
XXXI. Italy — Sinbad the Sailor
Spain's constitutional reform debates, Queen Victoria's opening of the Royal Exchange, and a Paris theft ring trial dominate this issue.
- Spain's Foreign Minister Martínez de la Rosa told the Senate that Pope Pius IX has given private assurances that diplomatic relations between Rome and Madrid — long severed — may soon be restored.
- Queen Victoria, drawn by eight cream-coloured horses, entered the City of London through the closed gates of Temple Bar and presented the Lord Mayor with the Sword of State before opening the rebuilt Royal Exchange before an estimated two million spectators.
- A thief who posed as a police commissioner talked a maidservant at the Passy home of Lord C. into handing over the family's entire remaining silverware — completing a second theft days after the first — leading to the maidservant's own arrest as a suspected accomplice.
- At the ongoing Seine Assize Court trial of forty-one members of a Faubourg Saint-Antoine theft ring, convicted fence Mallet testified that jeweller Lenoir melted down stolen gold and silver in a back room on the first floor of his shop and resold watches within hours of purchase.
- A Perpignan storm swept away newly built bridge abutments, flooded entire town quarters, and struck the Port-Vendres lighthouse with lightning, while floods along the Gave de Pau destroyed fields and overturned a merchant's cart near Diusse.
- Haydn's The Creation — unperformed in France since the night of Napoleon's assassination attempt on 24 December 1800 — is to be given at the Paris Opéra on 1 November by a 500-strong orchestra and chorus under Habeneck, with soloists including Duprez and Damoreau-Cinti.
- Victor Cousin's newly published Jacqueline Pascal reveals that Blaise Pascal's sister — a poet admired by Corneille and Richelieu, a nun at Port-Royal at twenty-six — died at thirty-six of grief at being compelled to sign the papal Formula condemning Jansenism.