• Daniel O'Connell, pressured by The Nation and Young Ireland, reverses course from federalism back to Repeal, declaring 'the experiment is exhausted' and calling for restoration of an Irish Parliament at College Green.
• The marble contract for Napoleon I's tomb at Les Invalides was awarded to M. Sancholle-Henraux, owner of the finest marble quarries in Italy, at a ceremony presided over by Under-Secretary of State Hippolyte Passy.

• A boiler explosion aboard the iron steamer Gipsy Queen at Blackwall killed seven people, including Mr Samuda himself; their corpses were found 'literally boiled,' with hair bristling and teeth displaced.
• A Paris jury convicted former military guard Ferrand and his wife of forging government annuity transfers worth thousands of francs, sentencing each to five years' imprisonment; their dupe Lalo was acquitted and the jurors took up a collection of 86 francs for him.
• A nineteen-year-old convict named Georges, condemned for life for murder, stabbed prison-guard corporal Lenouan five times in the chest during a Brest escape attempt, then told bystanders of his victim: 'Bad luck for the knife — they've done me a service.'

Music

• Giacomo Meyerbeer's new opera Das schlesische Fest, with a libretto by Ludwig Rellstab, is in daily rehearsal for the 7 December inauguration of Berlin's completed Royal Grand Opera House.

• A new children's periodical, Le Monde des Enfants, launches with contributions from Lamartine, Alexandre Dumas, Eugène Sue, and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, plus fifty woodcut vignettes per issue.

• The Gaîté theatre reaches the 100th performance of the fairy spectacle Les Sept Châteaux du Diable, while the Odéon unanimously accepts Alfred des Essarts's five-act tragedy Le Roi Rodrigue.