XXXIX. Les convives
XXXIX. The Guests
The British Parliament debates the Maynooth Bill and Irish education while the French Chambers vote on Savings Banks limits and railway funding.
- MP John Roebuck read aloud in the House of Commons a dueling challenge sent to him by Irish member Mr. Somers, who had demanded satisfaction for Roebuck's remarks on Repeal — Somers was forced to withdraw the letter and faced a vote of censure.
- The House of Lords passed the Maynooth Bill by a majority of 131 votes, while Lord Stanley confirmed that Britain maintained no direct diplomatic relations with Rome, only an attaché in Florence in contact with Vatican officials.
- Survivors of Napoleon's household petitioned the Chamber of Peers to enforce Article 9 of the 1814 Treaty of Fontainebleau — a promised 2-million-franc fund — but the Minister of Finance argued the Emperor's return in 1815 had annulled the treaty, and the Chamber voted the order of the day.
- Deputy Mortimer-Ternaux charged that military barrack construction costs had in some cases reached seventy-three times their original estimates under the law of 1841, with Marshal Soult as the minister responsible throughout.
- An estimated 25 million francs' worth of buildings — factories, warehouses, dwellings — had been erected inside Paris's military easement zones since 1841, yet no royal ordinance had yet legally defined whether their owners held any right to compensation.
- The Duke and Duchess of Nemours departed Buckingham Palace by four-horse carriage on 16 June, escorted to the Dover railway terminus by Prince Albert himself, before returning via Brussels to arrive at the palace of Neuilly on 18 June.
- A Sister of Sainte-Philomène near Migné was killed instantly on 13 June when lightning struck a poplar and traveled down a washing-line coiled in her hands, partly consuming her garments.