XL. Le déjeuner
XL. Breakfast
France's 1846 naval budget and the Belgian ministerial crisis dominate this issue, alongside Abd-el-Kader's retreat in Algeria.
- A 22-year-old member of a noble family, married eleven months to a banker's daughter, was arrested for forging Jockey-Club ivory counters worth 2,500 francs — even though his writing-desk held a larger sum in cash.
- The trial of the Œuvre de Saint-Louis — a legitimist charity patronised by the Count de Chambord — placed the Duke Des Cars, Prince de Montmorency, and two others before the police court, defended by the celebrated barrister Maître Berryer.
- Marshal Bugeaud returned to Algiers with roughly 3,000 confiscated Arab muskets after compelling the tribes of the Ouarensenis to disarm, while Abd-el-Kader was reported driven westward back into Morocco.
- Belgium's ministerial crisis deepened: King Leopold accepted only Interior Minister Nothomb's resignation, appointing him Minister of State and apparently preparing to send him as minister plenipotentiary to Berlin.
- France's budget commission warned that the projected 1846 surplus of 5,785,351 francs was already consumed by new spending — including 8,817,000 francs for steam vessels and fleet armament to suppress the slave trade off West Africa.
- Britain's penny-post reform, adopted in 1839, had by 1845 tripled letter volumes to 265 million annually, while France's Chamber split evenly on whether to reduce its own tariff from roughly 75 centimes to 20 centimes.
- Mecklenburg's Grand Duke authorised a railway from the Baltic port of Rostock south to Hamburg's network, threatening to make Danish Sound Dues obsolete for German Baltic commerce.
- A new children's library, the Nouveau Cabinet des Fées, promised 25 illustrated volumes with contributions by Balzac, Jules Janin, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Nodier, and Paul de Musset.