XLI. La présentation · XLII. Monsieur Bertuccio
XLI. The Introduction (cont.) · XLII. Monsieur Bertuccio
British parliamentary debates on Irish colleges and the slave trade, Algeria's military pacification, and the sale of Napoleonic relics in London dominate this issue.
- Sir Robert Peel described a joint Anglo-American stratagem in which U.S. launches sailed under the English flag to capture a slave-ship that had hoisted the American flag hoping for protection.
- Daniel O'Connell's son John scandalized the House of Commons by telling Catholic MP Thomas Wyse to appeal to the Pope rather than Parliament on the Irish Colleges bill, provoking an uproar.
- At Egyptian Hall in London, a David painting of Napoleon crowning Joséphine sold for a mere 300 francs, and twenty Lienard enamels that had cost over 10,000 francs fetched only £76 sterling.
- Carlist commander Ramón Cabrera, falsely reported arrested in Spain, had in fact been residing in Moulins for twenty days with royal permission to visit his brother at the local college.
- French composer Félicien David conducted his celebrated Symphony of the Desert in Leipzig's Philharmonic Society hall to an audience of the city's leading musicians and dignitaries.
- The Duc de Montpensier made a thirteen-league excursion from Algiers to Blida without a single armed escort, then donated his campaign horses to the army remount service and founded a college bursary for a non-commissioned officer's son.
- Condemned murderer Aguilera confessed before his firing-squad execution at Oran that he had committed not thirty but twenty-five killings, including having a military sub-intendant's entire escort decapitated before the officer's eyes.