• The Chamber of Peers voted 93 to 9 to approve 14.8 million francs in extraordinary war credits for Algeria, after a heated debate in which Baron Dupin argued the colony's revenues and construction output already offset 30 million francs of annual costs.
• Smith O'Brien and John O'Connell both flatly refused to serve on any British parliamentary committee unrelated to Ireland, with O'Connell declaring he had lost all hope of obtaining a good measure for his country from Parliament.
• An Ardèche jury acquitted three Catholic priests and a peasant guide accused of fraudulently spiriting away fourteen-year-old Protestant Madeleine Garay through three convents across three departments, with Jesuit Father Robin named as the unseen director of the scheme.
• The Germanic Diet extended copyright protection across the entire Confederation to the author's lifetime plus thirty years, and set fines of up to 1,000 florins for counterfeiters, with indemnity calculated on up to 1,000 pirated copies.

• A Stuttgart jury watched a last-minute man cry 'Stop!' and wave a white handkerchief at the scaffold, halting the beheading of poisoner Marguerite Rudhardt — but the reprieve was an illusion, and after half an hour she was made to kneel again and was decapitated.
• Seven escaped convicts who had secretly assembled in Paris were trapped after police followed them to a tavern in Charonne, then caught them red-handed with false keys, jemmies, silverware, and jewels at the Rue Saint-Antoine lodging of a known associate.

• Queen Marie-Amélie sent soprano Julie Dorus-Gras, then performing in London, a magnificent bracelet, days after Princess Adélaïde had already given her a brooch of great value.

Arts

• Caricaturist Grandville turned Louis Reybaud's satirical novel Jérôme Paturot à la recherche d'une position sociale into an illustrated edition, with the first instalments on sale, bringing to life figures from industrial, literary, and parliamentary society.