1845-07-10 · Journal des Débats

XLVII. L'attelage gris-pommelé

XLVII. The Dapple-Greys

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The French Chamber of Peers debates the slave-trade treaty with Britain, the Maginot murder trial concludes, and Algeria dispatches report the Dahra insurrection crushed.

Knife-grinder Auguste Maginot, 27, was sentenced to death for stabbing his wife ten times in a Paris courtyard and then running to attack her two sisters in the same afternoon, declaring 'the barrière Saint-Jacques is not far' as he was arrested.
Tom Thumb, performing in Brussels, was robbed of a gold pin set with an emerald and surrounded by diamonds from a box of jewels placed on his miniature furniture table while the audience crowded round him.

The Chamber of Peers voted 108 to 3 to adopt the France–Britain anti-slave-trade treaty of 29 May, after Duc de Broglie explained that the new convention required only 26 vessels instead of the previous 43 to patrol the African coast.
Marshal Bugeaud reported from Algiers on 30 June that the Dahra insurrection was 'entirely crushed,' with Colonel Ladmirault's column seizing most ringleaders and 500 Kabyles under the agha of Zatima actively fighting alongside French troops.
In Guiana, an enslaved man named Sylvestre killed estate steward M. Biclet with more than sixty sabre-blows, splitting opinion between those alarmed at the danger to Europeans on isolated estates and those urging moderation toward the colonial population as a whole.
Irish agrarian secret society Molly Maguire circulated a twelve-point manifesto urging tenants to fix rents at fair value, refuse eviction, and avoid night travel, while threatening lethal reprisals against landlords who ignored warnings — published as ten people lay dead after a police clash in County Cork.

Lieutenant-General Count de Sparre, President of the Cavalry Committee and Peer of France, collapsed from a cerebral seizure and died on horseback during a cavalry review at the Champ-de-Mars before the Dukes of Nemours and Aumale, on the very day of his 65th birthday.

The new volume of La Revue Nouvelle includes an article by Arthur de Gobineau, an analysis of Disraeli's novel Sybil, unpublished letters of journalist Henri Fonfrède, and a sharp critique of Edgar Quinet's anti-Catholic lectures at the Collège de France.

XLVII. The Dapple-Greys

The French Chamber of Peers debates the slave-trade treaty with Britain, the Maginot murder trial concludes, and Algeria dispatches report the Dahra insurrection crushed.

Knife-grinder Auguste Maginot, 27, was sentenced to death for stabbing his wife ten times in a Paris courtyard and then running to attack her two sisters in the same afternoon, declaring 'the barrière Saint-Jacques is not far' as he was arrested.
Tom Thumb, performing in Brussels, was robbed of a gold pin set with an emerald and surrounded by diamonds from a box of jewels placed on his miniature furniture table while the audience crowded round him.

The Chamber of Peers voted 108 to 3 to adopt the France–Britain anti-slave-trade treaty of 29 May, after Duc de Broglie explained that the new convention required only 26 vessels instead of the previous 43 to patrol the African coast.
Marshal Bugeaud reported from Algiers on 30 June that the Dahra insurrection was 'entirely crushed,' with Colonel Ladmirault's column seizing most ringleaders and 500 Kabyles under the agha of Zatima actively fighting alongside French troops.
In Guiana, an enslaved man named Sylvestre killed estate steward M. Biclet with more than sixty sabre-blows, splitting opinion between those alarmed at the danger to Europeans on isolated estates and those urging moderation toward the colonial population as a whole.
Irish agrarian secret society Molly Maguire circulated a twelve-point manifesto urging tenants to fix rents at fair value, refuse eviction, and avoid night travel, while threatening lethal reprisals against landlords who ignored warnings — published as ten people lay dead after a police clash in County Cork.

Lieutenant-General Count de Sparre, President of the Cavalry Committee and Peer of France, collapsed from a cerebral seizure and died on horseback during a cavalry review at the Champ-de-Mars before the Dukes of Nemours and Aumale, on the very day of his 65th birthday.

The new volume of La Revue Nouvelle includes an article by Arthur de Gobineau, an analysis of Disraeli's novel Sybil, unpublished letters of journalist Henri Fonfrède, and a sharp critique of Edgar Quinet's anti-Catholic lectures at the Collège de France.