1845-07-11 · Journal des Débats

XLVII. L'attelage gris-pommelé · XLVIII. Idéologie

XLVII. The Dapple-Greys (cont.) · XLVIII. Ideology

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Lord Aberdeen's Brazil slave-trade bill, the Duc de Montpensier's visit to Tunis, and Colonel Pélissier's cave suffocation of the Ouled-Riah tribe dominate this issue.

Lord Aberdeen told the House of Lords that Brazilian subjects had marched enslaved Africans through the streets of the capital 'like a herd of cattle,' and that English officers performing their duty had been 'maltreated, assaulted, and even murdered' — prompting the new Brazil Slave-Trade Bill.
Lord Palmerston charged in the Commons that Britain had abandoned the mutual right of search with France for nothing in return, warning that slave-traders would simply hoist the French flag to evade English cruisers — 'like the Siamese twins,' he quipped to laughter.
Six Algerian traders from the Ksours of Laghouat walked eight days to Algiers carrying 30 pounds of live leeches in wet linen bags; Jewish buyers immediately agreed to purchase them at 75 francs per kilogram, netting the men 1,125 francs.

Colonel Pélissier sealed the cave mouths of the Ouled-Riah tribe with burning fascines on 18–19 June; when soldiers finally entered, 500 corpses were found inside, and only 150 survivors could be brought out, some of whom died in the field hospital.
London English-note thieves William Harper and John Williams were tried in Paris: Williams received eight months' imprisonment for a forged passport, while the court ordered 6,480 francs in gold and silver coins restored to him as his own property.

The Duc de Montpensier, youngest son of Louis-Philippe, visited the Bey of Tunis, who rose from his throne to embrace him, gave him a diamond decoration reserved for Tunisian royalty, and sent three horses and a brilliant-encrusted sabre as gifts.
The Royal Horticultural Society's 17th annual Exhibition opened in the Luxembourg Orangery; M. Tripet-Leblanc's carnation collection alone comprised 335 named varieties, and M. Verdier's roses won the gold medal of the Duchess of Orléans.

Publishers Langlois and Leclercq put on sale Sahara Algérien, the first systematic exploration of the Algerian interior, finding towns and villages where ancient geographers had described only empty desert, accompanied by two General Staff maps.

XLVII. The Dapple-Greys (cont.) · XLVIII. Ideology

Lord Aberdeen's Brazil slave-trade bill, the Duc de Montpensier's visit to Tunis, and Colonel Pélissier's cave suffocation of the Ouled-Riah tribe dominate this issue.

Lord Aberdeen told the House of Lords that Brazilian subjects had marched enslaved Africans through the streets of the capital 'like a herd of cattle,' and that English officers performing their duty had been 'maltreated, assaulted, and even murdered' — prompting the new Brazil Slave-Trade Bill.
Lord Palmerston charged in the Commons that Britain had abandoned the mutual right of search with France for nothing in return, warning that slave-traders would simply hoist the French flag to evade English cruisers — 'like the Siamese twins,' he quipped to laughter.
Six Algerian traders from the Ksours of Laghouat walked eight days to Algiers carrying 30 pounds of live leeches in wet linen bags; Jewish buyers immediately agreed to purchase them at 75 francs per kilogram, netting the men 1,125 francs.

Colonel Pélissier sealed the cave mouths of the Ouled-Riah tribe with burning fascines on 18–19 June; when soldiers finally entered, 500 corpses were found inside, and only 150 survivors could be brought out, some of whom died in the field hospital.
London English-note thieves William Harper and John Williams were tried in Paris: Williams received eight months' imprisonment for a forged passport, while the court ordered 6,480 francs in gold and silver coins restored to him as his own property.

The Duc de Montpensier, youngest son of Louis-Philippe, visited the Bey of Tunis, who rose from his throne to embrace him, gave him a diamond decoration reserved for Tunisian royalty, and sent three horses and a brilliant-encrusted sabre as gifts.
The Royal Horticultural Society's 17th annual Exhibition opened in the Luxembourg Orangery; M. Tripet-Leblanc's carnation collection alone comprised 335 named varieties, and M. Verdier's roses won the gold medal of the Duchess of Orléans.

Publishers Langlois and Leclercq put on sale Sahara Algérien, the first systematic exploration of the Algerian interior, finding towns and villages where ancient geographers had described only empty desert, accompanied by two General Staff maps.