• Emperor Mouley Abd er-Rahman ratified the 18 March treaty with France after his envoy Bou-Selham-Ben-Ali persuaded him to drop restricting notes — Morocco's plenipotentiary is now expected in Paris to revise commercial treaties.
• The constitutional Left's committee — including Odilon Barrot, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Gustave de Beaumont — issued a 10 July manifesto urging local committees to monitor electoral rolls before a possible November dissolution.
• The Chamber of Peers adopted the Paris-Lyon-Avignon railway bill by 97 votes to 5, including a contested branch line to Grenoble defended on the grounds that the fortress city anchors the entire Alpine frontier.

• Café-keeper Jean-Baptiste Blanchetière, 21, was convicted of attempted premeditated murder after lighting a charcoal brazier beside his sleeping mistress Jenny Dufour; saved only by a waiter fetching sugar, he was sentenced to five years' reclusion.
• Dame Arthémise Lointier, already fined 200 francs for running an illegal gambling den the previous December, was convicted again after police found écarté games in her rue de Hanovre apartment and traced a 2,200-franc fleecing of a 21-year-old islander.

• A 17-year-old sleepwalking manservant in Charmes (Vosges) leaped from a window forty feet above the street and was found on his feet by the doctor, bleeding only from his nose, before returning to bed unaware of what had happened.

• A seven-and-a-half-year-old boy named Prolongeau, who astonished the Académie des Sciences with his mental arithmetic, was awarded a full royal scholarship to the Collège Henri IV by ordinance of King Louis-Philippe on the report of Minister Salvandy.

Arts

• The Comédie-Française has accepted a new verse comedy in three acts, La Chasse aux Fripons, while painter Théodore Landelle received a gold medal and a ministerial purchase for his canvas Les Saintes Femmes.