• The French government forced the Jesuits to dissolve themselves, but the Bishop of Langres claimed the act was voluntary — the paper bluntly corrects him: they knew the law would be enforced if they refused.
• Abd el-Kader has re-entered Morocco with five or six hundred horsemen at Lika, sending letters to Saharan tribes promising he will lead 5,000 horsemen back into Algeria within twenty days.
• At the Seine Assize Court, eleven Mint employees and Paris goldsmiths face charges of counterfeiting hallmarking punches; expert Gay-Lussac testified, and a working bigorne anvil was installed in the courtroom for the jury's inspection.

• In Lyon, a job-seeking servant woman struck an old man of nearly seventy ten blows with a hatchet, then descended the stairs unhurried and told a bystander: 'I've sorted you out nicely' — she had not been arrested by nightfall.
• In Paris's Rue Saint-Benoît, office attendant Deguy stabbed the concierge Meunier dead without provocation, wounded a woman bystander, then knifed a second tenant five times on the staircase before being run down in the street.

• Belgium's King Leopold I celebrated the fourteenth anniversary of his inauguration with a Te Deum at Saint-Gudula attended by the full diplomatic corps, including apostolic nuncio Pecci — the future Pope Leo XIII.

Science & Exploration

• Russian education statistics reveal that Warsaw's academic district, created only in 1840, already contains 1,323 schools with 74,292 pupils — more than all of Siberia and the Caucasus combined.

Music

• The celebrated Belgian violinist Alexandre Artôt died of pulmonary tuberculosis at Ville-d'Avray, aged thirty.