• Josef Leu of Ebersol, leader of Lucerne's Catholic party and member of the Grand Council, was shot dead in his bed beside his wife and children; the Lucerne government offered 1,000 crowns for the killer's name and 2,000 for his capture.
• The Journal des Débats declares the 1845 session a decisive victory for Guizot: his ministry survived a coalition that came within 4 votes of installing opposition leader Billault as vice-president, then secured a majority of 24 on the secret-funds vote.
• Spain's Gazette de Madrid defends the royal press ordinance of 6 July, arguing that juries systematically acquitted newspapers that openly called for armed insurrection, effectively abdicating rather than adjudicating.
• Seven cages of Liège carrier pigeons arrived at Strasbourg aboard the Rhine steamer Ville-de-Kehl, bound for Marseille, where large wagers have been staked on a race covering 200 leagues — a distance similar birds have previously covered in under five hours.

• The Comédie-Française filed suit demanding 200,000 francs from Mademoiselle Plessy, alleging she feigned illness while secretly obtaining a passport for London and contracting with the Saint Petersburg theatre.
• At the Paris Assizes, chemist Gay-Lussac and chief engraver Barré confirmed before the full court and jury, assembled inside the Hôtel des Monnaies, that approximately 1,500 pieces of jewellery bore a counterfeit eagle-head hallmark die whose crown notches were measurably over-extended.

• The bronze equestrian statue of the late Duke of Orléans, weighing 10,000 kilogrammes and executed by sculptor Marochetti, was hauled by horse-driven capstan through Paris overnight and entered the Louvre courtyard at half past nine, buried under flowers and crowns laid by crowds along the route.

Arts

• Munich's new Fine Arts and Industry palace, built opposite the Glyptothek, is to open on 25 August with over 2,600 submitted works by German and foreign artists, described as the first building in Germany purpose-built for the periodic display of art and industry.