LVII. L'enclos à la luzerne
LVII. The Alfalfa Field
France's treaty with the Imam of Muscat, Lord Palmerston's slave-trade accusations, and Marshal Bugeaud's Kabyle campaign dominate this issue.
- Lord Palmerston accused France of secretly reviving the slave trade via a treaty with the Imam of Muscat — but the paper reveals that treaty never existed; the real accord, signed 17 November 1844 at Zanzibar, is a straightforward commercial agreement.
- Marshal Bugeaud embarked on 23 July from Algiers to lead a major expedition against the Kabyles, with simultaneous columns closing in from Fort Hamsa and the East — the Governor-General having abandoned hope of a peaceful settlement.
- Queen Isabella II of Spain arrived in Saragossa on 23 July to popular celebrations, with a deputation from Pamplona already en route to entreat her to extend the journey into Navarre.
- A Massachusetts manufacturer who gave away his fortune after believing William Miller's prophecy of the world's end is suing his son to recover the gift, arguing he was not of sound mind — and a crowd of fellow Millerists await the verdict to reclaim their own donated property.
- An eleven-year-old shepherdess named Louise dug up a hoard of Roman gold coins and vessels — including a solid-gold dish with a black crucifix — worth over 20,000 francs; the sub-tenant who seized the treasure was sentenced to three months and 1,000 francs, with Louise awarded half the recovered hoard.
- Naples police found five crates in a San Giovanni warehouse containing a woman's dismembered body; the suspected murderer, a jewellery dealer whose Via Toledo shop had been shuttered for ten days, had not yet been caught.
- The Comédie-Française demanded 200,000 francs in damages from actress Mademoiselle Plessy for breach of engagement, while a separate suit between Alexandre Dumas and the same theatre over his drama Une Conspiration sous la Régence was adjourned for a week.
- Baron Dupin told an assembly of Paris apprentice orphans that sixty years ago the city's good workmen earned 2 francs a day; they now earn 4, and their mahogany-furnished homes and cotton-lace Sunday dress mark a revolution visible on every boulevard.