LXXVIII. On nous écrit de Janina
LXXVIII. A Correspondent Writes from Janina
France awards the Paris-to-Belgium railway concession to the Rothschild consortium, while Queen Victoria makes her second visit to King Louis-Philippe at the Château d'Eu.
- At a public adjudication in Paris, the Rothschild–Hottinguer–Laffitte–Blount consortium won the concession for the Paris-to-Belgium railway by offering a reduced term of 38 years, depositing a guarantee of 15 million francs.
- Barcelona's new Captain-General Breton issued a proclamation threatening death for conspirators and banning walking-sticks, pointed knives, and cudgels — and ordering all government employees to report to Atarazanas fort if public order is disturbed.
- Queen Victoria arrived at Le Tréport in a yellow silk hat adorned with a tricolour posy and a violet gown; King Louis-Philippe boarded her yacht to escort her ashore, the two royal standards flying together from his cutter.
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter and five other painters completed thirty paintings for the new Galerie Victoria at the Château d'Eu in under eight days, including five full-length royal portraits, ready for Queen Victoria's arrival.
- Nicolas Manucci, who claimed to have ransomed 84 French prisoners from Abd-el-Kader and to have served as Marshal Bugeaud's secret envoy, was convicted of forging six bills of exchange and sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
- A 19-year-old wigmaker named Léon Malandin confessed to bludgeoning 17-year-old Victoire Tieutent to death with a hammer and pickaxe near Fécamp after she slapped him, then spent the evening calmly shaving customers.
- Bordeaux barrister M. P. Coq argued before the Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters that railways would bind France's provinces ever more tightly to Paris, and that Bordeaux stood to gain especially from rail links to northern France and Spain.