LXXXIV. Beauchamp
LXXXIV. Beauchamp
French by-election results, the Madagascar naval engagement, and an Irish education controversy dominate this issue.
- French corvettes le Berceau and la Zèle fought Hova forces at Tamatave, Madagascar, on 15 June, leaving 19 dead and 40 wounded — the government published a full list of casualties.
- Eighteen of Ireland's 26 Catholic bishops publicly protested the 'godless colleges' bill; the two most senior prelates — the Primates of Armagh and Dublin — backed the measure, splitting the Church.
- A consul's report from Bahia described a newly discovered diamond mine 80 leagues from the city already attracting 8,000–9,000 prospectors and yielding over four million francs in exports to a single English company.
- A counterfeit-coin maker caught at the Paris Opéra bribed a cigar-errand-runner with a pencilled note and five francs to clear his room; the honest errand-runner went straight to the police commissioner instead.
- At the Seine Assizes, creditor Dubois described bribing Frenchmen one pound sterling each to seize fugitive fraudster Basset outside the Times offices in London after the Lord Mayor declined to issue a warrant.
- Ten painters competed for the Grand Prix de Peinture on the subject of Christ mocked by soldiers; critic Delécluze declared Cabanel and Léon Bénouville equal in merit and lamented there was only one prize.
- French metallurgical engineers reported that within a few years domestic ironworks, once freed from railway-supply contracts, could build 2,000 iron ships totalling 200,000 tons.
- Auguste Himly, a tutor at the Collège Rollin, topped five candidates awarded the history agrégation, beating rivals from the École normale by excelling on Saint Bernard's letters and Thucydides in oral examination.