LXXXV. Le voyage
LXXXV. The Journey
The duc de Montpensier's tour of the Levant, Algeria's rebel chérif trial, and Greek debt diplomacy dominate this issue.
- The duc de Montpensier laid the foundation stone of the Sisters of Charity convent in Smyrna, destroyed in the fire of 3 July 1845, and distributed 20,000 piastres to victims.
- Greek Prime Minister Kolettis told parliament that Lord Palmerston had 'not spoken truly' in accusing Greece of 'imaginary crimes,' calling parliamentary attacks on Greece the work of calumniators.
- A court martial at Algiers unanimously condemned the rebel chérif Mohammed-ben-Ahmed to death; the sentence was carried out publicly at the Friday market of the Béni-Ferah at the tribes' own request.
- Republican deputy Garnier-Pagès warned his Verneuil electors that the Regency law, improvised by the government, could place power in the hands of the duc de Nemours rather than the duchesse d'Orléans.
- The agrégation jury placed candidate Montcourt first in all four written compositions, noting his French dissertation on the decline of poetry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries showed 'elevation and force.'
- A boiler at the Anzin rolling mills exploded, hurling a 5,000-kilogramme mass through walls and across open country; ten workers were injured, three of them mortally.
- The Saunier couple went on trial at the Seine Assize Court accused of murdering 83-year-old widow Sauvai, who had made a will in Saunier's favour and was found dead with a head wound.
- At a banquet in Brussels's Gothic town hall, 180 artists from across Europe — including David Roberts and Wilhelm von Schadow — were fêted amid old Sèvres china, gilt candelabra from La Malmaison, and flowering orchids.