• The French government defends its Africa policy after soldiers were ambushed near the Moroccan frontier, dispatching new regiments from Perpignan, Marseille, and Toulon to Algeria.
• King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia rebuked Berlin's municipal council in audience for presenting a theological address, reminding the burgomaster that Frederick I's city of 70,000 had more pastors than today's 400,000-soul capital.
• The Paris appeals court upheld prison sentences of two to three years against carpenters' coalition leaders Vincent and Dubois, with the advocate-general arguing that free labour was the supreme social principle at stake.

• Lille inaugurated a granite column topped with a bronze statue to mark the 53rd anniversary of its 1792 siege, with 39 National Guard deputations, 300 musicians, and a veteran cannoneer of 1792 carried in triumph through the banquet hall.
• Minister of Public Instruction Salvandy delivered a prize-day eulogy at Orléans for the recently deceased philosopher and statesman Royer-Collard, crediting him with restoring sound philosophy, saving the University, and helping found representative government in France.

• A Paris gold dealer paid nearly 900 francs for a copper ingot disguised as gold with forged assayer's stamps — the fraud exposed only when M. Bordeieux bored through the ingot and found no lead, just counterfeit alloy.
• Day-labourer Jean-François Fidry, convicted of stabbing his wife eleven times with a Catalan knife — his throat already cut in a suicide attempt — was sentenced to hard labour in perpetuity with public exposure.

Theatre

• The Opéra-Comique staged the first performance of La Charbonnière on 11 October, while Paris theatres also offered La Biche au Bois at the Porte-Saint-Martin and Les Sept Châteaux du Diable at the Gaîté.