XCV. Le père et la fille
XCV. Father and Daughter
French operations against Abd-el-Kader in Algeria, the Dutch States-General opening, and a Paris gang-theft trial dominate this issue.
- With only 400 infantry and 700 cavalry, General Lamoricière marched on Tlemcen while Colonel Walsin Esterhazy used pistols and cudgels to force defecting tribes back across a salt lake, keeping Abd-el-Kader's advance in check.
- A French battalion commander, a lieutenant, and four hussars were assassinated near Sebdou after accepting a meal invitation from an Arab sheikh — an act of treachery the paper calls 'odious.'
- King Willem II of the Netherlands told the States-General he preferred the royal speech to go unanswered, arguing that debate over an Address of Reply wastes time and needlessly inflames opinion.
- Thirteen accused — including a 66-year-old lodging-house keeper conversant in thieves' slang and an 18-year-old unregistered prostitute — went on trial in Paris for a ring of burglaries carried out with 45 false keys and a picklock.
- At a Rouen tribunal, a witness described how an Englishwoman caught in the August meteor-storm at Malaunay ran home to fetch her money, convinced the apocalypse had arrived and she could carry it to paradise — provoking general laughter in court.
- The equestrian statue of the late Duc d'Orléans — weighing between 800 and 900 kilogrammes — was lowered onto its pedestal in Algiers in under a quarter of an hour.
- Experiments on the atmospheric railway at Croydon demonstrated that trains propelled by air pressure could reach 75 miles an hour and be stopped 'with the greatest ease,' according to the Morning Courier.
- Dutch colonial officials reported that Sumatra's entire annual ivory export amounts to just 5 pikals, because local principles forbid killing elephants even when herds devastate cultivated fields.