C. L'apparition · CI. Locuste
C. The Apparition · CI. Locusta
France's ultimatum to the Ottoman Porte over Lebanon atrocities is accepted, while Abd-el-Kader remains in the field and England debates Corn Law repeal.
- A fresco in a Florentine convent refectory, long attributed to Perugino, has been confirmed as a Raphael after cleaners found his name and the date 1504 inscribed on an apostle's tunic.
- The Ottoman Porte accepted France's ultimatum in full: convents sacked in Lebanon will be indemnified, Sheikh Hamoud summoned to Constantinople, and French subjects reinstated in their establishments.
- The funerary stone of Simon de Montfort — killed at Toulouse in 1218 by a stone hurled by women — has been restored to the church of Saint-Nazaire in Carcassonne after being sold off and transported to Toulouse six centuries after his burial there.
- Ten miners were killed and ten more fatally burned in a Lancashire coal-mine explosion; among the dead was a child so mutilated that its limbs had to be collected in a sack.
- A fugitive forger named Rioustel, who escaped military hospital by disguising himself in a drunken attendant's clothes, was finally arrested in the Rue de Cléry after two years at large in Paris.
- A young Athenian forger who had passed counterfeit letters of credit on Rothschild and other banking houses across Bucharest, Frankfurt, and Baden was arrested in Paris after taking up 'sumptuous lodgings' near the Capucines.
- Marie Taglioni danced La Sylphide in Brighton to a packed house at nearly double the usual ticket prices, and was showered with bouquets at the curtain call.
- The Paris medical congress voted by near-unanimity to abolish the inferior grade of officier de santé, leaving France in future with doctors of medicine only.