CVIII. Le juge
CVIII. The Judge
The Moroccan ambassador arrives in France, Algeria's insurgencies continue under Abd-el-Kader and Bou-Maza, and a Paris court rules on the Northern Railway share dispute.
- The Pasha of Tetuan, aged 28–30 and a favourite of Emperor Muley Abderrhaman, arrived at Marseille as Morocco's first ambassador to France, fulfilling the promise made in the March 1845 treaty of Lalla-Maghrenia.
- A Moroccan-born insurgent, Mohamed-ben-Abd-Allah, half-brother of the rebel Bou-Maza, was condemned to death by court-martial in Algiers after the Beni-Zougzoug tribesmen lured him into an ambush and handed him to the French.
- General Bedeau led five battalions on a midnight march to storm the sheriff Mohamed-Ben-Abd-Allah's mountain camp on Djebel-Baghas, only for the quarry to vanish; the French suffered 47 casualties, including one officer killed, before fighting off a Kabyle pursuit.
- Paris's tribunal de commerce ruled that shareholders who had received written promises of Northern Railway shares could not legally be denied them for late payment — a verdict directly contradicting an earlier judgment and certain to be appealed.
- Ignaz Moscheles and his daughter were summoned to Saint-Cloud to perform his new four-hand grand sonata before the French royal family; the King accepted the dedication of the work.
- A porter hired to repair wainscoting in a former Saint-Séverin cloister house found at least 27,000 francs in gold hidden behind the panelling — money apparently concealed by a priest massacred at the Carmes in September 1792 — and spent freely until caught.
- Two elephants travelling overland from Le Havre to Paris paused in Rouen, drawing crowds: the female, sixteen years old and reportedly the largest ever seen in the city, pulled an ornate carriage with a fifteen-foot palanquin mounted on top.