CX. L'acte d'accusation
CX. The Indictment
The Plata intervention, Britain's Corn Laws crisis, and a prison-break conspiracy dominate this issue.
- Lord John Russell, writing from Edinburgh on 22 November, publicly called for the repeal of the Corn Laws, citing the Irish potato blight and a sliding-scale duty that paradoxically rises when harvests are worst.
- Captain Page formally denied in the press that Rosas's daughter Doña Manuelita interceded at his audience with the Buenos Aires governor, calling the story published in Le Constitutionnel a complete fabrication.
- The Cour de cassation ruled that any person named in a newspaper — including an author whose book was merely praised — holds an absolute, unlimited right of reply, a decision the Journal des Débats warned would be worse than censorship.
- Rear-Admiral Cochrane's squadron stormed three pirate forts at Marudu Bay in Borneo with 550 sailors and marines; the bell of the Bremen brig Wilhelm-Ludwig was found among the looted wreckage in the pirates' village.
- A planned mass breakout at Clairvaux prison — involving sixty conspirators who intended to kill guards, steal their uniforms, and open the gates to all inmates — was foiled just two hours before execution.
- A prison wardress named Louise Crombach, accused of helping the swindler Joséphine Chailus escape Saint-Lazare in February 1845, faced retrial at Versailles — but the court cleared the public gallery and ordered proceedings entirely in camera.
- The only known copy of L'An des Sept-Dames (c. 1500) — stolen from the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in the 18th century, rediscovered at a Brussels auction in 1819 for 350 francs, and recovered by Minister Salvandy from the Soleinne heirs — has been restored to its original shelf.
- A subscription has been launched to erect a statue to Governor Mahé de La Bourdonnais on Réunion island, with the Minister of the Navy heading the donor list.