1845-12-25 · Journal des Débats

CXI. Expiation

Sir Robert Peel returns to power after Lord Grey's refusal to serve alongside Lord Palmerston, while Abd-el-Kader eludes French columns in Algeria.

Lord Grey refused to join Lord John Russell's cabinet unless Lord Palmerston was excluded from the Foreign Office — an objection so firm that Russell surrendered his commission to the Queen, returning Peel to power.
Abd-el-Kader slipped behind Marshal Bugeaud's pursuing columns near Orléansville, while rumours — attested by two eyewitnesses — circulated that rebel leader Bou-Maza had been assassinated by the very Flittas tribes he had led.
Tsar Nicholas I visited Naples incognito as the Count of Romanow, reviewed two lancer regiments at the King's invitation, then galloped past the Neapolitan sovereign at their head before departing for a private audience with Pope Gregory XVI in Rome.

A charity bazaar for sick and destitute Polish émigrés, patronised by Teresa Guiccioli — once Byron's companion — Princess Czartoryska, and dozens of aristocratic ladies, opened on 26 December in the rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin.

A former weaver named Mansbeudel, who had threatened a deputy prosecutor with a pistol in February and declared 'the guillotine is the cross of honour for me,' was formally placed under legal interdiction by the Paris court of first instance.
Thieves murdered a servant in Madrid stockbroker Olea's house and escaped with 16,000 reales in cash and securities worth 600,000 reales; as of 18 December, police had found no perpetrators.

Goldsmith Morel, jeweller to the Duchesse d'Orléans, displayed at his salon-showroom a monumental gilt-silver ewer commissioned by the Duc de Nemours, its handle formed by a panther in mid-spring over a curved branch.

A fashion correspondent argued that French cashmere shawls — finer, cleaner, and more supple than their Indian rivals — had so convincingly proved their quality that a French specimen once disguised itself as an Indian shawl, only to be unmasked by customs officials at Le Havre.

CXI. Expiation

Sir Robert Peel returns to power after Lord Grey's refusal to serve alongside Lord Palmerston, while Abd-el-Kader eludes French columns in Algeria.

Lord Grey refused to join Lord John Russell's cabinet unless Lord Palmerston was excluded from the Foreign Office — an objection so firm that Russell surrendered his commission to the Queen, returning Peel to power.
Abd-el-Kader slipped behind Marshal Bugeaud's pursuing columns near Orléansville, while rumours — attested by two eyewitnesses — circulated that rebel leader Bou-Maza had been assassinated by the very Flittas tribes he had led.
Tsar Nicholas I visited Naples incognito as the Count of Romanow, reviewed two lancer regiments at the King's invitation, then galloped past the Neapolitan sovereign at their head before departing for a private audience with Pope Gregory XVI in Rome.

A charity bazaar for sick and destitute Polish émigrés, patronised by Teresa Guiccioli — once Byron's companion — Princess Czartoryska, and dozens of aristocratic ladies, opened on 26 December in the rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin.

A former weaver named Mansbeudel, who had threatened a deputy prosecutor with a pistol in February and declared 'the guillotine is the cross of honour for me,' was formally placed under legal interdiction by the Paris court of first instance.
Thieves murdered a servant in Madrid stockbroker Olea's house and escaped with 16,000 reales in cash and securities worth 600,000 reales; as of 18 December, police had found no perpetrators.

Goldsmith Morel, jeweller to the Duchesse d'Orléans, displayed at his salon-showroom a monumental gilt-silver ewer commissioned by the Duc de Nemours, its handle formed by a panther in mid-spring over a curved branch.

A fashion correspondent argued that French cashmere shawls — finer, cleaner, and more supple than their Indian rivals — had so convincingly proved their quality that a French specimen once disguised itself as an Indian shawl, only to be unmasked by customs officials at Le Havre.