1846-01-02 · Journal des Débats

CXVI. Le pardon

CXVI. The Pardon

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The French Chamber of Deputies elects its Address commission, Algeria and Morocco dominate parliamentary debate, and the Oregon crisis alarms British opinion.

Conservatives took eight of nine seats on the Chamber of Deputies' Address commission, outvoting the Opposition 215 to 145 out of 358 deputies present — leaving Saint-Marc Girardin as, in the paper's words, 'the last hope of Troy.'
Deputy Saint-Marc Girardin charged that every article of the September 1844 Treaty of Tangier remained unexecuted: Abd el-Kader's Moroccan 'excommunication' was a fiction, the frontier-delimitation treaty unsigned, and Morocco's connivance with the Emir evident as early as March 1845.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, writing from London on 22 December, blamed Lord Grey for wrecking the Whig cabinet attempt and declared his own position had been simple: immediate and absolute repeal of the Corn Laws, or nothing.

The steamer Saint-David, which left Le Havre on 13 December for Liverpool with a cargo valued at 700,000 francs, has not been heard from; wreckage including the sole passenger's trunk washed ashore at Fécamp, and total loss with all hands is feared.
A priest murdered a fellow clergyman with a razor in the sacristy of a Naples church; the Blessed Sacrament was removed, the building closed, and an outraged populace demanded expiation.
Workers demolishing a medieval church at Otbach in Alsace found inside a four-foot-thick chancel wall a marble coffin containing a priest's body in perfect preservation — flesh firm, teeth intact, eyes half-open — dressed in a sky-blue soutane embroidered in gold, with a medallion inscribed 'Emperor Otho to the curé of Irbach.'

Ibrahim-Pasha, convalescing at Vernet-les-Bains in the Eastern Pyrenees, hosted nightly gatherings of thirty guests, served ices in profusion, and invited ten locals to his table every day — while the Moroccan ambassador's eight gift horses made their way overland from Marseille to Paris, a forty-day journey.

Arts

The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire announced its orchestral season would open on Sunday 11 January, while the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres elected Joseph Naudet president and orientalist Joseph Toussaint Reinaud vice-president for 1846.

CXVI. The Pardon

The French Chamber of Deputies elects its Address commission, Algeria and Morocco dominate parliamentary debate, and the Oregon crisis alarms British opinion.

Conservatives took eight of nine seats on the Chamber of Deputies' Address commission, outvoting the Opposition 215 to 145 out of 358 deputies present — leaving Saint-Marc Girardin as, in the paper's words, 'the last hope of Troy.'
Deputy Saint-Marc Girardin charged that every article of the September 1844 Treaty of Tangier remained unexecuted: Abd el-Kader's Moroccan 'excommunication' was a fiction, the frontier-delimitation treaty unsigned, and Morocco's connivance with the Emir evident as early as March 1845.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, writing from London on 22 December, blamed Lord Grey for wrecking the Whig cabinet attempt and declared his own position had been simple: immediate and absolute repeal of the Corn Laws, or nothing.

The steamer Saint-David, which left Le Havre on 13 December for Liverpool with a cargo valued at 700,000 francs, has not been heard from; wreckage including the sole passenger's trunk washed ashore at Fécamp, and total loss with all hands is feared.
A priest murdered a fellow clergyman with a razor in the sacristy of a Naples church; the Blessed Sacrament was removed, the building closed, and an outraged populace demanded expiation.
Workers demolishing a medieval church at Otbach in Alsace found inside a four-foot-thick chancel wall a marble coffin containing a priest's body in perfect preservation — flesh firm, teeth intact, eyes half-open — dressed in a sky-blue soutane embroidered in gold, with a medallion inscribed 'Emperor Otho to the curé of Irbach.'

Ibrahim-Pasha, convalescing at Vernet-les-Bains in the Eastern Pyrenees, hosted nightly gatherings of thirty guests, served ices in profusion, and invited ten locals to his table every day — while the Moroccan ambassador's eight gift horses made their way overland from Marseille to Paris, a forty-day journey.

Arts

The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire announced its orchestral season would open on Sunday 11 January, while the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres elected Joseph Naudet president and orientalist Joseph Toussaint Reinaud vice-president for 1846.