10 DECEMBER 1859, page 9

It Is In Contemplation To Fortify The Ports Of Algeria,

and from 12 to 14 millions are to be devoted to the purpose. The Government is said to have fixed on the roadstead of Bugia as the point of concentration for the French......

An Action Brought In The Court Of Exchequer By A

Mr. Penballow against the Mersey Harbour and Docks Company for damages sustained by a ship belonging to the plaintiff, after being before the Court five days, terminated......

Money Market.

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AMINOON. The Funds and all other classes of securities have been in good demand the whole week, and a considerable advance has been established. This is......

Postscript.

83.TURDAr MORNING. Contrary to the statements from quarters usually well-informed, a Paris correspondent of the Independance of Brussels states that all the letters from Turin......

3iiiffu1laurnuo.

As our readers are aware, four Liverpool merchants, Messrs. Shaw, Mellor, Irving, and Blackwell, wrote to the Emperor Napoleon to in- quire whether his intentions to England......

The Half-yearly Meeting Of The Royal Agricultural Society...

yesterday afternoon Colonel Challoner in the chair. Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, acting secretary, read the report; from which we learn that "the Society consists, at the present time,......

Death Has Deprived Us Of One Of The Literary Worthies

of a famous school. Mr. Thomas de Quincey, "the English Opium Eater," died at Edinburgh on Thursday, in his 75th year. Few prose writers of modern times have shown a greater......

Slants.

On the 30th of November, at Sandgate. Kent, the Wife of Captain Eteson, A.D.C., Third (the Buffs) Regiment, of a daughter. On the 1st of December, at 16, Gratton Street, the......