Sittings appointed to be ...
Sittings appointed to be held in Middlesex and London before the Right Honourable Sir Charles Abbott, Knight. LDrI& Chief Justice of the Court of Kings Rench, in and after Michad- Term, 1824:- '\ PT:.Raf. tSlt at halt pwst 'L; o'clock on the i th, 13th, 18th, and 20th of November; and at half past nine orn the other days, Yesterday the General Quiarter Sessions commenced at the Guildhall, Westminster, before Francis Cosst, Esq., Chairman, and a bench of Alagistrates, for the purposeof swearing iti -he Grandt Jurv for the county, and also receiving the half-vearly report of the headboroughs, constables, and other petty officrsi employed in DlMid- dlesex. The names of the respective persenns vre-e called over hy Afr- Stirling, the clerk of the peace, when a number not answering, they were ordered to be ficed, unless a suffident reason vwere assigned to' the Court for their being absent. 'l'he Grand Jurry haring been sworn, tbev were discharged, and ordered to gnve their atteraance are Alonday next at IJicks's-hall, Clerkenwell. The trials of the tra- verse cases, and others out or. bail, wvill commence to.day. The crop of apples has failed to such all extent this sea- son in Kent and Sussex, that the market price already averages 9!} per cent. hizher than last year.-Kentigh Gazea-e The culture of the hop-plant is extending in Devon, Somerset, and Dorset, the soil of which counties appears in many parts well calculated to bring it to perfection. [Advertisement. r-The late contrary winds, which have continued now several days, have reduced the vendible stock of coals-ihiia prime article of necessity-to tctrivial quantitv of seven or eigbt cargoes. It is unnecessary to say, that the mnerchants have turned this scarcity to their profit, while it will be proper to add, that the public in general, manufacturers, and private families in particular, who lay in their coals about this time, feel seriously inconvenienced. But thses disasters in the coal-trade must be expected constantly to recur, till some public depot be established where the article can be stored In the summer-season, and where ie colliers wiU only hate te arrive, unload, and proceed for fresh cargoes, as dose at several ports in this kingdom. W1'e therefore look to the proposed Ber- mondsey Dock for colliers and for a depot for coals with treat satis- faction, conceiring it to be the onlymeans that can secre this neces- sary of life from those casualties and incoonveniesces whic rsave been so loug and so grievously felt by the public.