The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-31 00:00:00

EiPORTS.

Cotton Wool—The purchases during the month
amount to 3,350 bales sad 4,250 candies. Although last
advices from England were highly favourable, the large
quantities of the staple now in the market have prevented
the rise in price which would otherwise have taken
place; and, indeed, a decline is looked for, owing to the
setting in of the rains, and the fact of last accounts from
China being of a less encouraging nature than those
formerly received.
Opium—Since the arrival of last China mail on the
21st inst., the price of Malwa has advanced to 1,530 r.
per chest; prior to that date ;the rate was 1,240 r. to
1,203 r.
Freights—Subsequent to the date of our last Overland
dispatch several ships were taken up for Liverpool at 11.
10s. per ton, since then the rate has advanced, and en-
gagements have been made at 1/. 17s. 6d. per ton, and
for partial lots at 2L ss. To London the rates have been
ruling between IL 15s. and 21., but to-day something
more could be obtained we think. To China shorely
after the departure of the last mail numerous vessels
were engaged at 64r. per candy. Since then rates have
advanced to 7r., Br., and 9r.; but in consequence of un-
favourable accounts of the cotton market in China, the
rate has again declined, and is now nominal at 7r. to Br.
Exchange—The Commercial Bank has been drawing
at 2.. Oil, six months' sight we understand, and docu-
ment bills have been placed at 2s. Oid. and 2s, 00. six
months' sight. Russell's and other clean credits seem
scam,. Transactions for this mail have not been heavy;
at this season they seldom ate.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, July 27.
By the co-operation of Mr. Whateley, Q.C., and Mr.
Greaves, Q.C., who presided in separate courts, one in
the grand jury room, and the other in the Judges
dining-room, for the trial of prisoners, all the Crown
business, with the exception of the murder case, on
which the jury were deliberating, and two indictments
for perjury, were disposed of by ten • o'clock last night.
At that hour the first of the indictments was called
on in the Crown Court, before Mr. Justice Wil-
liams, when
Mr. HUDDLESTON (who was the leading counsel for
the prosecution), said, that having been engaged
the whole of that day in the two cases of murder, he
was physically incapable of proceeding with another
case that evening; and as, moreover, the defendant was
not present, he hoped his Lordship would adjourn the
court until the next morning.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said he should be most glad
to do so if the state of the public business would
permit him, but there were three civil causes,
and two indictments for perjury still to be
tried, and yet to-morrow was the commission day
at Shrewsbury. He had no doubt that the counsel was
very much fatigued, but he must remember that both
himself (the Judge) and the jury had been working
equally hard, and were equally tired. He did not in-
tend that the whole case should be tried that evening,
bat merely wished to make some progress in it. The
presence of the defendant was not indispensable, this
being a misdemeanor, and it was admitted she would
surrender in the morning.
Mr. HUDDLESTON still contended that the presence of
the defendant was necessary, and as Counsel for the pro-
secution, required that she should surrender before the
trial was proceeded with. He also further urged the
plea of exhaustion, and added, that from the pressure of
business at these assizes, he had not been able to open
his brief in the present case; and, if he were compelled
to proceed must read it at length to.the jury, in order
that ho might at the same. time inform himself and them
of the charge against the defendant.

After a lung -discussion,
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS directed the jury to be sworn
and the case to be proceeded with.
After the oath had been repeated to the jury,
The crier said, my Lord, one of the jurymen refuses
to take the oath.
Mr. Justice WiLmats—How is this, sir? Juryman
(producing from the depths of his fob an enormous
watch, and extending it at arm's length towards his
Lordship)—Whoy, my Loard, its noaw moare than ten
o'clock, and I'om now been sitting here and in t'other
courts moare than thoirteen hours, and I wo'ant sit no
mosir this noight if I can help it.—(Great laughter, in
which the Judge joined very good humouredly.)
Further discussion took place, and at length it Ix -
came apparent to everybody that no progress would be
made in the case even if it were proceeded with, and it
was adjourned until the morning.
PERJURY.—EIIen Capewell, aged 45, was indicted for
wilful and corrupt perjury, committed at the lust Sum-
mer assizes.
Mr. Huddleston and Mr. P. M'Mabon appeared for
the prosecution, and Mr. Whateley, Q C., and Mr. Skin-
ner for the defence.
The case occupied tlii Court from nine in the morning
till six o'clock. It arose out of an action of trespass
brought by Captain Powys, of Cheadle, against a man
named Clewes, to try the title to a piece of wharf at the
left-hand side of Basford canal bridge as you go from
Leek to Cheadle, occupying altogether a space of 16
yards. Clewes defended as the servant of a gentleman
named Sseyd, and the question of title was therefore in
substance tried as between Powys and Sneyd, both being
gentlemen of the highest respectability and of very con-
siderable fortune; and both resembling the honest
Dandy Dinmont in his litigation—looking not to " the
value of the thing but the justice." The few feet of
wharf were admitted on both sides to be really of little
value; bat each claimed a title from a remote period,
Mr. Sneyd contending that it had been in his family
along with the surrounding land at that side of the
canal bridge for at least 70 years; and Captain Powys
claiming it for a very long period also, under a deed of
exchange with the former proprietors of the ad-
joining land. Captain Powys's land was at the
north side of the bridge, and Mr. Sneyd's at the
south; and the spot in question was on the south, and if
Captain Powys's claim were well founded would
certainly interfere with the fair proportions of Mr.
Sneyd's land; and, therefore, if ever " the grays of a
goose" were an excusable ground of litigation it was
certainly so here. The cause was entered for trial at the
Spring Assizes of 1849, and in consequence of the judges
not having time to try it, it was, at the close of the
assizes, made a remanet—of course, at an enormous ex-
pense to the parties, who had kept upwards of sixty
witnesses for some days at Stafford. It was tried at the
next assizes by a special jury, and ended in a verdict for
Captain Powys. The defendant was one of his witnesses.
She had been authorised formerly both by him and Mr.
Sneyd to collect the wharf-dues for both, but since 1832,
when Mr. Sneyd erected a public-house called the Navi-
gation Inn, near the bridge, she had ceased to collect for
him. In order to prove user and possession by Captain
Powys, it would be very material to ascertain who had
received the dues for this piece of wharf since the
erection of the Navigation Inn, and she swore that she
had been always paid them for Captain Powys by all
persons using the wharf—by Mr. Sneyd himself, by
several of his servants, tenants, and others claiming
under him, whom she named, and particularly by his
woodranger ; that it had not been claimed by any one
but the Powys family; that she had not received
any money for it on account of Mr. Scud; and
that she had not had a particular conversation with
some of her neighbours. For these statements she was
now brought to trial. Eight of those whom she named
as having paid her on account of C iptain Powys con-
tradicted her point blank, swearing that they had not
done so, and that when she demanded wharfage for the
wharf now in dispute, they refused to pay it, and she
admitted that she had no right to that side of the bridge.
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