The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-14 00:00:00

SCHEDULE H.

Animals imported for breed ; bullion, gold, and silver;
cabinets of coins, medals, and other collections of an-
tiquities ; coffee and tea when imported direct from the
place of their growth or production, in American vessels,
or in foreign vessels entitled by reciprocal treaties to be
exempt from discriminating duties, tonnage, and other
charges ; coffee, the growth or production of the
possessions of the Netherlands, imported from
the Netherlands in the same manner ; coins,
gold, silver, and copper ; copper ore ; copper
when imported for the United States Mint; cotton;
felt, adhesive, for sheathing ; garden seeds, and other
seeds not otherwise provided for ; goods, wares and
merchandise, the growth, produce or manufacture of the
United States exported to a foreign country, and brought
back to the United States in the same condition as when
exported, upon which no drawback or bounty has been.
allowed: Provided, that all the regulations to ascertain
the identity thereof, prescribed by existing laws, or
which may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, shall be complied with; guano; household effects,
old and in use, of persons or families from foreign coun-
tries, if used abroad by them, and not intended for any
other person or persons, for sale; junk, old; models
of inventions and other improvements in the arts:
Provided, That no article or • articles shall be
deemed a model or improvement which can be
fitted for use ; oakum ; oil, spermaceti, whale, and
other fish, of American fisheries, and all other articles
the production of such fisheries ; paintings and
statuary, the production of American artists residing
abroad, and all other paintings and statuary: Provided,
the same be imported in geod faith as objectS of taste,
and not of merchandise ; personal and household effects
(not merchandise) of citizens of the United States dying
abroad ; plaster of Paris, unground ; platina, unmanu-
factured ; sheeting copper, but no copper to be consi-
dered such and admitted free, except sheets forty-eight
inches long and fourteen inches wide, and weighinc
from fourteen to thirty-four ounces the square foot -
sheathing metal ; specimens of natural history, miner-
alogy or botany ; trees, shrubs, bulbs, plants and
roots, not otherwise provided for ; wearing apparel in
actual use, and other personal effects not merchandise,
professional books, implements, instruments, and tools
of trade, occupation, or employment, of persons arriving
in the United States ; Provided, that this exemption
shall not be construed to include machinery or other ar-
ticles imported for use in any manufacturing establish..
ment or for sale.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE,
'WESTERN CIRCUIT.— Wells, Aug. 11.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Limit.)
IV. Cowley Catterell was indicted for stealing a post letter,
the property of the Postmaster-General, containing a cheque
for the payment of 29/. 2s. 6d., tha property of Henry Davis.
By other counts the charge was varied.
Mr. Poulden and Mr. Prideaux conducted the case for the
prosecution, and Mr Stone and Mr. Bailey defended the
prisoner.

The prosecutor, Mr. Henry Davis, was a solicitor, residing
at Western-super-Mare' and the prisoner had been for three
years his managing clerk, but left him on the 13th of June to
go into the service of a Mr. Smith, at Walsall, in Stafford.
shire. On Monday the Bth of June Mr. Henry Davis drew
a cheque on Messrs. Stuckey's bank at Wells for 291. 2s. 6d.,
in favour of Mr. Horatio Davis of Bath. The cheqae was put
in a letter, which letter was copied by one of his clerks, and
on the 9th of June the letter in which the cheque was inclosed
was put into the post-office at Weston. It was addressed to
Mr. Horatio Davis, at his residence in Bath. On the 16th
of June Mr. Henry Davis, not having heard of the receipt
of this letter by Mr. Horatio Davis, made inquiries re-
specting it, and he then found that it had never been re-
ceived by Mr. Horatio Davis. Upon this Mr. Henry Davis
wrote to the post-office and also to Messrs. Stuckey's bank at
Wells. He was told by Captain Giles, the manager of the
bank, that the cheque had been paid on the 11th of June.
Captain Giles gave a very minute description of the party to
whom it had been paid, which description exactly corres-
ponded with the appearance of the prisoner. Further in-
quiries were instituted, and then it seemed that on the
evening of Tuesday, the 9th of June, the prisoner and two
other clerks left the office of Mr. Davis shortly before seven
o'clock. The up-train left Weston at ten minutes after seven,
and the prisoner, accompanied by another person, wont by
that train that evening, and if he had asked for the letter
addressed to Mr. Horatio Davis, at the Bath post-office, it
would have been delivered to him, because the place where
Mr. Horatio Davis lived being without the district which
was within the evenine• 1 tiin int fa...
Uten ueuverect wnere it was addressed until the next MOM.
ing, unless it had been asked for at the office. The down
luggage train arrived at the Weston station about two o'clock
in the morning, and immediately after its arrival the pri-
soner was seen on the platform, accompanied by the person
with whom he had been seen in the train on the previous
evening. On the 'Wednesday the prisoner was at Mr. Davis's
office, and he said to his two fellow-clerks that he wanted to
go to Bristol the next morning, but he did not wish Mr.
Davis to know of it, and he therefore requested them not to
mention it to him. On that day he was absent from Mr.
Davis's office, but at ten o'clock in the morning he went ta
the Greyhound, Broadmead, Bristol, and there saw Mrs. Slocomb, the landlady, and Miss 'Williams, the barmaid, and
lie then stated that he wanted a horse and gig to go to Wells
and one was procured for him, and a man of the name o f
Richard Jones drove him to the Swan Inn at Wells. The
prisoner told Jones he would go to the bank and do his busi--
ness. He was absent ten minutes. Captain Giles, the ma-
nager, and Mr. Gill, the cashier, were at the bank. The
prisoner went in and presented the cheque in question. Mr
Gill asked him if his name was Davis? Ho said it was, and
the amount was handed to him. He returned to the Swan.
and Jones then drove him back to the Greyhound at Bristol.,
He ordered a bed there, and then went out, but did not re-
turn till the following morning. He had another conversa-
tion with Mrs. Slocomb, and he paid for his bed and refresh-
ment, and went away. He returned to Mr. Davis's, and on
the following day they settled all their matters, and he left
for Walsall.

Mr. STONE, for the prisoner, contended that the jury could
not say it was a post letter, because there might have been a
mistake as to its having been put into the post-office; but
that as regarded his having stolen a piece of paper, for it was
no cheque, not having been drawn within fifteen miles of the
bank, he would not insult them by saying a word.
Mr. Justice ERLE having summed up,
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of stealing the letter
from the post-office.—Sentence, seven years' transportation.
Martha Plummer was indicted for stealing 20 gold rings,
the property of Thomas Crouch; and Mary Wallis and
Martha Candy were indicted for feloniously receiving the
same, knowing them to have been stolen.
Mr. I'rideaux was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
Saunders for the prisoners.
The prosecutor was a travelling jeweller, 'and on the 17th
July he dropped a small casket containing these rings out of
his pocket in a road. It was not long before he discovered
his loss, and he immediately gave notice in the villages
around, and particularly in the village of Writhlington, near
which he thought he had met with his loss, and he offered $
reward of a sovereign. He, however, heard nothing until
the 26th, when he found several of the rings had been
pledged by the prisoners Wallis and Candy, and it was ad-
mitted that they had received them from Plummer, who also
admitted that she had found them.
Mr. SAUNDERS, for the prisoner, submitted that this did
not amount to a larceny, because it had been laid down that
a person finding property and, being ignorant of the owner,
yet keeps it, could not be guilty of a felony.
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Mr. Justice ERLE considered that if a person found pro-
larceny; and the Learned Judge, in summing up the case,
said the question for the jury was, whether Martha Plummer
intended to convert this property to her own use, and when.
ther she knew that an owner could be found, and then would
arise the question whether the two other prisoners knew that
these rings were in the possession of Martha Plummer un-
lawfully.
The jury found all the prisoners Guilty, and they were
sentenced to one month's imprisonment, the Learned Judge
stating that persons who found property and did not take
any steps to discover the owner, were guilty of a want of
common honesty as well as of a felony.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lancaster, Aug. 12.
The assizes for the northern division of the county of Lan-
caster commenced here to-day. Their Lordships sat for the
dispatch of business at twelve o'clock ; Mr. Justice Cresswell
on the civil side, and Mr. Justice Wightman in the Crown
Court. Thirteen causes are entered for trial ; one of these,
an issue directed to try the sanity of a testator, will, it is
expected, occupy two days. The calendar contains the
names of eleven prisoners, of which five are charged with
burglary, and one with feloniously cutting and wounding.
Nothing of public interest occurred on the Civil side:
Three causes relating to a disputed right of water were re-
ferred, and the Court was engaged the greater part of the
day with a question of disputed liability for some timber,
the details of which were not such as to call for particular
notice.

(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)
George Kelly was indicted for burglary in the house of
Edmund Sharpe, at Poulton' on the 7th of August.
Mr. Drinkwater appeared for the prosecution.
The prisoner is a young man of rather respectable appear-
ance, and conducted his defence with a good deal of clever-
ness and self-possession.
The prosecutor, it appeared, had been absent from home
on the 6th of August, and the other inmates of the house re-
tired to rest about ten o'clock. They were not disturbed
during the night, but, on the servant going down stairs on
the following morning, it was found that the house had bees
entered by one of the windows, the shutters of which had
not been fastened. A drawer in the room had been broken
open, and two telescopes, a pencil-case, a waistcoat, and
other articles, taken away. The two telescopes, which were
now produced and identified, were on the following morning
seen in the possession of the prisoner, at Ellal, near Poulton,
about eleven o'clock. He was then offering them for sale to
a person whom he met at the public-house. He was offered
4s. 7d. for them, which he at that time refused ; but late in
the evening he was again met by the same parties at the
same house, and agreed to take the money offered. He was
apprehended the following day, at the Lancaster races.—
Verdict, Guilty.
His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner
was evidently a person of more than ordinary intelligence.
and apparently not inexperienced in courts of justice. The
11 offence of which he had been convicted was a very 060"
one, and he was too dangerous a person to
remain in this country; and sentenced him to be trap
for seven years.
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Several other cases were disposed 9f.

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RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE.
MES3RS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND
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Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage,
and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c.,
take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the
Hall of Commeree, Threa—'l4dedle-street, London, to which place,
favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully
requested to be addressed.
All Scrip and Share Certificates roust be deposited, the day
previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be
forwarded by the fir,tpost after the sale, ant the proceeds Imme-
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MAJEF•TY'S TIMATRE.
TY..g LAST NIGDT BUT ONE OF TUE SEASON.
T(,-MORROW EVENING, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13,
Will be performed Bellidi'a Opera,
NORMA.

Norma, Madame Grisi ; Adalgisa,:Mdlle. Corbari ; Pollineo, Sig: Co-
"relli ; and Oroveso, Sig. Lablache.
After which the highly successful new and original Divertisse-
ment, entitled

LE JUGEMENT DE PARIS,
and, as before, to be followed (by desire) with the let Act of Verdi's
celebrated Opera,

NINO.

nuns (King of Assyria), Sig. Fornasari ; Idaspe, Sig. Corelli ;
Orotaape, Sig. Botelli ; Fene na (daughter of 'sinus), Jtdlle. Corbarl
and, Abigail (a Slave, supposed to be the eldest daughter of Sinus),
I'ddlle. Sanchioli.

To conclude with the last Tableau of the successful New Grand
Ballet, entitled

LALLA ROOKH ;
Comprising the Feast of Roses, and the celebrated Pas do Neuf,
Cerito, M. St. Leon, and Mdlle. Louise Tagiloni, supported by
Ilesdlies.Demellase, Cassan, James, Lamoreux, Julien, and Honore.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THE LAST NIGHT.

The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully informed
that there will be a FAREWELL NIGHT on
THURSDAY NEXT, AUGUST 20,
When will be performed Rossini's celebrated Opera, entitled
IL itaRBIERE DI SIVIGLIA.
IG isina, Madame Grist; Il Comte d'Aimaviva, Sig. Mario ; Bartolo
Lablache; Basilic), Sig. F. Lablache ; Figaro, Sig. Fornasari.
In the course of the Evening, the highly successful new and
original Ballet Divertissement, by M. Perrot, the Music by Signor
Pugni, entitled

THE WEATHER..-617N OFFICE, AUGUST 13.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 49; Highest. 68 ; Noon, 67.
BAROMETER, 29 99.—WIND W.; fine.