The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-08 00:00:00

THAMES.

HEAVY PENALTY FOR SMUGGLING, —A HARD CALM
—Amelia Valentine, an Englishwoman, the wife of a
German, now on the continent, was brought up on re.
[nand before Mr. Yardley to answer a Custom-house in-
formation, which charged her with smuggling 18Ibs. of
cigars, by which she had incurred a penalty of 100/.
The prisoner was a passenger by the Rotterdam
steamer to St. Katherine's Wharf, and on a Custom-
house officer, named Hollingum,
ssearching her luggage,
he di-covered a false bottom in one of her boxes, and
between that and the real bottom of the box the officer
discovered' 18Ibs. of cigars secreted. They were seized,
and taken to the Queen's warehouse, and Mr, Claridge,
appraiser of condemned goods said the duty on the
cigars which were of foreign manufacture, amounted to
3i 6d. per lb.
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Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, said he could not offer
any defence that could be made available in that court,
and must petition the Commissioners of Customs for a
remission or mitigation cf the penalty. The defendant
had un ortunately married a German who took away all
her property, left her and went to Rotterdam. Re soon
invited her to meet him there, and obtained all the mousy
she had and then sent her home again. The boxes well
put on board the steamer three days before Mrs. Valen-
tine embarked. She did not know what was in them.
end was surprised when the officeritook her into custody
on charge of smuggling.
Mr. Yardley said he had no alternative but to convict
and
months. n doe;
the prisoner, who had pleaded guilty, and he must sen-
ttaeunict o
e f herp aytompeanyt
to be at fine
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Queen,
course the prisoner's solicitor could apply to the Board
of Customs for a mitigation of the penalty, and make any
representations he thought proper.
Mrs. Valentine, who sobbed loudly, was then sent to
prison, and Mr. Young said he would lose no time in
sending to the Commissioners of Customs.

CONVICTION OFT WO BARONETS UNDER
THE GAME ACT.

JzohnndoLni;stseirr
Charles Kaye , Bart., of
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t, s
oPno, r t a Portland-
place, Bart.,d
of Blount's-court, Reading ; and Mr. William H.
Fryer, solicitor, of Wiwborne Minster, were sum-
moned yesterday before the county magistrates at
Wimborne for killing 38 pheasants out of season at
Lytchet Matravers, Dorsetshire. The defendants
did not personally appear, and after service of the
summons had been proved, the cases were proceeded
with separately against each. It appeared that on
the 2d, 3d, and sth Feb. last the party were ont
shooting together, %hen a number of pheasants were
killed. The chief witness was the person who had
been employed as gamekeeper ou the estate, and
he had written a letter to Sir John Kaye, stating
that he had been offered 201. to lay the informa-
tion, which he now acknowledged to be false. It
was also stated on the part of the defence that he
had counselled the killing of the pheasants on the
ground that there were too many hens left by the
Jeutleman who had the shooting up to the Ist of
February. Sir John Kaye was convicted of killing
15, Sir Charles Ibbetsun 4, and Mr. Fryer 10, the
penalty being 11. for each head, with all reasonable
costs. The magistrates, however, expressed their
readiness to grant a case for the opinion of the
court above ou a point raised, that separate sum-
monses should have been issued for each day the
party had been charged with killing pheasants,
should application be made in proper time.