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

THAMES.

HEAVY PENALTY FOR SMUGGLING.—A HARD CASE.
—Amelia Valentine, an Eeglieh woman, the wife of a
Gorman, now on the continent, was brought up on ile°
ihai,d 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 1001.
The prisoner was a passenger by the Rotterdam
steamer to St. Katherine's 'WLarf, and on a Custom-
house officer, named Hollingum, searching her luggage,
he di•novered a false bottom in one of her boxes, and
between that and the real bottom of the box the officer
discovered 18lbs. of cigars secreted. They were seized,
and taken to the Queen's warehouse, and Mr, Claridge,
appraiser of condetnued goods said the duty on the
cigars which were of foreign manufacture, amounted to
3e 6d. per lb.
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
remi,eion or mitigation cf the penalty. The defendant
had uu'ortnnately married a German who took away all
her property, left her and went to Rotterdam. Ile 80011
invited her to meet him there, and obtained all thenoney
she had and then sent her home again. The boxes were
put on board the steamer three days before Mrs. Wen'
tine embarked. She did not know what was in them,
and was surprised when the officerltook her into custody
on charge of smuggling.
Mr. Yardley said he had no alternative but to convict
the prisoner, who had pleaded guilty, ani he must sen-
tence her to pay a fine of 1001. to the Queen, and in de-
fault of payment to be imprisoned for six months. Of
course the prisoner's solicitor could apply to the Board
of Customs for a mitigation of the penalty, and make all
repre,entations he thought proper.
111 rs. Valentine, who sobbed loudly, was then tent to
prison, and Mr. Young said he would lose no time jo
sending to the Commissioners of Customs.

COS VICTIM OF T TV( ) BARONETS UNDO

THE GAME ACT.

Sir Join Lister Kaye, Bart., of 54, Portland'
place, London ; Sir Charles Henry lbbetson, Bart.,
of mount's-court, Reading ; and Mr. William 11'
Fryer, solicitor, of Wimborne Minster, were aura'
mooed yesterday before the county magistrates at
Wiffiborne for killing 38 pheasants out of season at
Lytdtet Matravers, llorsetsbire. 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 out
shooting together, when a number of pheasants vivre
killed. The chief witness was the person who ba,
b.:en employed as gamekeeper on tbe estate, and
he had written a letter to Sir John Kaye, slat"
that he had been offered 201. to lay the inform?'"
tion, which Its now acknowleJged to ba false.
was also stated on the part of the defence that be
had counselled the killing of the pheasants on Vie
ground that there were too many hens left by thef
.eutletnan who had the shooting up to the Ist °
February. Sir John Kaye was convicted of killing
15, bir Charles Ibbetson 4, and Mr. Fryer 10, the
pOialty bring 11. for each head, with all reasonable
The magistrates, however, expressed theier
readine,,s to grant a caYa' for the opinion of th
court above ou a point raised, that separate ara'
mouses should have been issued fur each clay the
patty had been • charged with killing pheasants'
should application be made in proper time.