The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-07 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

CHARGE OF STEALING WHEAT AND FLOUR.—Peter
Smith, Patrick M'Alister, John Burns, Richd. Swindle-
hurst, and Robert Lang were brought up on suspicion
of stealing 111 sacks of wheat and two sacks of flour,
found in their possession and not accounted for. The
circumstances of the case are briefly these :—The prisoners
Smith and Lang were stopped coming out of the Coiling-
wood Dock gates on Friday last, accompanied by a carter,
who had in his cart six sacks of wheat, which they said
to the officers at the gate were sweepings which they bad
got partly from the Roscius and partly from the Arctic.
Lang told the officer that it was all right, and that he was
one of Brown, Shipley and Co.'s men. (It appeared that
both Smith and he were in that employ.) The wheat was
proved to have been taken to the house of the prisoner
Smith, 42, Arley-street, Burns assisting to unload it.
Subsequently another cart, accompanied by the prisoners
M'Alister and Burns, and containing the entire quantity,
was seized by another policeman in Plumbe-street, and
the whole of the party were taken into custody. Evidence
was brought forward to show tbat the prisoners had bought
no sweepings from the Roscius or the Arctic; and the
sacks containing the wheat and flour were produced,
and bore the name of Mr. McHenry, who had a large
cargo of grain on board the Saranak, consigned to
Messrs. Brown, Shipley and Co., near which ship the
grain was put into the carts which conveyed it away.
There being no owner produced for the property, the
prisoners were remanded for a week.
DEFRAUDING AN EMIGRANT.—Richard Croak, who
was remanded from Saturday on a charge of having de-
frauded an emigrant by altering the ticket for her passage,
and also for representieg himself as another broker, was
brought up again to-day. Tue evidence, which was gone
over on account of Mr. Bluck, who defended the prisoner,
not having been present at the first examination, was
briefly as follows :—Ellen Brophy, a young Irish female,
represented that she had, on landing from Ireland for the
purpose of emigrating to America, enquired from a per-
son whom she had met on the quay, and who proved to be
a runner in the employment of the prisoner, for a man
named Kickham, to whom she had a letter. She was
taken at once to prisoner's boarding-house, and he an-
swered to the name, and personated Kickham throughout
the transaction. She paid him £4 65., for which he got
her a ticket, which was proved to have been altered from
£2 10s. to £2 16e. 6d. ; provided her with provisions and
other articles, and returned her 9s. in money. The offence
was clearly proved ; and prisoner's solicitor agreeing that
it should be summarily disposed of, he was fined, under
the 65th and 66th section of the Passenger Act, £5 for al-
tering the ticket, and £5 for the false representation of
himself as Kickham, with one month's imprisonment
under each clause, in case of non-payment. The fines
not being forthcoming, he was locked up.

EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.—The Africa sailed
from this port for Australia, yesterday, with about
550 emigrants, 40 of whom were cabin passengers, and
about 400 were adults. The Africa is a splendid vessel,
and her accommodations seem to have been appreciated ;
for every berth was taken a week before her departure,
and a considerable number of applications from Lon-
don and other places were refused. Among the pas-
sengers, gentlemen of the clerical order seem to have
been conspicuous. There were two clergymen of the
Church of England, four Roman Catholic priests,
and three ministers of the kirk of Scotland. There
were also four surgeons, two newspaper reporters,
and six sea captains going out to bring home vessels.
The ship is the property of Messrs. Henry Fox and
Co., of this town. The Tantivy, emigrant ship, went
i.ito the river on Saturday, with about 380 souls on board.
It is expected that she will get out to sea this day. The
number of vessels which left this port last month
with emigrants for Australia and America was thirty-
six, having on board a total number of 12,188 souls.
In the previous month (October) the ships despatched
were 42, and the emigrants 17,243. In November, 1851,
the vessels were 37, and emigrants 11,632, giving an ex-
cess for November, 1852, of 556 persons. From the
government depot, at Birkenhead, the number of
emigrant vesses despatched, from the 20th of Ja-
nuary to the commencement of the current month,
was 36, carrying with them to the remotest portion
of the widely spread British empire no less than 13,485
passengers, a number which, reckoning children ac-
cording to the official returns, represents upwards of
15,000 souls ; all of them being industrious persons, me-
chanics and labourers of good character, for the govern-
ment will receive no others, and such as this country,
under present circumstances, is least able to spare. Three
remaining vessels will, it is calculated, take out about 900
additional passengers registered, increasing the number to
16,000 souls, who within the present year will have sailed
from this port to Australia, from the Birkenhead depot
alone.