•Embezzlement.— John Clark and George Stanloy, two boys belonging to _ the shij) Wai mea, were charged, upon the information of Captain Worster, of the said ship, with having, on the Bth September inst., embezzled a por tion of tlie ship's 'cargo, to wit —4 tins of con fectionery, valued at L 4. The prisoners pleaded Not guilty, and were arraigned separ ately, but, as with the exception of one slight particular, the evidence was precisely the same, we report in concrete form. William Worster, the master' of the Waimea, deposed that at 1.30 a.m. on the Bth inst., he was informed by the mate of two persons with a naked light having gone into the hold by the fore-hatch. One of the single men immigrant constables had raised the alarm. One of the quarter masters and the constable, Hart, above re ferred to, were sent below to arrest them. Witness recognised the broken case in Court as part of the ship cargo. It ought to have con tained eight tins of sweetmeats, but there were only four in it. Next morning witness went down the hold and found four tins of sweet meats in the place where the quarter-master said he saw the boys di-op something. This wns abreast the main hatch in the wing; went further aft, and there, right under the' single women's compartment, found an empty case—

the case that was then in Court. The loose tins were put into it, as it thon appeared. Witness djd not think so much of the value^of the stuff abstracted,., as of the danger allfon board were .placed.; in, by^the naked light, the boys were'carrying. By "the Bench f.The-hoy Clark ; was 'fa Very ill-behaved la<l, 'insolent and troublesome,; The fore-hatch, was, /as a rule, kept locked. Witness imagined-thatthe-boys' had been sent down for something the day] before,; i and J ha«J purposely left'the-hatch unl. locked.—G. A. Pollock, an immigrant of the Wmmea, aM whoihad acted-in the capadt^ of assistant; stdrekeejjfr'ofi-. thfe > p>a#age,- fdeppsed ■'tU'at;'ishbrtly after inHnigMonthe. 8thr,inst:;hef •was lying inhis bunk,, which commanded i full: view .bf the fore ,hatch, and ;theri saw- .Clark] come dem-n into the 'tween decks, open the fore' hatch, and go below into'the'hold. 