The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-10 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

CHARGE AGAINST AN M.P. OF UNLAWFULLY
PAWNING.-Mr. Mullett, an upholsterer andlooking-
glass manufacturer in the Strand, appeared at this
office yesterday, before Sir F. ROE, to prefer a charge
of unlawfully pawning a looking-glass, his property,
against a Member of rte House of Commons, who
had hired the glass, with other articles of furniture,
from him somt-, time ago. The defendant did not
come forward to meet the charge, and, as two
summonses had subsequently been issued for his

appearance,
Sir F. ROE should issue a warrant against him,
as he conceived he had given him ample time to
meet the accusation.

A person who appeared on behalf of the Hon.
Member, requested the Magistrate to defer the hear-
ing of the case for another week.

—Sir F. ROE should certainly not consent to a
further postponement, and the Magistrate then asked
)Ir. Mullett if he would swear that the property
found at the pawnbroker's was the same he had lent
to the defendant, and whether it had been pledged
without his knowledge or consent ?
Mr. Mullett had brought the pawnbroker forward,
and the looking-glass was now in the office.
He lit Ter gave the defendant any authority to pawn it.
Sir F. ILE then directed that a warrant shuuld
be issued for the apprehension of the Hon. Member,
arid the execution of it was intrusted to Ledbitter
and Stevens, the officers.
CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A SOLDIER.--
Thomas Batchelor, late a private in the Coldstream
guards, was brought before Sir F. RoE in order
to be finally examined on the charge of having
forged the name of his commanding officer, Captain

infant a severe blow on its mouth, and afterwards
beat and kicked her dreadfully. In short, my life
is daily in danger from his brutal conduct, said the
prosecutrix.
Police constable 138, G—Your Worship, the
prisoner is a dreadful character. When I was called
to take him into custody I found the neighbourhood
in a state of alarm. On conveying him to the
station-house I heard him say that he would do
for the child or the mother.

Mr. BROUGHTON—What did he mean by the
word do? Constable—Why that he would murder
them. That if he could not murder the mother
he would the child.
Mr. BROUGHTON (to the complainant)—How
long have you been married to this man? Com-
plainant—Thirteen months.
And out of that time how long have you been
happy ?—Not a day; for on the first day of our
marriage he got drunk.
Another police constable said that, on taking the
prisoner to the station-house, he said in his hearing
that he had only married the for her 1001.,
and that having got that she might then go to the
devil and the child too.

Serjeant Tilt—My opinion is, that the child won't
ive many days. Her mouth is now black from

bruises.

Mr. BROUGHTON (to the prisoner)—What have
you to say ? Prisoner—Why; that it's all wrong.
I never struck her.
Van, one of the officers of the establishment—
Your Worship, he is a dreadful fellov when drunk,
when sober he is quiet enough.
The magistrates fined the prisoner in the sum
only of 205., or three weeks' imprisonment, a sen-
tence so mild that it surprised every one present.
The prisoner was, in default of payment, com-
mitted to prison.