The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-23 00:00:00

WESTMINS

AN EXTRAO:WINARY PI:OCEZDING.—A. very re -
spec table-looking man came before the magic rate
this morning and solicited his advice under the fol-
lowing circumstances :
Applicant said that being in want of money yes-
terday, he took a violin, bow, and case to a pawn-
broker's, at Knightsbridge, in order to obtain a
loan upon it. The pawnbroker detained it, and
would not give it up.
Mr. Arnold—You took it there to pawn ?
Applicant—Yes, but I did not pawn it ; he did'nt
take it in.

Mr. Arnold—You say he detains it?
Applicant—Not as a pledge. He kept it, but he
did not give me any money upon it.

Mr. Arnold--How was that ?

Applicant—lie asked me where I got it from.
I told him it was my own. Ile said I had
pawned a violin there about a month ago, and he
should detain the one I had now brought. He sent
his boy out for a policeman and applicant waited
for him, complained to the policeman of what oc-
curred, and went with him to the inspector on duty
to ask Lis advice, but it was all to no effect.

Mr. Arnold—What was done?
Applicant—The inspector sent a constable back
with me to the pawnbroker to tell him to give my
violin up as I want it just now, but he refused to
give it up, and still keeps it.

Mr. Arnold said he would grant a summons
against the proprietor for unlawfully detaining.

THAMES.

TIIE ENRAGED FRENCIIMAN.—A French sailor,
named Matthew Fort, was brought before Mr.
Lushington charged with assaulting Thomas Craw-
ford, who, on his own confession, keeps a very
questionable house, at No. 1, Hooper-square,
‘Vhitechapel. The Frenchman, and a there amie,
went to the house in question. A quarrel took
place, and the female ran out of the house scream-
ing. The Frenchman said he had been robbed, and
he broke up everything in the room, tables,
chairs, a looking-glass, four feet long and one
foot wide, pictures, and all that could be reached,
movable and immovable, shared in the general
wreck. Crawford and his wife, in attempting to
save their property, were assaulted, the police were
fetched, and " Monieur Fort, la Belle France," as
he called himself, was arrested and placed in dur-
ance vile. He said he had been robbed. Napoleons
to the value of 120 f. were found on the floor of the
room. Crawford valued his property smashed up
and rendered useless at £lO.

The magistrate fined the Frenchman 58., and
455. in addition for the property destroyed, ob-
serving that, if he was robbed by his companion, he
had no right to wreak his vengeance on the "re-
spectable brothel keeper," as Crawford had the
impudence to call himself. At the same time, he
would seriously caution the " respee,table" fellow
how he conducted his house in future.

The Donegal screw line-of- battle. ship, Captain
Y.C.,:sailed from St. li] '
W. Hewett, e en s roads, off
the east end of the Isle of Wignt, yesterday morn-
ing for China. An officer, writing from her, says :
" One thousand pounds is the estimated cost of the
bill for coals burnt and damages. Government
stores in the ward room and gun room were da-
maged to the extent of £9O. The dockyard people,
and all interested, have dodged' the expense of the
Donegal's refit by sending on board the materials
necessary for repairs R 3 stores, and the artificers of
the fleet, as I may call them--we have on board
four ships' companies, viz., the Ocean, the Rinaldo,
the Zebra, and the Sylvia—have to make the re-
pairs as best they can. Of course, they will only be
temporary ones, the material damage—that is, the
straining of the hull of the ship—cannot be repaired
except in harbour. The following items, which had
to be replaced, cannot be ginned over :-..coals
burnt, laQiiea mess traps,"