The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-10 00:00:00

THAMES.

A DISGUSTING MONSTER. IMPORTANT PROSECU-
TION: - Thomas Drakeley, a tall man, aged 24 years, and
who hid lost his right arm, was brought before Mr Part-
ridge charged with causing an oberuction on the footway
of York-street, East, and adjoining the Stepney Railway
station, and with using indecent language to the annoyance
of the passengers.
Mr Thomas Horsley, inspector of police, stated that at
ten o'clock on Friday night he saw the prisoner on the foot-
path in the Commercial-road, selling indecent and obscene
pamphlets, marked price Gd, but for which he only asked a
penny, constituted a bowl without a name, on a nameless
subject, a tit bit for everybody, By " Naughty
Peeping Tom." The prisoner had a great num-
ber of playing cards in his hands. Some
of them on being held up to the light exhibited views and
scenes of an offensive description. A boy purchased one of
them, and the prisoner said, " Ah, you young rascal, you
would have this because you saw—, The rest of the
sentence is unfit for publication. The prisoner then went
on to address the' people assembled in a very improper
manner, and gave utterance to a very obscene address.

Mr Partridge here ordered the women out of the court,
and was surprised they had not retired long since.
Patrick Maddigan, a police sergeant No. 60 K, confirmed
the evidence of the inspector, and said he purchased one of
the obscene pamphlets last night at half-past 8 o'clock.
The prisoner said, " I thought you would have one by the
cut of your eye."

The prisoner said ho did not say one half stated by the
inspector and sergeant, and that having lost his arm he
had no other way of getting his living.
Mr Partridge said the prisoner had clearly violated two
acts of Parliament, and the pamphlet was one of an obscene
character. He was very sort*, he could not commit such a
disgusting blackguard to the treadmill under the Vagrant
Act without the option of a fine. He fined the prisoner
40s in each case, an i in ch f cult two months' imprisonment.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

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LONDON, Dec. 10.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Easterly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
MILFORD, Dec. S.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Henry Pad-
densey, from Liverpool for Singapore, with her rudder
carried away,

FALMOUTH, Dec. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—West,
from Manilla for Liverpool.
PILL, Dec, B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mont Blanc,
from Mauritius—Agnes C. James, from Richibucto—
Yuba, from St John's, N B.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec, 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Trident, from Malta, and proceeded for the
Eastward.

HOLYHEAD, Dec. B.—Sailed —Arabian, for Melbourne—
Volant, for Gibraltar.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Dec. 9—Martha, from Danfzic—Occan Chid,
from St MichacPs—Lionno, from Gravelines—Donna
Amolia, from Calcutta.

Arrived, Dec. 10—Elizabeth Sarah, and Anemone, from
Windau—Jessamine, from Fayal—Wonder, from Cron-
stadt—Niord, from Nestoid—Princess Beatrice, from St,
Michael's.

Sailed—Bilboa, steamer, for Bilboa.
Returned—The Whisper, for Mauritius.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Arrived and Passed—Morning Star, from London for
Kurrechee.

Sailed—Landwersturn, for London, in town, to repair
damageg.

PUTTING IT RATIIER STRONGLY. —A correspon-
dent of the Tinas writes as follows :—" I venture to hope
that you will not allow the subject of tho advertising
quacks, however unpleasant it may be, to drop until some-
thing has been done towards purifying our newspaper
sheets, and someth'ng towards abating the nuisance itself.
The former result can only be arrived at by the pressure
of public opinion. Let it once be understood that the pro-
prietors of papers that admit these advertisements are the
direct recipients of the wages of iniquity exactly as much
as any pimp or pander that walks the streets of Rome or
Milan, and the thing will be done. The imputa4ien of such
a partnership in profits earned by far more loathsome vile-
ness than that of the poor girl who makes her living in the
streets would be more than even the proverbial callousness
of a company of shareholders could put up with. The
London might do much by ultimately
theiralos tables such sheets as may continuo
d
As to the museums, &c., those
traps bated by "friends" and " advisers," combind with all
the foul accessories of London prostitution, n simple set of
police regulations or an Act et Parliament, if necessary,
excluding
u t dooni nt
the clubse
from
r presento m
appeal.
ought to wipe them away at once. They are tolerated in no
other capital, and are a scandal and disgrace to the civiliza-
tion of London."

LEECH AS AN ARTIST.—If we are at liberty to
describe Mr Leech's work as a kind of epistolary
art, a pictorial correspondence, this phrase will have the
further advantage of indicating the singularity of his pcsi-
Lion as an artist. His position is as singular in this century
as that of Hogarth was in the last. Sometimes these two
men are compared together; but, indeed, it is impossible to
measure them by a common standard. One cannot com-
pare a first rate letter-writer, like Madame de Sevigne, with
a first rate dramatist, like Molie re. We cannot put an idyllic
poet on the same level with an epic one. Mr Leech used a
very humble medium for the expression of his thinking ; and
he adopted it for better, for worse. It had the disadvantage
of being unfit for the higher exercises of pictorial genius;
while, on the other hand, it had the advantage of appeal-
ing quickly to prodigious multitudes, and of thus enabling
the artist, from week to week for twenty years, to play
directly, and without intermission, on the hearts of a whole
nation. And that is the secret of our friend's success; he
had gone to our hearts and had become part of our life.
He had, in this century, discovered, or at least turned to
account, a new method of art, as Hogarth had done in the
sat century. . But Mr Leech in the present con-
ltury drew still nearer to the popular feeling. He found a
new way through the instrumentality of Punch. Hogarth's
way was not entirely his own. Ho had learnt it from the
Dutch masters. and his originality consisted in seeing that
by endowing pictures of domestic life with keen moral
purpose he could adapt them to the English mind.
So Mr Leech fuund a way made for him, but he had
the merit of instantly seizing on it, and making
the most of it. His work has in .it the neces-
sary limitations of comedy; it was not often that in the
pages of a journal professedly humorous, he could touch
tragedy. But allowing for these limitations—the limita •
tion of subject imposed by comedy, and the limitation of
treatment imposed by the nature of his means—it is im-
possible not to be struck with his reach as an artist—with
the range of his knowledge, with the accuracy of his eye,
with the perfect sympathy that entered into all his touches,
with:his clearness and simplicity of expression, with the
sense of beauty and the love of nature that regulated all
his perceptions. Certainly no man before him, with means
so slight, had ever accomplished so much, whether we mea-
sure his achievement by the amount of expression in his
drawings, or by their effect on the popular mind.—" Corn-
hill Magazine•' for December.