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 had lost his right arm, was brought before Mr Part •
ridge charged with causing an obstruction on the footway
of York-street, East, and adjoining the Stepney Railway
station, and with using indecent laoguaga to the annoyance
of the passengers.

Mr Thomas Horsley, inspector of plico, 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 Cd, but for which he only asked a
penny, constituted a book 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
somas 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. Tho 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 inspec!or, and said ho 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 he 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 sorry 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
40si in each case, awl in &fault two months' imprisonment.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.
--*--

LONDON, Dec. 10.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Easterly ; moderate breeze, and five weather, but rather
cloudy.

MILFORD, Dec. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Henry Pad-
donsey, 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, Doe. 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,

(lIIC MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Dec. O—Martha, from Dantzic—Ocean Chid,
from St Michael's—Lionne, from Gravelinea—Donna
Amelia, from Calcutta.

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

sailed—Bilbao, steamer, for Bilboa.
Re urnel—The Whisper, for ➢lauritius.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Arrived and Passed—Morning Star, from Landon for
Kul r.,ohee.

ESailed—Landweraturn, for London, in town, to repair
dawages.

puTTING IT RATTIER STRONGLY. —A correspon-
rvilobr7ssent
appeal.
correspon-
dent of the Times writes as follows :—" I venture to hope
that you will not allow the subject of the advertising
quacks,
has howeverheen unpleasantde
ne
e e ridt
smpa
purifying
rbi
fey, i
nto g dropeur until
newspaper som e -
and someth'ng towards abating the nuisance itself.
former result can only bo arrived at by the pressure
publics opinion. Let it once be understood that the pro.
oeTt some-
thing
The
sheets,
gt
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 imputasion of such
t h alsoeir
iamb:
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
Ltables
might
such
edho
sheetsm ueh a
sby
may
continue ultimately
As to the museums, &c., those
tdr2l.eaoacpnifsucitdobonialitthgecedfl by "friends" and " advisers," combind with eb
the foul accessories of London prostitution, n simple set of
nolice regulations or an Act of Parliament. if necessary,
r ' - thorn away at once. They are tolerated in no
ought to mi.,.
capital, and
tion of London."
arc a
bs:ndal and disgrace to the civiliza-
other

" —te to

LEECH AS AN ARTIST.---If we are at nu....
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 posi-
tion as Hie position le as singular in this century
as that a
of H artist.ar th 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-
aog
pare a first rate lotter-writer, like Madame do Sevigne, with
a first rate dramatist. like Moliere. 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 tho 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 II ogarth had done in the
ast century. . . . But Mr Leech in the present un-
itary drew still nearer to the popular feeling. Ho found a
now way through the instrumentality of Puna. Hogarth's
way was not entirely his own. He 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 tho
pages of a journal professedly humorous, ho could touch
tragedy. But allowing for these limitations—the limita •
lion 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 bafore 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" fer _December.