The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-02 00:00:00

SIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. PUCRLE and a Bench of Magistrates.)
Jacob Kearn, aged 61, a man having the appearance
of a farm labourer, was indicted for feloniously stealing,
at Waking, on the 17th of December, two hurdles, the
Property of John Stevens.
, Mr. Allen prosecuted, and the prisoner was defended
by Mr. Charnock.
It appeared from the evidence of William Beech, a
boy in the service of the prosecutor, that he went into
one of bis master's fields about half-past seven o'clock
on the evening of the 17th of December last, to look
.01.fter some sheep, when he saw a mac, whom he iden-
tified as the prisoner, take away some hurdles belonging
,to the, prosecutor and throw them over a hedge. Those
hurdles had been previously marked by the prosecutor
18 his property, he having lost some hurdles before.
The prisoner was given into custody the next day at the
Instance of the prosecutor.
A neighbour of the prisoner's, who had known him
for thirty years, said he had never known him before
charged with any offence.
The prisoner had been in custody since the 18th of
December.
The CHAIRMAN told the jury that before they could
find the prisoner guilty, they must be satisfied that he
Was the man whom the prosecutor's boy saw taking the
hurdles,
The jury found a verdict of Guilty.
The prosecutor recommended the prisoner to mercy.
The BENCH sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned
and kept in solitary confinement for fourteen days.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
A young man, named Edward Baker, was charged
with the following outrageous conduct:—
A police-constable stated that he was on duty yester-
day afternoon, between four and five o'clock, when he
observed the prisoner furiously riding a young horse up
and down Clement's-lane, in the Strand, a/a Johnny
Gilpin. After a good deal of trouble and much noise
and confusion, the horse was stopped, and the prisoner
taken into custody. He was quite drunk, and as chil-
dren were in the habit of playing about the lane, it was
* mercy some of them were not killed by his mad freak.
The prisoner said he was exercising the horse, which
was young and spirited, and " bolted" a few minutes
before the policeman caught sight of him.
111.. HALL asked him what he was?—The prisoner
said he was a boot-closer, and had been at work all day.
The owner said the horse was very high spirited, and
be had therefore given strict directions that he
should not be taken out t f the stable. The prisoner,
'weever, who lived over the stable, had done EO in de-
fiance of orders, and the horse was much injured by
the rough manner in which he had ridden him.
Mr. HALL fined the prisoner 205., or ten days' im-
prisonment. The fine was paid.

ARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
AS3AULT.— William Wallace was placed at the bar
before Mr. Bingham, charged with being drunk, b-gging,
and assaulting Daniels, one of the constables belonging
to the Mendicity Society.
The officer stated that, about nine o'clock last night,
he Was in Regent-street, when be saw the prisoner go
up to several gentlemen and ask tor money. Knowing
Lll2l to be a most determined b. gi.ar, witness took him
illto custody, and on the way to the station-house the
prisoner k'eked him most violently a`mut the legs.
liorsford said the prisoner had been convicted no less
than six times for begging and assaulting the society's
officers.

The prisoner, who een'el the charge, was committed
cs she house Comctio i for thre months, with hard

ART MONOPOLY.
The Fine Arts in this country have been for some
years past rivetting the attention of the educated com-
munity. In the purely pictorial department of them
the circulation of engraved Art has been immense,
and it is natural to conclude this fact to have been the
result of an increasing and advancing civilization.
While, however, the love of beautiful engravings has
been gradually growing upon the taste of the people,
they have (in the modes of publication adopted
by the printsellers) been subject to much monopoly
and much wrong. Without impugning the individual
character of members of the Printsellers' Association,
we may assert that practical mischiefs have been
brought to its door which most injuriously affect the
lofty cause of art, and that both directly and indi-
rectly the public suffer severely by the operation of
its rules and the tyranny of its practices. A very
Powerful illustration of this truth has just been enun-
ciated in a pamphlet published by Mrs. Parkes, under
the plain straightforward title of "Art Monopoly.
The work shapes itself into the form of an address
to the painters and engravers of the United King-
dom, and seeks to rouse them to a better manage-
ment of their professional affairs as far as the public
and the publishers are concerned. At the same
tirne it makes startling disclosures of deception in
the publication of engravings, and exposes the
Printsellers' Association with lavish evidence and a
trumpet-tongue.
As we have reason to believe that the pamphlet in
question is just now creating much sensation in the
World of art, we call public attention to warde it as
an expounder of information, and, we believe, as an
interpreter of truth. The writer is a lady of expe-
rience in the duties of publication, having been en-
gaged in them for a period of thirty years ; but
of late, being left to her own resources and
enterprise, disgusted with the monopoly which
•PPressed her, and alarmed at what she con-
sidered the progress of dishonesty in her own trade,
she gathered the evidence within her reacb, accumu-
lated facts, and marshalled arguments, and these she
has concentrated into the pamphlet before us, as we
would fain hope for general good. She has also added
a number of important suggestions, by way of remedy,
for the evils which beset the trade, and many of
,these must be speedily acted upon if her compre-
hensive scheme of reform should find—as we think it
will--a response from the voice of society.
The subjects upon which the pamphlet chiefly
descants are many in number and grave
in importance. The question of the abuse of
artists' and other proofs of high class engrav-
ings is handled in connexion with facts which disclose
fearful.. impositions upon the patrons of art.
The process of the electrotype is denounced as
dangerous alike to the laws of copyright and the in-
terests of publication—the surreptitious transfer of
plates into the hands of lesser dealers, to the deteri-
oration both of the work and its value—is forcibly ex-
plained and condemned, and artists and engravers are
Failed upon to exhibit strength, courage, and energy
in. the vindication, not only of the fame of their posi-
tion, but of that horn sty of reputation which it is im-
) Pl,i,ed is violated by the Printsellers' Association.
In descanting upon the overt and covert acts of
this body, the writer almost succeeds in bringing
them within the range of conspiracy. There are
runnY facts in the work relating to indivi-
duals well known in public life, and much
of their evidence before the Parliamentary
Committee is shrewdly and fairly cited ;
but there is no personality of an objectionable kind
in any of the disclosures, and the object of the publi-
cation seems to have been neither to depress nor to
&grade the trade of publication beyond what its own
acts have assuredly achieved for it already, but rather
to elevate all the classes alike who depend upon pub-
lishing it fluences, to give new life to the system, to
stimulate, to purify, to reform, and to abolish a grind-
ing monopoly which is no way in accordance with the
spirit of the times.

STRANGER's FRIEND SOCIETY. —Yesterday a meet-
ing of the general c munittee and other friends of the above
charity was holden at their rcoms, in Exeter Hall, for
general business. The repo' t stated that the society had
.11st been benefited by a legacy of 500/. from the late Al.re.
A.l. A. Clarke. During the past year 7,738 cases, involving
sickness and distress in the metropolis and its vicinity, Fad
been relieved; 46,261 visits had been made. The income
for the year amountel to 4,7711. and the amount disbursed
for relief, including necessary expenses, was 4,530/., leaving
a balance for the cu-rent year of 241/. The district trea-
suree:a account stated the receipts to be 2,639/., and the ex-
PerAlttllt t 9 bo 2,4;61., iewriug a balanCe-21 1524