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

SIONS.-(TIIIS DAY.)

(13, fora Mr. PUCKLE and a Bench of Magistrates.)
durob Ktarn, egtd 61, a man having the appearance
of a farm labourer, was indicted for feloniously stealing,
at Wt king, nn the 17th of December, two hurdles, the
Property of John Stevens.
Mr. Allen prosecuted, and the prisoner was defended
by Mr. Charneek.
It appeared from the evidence of William Beech, a
boy in the service of the prosecutor, that he went into
one of his master's fields about half-cast seven o'clock
an the cycLing-- of the 17th of December last, to look
after acme sheep, when he saw a man, 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
as his property, he having lost some hurdles before.
Tbe prisoner was given into custody the next day at the
ins ent:o of the prosecutor.
A neighbour of the prisoner's, who Ind known him
ftr tt. irty years, said he had never known him before
eharg d with any offence.
.„ The prisoner had been in custody since the 18th of
Lkeernt er.
Tot. CHAIRMAN told the jury that before they could
find the prisoner guilty, they must be sa'isfied that he
Was the man whom the prosecutor's boy saw taking the
hurdle.,
T' e jery found a verdict of Guilty.
The prosecutor recommended the prisoner to mercy.
BENCH sentenced th, prisoner to be imprisoned
ani kept in solitary confinement for fourteen days.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A Young man, named Edward Baker, was charged
With the following outrapous conduct:—
A police-c instable stated that be se as on duty yester-
day af•ternoon, 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, ala Johnny
Gilpin. After a good deal of trouble and much noise
and confusion, the horse was stopped, and the prisoner
taken into cuitidv. He was quite drunk, and as chit-
dr,'n v. ere in the habit of playing about the laze, it was
a mercy some of them.were not killed by his mad freak.
The prisener-aaid he was exercising the Agr..l9,;,,tpiph
Was youlig and' spirited, and " bolted" a`fei minutes
.
he!ore the policf man caught sight of him. ,7
Mr. HALL united him what he was?—The prisoner
said he ws a boot-closer, and had been at work ell day.
The ()wrier raid the horse was very high spirited, and
.be bad therefore given strict directiens that he
should notibe taken out if the stable. The prisoner,
lios•tiver. who lived over the stable, had done 13.0 in dei•
filnce of his orders, and the horse was: much. by
the rough manner in which he had ridden him.
Air. ilau. fined the prisoner 20i., or ten days' im-
prisaLerwut. The fine was paid.

MARLBRO'7STREET.(THISDAY.)

ASSAULT.—WiIIiam Wallace was placed at the bar
b, fore Mr. Bingham, charged with being drunk, b-eging,
aed assatiltinp.; Daniels, one of the constables belonging
to the Mendicity Scciety.
The etlicer stated that. about n;ne o'clock last night,
he Wes in Regent-street, when he saw the prisoner go
tin to several gentlemen and ask for money. Knowing
Lim to be. most determined b,ggar, wanrss took him
into custody, and on the way to the station-house the
pr isoncr k‘ched him most violently a',.eut the legs.
Ilur,ford said the prisoner had ocen convicted no less
then six times for begging and assaulting the society's
officers.
The prisons r. who een'el the charge, was committed
to the House o' Corrctioa for three mmiths, with hard
ab

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 natural to conclude this fact to have been the
rr sult 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 print sellers) been subject to much monopoly
and much wrong. Without impugning the individual
character of members of the Priutsellers' 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
tne plain straightforward title of "Art Monopoly."
The work shapes itself into the form of an address
toA the painters and engravers of the United King-
'', 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
time it mlikes startling disclosures of deception in
the publication of engravings, and exposes the
Print:Alers' 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 towarde it as
an expounder of information, and, we believe, as an
int( rpre to 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 owa resources and
enterprise, disgusted with the monopoly which
edpressed her, and alarmed at what she con-
sidered the progress of dishonesty in her own trade,
she gathered the evidence within her reach, 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
artitts d other proots of high class engrav-
ings is handled in connexion with facts which disclose
fearful impositions upon the patrons of art.
Tne process of the clectvotype 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
called upon to exhibit strength, courage, and energy
in the vindication, not only of the fame of their posi-
tion, but of that honesty of reputation which it is im-
plied is violated by the Printsellers' Association.
In (I( scanting upon the overt and covert acts of
this body, the writer almost succeeds in bringing
them within the range of conspiracy. There are
many facts in the
i work relating to indivi-
duals well known n public life, and much
of their evidence before the Parliamentary
Commit tee 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
d 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-
lishinr, influences, to give new life to the system, to
stitnunitc, to purify, to reform, and to abolish a grind-
it.g monopoly which is no way in accordance with the
spirit of the times.

FTRANGER% FRIEND SOClETY.—Yesterday a meet-
ing the general cmunittte and other friends of the above
charity was holden at their rcoms, in Exeter Hall, for
general business. The report stated that 'the society had
Just teen benefited by a legacy of 500/. from the late Sirs.
M. A. Clarke. Daring the past year 7,738 cases, involving
sickness ar.d distress in the metropolis and its vicinity, bad
been relieved ; 40,261 visits had been made. The income
for the year amountsi to 4,7711. and the amount disbursed
for relief, including necessary expenses, was 4,5301., leaving
a balance for the current year of 2411. The district trea-
surer's account stated the receipts to be 2,6391, and the ex-
penditure to be 2,4861., leaving a balance of 152/.