A Mr. Herbert Smith, who in some of the papers
is called " Reverend," has charged Alderman Harmer and Mr. Clement, proprietors of Sunday newspapers, with a breach of the I iw in selling the same on Sunday ; and Sir Peter Laurie at the Guilds hall, and Mr. Twyford at Bow Street, seem disposed to enter- tain the complaint ; but nothing decisive has yet been done, owing to Mr. Smith's Inability to prove the actual sale by the defendents. Aa act of Charles the Second, which prohibits the exercise of a matil ordinary calling on Sunday, is founded on by Mr. Smith fur ,he prose- cution ; the defendants refer to the Stamp Act, wherein Sunday Beal' MN, gspers are especially named, as proof of the lawfulness of selling news- ennerliaaioned oirteer-.) into two tliYisiOns : the t!,•vo4s..,1 arentoploie ! C.i ..,; 4 r pers on Sundays. Wad, who bail ceinniand of one division al
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