The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-06 00:00:00

SUNDAY- NEWSPAPERS.

Yesterday Sir Peter Laurie attended at Guildhall to hear
the complaints against Mr. Alderman► Harmer, one of the pro-
prietors of the Dispatch, and Mr. Bunnev, the publisher of
the John Bull, for " doing the work of their ordinary callings
on the Lord's Day."
The chief clerk to the City Solicitor (who is ill) attended
to advise the magistrate, as well as the clerk appointed to assist
the sitting magistrate.
The case against Mr. Alderman Harmer was entered upon
first.

The Rev. Herbert Smith said the case was one of consider-
able importance to the public.
Mr. Alderman Harmer suggested that he had better call his
evidence first, and make his comments afterwards.
The Rev. Gentleman said he had employed a person to buy
the papers at the respective offices, in Fleet-street, and ho
appointed him to attend that day, but he was unaccountably
absent.

Sir Peter Laurie said he presumed Mr. Alderman Har-
mer would admit the sale of the paper.
Mr. Alderman Harmer replied No. He was too old a
lawyer to admit anything. The complainant ought to have
been prepared to prove his charge. He had come twenty
miles that day to answers the summons, which he must be
permitted to say, ought not to have been granted.
The Rev. Mr. Smith said he had travelled seventy miles to
prove the complaint. lie was sorry the witness was absent.
Mr. Alderman Harmer observed, that the Rev. Gentleman
might have spared the observation he made when applying
for the summons—that be wished to see him convicted of
transgressing the law, in order that 112 might be taunted on
the judgment seat by other transgressors. It would have been
charitable in a clergyman to have refrained from such an ob-
servation till be (the Alderman) had been convicted of trans-
gressing.

LONDON AND SOUTHAMPTON it A ILWAY.---.•
During the first week after the opening of the London and Southampton
Railway upwards of 5,000 persons travelled by it; andeuring the second
week the number of passengers exe2eded 10,000. In the second week
the Epsom races increased the number of passengers very considerably,
and would have added 3,000 or 4,000 more to the number but for the
tumult which occurred at the terminus at Nine Elms on the Derby day,
which prevented the carriages for some time from going at all. It ap-
pears, however, that the regular and steady traffic on the railway id in.
creasing day by day. The traffic on the road referable to the part al-
ready opened considerably exceeds the estimate formed by the directare
and published in their report. The smoothness of the road, ind the
comfort and elegance of the carriages, have been universally remarked.
The only deficiency is a want of sufficient locomotive power, an evil of
which almost all railways have to complain at their first opening. It
has occurred in consequence of the contractor for the locomotive engines
not having performed his part of the contract ; and we understand that
it is in the course of being remedied, so that the evil will every week be
diminished.

A NEWSPAPER.--The newspaper is the chronicle
of civilisation—the common reservoir into which every stream pours its
living waters, and at which every man may come to drink. It is the
newspaper that gives to liberty its practical life, its constant observa.
tion, its perpetual vigilance, its unrelaxing activity. The newspaper in.
forms legislation of public opinion, and it informs the people of the acts
of legislation. * * And this is not all. The newspaper
teems with the most practical morality; in its reports of crime and pu-
nishments you find a daily warning against temptation ; not a case in a
police court, not a single trial of a wretched outcast or a trembling felon,
that does not preach to us the awful lesson how imprudence leads to
error, how error conducts to guilt, how guilt reaps its bitter fruit of an-
guish and degradation,
4' The newspaper is the familiar
bond that binds together man and man—no matter what maybe the dis.
twice of climate or the difference of race. Here it is that we have learned
how to sympathise with the slave, how to battle for his rights—how to
wrest the scourge from his taskmaster. Over land and over sea the
voice of outraged humanity has reached to the great heart of England,
and raised up a host of freemen as the liberators of the
i enslaved and tor-
tured negro ! The newspaper is a law-book for the indolent, a sermon
for the thoughtless, a library for the poor. It may stimulate the most
indifferent, it may instruct the most profound. —E . L. Bulwer.

On Tuesday last, a boy about nine years old, on
leaving work, was placed by the ploughman on one of the horses to ride
home; whilst going
along he was called
tc:allnedtitioa,t
eaanldletdurhntetnd, roundwhea thethe horse
with
suddenly
td intentionet
horse
again
and set err at full gallop; the boy kept his sea t
atly
turned going
until the horse stopped, when he fell off', and his feet hung in the gears
the horse again galloped off; kicking at the poor fellow for nearly a bun.
dred yards, before he get disengaged. He was taken up insensible and
removed to the hospital, where he died on Thursday morning.—Lincoirs
Gazette,