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Show Rev. Bee Wright has been very busy of late in London and vicinity in i endeavoring to make other people ob- serve the Sabbath according to his no-' tion. He is careful to have the iaw ' on his side, and institutes prosecutions acain-t those who indulge in manual . labor contrary to act of Parliament. He may b? right in these proceedings, am the ''Free Sunday Society" has been casting about for some way of i taking vengeance, and with no very J great amount of locic in their mode ol procedure have pitched upon the Marquis Mar-quis of Lome's coachman as a proper object for their retribution. A summons sum-mons was asked for against the noble Lord's flunky because he exercised his worldly calling on Sunday, and it was not a work of necessity, for he drove the Marquis and the Princess only a quarter of a mile to church. Of course the insulting inference is that these high-born mortals might have walked that distance to the sanctuary, and the whole proceeding is a fling at aristocratic aristo-cratic observers of the Sabbath and the class represented by Rev. Bee Wright The magistrate didn't see fit to coun- tenance the conspiracy, and so relused the summons, on the Ground that the act of Parliament which has reference to "any artificer," kc, and "other person whatsoever," is not broad enough to cover the Marquis of Lome s coachman. Ex. |