The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-21 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

STOPPAGE OF 11IINDAT TELINS ON THE EDINBURGH
Ann GLASGOW RAlLWAT.—Asnongst the great Rumex of
the population congregated in, around, and between Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, the " heather is on tire," regarding the
Stoppage of the Sunday trains. By the great majority of
commercial men, the step is considered illiberal in a high
degree, inconvenient, and on interference with the liberty of
conscience. A protest, of which the following is a copy, has
been laid down in the Glasgow Royal Exchange, and, in a
brief space, signed by some hundreds of the moat eminent
Citizens :
We object to the resolution recently adopted by the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway Company, to withdraw monaapperrton*l whatever
Edhs.of
trawling upon the railway on standby, EllseW*ld_
burgh and the intervening stations :--1. ire theinneerp end
Glasgow Railway Company derive thsle riglidelbe• r eat of pan.
runt, which, on the one blind, entaraill piquing of maids sets sot
profits to them, and virtually annihikW every One ands et ens.
seyance; aid, on the other band, laid the comma oder the dap-
ton of accommodating the public with casinnt awl sennliet.
able conveyance along the railway at the on catablikfid.
2. Because, we bold it to be a well-ortabliehed min** that a pea&
hoard, invented with the administration of le slaistlee powers. M*
regulate their own and the public rights, ought nale. maw Mr 40.
Cumertaixes, to exercise their powers, with a view * 11111010111
et oppose the peculiar opinions er sectarian
c= a nubile s Tel
wbalmr, either political or religious; and ihst
lotto ought not, upon such views, to stomp* it sideline practice,
twitteis to the public, and to winch artp* boa bees seiguired by
°sage. 3. Because, although we are deeply emlllis of the *Tort-
illas of a proper observance of Sunday, rig IPI ens SA WS decidedly
of einian, that it is wrong for any party to newt 1101/8/M/01. to en-
iero•„ according to their own peculiar Potions, the CAINIWIRIO et that
dap; and we consider that the resolution to Wad*, Siss
blrsto
aludlng right of travelling by the railway an @sniff, Belled se the
Practice Ms been, to an extent which is asst mere diem ealleleat to
“medarrvot and necessitous cases (a pelt will every ma
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w"'.° to lodge according to his own orasalaissw*.B:rode
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minion inexpedient in itself, and an indent the
debts of the public. 1. Because. wheal WS MI 610 railway
exopany actually run engines along the 111111 every !ems_ y, the
enveyance of the mails, whence they derive we er their
retool to attach to the engines so cm few wrier& for the
accommodation of passengent, who may Twin 10 trod ea that day,
to be a capricious and arbitrary examen ef
Plltive injury of great magnitude, ender least
se Emil which does not exist, and cane* no rot oleo extent.
And we consider the resolution °bilged Is, as net esty Selelleistal to
Slat just rightsof the public, but shoo, es grarsadMo
span the company by their act of psrlismoti,—.ll.
late uno consideration the vast popnilLignfor
—end the intervening country—and
eat eases of sickness, daily occurring.; oleo poet cooker of
Tractable persons who are eo espied la linsiness, selobe
oe asap other day, to perform those dense which they ow% bath In a
Rhßwsaa and moral sense, to those with whom they ere nearly and
dearly Connrcud, we are of opinion that the practice of running
trains only twice on Sunday, rev hitherto, is not beyond what the laws
OT necessity and mercy may jic.tity ; and that this limitation to two
ialgit, on gundav, in place of ono every hour, es on other days, pro-
manta the observance of that day.