The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-23 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Aberdeen • • • • • • • • • • •• • • ••• • •
Amiens and i;oulogne . •
Belfast and Ballymena ••• • • ••• • • • •
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe,, and W. Y.
Bristol and Exeter •• .. - • •• • • •
Chester and liolyhead. ••..• • .. •
Dublin and Dr0gheda...............
Dublin and Kingstown .
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen........
East Ang1ian........................
Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • • • • • • • • •
Edinburgh and Perth •••••• • • • • ..
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
East Lancashire ..
Eastern Union • • •
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • ....
Glasgow and Greenock..
Great Northern and E. L.........
Great Southein and Western • • ......
Great Western, &c . •• • . .
Lancashire and Yorkshire.. ......
Lancaster and Carlisle-- ........
Leeds and Thirst. ..................
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport....
Londonderry and Enniskillen • • • .....
London and North Western, &c.
London and Blackwall.• . .
London and Brighton
London and South Western.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham....
Midland Great Western (Irish) ......
Monklands
North British •• •••• • • • ........
Paris and Rouen • •• •• •••• •• •• •• •• ••
Rouen and Havre .......... ••••••
Scottish Midland • •
Shrewsbury and Chester ............
Shropshire Union .. •
South Eastern and Branches ........
South Devon— • • • • •• • •• •• •• •• • • • • ••
Taff Vale ••••• • • • • • • .
Ulster • • ••• ......•..••.
Waterford and Limerick...........
Whitehaven Junction
York and Newcastle . . • • • •• • • • • • • • •
York and North Midland

953
1,378
559

441
3,456
6,009
1,321

633
1,015

649
3,020
2,161
14,394
2,701
1,909
2,750

946
2,829
3,906
17,370
11,813
3,241
737
114

158
40,144

598
7,923
8,706
4,908
21,047
1,004

3,222
5,742
2,154
1,211

459
1,249
471
804
369

375
1,206

4,49 G
1,210

714
1,004

427
8,267
1,619
1,933
818

599
3,451
1,732
12,781
2,104
.1,123
2,610

935
1,830
2,977
17,126
11,319
1,865

166
37,395

208
12,292
6,551

452
7,243
,8,182
3,060
20,233
1,060

2,650
5,676
2,296
963
260
1,375

6,622
1,413
1,941
675

11,926
6,782

POST-OFFICE SUNDAY LABOUR
'The Post-office agitation is not likely to go on
without resistance. The occurrences of every day de-
monstrate the accumulating necessity for an opposition
to the spirit of ecclesiastical domination upon false
pretences. The Sunday tyranny, the Baptism
tyranny, and the Marriage tyranny, are all scions of
the same root, in which the essence of the enjoyment
to the executors is, that the pleas are logically and
scripturally false. The following petition, signed by
a baroneted vicar and 215 of his neighbours, and pre-
sented with approbation by Sir John Tyrell, M.P.
for North Essex, ought to lead the way to more ex-
pressions of opinion on the subject. If it does not,
we are in a fair way of being made as ridiculous in
the eyes of Protestant Europe as the Spaniards and
Portuguese with their five saints'-days a-week.
'The bumble petition of the undersigned persons
using the post-office at Witham, in the county of
Essex,
" Slieweth,
" Tbat your petitioners believe the dispatch of
Post-office business and transmission of letters on the
Sunday (as at present arranged) to be absolutely ne-
,cessary.
" That yotirt petitioners do not consider Post-office
i.lahour on the;Su' May, under the recent regulations, in-
jurious: to the,linteresta ,ef society, oppressive to the
public sorvant4,4v to form any serious obstacle to the
enjoyment of ,the physical, moral, and spiritual ad-
vantages which attend freedom from labour one day in
seven.

"That under the present arrangements the post-
masters and others connected with the Post-office have
every opportunity of keeping Sunday as a day of rest
and enjoyment in the proper sense of the word, and
have ample opportunity of attending divine worship as
often as any ether class of her Majesty's subjects.
" Your petitioners yield to no one in a sincere de-
sire that Sunday should be kept holy, and have seen
with great satisfaction the efforts on the part of the
Government to abridge as much as possible Sunday
labour; but your petitioners view with disapprobation
the proceedings of a few individuals, meeting in the me-
tropolis as a board or society, in sending into
the country petitions praying your Honourable
House to cause all Post-office business to be
suspended on the Sunday throughout the coua-
try, as calculated to deceive your Honour-
able House into a belief that such petitions originate
spontaneously in the country, instead of with the indi-
viduals alluded to.
"That your petitioners consider the entire cessation in
the delivery and receipt of letters on the Sunday would
be attended with great inconvenience, seriously compro-
mise the commercial interests of the kingdom, and in-
stead of diminishing have a tendency to increase Sunday
labour.
" Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your Ho-
nourable House not to pass any law by which all Post-
office business would be suspended on the Sunday
throughout the country.
"And your petitioners will ever pray, &o.
" HENRY DIRON.
"JOHN PAGE WOOD, Dart., Vicar of Cressing.
" EDWARD W. BANKS."
&C. &C. &c.