The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-11 00:00:00

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW
RAILWAY.

The followirec; extract, afford a fair specimen of the opinions
of the Whig, '1 ory, and Radical press in Scotland, on the mo-
tion of the Agnewites to stop Sunday trains :
( From the Aberdeen Herald. )
As far as the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway is concerned
the question of a reasonable amount of Sunday travelling ac-
commodation to the public has been set at rest, for a time, if
not for ever. But the sensible portion of the community must
not imagine that the efforts of the Pharisees will cease, or that
there will be no further need of resistance to encroachments
on civil and religion; liberty. The wild party in the Church
are at the bottom of the movement, and we may rest assured
that they will not speedily desist. They look to it as a means
of restoring clerical influence, which has lately been rather on
the wane, and they are aided by some professing friends of
religious freedom, who, while they loudly clamour for secta-
rian equality, arc afraid to carry out their own scriptural and
Protestant prneiple to the legitimate length of emanicipating
individual minds from their degrading subserviency to ecclesi-
astical superiors. Some Dissentinn clergymen seem as much
afraid to allow their hearers the right of private judgment as
ever the Pepe of Rome was.
(From the Edinburgh Chronicle.)
The tyrannical attempt to stop the running of trains on the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. on the morning and evening
of Sunday, was most signally ilef.t.,ted by the shareholders at
their half-yearly meeting on Tuesday last. On no former
occasion have the high-flying section of the Church exerted
more base and unscrupulous means to gain an object of their
ambition. The forced and forged signatures, of boys and
girls, of servants, shop-keepers, and other dependents ; the
mad abuse poured upon those who conscientiously approve of
the course adopted by the Railway Company; the frantic eonspi-
racy to ruin the Compacy, and ab ive all the injurious assumption
ofa thorough knowledge of the Divine will, on matters concerning
which there is no revelation. have tended to disgust all sober
and intelligent men, and to create in their minds a feeling of
indignation against the pharisaical pretenders to exclusive
Ploy, more general and intense than has been manifested on
any former occasion. One would suppose from their language
thatnetther mail coaches, nor private carriages had eve; run
on Sunday in Scotland, although both in Edinburgh and Glas-
gow the latter are more common than on other days, and cause
more labour and Sabbath desecration than railway trains can
ever occasion.

(From the Renfrewshire Reformer.)
After having procured shares to be permittedra to plead, and, if
possible, force the proprietors of nationalthis great
,t father of the
undertaking
,
to succumb to the doctrines of the A
newit,s
flock, Sir Andrew, on finding himself bent'.. m 0
r cmhristian-
like attempts to inforce his notions of Christianity of
the Court o 1 St',es:ion, by running opposition coach Yes, and by
every Other rnethol he ,•-gin contrive to annoy the public, and
injure the intere:t of the proprietors. Aleetings—(not public
meeting:, the Sir Andrew's dare not face the public)—but
meeting; of the select to support such schemes are now to be
set on to't to cover their defeat, and, if possible, to rait-e the
mean of runnirg coaches in opposition to the railway.
Thi; rs eTeri more ridiculous than the feinned petitions
got up by the Kirk Sessions in opposition to Sunday trains. It
was a simph• thirg to g• t up a pile of petitions on pious S.r
Andrew's principie of employing the parish seln Irnas'er to
write down the male and female names of the rural .nhabit-
ants on pretence he was sending in a clean copy ; hut Sir An•
dre v will find it a very different matter indeed to extra,t mu.
ney from the pockets of the lieges to gra:ify his whims, front
obtaining leave fir the schoolmaster to write their names. Sir
Andrew's subscriptions will he a greater failure than his trio.
Lion on Tuesday , because though lie y.t.re foolish enough to
run coaches for ten years round, though they were even to
ea ly passengers gratis, such coaches would never go fourth
part filled.

MELANctioLy Wedneday evening,
Mr. H. F. Walker, aged 22, a medical student, committed
suicide by blowing his brains out with a horse pistol, at the
V;41", qf. tlis aunt, a lady named Elliot, residing at Lewisham.
zzirrr_t_tl3. yrecediug night failed to pass his examination,
r" upon Vas mind.