The Sun. — 1848-10-16 (London, England)

CARLISLE. Almost at the moment when the Ji)uchese of SUTHERLAND reached tha Perth station the mail train for the south was preparing for its departure ; but, to her Grace's amusement, she was refused admission into one of the carriages, being informed that it was contrary to the regulation of the directors to allow any travelling on a kalshath l A remonstrance was at once dispatched to the secretary, representing the calamitous cause of the journey, and the mail train was even delayed for an interval to enable matters to be arranged satisfactorily. At length a final and peremptory answer was received from the secretary. It was this—" No; the rules of the company cannot be departed from." Immediately afterwards the engine started, dragging after it the mail-bags and a number of empty carriages, and leaving the Duchess of SUTHERLAND upon the platform, weeping. The only alternative was to post onwards as rapidly as possible. A steamer was lifred—the streets of Edinburgh were reached— and, by the time the mournful party from Dunrobin Castle arrived at Castle Howard, in Yorkshire, the Earl of CARLISLE had breathed his last, and a daughter had been heartlessly ;deprived of a most solemn and *ender consolation. Now we ask if this is not an affecting testimony of the inhumanity resulting from a very despicable and yet a very monstrous humbug? We ask any man ',whose nerves have ever felt one single thrill of natural sensibility if Each a system of mock morality is not subversive of all the nobler sentiments implanted in the bosom of man by his CABATOU ? We ask if this pharisaical sobriety is to be  allowed to flourish with impunity ? We ask plainly and bluntly at once if the persons who thus dare to parody the sublime precepts of Religion are to be permitted to outrage all public decency without punishment ? Is the Legislature blind or deaf ? Are our representatives dullards P Is there not one man among the 658 who will demand the interposition of the Executive ? We reiterate our demands from the earnestness of our solicitude to witness the abolition of a custom which is at all times insufferable, but which, in such cases as that of her Grace the Duchess of SUTHERLAND, amounts to an infamous and unendurable cruelty. It must be remembered that we are not uttering a few fluent words of indignation upon a matter which has for a moment filled our heart with a mingled sense of pain and irritation. We are speaking of a grievance against which we have reasoned again and again with all the energy of an astonishment confirmed and heightened by conviction. We are reprobating a sy stem which is unhappily by no means restricted to the management of the Scottish Central Railway, but one which unfortunately extends along a number of different ramifications. We appeal, moreover, to the Government for its interposition, not merely on the score of public decency, and out of motives of a purely humane character, but because we do regard such local prohibitions against travelling on a Sunday as derogatory to the influence and insulting to the principles of the sublime and elevated philosophy of Christianity. In such dilemmas, for example, as the one which occurred at the Perth station on Sunday, the Bth of October, in consequence of this silly and frivolous prohibition —the effect would :most ;assuredly be that to the lowly and ignorant the institution of a day of rest like Sunday would be rather a curse than a blessing. The multitude would be disposed to recoil from a creed so repulsive in its operations, so stern and inexorable in its sobriety, so wretchedly degenerated from an instinct to a punctilio, from a dogma to a form, from a holy and elevating faith, to a mean and debasing ceremony. Let us crush this reptile hypocrisy—this hypocrisy which is the most loathsome of all, the hypocrisy of religion ! Away with it. "Its offence is rank —it smells to heaven !" When indulged in to excess, it excites a daring wretch like the murderer TAWELL to poison his leman in order that his character, forsooth, may shine in unsullied purity in the estimation of his neighbours. MOLIERE has pilloried the race, dramatically, in the person of