The Sun. — 1842-03-11 (London, England)

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 motion 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 accommodation 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 sectarian 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 ecclesiastical 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 eonspiracy 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 Glasgow 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 cmhristianlike 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 .nhabitants 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.