10 JANUARY 1880, Page 3

Of course, the outcry in Scotland as to Sabbath-breaking as

the moral cause of the disaster, has begun. Dr. Begg and his friends could not lose so great an opportunity. We think, however, it might be proved to even their satisfaction that Sunday gets much less than one-seventh of the full sum of travellers' disasters,—and for this very good reason that the travelling on Sundays is much less than one-seventh of the total travelling of the year. We wonder the Sabbatarians do not find it scandalous that hurricanes themselves are permitted to break the rest of the Sabbath.