The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-20 00:00:00

SIR ANDREW AGNEW.

The following address from Sir Andrew Agnew has
been forwarded to the Earl of Aberdeen :

" To the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., fie.,
the Great Officer of State in attendance on her
Majesty in Scotland.
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"My fore—l have the honour of addressing your
Lordship, as the Great Officer of State in attendance on
her Majesty in Scotland, in the name of the friends of
the observance of the Lord's-day in Scotland.
" I am fully aware of the extreme presumption of
thus addressing your Lordship, and thus venturing to
approach the Royal presence ; but having intrusted to
me the confidence of those in whose name I now presume
to write, and the shortness of time not permitting the
gathering together of the signatures of all who concur in
the sentiments which I express, I humbly pray that, as
an individual, I may be pardoned.
" It is a well known fact that the habits of Sabbath
observance are not in all respects the same in the nor-
thern and southern divisions of these kingdoms ; aad it
is equally well known that Scotland has since the Refor-
mation been distinguished amongst the nations of Chris-
tendom as a strict Sabbath-observing country, in the
true Scriptual sense of the word ; and it is this import-
ant fact which, with all imaginable respect and defer-
ence, and dutifulness, and loyalty, it is humbly prayed
may be brought under the notice, at this time, of her
most gracious Majesty the Queen, not doubting that in
this, as in all other respects, it is the gracious desire of
the Royal mind to recognise, to respect, and to gratify,
the religious habits, the peculiar characteristics, and the
best principles of her Majesty's most loyal and devoted
subjects in this her ancient kingdom.
" It would be the highest presumption to suggest to
your Lordship's consideration the extent of the over-
whelming moral influence which the example of the
Court is calculated to produce upon the religious habits of
Scotland on this auspicious occasion, as it must be the
Christian patriarch's confident hope that the result shall
be a large increase of that righteousness which exalteth
a nation, and of which, by Divine appointment, the
Sabbath is the sign.

" With thankfulness to Almighty God,. who at an-
other time put it into the heart of our Protestant Queen
to hallow the holy day of the Lord of the Sabbath, in a
foreign land—or with prayer in the language of the
Holy Scripture, that now and ever the Sabbath may be
a sign between God and her Majesty, whereby her Ma-
jesty may know that He is the Lord her God—and,
moreover, praying that every blessing of God the Father,
through our Lord Jesus Christ, may, by the Holy Spirit,
bless the Queen—
_ " Ihave the honour to be, my Lord, in the name of

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the friends •f the observance of the Lord's day in Scot-
land, your Lordship's most obedient and very humble
servant, " ANDREW AGNEW, Bart.
" Sept. 12, 1844."

REPORTED VISIT OF TIIR QUEEN TO GLASGOW.=
It is currently reported that her Majesty intends visit-
ing Glasgow and the west of Scotland, and a gentleman
from Inverary informs us, that preparations on an ex-
tensive scale are making at the Duke of Argyll's Palace
for her reception. It is currently reported in Edinburgh,
that her Majesty is to sail from the west of Scotland
for Ireland, on her departure from this country.—Glas-
gow National.
The British and French Courts are mutually pay-
ing each other compliments. Prince Albert has sent the
King of the French divers baskets of grouse (which,
however, the douaniers seized), and Louis Philippe sends
" almost every day," says the Constitutionncl, " cargoes
of peaches, Fontainbleau grapes, and pears, from the
gardens of the Civil List," to the Queen of England.—
Bri9h tox Guardian.