The Sun. — 1842-09-17 (London, England)

THE QUEEN AND THE KIRK. ' 'We give the following extract from the Church and State Gazette of yesterday, without at all adopting the views of the writer, respecting her Majesty's reasons for not attending Divine worship in a Scotch church. We believe there were other causes, which Dr. Chalmers can explain :-"The journey of her Majesty through a portion of her Scottish dominions has been at once agreeable and satisfactory. It was intended to be one of freedom from restraint, and hitherto it has precisely answered to the original intentions of the Queen. The reception she has met with has greatly delighted her. In alluding, however, to her Majesty's visit to Scotland, we have a special object in view, to which we desire to call the attention of our readers—it is the wise and truly admirable conduct of the Queen with reference to the subject of religious worship whilst in that portion of the British empire. If a love of momentary popularity, which passes away with the next breeze or the next change of opinion, had actuated the Queen, she would have charmed the unreflecting and the irreligious by, attending at Presbyterian worship, and would have neglected the Episcopal Church, of which she is the head, for a mother Church which, however respectable, makes no such acknowledgment, and is not the religion of the State. When the Queen was requested to be present at Presbyterian service, that was a moment of temptation. 'We cannot but feel that it must have been so. The General Assembly, the ministers and elders of hundreds, not to say thousands, of congregations, would have boasted of the attachment of Royalty to their form of worship, to their doctrines, and to their noncomformity to the Episcopal Establishment of the State. They would have done more than that : they would have eulogized th^ " magnanimity of the Queen " and would have praised her " for shaking off the trammels of education and prejudice." They would have gone still further; and the cry would have been heard from hill to mountain, and from valley to valley--" Long live the Queen and the Church of Scotland !" The Queen knew all this—she must have known it—but she preferred principle to popularity, and she felt that it was her duty to show to the intelligent, thoughtful, reflecting, pious Scotch, that as they, in England, would not seek the Episcopal churches of that country to worship their I Icavenly Father, neither could she, in Scotland, set so bad an example of indifference to religious considerations and principles as an attendance at Presbyterian worship would have implied."  William Hutton, a policeman, No. 60 K, said the woman had been removed to the London Hospital, and he received a very unfavourable account of her from the surgeons, who said they did not think the would come out of the hospital alive. There was a frightful wound on the scalp, and 4 nother on the.) c 3 head. There was also a contused wound on herrts'l t arm and other bruises on her persOn. A certificate was produced, stating that Eliza Kerr was in a very dangerous condition from the wounds described, and that she could not be removed. Mr. BALLANTINE said that he shoujd remand the prisoner for a week, and if his Wife recovered sufficiently before that time, which was not at all likely, her husband would be brought before him or his colleague, before the expiration of the remand, to hear the woman's evidence. Captain Taylor, the master of' the Liverpool, said he had attended with another gentleman to bail the prisoner, who was his carpenter and, a man of excellent character, and mild disposition. He never had a betterman in his ship, hut he regretted to say his wife was a' person of very dissolute habits, and her misconduct had nearly ruined her husband. Mr. BALLANTINE said he could not take bail for a roan who would use a poker upon his wife, and beat her almost to death. it was a. shocking case of violence, and no provocation whatever could justify a man in striking a female about the head and body, as the prisoner had done, and if the woman died he should commit him for murder. A police-sergeant, O. 16, K, said the prisoner's wife was a woman of very abandoned habits. Mr.