10 SEPTEMBER 1842, Page 2

The Queen's progress in Scotland has been smoother than the

voyage to it ; although the Town-Councillors of Edinburgh have not recovered from the dismay at their own blunders on the Queen's landing. Not that the voyage was dangerous or eventful : only there has been a march of intellect since the days when Cam:Ines suite told him that the sea would not wet his feet ; and it is written that the short pitching waves of the East coast made the Ocean Queen very uncomfortable. Indeed it has been said that letters from Edinburgh, Canute-courtierlike, asserted that the Queen was not at all moved ; but the weight of historical evidence lies the other way. The facts of the Queen's entry, and the ludicrous manner in which the Provost and Dailies were caught napping, were narrated in our last Postscript. The worthies have published an apology to exonerate themselves; and on their own showing this appears to be the real state of the case. Queen VICTORIA determined, after her sea-voyage, to get to Dalkeith Palace as privately and quickly as she could ; but the civic dignitaries of Edinburgh, in Town- Council assembled, resolved that it would be " impossible " that the Queen " could " make a private entry ; and so they told the Ministers in Scotland, after the Queen had embarked, and when it was impossible to learn her pleasure. The pleasure of the Queen had already been declared in an opposite sense ; but that was be- fore the Town-Council had signified its will-paramount. The Ministers, goodnaturedly, promised to tell the Queen, and to let the Town-Councillors know. This was construed by them to mean, that all should be done as they had decreed, and that the Queen would obey. Now they had so arranged matters, that they could go to bed, get their breakfasts, (this was expressly stated by one of them to have been an object,) dress at leisure, muster, marshal, march ; and all being prepared, then, and not till then, the Queen might land. " Sic volvere Perces " — that is, the Bailies. Accordingly, the troops slept on their arms all night ; the Bailies in the arms of their wives, or the bachelors in the arms of Morpheus ; when, lo! at a rude early hour, the Queen arrives—lands—and Ministers tell the Bailie who was sent to Granton Pier to see the instructions of his compeers carried out, that the Queen "found it necessary" to go to Dalkeith as fast as possible. They seem never to have thought that the fair voyager might have some wish in the matter ; and they were choked with indignation at the disobedience of her " advisers " and the contumacy of the Queen. Even the show of Saturday's public entry has not appeased the civic wrath. Sunday awakened new angers. It is discovered that the Queen's religious tenets are not based upon geographical definitions, and that she is not a Presbyterian in Scotland : she is still, what the Northern saints call her with a sneer, the head of the English Church. Being so—not being of the Scottish Church—perhaps it was thought an approach to a common worship and a compli- ment to the Scottish people, to employ a clergyman of Edinburgh on Sunday : but that is taken for an aggravation of the offence ;

Scottish Episcopalian, we are told on authority, being the favourite aversion of the Scottish Church as by law established. So Vac. TORIA is reproached, since she did not go to the High Church of Edinburgh, with not allowing one of her own Chaplains to officiate in the Lpiscopal Chapel at Dalkeith. Supposing, however, that the Queen had waived scruples, and had gone to the High Church of Edinburgh, what security had she there that some indignity might not be offered, and that all offensive allusion to the feud between the Church and the Law could be repressed ?

Defended as well as could be by her attendants from these offen- sive and exacting claims, the youthful Queen has at last escaped into the quiet of the Highlands. The fair city of Perth received her with picturesque magnificence, and a more prompt and decorous though less pretending loyalty than the capital ; and in the remoter regions, among the Northern Thanes, she is likely to meet with an hospitality that consults her convenience rather than vulgar raree- shows—among the people, with no more offensive forwardness than delight at a vision which never before lighted up those mountain- wilds.