Robin stammered into the Royal presence without feeling much abashed by the courtly splendours which met his view, and on being announced, he advanced close to the throne, but forgot to kneel, and instead of kissing the Queen’s hand, took it in his own, and shook it heartily in homely fashion. All the grandees in attendance looked blank at his awkwardness and audacity, and her Majesty herself coloured slightly, as if displeased, but imme diately resumed her gaiety, and laughed as heartily as if she had never worn a crown. Eyeing the huge portfolio, she remarked sportively to the Premier and Lord Aberdeen, that as the lesson they were about to receive threatened to be a long one, she could not wait to hear it; and gracefully taking leave, her Majesty withdrew by a side door, along with her female attendants, to the suite of rooms set apart for her private use. Mr. Bacon was thus saved from the necessity of repeating his perilous attempt to retire walking backwards ; but he had still something to do and to suffer before completing his career at Court. Opening his portfolio with as much solemnity as a divine about to preach opens the Bible,’ he took out a closely - written paper, containing extracts from the writings and speeches of Presbyterian leaders, to substantiate his assertions as to the dangerous nature of their principles. At this moment some of the people entrusted with the arrangements of the house began to make preparations for restoring the apartment to its usual state, by bringing in the various articles of fur niture which had been removed to give room for the Reception. This neces sarily caused the company to shift, here, and there, and created a bustle in which Mr. Bacon could scarcely make his voice audible. It also gave the com pany a pretence for moving about, and eluding his harangues, admonitory, ex planitory and argumentative. Finding it impossible to fix himself to the atten tion both of Sir Robert Peel and Lord Aberdeen, as these great tacticians carefully kept separate, he stuck staunchly by the former, as the most important personage, and followed him into a corner from which it appeai-ed impossible the wily baronet could escape. 