Trying To Change A Sovereign.

" Te maun a' ilka ane on ilka marrow shank o' th' haill o' ye gi' mnckle thanks , whanr thanks are due for bein' blessed wi' a Sooveeraign of unco' clear min' an aye oonparalleeled weesdom—Ken ye a' what this skirl means ? Kimmers a '; your monarch ' s unpreeceedented reasonin' faculties ha' peeirceed the varra veesceera o' the meesteeree . There ' s

" SAETHE 5 TG THE MATTER WI * THE GAS !!!" CHAPTER VI . BLUE PETER FLYING AT THE FORE . WHICH means sailing . And Sir Thomas Knyvettthe resident J . P . at

West-, minster , requiring sailing orders , when Majesty ' s decision was communicated to him , referred to the learned Peter , who was then and is now , and may he for ever be , the eminent and respected Assistant Judge of the Middlesex Bench of Magistrates .

To Peter Sir Thomas went and wept . Majesty had done him the honour to grant him an interview , and thereat to curse him for a " pawky Southron fule . " Blue Peter—the barristers practising before him affectionately but waggishly called him Blue Peter , because he was deeply read ( see ?)—in reflecting upon this instance of Royal penetration , did not very essentiall y differ from his monarch ' s estimate of Sir Thomas ' s intellect , but he prudentl y

kept his opinion to himself , and , confiding to the "unpaid one " soihe information he had jnst derived from reading a then recently published work , hy a Erench visitor to the Metropolis , * sent for the Lord Chamberlain ; and , after a few minutes' interview , called a Hansom , and clapping Sir Thomas and my lord inside , bade the driver " fly " like the—well , never mind—to Scotland Yard !

There , as is well known ( see the eminent authority upon onr criminal system I have quoted in a note ) , the plunder of Metropolitan thieves is stored up until their manumission , or the completion of their respective sentences , enables and entitles them to reclaim it . Also their wardrobes are taken charge of until they are in a position to exchange gaol livery for the nnconspicuous habiliments of enfranchised life . *******

An Inspector of Metropolitan Police acted as valet . In that museum somebody was changing his clothes . As he did so he sung softly , " Cloth of gold do not despise , though thou art matched with cloth of freize ; Cloth of freize be not too bold ; though worn in place of cloth of gold . " ****** *

Sir Thomas Kny vett re-entered his hansom in the company of an individual of unmistakeabl y humble exterior . When the hansom was discharged at the corner of Parliament-street , the usual altercation took place about the fare , which necessitated the J . P . stating who he was , and , on threatening to convict Jehu on the spot and endorse the offence on his license , that much-put-npon individual condescended to take

double his fare and retire . CHAPTER VII . THE OPEBATIONS OF THE " LONG " FIRM ATTRACT THE NOTICE OF THE AUTHORITIES . NEXT door to the Parliament House was a tenement , on the front door-steps of which there stood , apparently on guard , an individual , hooded by a slouched sombrero ; he was shrouded in an ample Spanish cloak , and he was likewise accentuated—so to speak—by a pair of jack-boots , and emphasised with a pro-