The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-15 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

John and William Sooilard, cheesemongers, formerly
carryi❑g on business at 46, Bermondsey. street, were
brought before Mr. COTTINGHA.3/ charged with setting
fire to the premises.
This being their final examination the court was
crolided to excess.

Mr. COTTINGIUM, after hearing the whole of the
evidence, committed the prisoners tor trial.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

(From the rotes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, FES. 14.
STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
The following Resolutions were reported from the above
Committee :

That in the case of the Severn Navigation Improvement
Commission, Amendment of Acts, New Works, and further
Powers Bill petition for extending the time for the sec,ond
reading of the Bill, the standing orders ought to bo dis-
pensed with : That the time for the second reading be ex-
tended to the 22d day of March next.
Alteration of
That in the case of the Liverpool Docks
Trust and Amendment of Acts) petition for leave to deposit
a petition for a Bill, the standing orders ought not to be dis-
pensed with.
First Resolution agreed to.—Report to lie on the table.

The following Railway petition was presented, and the
Bill ordered to be brought in
Lancashire and Yorkshire and Lon
ofdolnteresn and North..
Western Railway Companie s t
Harbour, and Dock, and re the
Preston and Wyre Railw
lating the Management of ay, the Undertaking). Wl*

r, bound
A SAILOR ADRIFT.—On Monday, a
ti ate-built
sailor entered the Great Western Railwa bo k•
ne-
t the station, Glouceste
office a and
'laving shelled out the " rhino," he IVA? London;
suppliedl o writh
a ticket and placed in
short ort train to be.
taken out to the T station..
This,
it appears,
was Jack's first trip by •
which he expressed very freely,rall, and his notions,
were rather strange,
especially about the engine
but scarce had it proceueedet
ing along the land."
when the engine-driver " a great sea serpent creep-
draihnaltaarytedtointheduTe course.staton
was . startled by a bail,
and, looking behind, discovered Jack on the roof
of one of the carriages, pipe in band, shouting
Ship alloy ! vast heaving there ! I've not been used
to skulk in the hold—give us a light !" It turned
out that feeling himself alone without a pipe, he had
got through the window of the carriage and climbed
on " deck," as ho called it. The engine-driver
seeing the poor fellow's perilous situation, stopped
the train, and he was asked to return to the interior,
but Jack refused, saying it was " lubberly," and
still importuned for a light. He was then told that if he
did not the pol•ce would make him; upon which he dis-
charged a volley of sarcastic epithets, such only as sailors
can invent, against the " green caterpillar tellers," as
we once heard some sailors style the railway servants,
and then entered the carriage with au air of resignation
becoming a martyr to a hard fate.
CURIOUS ERRATUIC—The editor of a country
paper, speaking of the people of France, says, in •
beautiful fulminating leader—" When the Provisional
Government promised the labouring classes that they
should never again want either work or high wages,
them asses actually believed it." We thought this rather
strong, and a little ungrammatical, when the next week's
paper contained the following:—" Erratum.—For them
asses,' in our last, read ' the masses. " However, there
is a deal of coarse truth wrapt up in a bid bad gram-
mar sometimes. For ourselves, we deeicjiedly prefer
them asses."—Punch.