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

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John and William Sco!lard, cheesemongers, formerly
carrying on business at 46, Bermondsey street, were
brought before Mr. COTTINGRAM charged with setting
fire to the premises.
This being their final examination the court was
crowded to excess.

Mr. COTTINGIIAM, after hearing the whole of the
evidence, committed the prisoners for trial.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 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 Bil petition for extending the time for the second
reading of the Bill, the standing orders ought to be dis-
pensed with : That the time for the second reading be ex-
tended to the 22d day of March next.
That in the case of the Liverp
00l Docks
Trust and Amendment of Acts) petition for leave todeposit
a petition for a Bill, the standing orders ought not to be dis-
pensed with. (Alteration of
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 London and Nn
Railway Companies (Transfer, of Interest in the
Preston and Wyre Railway, Harbour, and Dock, and rep.
lating the Management of the Undertaking),

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taken out to the T station. This,
was
The train were rather strange,
Jack's first trip
which be expressed very fr,!ealy,
especially about the engine, gsrteaarttesdeaisnerdpueent
course,creep
ing along the land."
but scarce had it prcceeded halfway to the T station
when the engine-driver was startled by a hail,
and, looking behind, discovered Jack on the roof
of one of the carriages, pipe in hand, shouting
`' Ship ahoy
! vast heaving there ! I've not been used
to skulk in the hold—give us a light 1" It turned
out that feeling himself alone without a pipe, he had
got through the window of the carriage and climbed
on " deck," as he 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 police would make him; upon which he dis-
charged a volley of sarcastic epithets, such only as sailors
can invent, against the " green caterpillar fellers," as
we once beard some sailors style the railway servants,
and then entered the carriage with an air of resignation
becoming a martyr to a hard fate.
CURIOUS ERRATUM.—The editor of a country
paper, speaking of the people of France, says,. in a
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 of bad gram-
mar sometimes. For ourselves, we decidedly prefer
" them eases,"—Punch.