The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-24 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Mancir 22.

The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
A bill frr the improvement of the markets of the
town of Monmouth was read a first time.

Mr. MILES brought in a bill for making a canal from
Brixton, in Surrey, to be connected with the Bridgewater
Canal.

Mr. J. O'CONNELL brought up the report of the
corn mittee upon the Dublin and Kingstown railway petition.
Mr. WOOD brought in a bill for the construction of
the North Union Wigan Railway.
Mr. POTTER presented a petition from the Company
of proprietors of the Birmingham Canal against the Bir-
mingham Railway Bill.

Mr. MILES brought up the report of the committee
upon the Carnarvon Railway petition.

PENSIONS BILL.
Mr. SPRING RICE moved the third reading of the
Pensions Bill, svhicb was accordingly read a third time and
passed.
Mr. S. RICE gave notice (as we understood) that on
Monday, his noble friend, Lord kthorp, would make a
statement respectine the commutation of tithes.
Lord NORREYS presented a petition from Oxford
for an alteration of the poor laws.

Mr. HALL presented several petitions from Mon.
mouth and Newport, for a redress of the grievances affect-
ing dissenters.

GASKELL presented a petition from the dissenters
of Wakefield, to a similar effect.

Mr. M. A. TAYLOR presented a petition from Sud-
bury, for the better observance of the Lord's Day.
Mr. BAILLIE presented a petition from the overseers
of the poor of Bristol, praying to be relieved from the ex-
pense of registering voters.
Mr. J. O'CONNELL brought in a bill to regulate the
navigation of the rivers, lakes, and estuaries, in Ireland.—
Read a first time.

Mr. THICKNESSE presented a petition front Wigan,
for a better observance of the Sabbath. Also a petition
from the same place, signed Iry 2,800 persons, praying
for a redress of grievances affecting dissenters.
Mr. POTTER supported the latter petition.

Mr. SINCLAIR presented a petition from Ballybeg
for the better observance of the Sabbath, and others
from different parts of Scotland for an alteration in the
system of church patronage.
Mr. MAXWELL presented a petition from the county
of Lanark for the establishment of a local board of ti ade ;
also several others to the same effect from various places
in Scotland.

Colonel EVANS presented a petition from Westmin-
ster, complaining of the sentence on Mr. Cohen, of the
Brighton Guardian, and praying for an alteration of the
law of libel. Also one from the master bakers of West-
minster for the better observance of the Sat:bath.

Mr. MURRAY presented a petition from Leith for the
abolition of church patronage ; and one from the same
borough for a copy of all parliamentary proceedings to be
sent to that borough ; also one from tie merchants, &c.,
of Leith, against 'he Receipt Stamp Act. •
Mr. SCEIOLEFIELD presented a petition from Bir-
mingham, against the system of compulsory payment of
church rates, &c.

Colonel EVANS brought up the report of the borough
of Southwark waterworks petition, and obtained leave
to bring in a bill.

Mr. S. RICE moved for a return of the sums ex-
pended by all the parishes in England and Waits, for en-
larging the churchyards, and how the land was paid fur.
—Agreed to.
The house then adjourned.

It is long since (says the Athenceunz) we
have had a volume from the pen of Mary Hewitt. In
the "Seven Temptations," however, she has chosen a bold
subject—none other rhan the strife between good and
evil—anti wrought it out by a series of scenes from life—
(not the life of this century, or that country, but in its
most universal sense)—which she has dashed off with a
free and fearless pencil. We have read the volume with
sincere pleasure. The delightful authoress of " The Seven
Temptations" unites within herself a purity of feeling—an
earnest simplicity—solemn, sarcastic, or tender, as th,
subject may require—closely resembling the lifelike pathos
of Defoe, with such an occasional sublimity of imagination
as is shared by few, very few women.

On Friday an inquest was held at the London
Hospital, before Mr. Baker, on the body of William Cox,
aged 17. The deceased was in the employ of Mr.
Daniels, perfumer, at 13, Bury-street. On &today
evening Mr. Hawkes's son, aged 16, got his father's
loaded pistols, anti having taken them to the deceased,
they both tried to extract the ball from one of the pistols,
but without effect. There was no powder in the touch-
holes of the pistols, and at last deceased said to the other,
" Come, let us have a duel ;" Mr. Hawkes's son replied
I don't mind, I am sure that they will not go off."
They stood opposite to each other, anti on Mr. Hawkes's
son pulling the trigger of the pistol from which they had
endeavoured to extract the ball, the piece went off, and the
ball lodged in the right temple of the deceased. He died
at the Hospital on Tuesday. Verdict.—. Accidental Death.