The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-10 00:00:00

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

1. Mr. Cobbett,—Resolution, That it is just and expedient that
there be an equitable adjustment with regard to the Interest
payable on what is commonly called the National Debt; and
that, at all events, it is just and expedient that none but the
holders of lands and other real property should be taxed for
the purpose of raising money wherewith to pay that interest,
or any part of it.
2. Mr. E. Tennent,—Bill for regulating the Linen and Hempen
Manufactures in Ireland.
3. Mr. Chalmers,—Return of Officers on Half-pay.
4. Mr. Robinson,—To refer Petition of the East India Company's
Maritime Officers to a Select Committee.
5. Mr. Buckingham,—To move the abolition of Impressment for
the Navy.
THURSDAY, APRIL 16..-NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

1. Mr. Wilks—Bill for the establishment of a National Civil Regis-
tration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, in England and
Wales.
2. Sir Edward Codrington —Return of all Naval Officers, of
whatever rank, who have been deprived of their Half-pay
without_thoir nivestipai.ii a is otrurt Marva'',
from the year 1790 up to the present period; with the alleged
reasons for such deprivation :—Also, Return, of any person
whose Half-pay has been restored to them subsequently to such
deprivation, with the alleged reasons for such restoration.

LITERATURE.

THE CHRISTIAN REFORMER.

The April number of this periodical contains se-
veral articles of unusual interest. The " Corres-
pondence between the Rev. John Wesley and Samuel
Sparrow, Esquire," which is to be continued in the
succeeding numbers, will afford a treat—we are sorry
to say too rare a treat—to those who are desirous of
seeing religious controversy—embracing even the most
important points of Christian doctrine, carried on in a
Christian spirit.
We learn—with no small surprise we ccnfess—from
the article entitled " The French Unitarian Christian
Church," that Unitarianism is making considerable
progress in France, and has found its way even into
La Vendee—the last place on earth where we should
have thought it would have taken root.
In a succeeding article a question of some in-
terest to the religious world is set at rest. A
difference of opinion has existed about the or-
thodoxy of Dr. Isaac Watts, in the latter part
of his life. It is now put beyond a doubt, that he
had become a convert to Unitarianism before his death.
Extracts are given from several letters of Dr. Lardner,
who states that he had himself seen the papers left by
Dr. Watts, and that his last thoughts were completely
Unitarian. This is a point requiring strong testimony
to establish it ; but Larduer's credibility cannot be
questioned.

We are, upon the whole, much pleased with " Phi-
losophical Thoughts," by the late William Hay, Esq.,
although some of them are, at least to us, hard to be
understood. Is it quite philosophical to assert, that
" if matter were self-existent, the world would be one
solid body, and there would be no void space upon the
universe ?" There appear to us to be at least two
assumptions in the foregoing proposition ; first, that
what is called solidity is an essential quality of matter ;
and secondly, that there is a void space in the universe.
In the " Wolverhampton Cause," his Honour the
Vice-Chancellor receives a very severe rebuke for sit-
ting in judgment in a case in which he had for several
years acted as counsel for one of the parties. It is
hardly necessary to say in whose favour the decision
was given. The merits of the case seem almost the
same as those involved in Lady Hewley's celebrated
cause.

" Observations on Sir Robert Peel's Dissenters'
Marriage Bill" is a paper which we would earnestly
recommend to all who wish to be thoroughly ac-
quainted with the mel its and demerits of the measure
intended by the late Premier, for the relief of the Dis-
senters as regards the celebration of marriage. It is
out of all sight the most comprehensive and masterly
View of which has yet been laid before the
public.

His Majesty's Government has decided that the
Australian colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's
Land, now forming an archdeaconry subject to the see of Cal-
cutta, shall be erected into a separate and independent Bishop-
ric, the seat of which will be fixed at Sydney. The appoint-
ment has been offered to Archdeacon Broughton, now in this
country, who, it is expected, will be consecrated to the episco-
pal office previously to his return to Australia.

There was never known so great a scarcity in the
supply of straw to the metropolis as at the present time, and
that when it is in most demand. This is said to be owing to
the reluctance of farmers to thresh out their wheat while at
the present unremunerating prices.

Another Tory hole-and-corner address is, we hear,
in the course of signature at Lewes. It is to Sir Robert Peel,
and expresses the confidence of the inhabitants of Lewes and
its vicinity in his shaky Ministry, and praying him to continue
in office.—Brighton Gazette.