The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-16 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

TraxPtsr Roans' CONSOLIDATION.—A Bill having been
brought in on the 9th inst., " to authorise the Consolidation
of the Trusts of the Turnpike Roads in England," and two of
the Clauses (17th and 18th) having been loudly objected to
by some persons, we copy them here from the Act :
'And be it further enacted, that the said Commissioners may
and arc hereby authorised, under their hands and seals, to
make orders and regulations for the management and mainte-
nance of the turnpike roads in such consolidated Trusts, and
the funds thereof, and from time to time to suspend, alter,
vary, amend, or rescind the same, and tray make any new or
other orders and regulations, As they from time to time shall
think fit; and that all orders and regulations to be from time
to time made by the said Commissioners under the authority
of this Act, shall be sent by the said Commissioners to the
clerk of such consolidated Trusts to which they are intended
to apply, and shall be valid and binding, and shall be obeyed
as if the same were specific“ily made and embodied in this
Act, subject nevertheless to the said power of the said Corn-
misSioners from time to time to rescind, amend, suspend, or
alter the same.

And be it further enacted, that the powers and authorities in
this Act contained, as to the making of orders and regula-
tions for the management and maintenance of the Turnpike
Roads in a consolidated Trust, and the funds thereof, shall
and may be used and exercised, if the said Commisiioncrs
shall think fit, with respect to the road or roads in 4ny Trust,
although the same may not have been consolidated With any
other Turnpike Trust or Trusts,
STAFFORD (DISFRANCHISEMENT OF).—The following is the
Bill to wind() the Borough of Stafford, in the county of
Stafford, from sending Burgesses to serve in Parliament ;-,-
Whereas notorious and systematic brihery and corruption
have been proved to have long prevailed in the elections of
Members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Stafford.
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Ma-
jesty, by awl with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiri-
tual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlint
ment assembled, and by the authority of the stunt), ti4ai the
borough of Stafford, in the county of gtafford, shall, from
and after the passing of thjq Act, oease to elect and return
any burgess pr ll'urgessed, to serve in tho High Couit of ear=
ilament,

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VACANT OFFICES.—The office of Const4lllo or his Majes-
ty's Castle of Saint Briavel's, inlti4 Majesty's Forest of Dean,
in the county of Gloueester, aral the office of Keeper. of
his :Majesty'sOw within the said-forest, are now respectively
vacant.

A MI has been brought in by the Attorney-General, for
vesting these offioes in the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests,

REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.—The Bill, as amended by the
Committee, for the registration of persons entitled to vote in
the election of Members of Parliament in England and
Wales, occupies 44 folio pages. We gave a summary lts
provisions at the close of last Session.
SEA INDENTURES.—By the 4g-oh oaAse of the 4th and 6th
William IV„ cap. iq, all agreements with the crews of vessels,
KZ 4,11 tkp,pvcoice indentures for the sea servioe, are exempted
from starUpduty.

TAXES ON KNOWLEDGETIIe Carlisle Journal
was amongst the earliest papers which called public attention
to the oppressive nature of the tax upon knowledge. For
more than twenty years it has placed beneath the red mark of
the tax-gatherer, an explanation of its working effect. In
season and out of season we have never failed to lift up our
voice against the crying injustice of levying a tax of nearly
200 per cent. upon an article so well calculated as is the
newspaper to spread the benefits of civilization, carry enjoy-
ment to the fire-side of the poor man, and to teach all a know-
ledge of their rights and duties, and thus to secure social order.
ANTEDILUVIAN REMAINS.--WC have been fa-
vourcd with a view of an extraordinarry collection of the fossil
bones of various animals obtained from Big Bone Lick, in the
county of Boone, in the State of Kentucky, dug up a short
time since by Captain B. Finnell and others, twenty-two feet
below the surface of the earth.., They consist chiefly of dif-
ferent parts of the skeleton of the great mastadon and the
mammoth. At the place where these remains were found is
a salt spring, to which probably the animals vine. 41..a7n to
lick the salt, previous to the settlenlerAta the western country,'
and here, it 11 likely, from the assemblage. of Wild animals,
may many tattles. ay liean'tbught, and the remt,; of
the slaughtered therefore found in '
are bones of •;: •
FGV,itt47l4Siaqelll, hlammoth, deer, bull,
• 4et q 'aet of' interest, however, in the collection,
An qtter wRs a few days
is nearly an entire Skill of the mastodon, which weighs 1751b5.,
, • ~.:94tW14 unundance
although Krno of the teeth are deficient. Those remains are
brought into this country for sale, and now deposited at Mr.,
Stevens's 400rns, in King-street.
that measured from n to the end of the tail 4 feet 10
ohresree
inchei:
of .this city, hatter, and is one of the longest animals of this
kind that INcii 191,1114 Devon4hire,--.l4stern
Ne ler Charlesshot
Exmouth,
Cunningham,
it
i3ne4Y in P°% seCam.*ion of