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the rate of a number of years' purchase, to be fixed, of
such divisible profits; or, secondly, to revise the fares
and charges on the line, in such manner as shall, in the
judgment of the Government, be calculated to reduce
the said divisible profits, assuming always the same
quantity and kinds of annual traffic to continue, to the
said per centage: but with a guarantee, on the part of
the Government, to subsist while such scale of fares an I
charges shall be in force, to make tap 9ie divisible profits
to the said per centacre. .
111. And also, that at or after the said;tertn of years,
it shall be in the option of the GoverlAMCnt to purchase
the line at the said number of years purchase of the
annual divisible profits, whatever be the amount of such
profits.
IV. That the term ofyears be fifteen, to be dated from
the next following Ist of January after We passing of the
Act for the construction of the railway—
V. That the rate of divisible profits at Which the right
of revision shall accrue, shall be ten per cent.
VI. That the number of years' purchase at which the
railway may be bought for the public, shall be twenty-
five years.
VII. That the said annual divisible profit shall be cal-
culated upon the average of the three last preceding
years.
VIII. That the accounts of such line, if a branch or
junction line, shall be kept separate from those of the.
main lines with which they are connected, and shall ho
liable to inspection by the Government, and to be pro-
duced upon the demand of the Government.
IX. That if any dispute shall arise as to what the
actual amount of such divisible profits in any given case
may have been, the matter in question shall be referred
to arbitration.

X. That power be taken by the Government, in the
event of its exercising the right of revision, to prosi:le
for such regulations upon the'line as it shall deem neces-
sary, in order to secure to the public the full advantagt a
of the reduced rate of fares and charges fixed by the
revising authority.
XI. That the companies may be required to provide
upon such new lines of railway, as a minimum of-third-
class accommodation, one train at least each way en
every week-day, by which there shall be the ordinary
obligation to convey such passengers as may present
themselves at any of the ordinary stations, in carrittg,.s,
provided with seats and protectedfrom the weather, at a.
speed not less than 12 miles an hour including stoppages,
and at fares not exceeding a penny per mile ; each pas-
senger by such train being allowed not exceeding 56 lbs.
of luggage without extra charge, and extra luggage
being charged by weight at a rate not exeoeding the
lowest charge by other trains : children under thr..e
years being conveyed without extra charge ; a:A
children from three to twelve years at half-price.
XII. That the tax upon the receipts from such con-
veyance of third-class passengers should not exceed one-
half of any duty that may be laid upon the general
traffic of railways.
XIII. That the Board of Trade have a discretionary
power of dispensing with any of the above require-
, ments, and of allowing alternative arrangements which
shall appear to it to be better calculated to promote the
public convenience upon any particular railvtay ; an:l
that the Board of Trade have a discretionary control,
over the train which satisfies the above minimum rt.-
quirement, as regards times of starting, nature of ac-
commodation, arrangements with connecting lines, anti
other points of detail, subject to the above general_
principles, and to the understanding that such control
is to be limited to the train in question.
XIV. That the companies shall be bound to convey
upon such new lines military and police forces, and putslic stores, baggage, and ammunition, on the requisition
of the proper authorities, at fares not exceeding ld. per
mile for each private, and 2d. per mile for each officer,
with the usual accommodation, and at charges not cx
ceeding 2d. per ton per mile for stores and baggage
the same quantity of personal luggage being allowed free
of charge to each officer and private, as to each ordinary
first and second-class passenger respectively ; and the
carriages in which such forces are conveyed being, when-
ever so required by the proper authorities, provided with
seats and protected against the weather.
XV. That upon such new lines the Post-office be em-
powered to require the transmission of the mails (sub-
ject to the usual conditions as to payment for services
performed by railway companies) at any rate of speed
certified by the Inspector-General to be consistent with
safety ; and also to send a mail-guard with bags not ex-
ceeding the weight allowed for an ordinary passenger'
luggage (or subject to the rules of the company for any
excess of that weight) by any of the ordinary trains.
upon the same terms and conditions as an ordinary pas-
senger : it bentg understood that this power shall not
authorise the Post-office to require the conversion of a
regular mail-train into an ordinary train, nor to exercise
any control over the company in respect of any ordi-
nary train.
XVI. That it shall be open to the Government to de-
termine what extension of lines of railway are to be con-
sidered as new lines, for the purposes of these reso-
lutions.
30th March, 1844.

RESIGNATION OF LORD STUART
DE ROTHESAY.
We are enabled to state on competent authority that
Lord Stuart de Rothesay, her Majesty's Ambassador at
St. Petersburgh, sent in the resignation of his post to
the Earl of Aberdeen several weeks since, which bt-ing
laid before her Majesty. she was graciously pleased to•
accept. A steamer will be placed at his disposal early
in the month of May, so that his Lordship may be ex-
pected home at the latter end of that month or in the
beginning of June. Although only about sixty-five
years of age, his Lordship has been some forty-eight
years in the diplomatic servile of his country, during:
the whole of which he was actively employed in various;
parts of the world, excepting under the late Govcr..t.
ment. If not the oldest member of the diplomaic
corps, by standing and seniority in the service—the
dean of the faculty it may be said—there cannot be mores
than one or two of his seniors now living. He retires
from his long public career in that service from the
continued existence of ill health, with which he was for
the first time afflicted some few months after his arrival
in St. Petersburgh. Although of a robust and naturally
vigorous frame of body, the first rigorous winter 0841-21
proved too rude a shock for a constitution accustomed'
only, during the last thirty-five years, to the heats of:
tropical regions, the little less oppressive sun of southern
Europe, and the more temperate climes of central au&
western Europe. It is a remarkable fact that, except ita
early youth, he was never known to suffer from scarcely
even a day's sickness and confinement previously to his.
departure for St. Petersburgh, and- first winter there..
And, as a proof of the then still unimpaired vigour of
his health and strength, hefollowed the practice, adoptedi
from early life, of a cold bath winter and summer,
mediately on rising from bed, every morning, and 13,4f0re.
breakfast. It was with difficulty he could be bror,ght to
take medical advice and medicine, even on occas,on of his
attack of illness at St. Petersbugh ; it is needless to add
that he had known scarely anything, from experience, of
either during his whole life, such was the simplicity and
regularity of his habits. In the commencement of Lis
diplomatic career, St. Petersburgh, it is believed, wise
his first station as a junior member of the embassy then
there.
Although infirm in health, it is proper to add that
there has been, and is, nothing of a grave character in
his indisposition, which consists in the natural remains
of debility consequent on protracted illness. With the
enjoyment of his native air on his solicited return, he
will, doubtless, as advised, not be long in regaining con-
valescence, being still so little advanced in years.
The Hon. Mr. Bloomfield, in consequence of Lord
Stuart's retirement, is nominated Minister Plenipoten-
tiary at the Court of St. Petersburgh, where he has sis
long resided in the capacity of Chargé d'Affaires, arsil
First Seeretary of Embassy, the functions of which office.
as latterly of the embassy, he has fulfilled with distin •
guished ability. It is not intended to replace Lord
Stuart by any diplomatist of the rank of ambassador, as
the accomplished representative of Russia at this Court,
Baron Brunnow, holds only the same diplomatic rank as
the Hon. Mr. Bloomfield is now invested with.—Morn
'rig Post.

THE FACTORIES BILL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I see, by your paper of Saturday last, thrAt
fir
James Graham presented a petition, or memorials from
seventy-two firms in Manchester, against the te-
-ours'
state that
thousand hands,
haTndhse,seanpardrt; in
wage;
trhies
thousand pounds. If this '.oe true, each
perct hlaeuysaeenmnoupf7lnot hyfoetrhtFyi racyt
of the work-people receive the very libe,ral and
extra-
ordinary sum of 6 2-I3d. per week ; bijt,
suppose :the
firms mean they pay 40,0001. per wee., 4, then each per-
son would receive 11. 6s. Bd. per week. I defy them to
prove that they pay half that sum, or anything approxi-
mating to it, on the average. Til.; s shows how persons
sometimes overreach themselves' and prove too much.
" Save us from our friends." b _nd is it from statements
such as these that a British !louse of Commons must
legislate, at the beck of a renegade Minister, whose stu-
pidity (I beg his pardon, I snean his firmness) is only'
equalled by his want of 'practical knowledge on suca
subjects ? Must the intl.ustrious people of these king -
doms be continued in their present state of over-exei,-
tion, ignorance, and their concomitant vices, against the
thrice-expressed will of the English Senate, so that the
country may not lose the services of Sir James and Co-?
Forbid it justice, consistency, and British honour. But.
if our wives and daughters must labour on in this almost.
incessant toil, complain not of empty sanctuaries, of oilr
discontented people ready to re-enact the scene of August;.
1842, nor of our full prisons, or the well-attended vaults,
where the worn-out labourer seeks to drown his cares,
and finds a momentary relief from exhaustion. Thank-
ing you for your able advocacy of the people's cause, I
am, Sir, yours very respectfulty,
A: TEN HOURS MAN.
P.S. —The silk trade of Macclesfield have petitioned
for a Ten Hours' Bill, and the two Members for our-
borough supported Lord Ashley. Now, if any trade re--
quires protection it, is the silk trade, and they don't fear
a Ten Hours' Bill.
Macclesfield, April 5, 1844.