The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-28 00:00:00

THh (ARE AT INDIAN PENINSULA

RAILWAY.

The fourteenth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders
in this company was hid at the London Tavern yester-
day ; Mr. W. J. Hamilton, chairman of the board of di-
rectors, in the chair.

Mr. NICHOLSON, the superintending director, read the
report, which has already appeared in The Sun.
Tae CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
said his task was an agreeable one. They would recollect
on :a former occasien that their then chairman spoke of
the immense advantages of rail ways to the Indian govern-
ment
ni.ethsnchAaEneHitßdsahee
company
i4abtßudeml
ineinplon Indian facilitiesa:i
troops, and stated that a detachment Whichlormerly
od-
Tahcww:tlhnahhohuheiiiderraeodiir,kceireperitihhasadheer7pi
charge,
etas
appeared
progressive
beendi
vaagetyrsteitati
hor
nt
e relievedrisi
lescluaaie:riavcoeiei
diminution
yhtooiafindfeetbdh wyiaenyateh.tpueeerrrr oef instrumentalitydaoenefßutnhtooaetßombay,
lebo presenta
loss,
and
casion he was enabled to give another illustration of
the great benefits which the railway conferred. For
some weeks previous to the setting in the monsoon
by means of the railway 60,000 gallons of water a
day were introduced into the town of Bombay and
its immediate neighbourhood, to the great relief of
200,000 of the poorer claases of the population.
The railway carried the water at a very low rate of
they received during those eight weeks 10,000 rupees.
Pn
the
r
working expenses was very satisfactory, a year and a
half having reduced them from 8G to 41 per cent. From
a statement which they had already received, they were
enabled to calculate to a certain degree what would be
the return for the next half-year, and he was justified in
stating that, although no additional line had been opened
beyond the 88 miles, the profits would exceed those of
p a n y
neD'ti thrywenaaßaphsteßskl
aeai iaddeesal
ilddeklord,
wenrta
dhineai
the present halt-year as much as the latter exceeded
those of the preceding one. The surveys were also pro-
ceeding very satisfactorily, and it was impossible to
si-ieak too highly of the great exertions of the contractors.
On the line from Campole, including the Ghauts, to
Poonah, they had upwards of 30,000 natives at work,
and beyond Poonah they had nearly completed an addi-
tional GO miles, but some time would elapse before the
general line up the Ghauts would ha in a state to carry
the traffic up to Poonah. Arrangements, however, had
been made for carrying the rails up' the Ghauts instead
towifonws aorifet
aitnhsgoenitiintl till
eo twhbeoetifiiilerdsvtebpetoh,r)apttieonwnfi
otwashritnracaffio
smchpoalbretote‘p,dee,rtiahoneddmatohpueonrre:
re to Wassind, they would
thenwlceaesrhusnassdchaeleand
d Ghautsth
tithe. e had
cost,enabledln t andhe
openuettpbaltariheneci engineer
elitso4tstSnoaa,
thanfnvi Ul
nifdnrtgihrn Iroebo4rvonoNet h:tdahriiganvsePtedr:li
tonct .
for A t present
coals. they
Th e werew t
Indian Railway, whim' opened a coal field in their dis-
tri b t , got coal for B5. a ton,uu bnl
ndpsayit
weeeahtardrrwhaenhwt
reference
eeoyhtrurticiehel
ittoaade I saw no reason why
this company should not get it equally cheap. There
was another subject which he wished to refer to. In
additional
so:a ihudvattniiexpressedeonstsooohtittnafneoaasopci
allilutful
endaumtpublic
partly
additional
trei l
dd.
intention
ioiwwutgoTni hocturohoret?ineknheaottoyatesil
qxhkasp,pyantdo
taankeidtehae hos:-
grGspt
railway
Government
veßeuearannaynbiiim/reywoeacrono
aytft
undertakings.stat.
intimationßhtonaeacttoi stating
u •
suspend
gtl
der somethat.pripublicalarm"eras
snotfewa,
railways carried on. by private companies were not in-
another company, papers, whether a line
iwnglisne, or NV a s it a line for
The CHAIRMAN said it had nothing to do with the mil-
sdhi
directors
rwso uldb
woulde itsaskuee dc :
mil-
lion, but it referred to a line to Jubbulpore, where their
would want additional capital for it.
East India Company, and the present shareholders would
have the option of taking the new shares.
re to have the guarantee of '4l. ~.
Mr. NICHOLSON said an individual might answer a
question without the board being committed. The 1,103
miles which they had the sanction of the East India
Company to make would be constructed complete, in-
chiding station and rolling stock, and every item of el-
perse, fur ten millions, and that they had DOW four mil-
lions of capital. Therefore, it was easy to come to a con-
clusion as to how much more they would want.
The resolution was then unanimously agreed to, and
a vote of thanks to the directors for their attention to
the
the interests of the company having been passe
meeting separated. •

A
tne CharteredX Tli O di n a 'Bry enangkoefral A,smiaeiestig canlleodf
ftohre
trillilear3elhin oNldoevr.s,
when the directors will submit a resolhtion recommend-
ing that the company Le wound up.
FATAL FALL FROM THE TOP OF SOMERSET-HOUSE.—
On Siturday evening an inquest was held by Mr. Bed-
iord at King's College Hospital, on the body of George
Colt • u,. plumber and glazier, whose death w occa-
sioned by ,his falling from the roof of the Admiralty
department of Somerset-house. It appeared that
the deceased had been employed with another plumber
in repairs upon the ropf, and as he was about to get
from the parapet to the ladder a clerk cried ont
from one of the windows, "Hallos, about that
bottle !" alluding to a hial of toothache mixture which
had been placed outsiae the.windovv on account of its
smell, and which dedd-ed had been seen-to put in his
pocket, thinking at the time, no doubt, that it had been
thrown aside there as useless. Ho missed his footing as
the words were littered, and stumbled over the parapet,
taiiing some GO or 70 feet. He was picked up insensible,
but out dead, aid was taken to King's Cotlege Hospital,
where Le was attended to by Mr. Goodall, the house
surgeon, but the injuries he received were of so frightful
a character that ho died a few minutes after he was ad-
mitted. The person who was at work with deceased
said there was nothing to protect persons on the roof
-from falling over the parapet, although its danger had
been frequently pointed out to the foreman of the works.
It was under the control of the Board of WorkF. The
jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death:"