The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-26 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

SURVEYS Or ROADS IN INDIA.
At the close of the proceedings of the Court of
l'V St India proprietors, held yesterday, Colonel
elirkon submitted the following resolutions :
144 That the Court of Directors be rcquested to have
room,
and laid upon the table, in the proprietors'
"Schedule
the following papers:—
-ISchedule of those collectorates under the Bombay
suPresidency, of which there exist either the original
'IreYS or fac-similes thereof in print, in view to the
.
• uat possible publication of those- valuable documents
la
ordthe most convenient form, as in the case of the
Of H111%110'3 Survey of England, and of' a like publication
the
is whole of the Madras, and of a large portion of
onsbay Presidencies, and in substitution of the
tt„Y meagre and inaccurate maps alone procurable at
of the scientific institutions or mapsellers throughout
()ado!).
to:Schedule of the made roads, excepting those of the
eitellils and the civil and military stations, throughout
their lengths
of the Bombay .Presideney, specifying
getir
metalled aad
and general widths, such cf them as aren
aad bridged, such 113 ore metalled only, al
which are constructed of moolum, or a like.softn,e
et dria3er; also the obstructions from imperfect drainage
d clivities to which the transit or mere an-
-4,,a10ng them is subject."
1:1(3n. CHAIRMAN, before proceeding_ with the
moithe
next for consideration, begged leave
.to assure
ki "Aid that no one could be snore anxious than
ortutisielf and colleagues to afford the public the benefit
e surveys so long ago made of a considerable p.or-
-14- °f the Bombay Presidency, the delay in giving
measure
timely publicity to which had been in great
evasure occasioned by a less perlect triangulation for
bad them with the great survey of India than
zither
been subsequently deemed necessary; while the
koe! laformation moved for, and so necessary for re
%Zing all doubts as to the nature of our principal
Nvit":4l unications throughout the Bombay Presidency,
puhe course of preparation for being laid before the
Colonel DICKINSON—by whom the motion which
elicited these observations had been brought forward
." glad to hail such a cordial declaration from the
i Chairman as an earnest that it would not be for want
of
Ite;lterest, or any
exertions on his part, if the publicd
here much longer debarred access to those copious and
t eri.Y executed surveys which be had reason
know,he much
had, a generation ago, been completed, though
irch feared that with so limited an establishment
doeult. Permanently entertained for preparing such
tmeuts for the press, the expectations held out
able 'Le Chairman could not in any reason-
des,„ abe realized—in support of which
thiti"ll"ing view of the cast he would merely observe
like In 1840 it was announced to the public, from a
Btl authentic source, that sheet 57 of the Indian
tati,"B, containing a portion of the Sholapore collect°.
whereas
in the course of that year be published,
lade "8, it is to this day a blank on the
or tsneet. Colonel Dickinson was also desirous
4leetrawing
rio
II!. already
attention to the fact, that in the three
of the
published of the Malabar province
is made of the names of scarcely any
afforde, Principal rivers, nor is any Explanation
e' for enabling the man of business or
touristavays to judge of the nature of the public
N't.ryvvhere laid down—in all which
that the he expressed a coadent hope
ayouid e forthcoming maps of the Ilmabay Presidency
vation ant b 3 found wanting. With these few obser-
by ifs he could, in deference to the wishes expressed
the Ronourable Chairman, have no objection to
withdrawal of his motion.

MEL
vas Le. ANcttomt ACCIDENT.--Yesterday an inquest
tow-4 Id at the Engineer Tavern, Gloucester-road, Camden-
-I.utii",,on the body of Mr. Charles Baker, aged 39, a master
Vas residing at 35 Gloucester-road Villas. The deceasad.
turd-a-itiect to an overflow of blood to the head,
.and on
_es
Sa-
le men
last he complained of severe pains,in hid
I
thempcked
h; ent home between six and seven o'clocr, an no
*le i3s. front door. On his wife going to open the qreet. door,te
front "rd a heavy fall, and found the deceased yingt:rneughb
Whit underteath an opening in the porticgo, t
Quit e . deceas:d must have fallen backward... He was
heat Insensible, and, on the arrival of Mr. Weston, the emi-
Nietisrgeoln, his skull was found to be fractured. Every
for his ent.34hieli surgical skill could devise was tried in vain
• Vererelief, and he died in about eight hours afterwards.
tet " Accidental death."
rdakext,
o "II" AND SIIICIDE.—A man named Samuel
et°°, formerly a baker in Spalding, took a quatnht'eityt_.osoef
wrist: on "Thursday last, and from the largeness of
e_
f ef-
eet tli;ng was produced, but the poison had taken, h
Th.— at death ensued on Sunday morning. The wi_etwchnedi
the
nbhad seduced his own daughter, a young girl folio t 6
the dig, of a dressmaker. The girl being enciente, led to
bia_i_city
Pillilii"verY, and the inhuman father, unable to face the
his atrocity has added the crime of suicide to the
•‘,,,,C01 and fearful crime'of sez.luction, Seaton was the man
of lately made an attempt to perform the Herculean task
f walki
•orvi.,,,,ng 1,000 n3ides in 1,000 hours, which he abandoned
Iteiard` of Patronage, after about afortnight's trial.
uy.
Pock?, BUSINESS.—The New York Dry.
""-Pri7t.27 gives the following instances of quickness of
ot
111.10/082 transactions between Europe and New York :
A
rAiiro:(l manufacturer sent goods from his warehouse, via,
to Liverpool, on the 19th of August, they wele
/‘Te',(l)..Vorrin board the steamer Atlantic on the 21st, arrived in
k on Sunday, the Ist of September, were sold by
3d, i-ne.trd on Monday, the 2d, delivered on Tuesday, the
,sketch of thesame returned by the steamer Europa
ch the Bt2tift Boston on Wednesday, the 4th Allowing
aior, 'aor an average run, the consigner will be in
.posses-
the date e result of the shipment in twenty-seven days from
filter °f consignment, a shorter space of time than would
cc/_, to
e-aPse between the giving of an order and re-
goods from an American manufacturer."
11.4,114,r...a Lean ACCIDEeST ON THE GREAT WESTERN
eOmpawAl.."--The directors have ordered the officers of this
1137 to institute a still further and more searching in-
nto the cause of the late accident at Wootton Bassett.
dvERp
eteate WEDNESDAY.The United Sates
naOrni- "l) At: f;
ane, CaptainW st left the Mefsev th's
10, ng for
4 tas=sefigerr York, with the usual mars. She had about