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

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

SHAVEY S OF ROADS IN INDIA.
Akt the cloie of the proceedings of the Court of
IP'''. India proprietors, held yesterday, Colonel
Ir3rinson submitted the following resolutions :
. That the Court of Directors be requested to have
//tE Pared and laid upon the table, in the proprietors'
the following papers:—
1) '`Schedule of those collectorates under the Bomb ay
laidency, of which there exist either the original
*...":teYs or ac-similes thereof in print, in view to the
'list possible publication of those valuable documents
31e most convenient form, as in the case of the
()
Nnance Survey of England, and of a like publication
cline whole of the Madras, and of a large portion of
Bomb
vel om, oay Presidencies, and in substitution of the
Y meagre and inaccurate maps alone procurable at
/ of the scientific institutions or mapsellers throughout
4-Idon.
t' Schedule of the made roads, excepting those of the
to:118 and the civil and military stations, throughout
h collectorate of the Bombay Presidency, specifying
the it lengths and general widths, such cf them as are
0r tailed and bridged, such as are metalled only, and
stl He which are constructed of moorum, or a like soft
1 erlaer also the obstructions from imperfect drainage
,t dangerous: clivities to which the transit or merchan-
t - along them is zubject."
'Clie Hon. CHAIRMAN, before proceeding with the
41',-tir next for consideration, begged leave to assure
Li • , Court that no one could be more anxious than
of rtsE'lf and colleagues to afford the public the benefit
t the surveys so long ago made of a considerable por-
t;(4l
timely publicity ,to which had been in great
zut;easure occasioned by a less perfect triangulation for
t
)1 n,necting them with the great survey of India than
t,'„tu been subsequently deemed necessary ; while the
er information moved for, and so necessary for re-
"ing all doubts as to the nature of our principal
1, c,llnununications throughout the Bombay Presidency,
litthyn course of preparation fur being laid before the
Colonel DICKINSON—by whom the motion which
cited these observations had been brought forward
-,was glad to hail such a cordial declaration from the
unirman
ias an earnest that it would not be for want
lvtnterest, or any exertions on his part, if the public
much longer debarred access to those copiousand
i_slerly executed surveys which he had reason
tbe kunow had, a generation ago, been completed, though
ita much feared that with so limited an establi.hment
tlt ,that permanently entertained for preparing such
'cements for the press, the expectations held out
II the Chairman could net in any reason-
timeCaenbe realized—in support of which
tl i4rncfing view of the case he would merely observe
k i in 1840 it was announced to the public, from a
7 authentic source, that sheet 57 of the Indian
o t
containing a portion of the Shelapore collecto •
heresy
would in the course of that year be published,
it is to this day a blank .on the
d
. Colonel Dickinson was also desirous
attention to the fact, that in the three
ets already
published of the blalabar province
mention is made of the names of scarcely any
al fort_,lle principal rivers, nor is any explanation
tg urged for enabling the man of business or
,1 nisi to judge ot the nature of the public
Every% here laid down—in all which
c'uctilluation he expressed a confident hope
i,t the, m forthcomingmaps of the Bombay Presidency
1.. IQ not ba found wanting. With these few obser-
-114t1" he could, in deference to the wishes expressed
the Honourable Chairman, have no objection to
e
withdrawal of his motion.

swY,ELANCTIOLIe ACCIDENT.—YRsterday an inquest
held at the Engineer Tavern, Gloucester-road, Camden-
11%' on the body of Mr. Charles Baker, aged 39, a master
rider, residing at 35, Gloucester-road Villas. The deceased
~,,718111ject to an overflow of blood to the head, and on Sa-
ale 2Y last he complained of severa pains in his temples.
L'Yent home between six and seven o'cloc`r, and knocked
ihfront door. On his wife going to open the street door,
Front card a heavy fall, and found the deceased lying in the
,area, underneath an opening in the portico, through
ted the deceased must have' fallen backwards. lie was
heti! insensible, and, on the arrival of Mr. Weston, the emi-
e, surgeon,t 11)3 skull was found to be iracturod. Every
'0 rh• Ica surgical skill could devise was tried in vain
Ni.erdlis_Lelief, and he died in about eight hours afterwards.
, " " Accidental death."
Samuel
a:,4,°.(13r./CTION AND SUICIDE.—A man named
81,:n.", formerly a baker in Spalding, took a quantity of
YoulitT °,l Thursday last, and from the largeness of thnee_d
ef..
ltiCt'thng Was produced, bUt the poison had taken s h
144_ at death ensued on Sunday morning. wretched
Iktegkilarl seduced his own daughter, a young girl following
tLe
dultsiness of a dressmaker. The girl being enciente, led
the
abli9l2°veTY, and the inhuman father, unable to face tthee
lack 43' of his atrocity, has added the crime of suicide to
1,140
lately
fearful crime cf seuction, Seaton was the man
'tf wartFl.Y made an attempt to perform the Herculean task
_
(Pr l'ing 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours, which he abandoned
4.te,w.aaint of patronage, at;.er about afortnight's trial.—Boston
cl.

Dist+.
000,- ATCR IN BUSINESS.—The New York Dry
3."5 &potter gives the following instancs of quickness of
iness transactions. b2tween Europe and elfew York :—" A.
x7;i4kci, J.° rd manufacturer sent goods from his warehouse, vu2
kal,;:Pei wad
en boar d
theiverpol, on the l9th of August, they were
IN'do steamer Atlantic on the 21st, arrived in
-IYork on Sunday, the Ist of September, were sold by
e card on Monday the 2d, delivered on Tuesda3:, the
%I lid a Nketch of the same returned by the steamer Europa
the, ch left Boston on Wednesday, the 4th inst. Allowing
Rioss:)eatrier an average run, the consigner will be in posses-
th,,4cit tie result of the shipment in twenty-seven days from
10 LI ate of consignment, a shorter space of time than would
ttt:;,,,1,7 to elapse between the giving of an order and re-
ri °I goods from an American manufacturer."
LATE ACCIDENT ON TUE GREAT WESTERN
tomplavAx.—The directors have ordered the officers of this
qtary 93. to institute a still further end more searching in-
L into the cause of the late accident at Wootton Bassett.
%teal,v,,ELll, Poor. WEDNESDAY.--The United States
bloril'"P Atlantie,' pta. West, left the Mersey this
I°")'l.)llan,3g4einbcreNrse.w York, awithinthe Itm mails. She had about