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    1054 THJE LEADEB. [No. 405. Sept. 17, 18...

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    The Great Trigonometrical Survey, M '¦ -...

    employed as the results have been useful to the country" " We are not aware of the present strength of the Burver but we believe there is a large party in _Cashmere under the direction of Lieutenant Mont comer _? wW work is _SrfOTniBd precisely on the _fvSIm ' whicl ? was _^ _^ adopted _sTx _ySrs ago in the north-welt Himalaya series There are also one or ' _twopartlsem _^ _SiESes f ? o ? r _CX _^^^^ And since the measurement of a base line at Attock the survey of the Puniab has been going on . The _trian-ulftion of the _Go-ra was _commenced five or six years ago , and it was intended to extend it to _Nepaul : but we fancy this survey has been sus P ended since the mutiny , and of course in the pre lent disturbed state of the country it cannot be carried on _Captain Rivers had charge of the party employed n the Bombay presidency , but we believe _^ e is not connected Avith it now The duties of an Indian surveyor must necessarily "be of a most laborious kind . In the Himalayas and mountain districts , his stations must be planted © n the highest peaks ; and it is a well known fact that no class of travellers—not even the natives of the country—have reached any elevations as high as some of the points on which the Trigonometrical surveyors have fixed their stations . Captain Gerard ascended the Manuring Pass about 19 , 000 feet above the sea , and some of the assistants attached to the Himalaya series went up still higher , probably 20 , 000 or 21 , 000 feet above the sea . Talk of the perils attending the ascent of Mont Blanc , of hair- breadth escapes such as Albert Smitli has so well described ! You must , let the perils and dangers of Alpine travelling grow into awful dimensions to picture to yourself the difficulties to be encountered in ascending a mountain 20 , 000 feet above the sea . _^ Regarding the duties of the Trigonometrical sur- veyors , Colonel Waugh writes : _^ _v "With regard to the probable rate of progress , much depends on the efficiency of the officers , and on the accidents of the climate to which the parties are so much exposed . In a hilly country , the aver- age advance made per season by each party is now about 120 miles in length by 30 in breadth , or eay , 3 , 600 square miles . In a flat country , the average as eighty miles m length by twelve in breadth , or about 1 , 000 square miles . The average for both kinds of ground may be taken at the mean , or 2 , 300 square ; miles , which , multiplied by s _^ ven , gives 16 , 100 square miles per annum of probable progress . Thecost is not likely to exceed the general average hitherto attained of 10 s . or 12 s . ' per square mile of hilly country , and from 20 s . to 30 s . in flat land , or to a general average of 15 s . to 16 s . _overall . This rate might be expected to diminish , if the depart- ment were made more efficient in officers . It has been shown in the foregoing narrative that few sue- ceed in these arduous undertakingsi A rigorous training is indispensable at the outset , without which success cannot be certain , nor any adherence _expected to aystem . Widely dispersed as the sur- _veys are , and remote from constant supervision , little by little innovations would creep in , and the character of the work become compromised . To prevent evils so calculated to retard the completion of the survey of India due provision should be made for contingent vacancies , instead of muting till they occur . A newly-appointed officer is not effective for two years , and when more than one vacancy occurs at a tirne , the task of training is inconvenient . The department w now so under-officered , that a few , _ssssa _™ i & _rrsaj so _lorge an area remains for survey , effective _esta- Wishments are most important . In fact , an augmen- tation of two or three officers now would be more useful than filling up vacancies towarda the close of thework . Such an augmentation would most likely provide for every contingency , without any further addition hereafter , as vacancies occur . " Colonel Waugn bears a high testimony to the _aervices of the uncovenanted assistants . Of all the _aervants of aovermnent these roen are the worst paid , and yet their work , mentally and physically , fa one of flie most difficult that can be conceived . Baboo Rhadanath , who is now in charge of the ob- _aervatory in Calcutta , is considered a flrst-rate _mathematician ; but the oldest and most eape- rienced surveyor is Mr . John Peyton , who held _ifor

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    _LATBST _OTDIAN INTEU . IGENCE . _^ _vfumti tfom , Calcutta of August 8 announce that _'SffRSl _^ _W "i ? n ° _* the Jooal _European force have claimed their discharge in Bengal , the _Northrwest ;

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    and thePunjaub ; and the returns from the Bombay » ad Madras presidencies will raise the total , to 10 , 000 * Of the Bengal Artillery there are about 800 of the infantry 3 , 200 , and of the light cavalry pro- - bably 2 , 000 . Detachments of the discharged men are now being sent down from Allahabad to Gal- cutta , and ships have been engaged to convey them and their families to England at the rate of 194 rs adult , and 97 rs . for each child . Lord , but a trifling effect So far as is known not more than from thirty to fifty have withdrawn their application for discharge . Officers are volunteering in large numbers to take charge of the men oh their - way home . They are to enjoy Indian pay -and - allowances , will probably have three months in England , and will return in charge of recruits Upon this subject the _Friend of India says : — « It is useless to disguise the fact that a crave for England has seized every class of the Anglo-Indian public Soldier and civilian , merchant and trader , educated and uneducated , are all alike weary of a service which they consider without advantages , of a land in which their sense of security has been so rudely shaken , and where government seems one vast chaos , with administrative wisdom absent , energy dead , and policy purposeless , if it has any existence . The large gap made in the local force will soon be filled up , so far as the artillery is Concerned , by volunteers from her Majesty ' s regiments , and the 5 , 000 recruits , most of whom are now on their way , will go far to restore it to its old strength . " The Sikh troops on the Nepaul frontier have again enCoutered with the rebels . From the same journal welearnthat two bodies had permanently established themselves near Musha in the _Trans-Kaitee district , pneun < ler Pergun Singh , and another towards the Vest under the Rajah of Akownah . They trusted probably to the obscurity and strength of their position to escape attack at least until the cold seasOn . They were posted in the bed of a mountain torrent in the first range of hills , with about six mUes of dense jungle in front of them . Major Vaughan was sent at the head of two troops of the lst p uniuab Cavalry and four companies of the 5 th p uniaub Eifles to drive them _outf and if possible _captVe them . He directed his attention to Pergun Singh , while Captain Cleveland was detached to attack the KajahT and if possible drive him to the eastward towards Maior Vaughan ' s force . This he attempted to do on the 14 th June last , but the Raiah and his 200 followers escaped unscathed , j eaving the camp with its contents to faU into our hanas ° Major Vaughan was equally unsuccessful , He chased tlie party under Pergun Singh far into the interior , and returned after setting fire to his hutting encampment . But on the 18 th June he f 0 Und that both bodies of the rebels , joined by a third from the Deogurh Valley had taken up a very _stronff position in the _Sunputtree Pass ten miles from Musha , Though the enemy were again so mueh on the alert as to observe their _annroach _^ _n Onl _?^ hal _? wa _^ _ttS _^ h S 3 _to » SjSn _32 _toS _atratrelers were overtaken and at least one _hundred _^^^ _^ _S _^ r _^^^^ _ntinJS _^^^ _^ _Si _^ F _^^' _lStT _^ _SySS _^^ _^ t _V _^ _^ annihilated . In the course of tS flight ihey took _refuse in the bed of a ravine from which _thpro _^ as noS _^ _hordes and ponies _carriecl ofi ? The Sikhs fought _wjth such _bravery that the Governor-General has _JJ _? th l _Recommendation of MajorVaughan _aSd the Commander-in-Chief _* admitted four of them to the _s- _^ _jsr _^ _y _^ _-ss £ _S j _^ sss presence , may make a virtue of delivering them up fa tn 0 aliv thev have so lone fooled P My * ey Uave B 0 Wns toolea # the nawa and his _cootfbderjvtbs . mu ~ _-Krnnn _-nnin t > _~ t \ t t > j _««• ¥ rH ~ e i 2 f > % *? St » S _^ i by ii ux " * 5 ? _^ _S 11 _" 1111100 _, S _* " 5 _£ 1 J l _^? - _5 _SP dok * X _2 Uev ' Wltn * / orc k e u of _K _^ _fin _rlrvft are not together , iw _^ _SSS _™!}^?! , _?*^!!^ 8 th _^ _* _$ _&' . 5 _hS _a _^ S ?* _7 fi v _^ ! _Kv _^^« f f _^ _-9 a nd _# a :: * 5 _^ _JS _«? im ? _iS » _^ _ii _% « b S ? L _°° h _? A ? 8 i they _™™ _^ _iJS _^ A _^ Sh ' SS SS ? _* _S _? _ported to Iwve _& er Th « £ _™ m _^ i _J _^? _£ _*« now gOt T _? _^\^ lt _^ m ? SS _^ L _^ l _^ f _^& n 7 wy _5 omfo _^ " _«*» _Jg *' i _^ _JiS J _^ JL ° _™ 1 ftM _^ _dant _» ; and P _^ Uy _PJj" ' ° £ b M anfS _SSf _S ' onlo allow » _nhSiwn der rP _« a _»» S 3 B . 1 n _*? _CTSfl 5 _n _* 0116 _// It . fleeDa _» the general Opinion of all who give themselves up , that they wilt all be dispersed , _» nd have died off before the cold . It might have

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    been so had they remained in the Terai , bat now in the _htflsjthey are recovering from their sickness " .

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    , __ _ . The Begum and her P _, LRAMoTJB .--The Begum _, of whom we have all heard so much , is no princess , and has no claim whatever to the title by _wMch _sh _^ . is known . She was originally a dancing-girl , with wliom Mummoo Khan , then holding a subordinate _formld an _iSfmS _ThtSS _^ t _^^ _T' _^ _^ g _** _*} , _J n _££ _Jg- . _St _^ _S _£ _" _^ * _k _^ * of the girl s _beauty , admitted her to the number of his mahuls under the title of " _Huzrut Mahul . " She received a handsome aUowance , with a large establishment ,,- of which she appointed Mummoo Khan the darogah or superintendent . The former , intimacy was still thmigh secretly , carried on , and resulted in the birth of the boy , + Birjees Kudr . This boy was supposed to belong to Wajid Alee , and , when the mutiny broke out , although only between ten and twelve years of age , he was proclaimed _™ _S ; His claims were recognised by the Oude Irregular Jorce , for the most part composed of men who had held service under the ex-monarch . On his elevation to the throne , or rather on his being created Wazier of Oude , for his _^ authority was at _™ . _b- eld subordinate to that of the Lmperor of Delhi , his mother and MummooJvhan enjoyed an amount of power checked only by the caprices of the troops to whom their elevation had been due . Mummoo Khan was a man of no talent whatsoever , and alike wanting in that courage , both moral p osition _^? _^ hic _^ h _^ d _lll _^ _ex _^ d _^ l _*™ moreoverof ' low _origin _dStituto _Sikc _^ f _Se 3 the _advantlees _? _fEducation _jtmhal _TeffarTl advanta _S es of education . —Bombav ± eie _9 ra P u - ¦ „ .... , . „ ,

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    . _ T . TT ¦ _^ _^ _^ _HoBWCtri / _rtrRAfc Garden at Kensington _Goke . _^ -A model showing how the ground _ will be laid ? n _$ in terraces , for the garden of the Horticultural Society , has just been placed in the South Kensington Museum . Between the Ivensington-road and _CromAVell-road the ground falls about forty feet , and using this fact in aid of a general effect , the ground has been divided into three principal levels . The entrances to the gardens will be on the lower level , in Prince Albert s-road ; and the central _path-£ a _7 » upwards of seventy-five feet wide , _ascending through terraces to the third great level , will lead to the wmter garden . The whole garden will be surrounded by Italian arcades . The upper or north arcade , where the boundary is seimcircular in fbrm _, will be a ' modification of the arcades of _f the villa Albani at Rome . The central arcade will be alm ° st wholly of Milanese brickwork , interspersed with terracotta , majolica , & c , whilst the design for fche south arcade lias been adapted from the beautiful _closers of St . John Lateran , at Rome . None of these arcades will be less than twenty feet wide and twenty-five feet . _Uigb , and they will give a promenade sheltere d from all weathers more than three quarters of a mile in length . The arcades and earthworks wl 11 be executed by the Commissioners for the Exhib * fci ° n ° f 185 _*/ at a _«» t of _^ 50 , 000 , whilst the laying out of the gardens , and construction of the conservatory , or . winter garden , will be executed by the Horticttltural Society , and will cost about the same sum _» the greater part of which has beep already roi " ed - ¦—

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    announced to begin on Monday , the 3 rd oi OotQ _^ _or , _undet the Pyne and Harrison management . In addition to Miss Lpuisa Pyno ( who we are happy to s / iy has quite recovered her health ) , the programme weludes the names of many distinguished singers , some of whom are new to the stage . Among there we find _Mdlles . Pilling and Parepa , Messrs . Santloy _, - Haigh , St Albyn and W . Harrison . An excellent baUit company is engaged , including our old favouritos , the Paynes . _, ftf G «> P 0 _B 8 xini _Musicai , Vm _jpvA * " - Th « _oonewtof Tuesday evening waa marred by tho _abaenco of Mr . Siras _^ eves , who was suddenly taken i » , b _« J » othw respects must be _consiaerod a perfect _succesB . The audience were highly _dissatisfied with to ab-Bence of the English tenor , but were reconciled to _ttS ? Z 2 _ttf _&^ _£ _Z _£% _& _g _, _^ _roksterpieco . The first noticeable feature wa » g _^ a _^ t _, « La _rt darora / ' by Madame OlaVft _NoveUo ond g _| gn ' or _Viotottl , which wns Immediately _foUoved

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 17, 1859, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/sldr_17091859/page/10/