The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-27 00:00:00

THE ORDNANCE SURVEY.

This morning the report of the progress of the
ordnance survey and topographical depot for last year, was
presented to parliament.
In the report of the progress of the ordnance survey to
the 31st December, 1859, it was stated that the six northern
counties of England which have been ordered to be surveyed
on the larger scales of six inches and '45 inches to a mile,
would be finished during the year led°, but in consequence
of the very numerous and extensive surveys which have
been ordered for purposes connected with the defences of
the country, and upon which 390 surveyors and dreftsmee
have been employed, the prigress in the north of England
has been greatly retarded, and the surveys of Northumbee.,
laud and Cumberland ere still unfinished. The progress of
the survey was also greatly retarded by the almost tumor
cedentad wet summer and *old severe winter. The ma
grass of the survey of Sootland, and of the feVlll4lO of the
northern counties of Ireland, bee been also greatly retarded
by the same causes, a portion of the surveyors and drafts
men for the military surveys having been taken from the
parties employed in those parts of the kingdom. The sus
veys of the counties of Dumbarton, Stirling, and Clack•
manners were finished last year, and the survey is now
proceeding in Perthshire and Forlarthire, and these coun-
ties will be finished during the fireweed year leel-2. The
revision of the county of Armagh has been finished during
the last year, and the revision le now in progress in the
county of Louth. Numerous plans on the 1.2500 scale.
replotted from the original survey, have been made during
the last year for the Landed Estates Court, thr judges of
the court having found from experience that for the reel'
testier) and transfer of property, plans on this wale, and
made under the authority of government, arc absolutely
necessary ; but the entire cost of replottiug these plans is
paid by the court out of the proceeds of the sides of the estate.
Twenty-one plans of sites for forts and batteries have bees
prepared on the 1-500 scale, with contours at ii feet vertical
intervals, to be used in planning the works, in edilition to
military surveys on the9-ZOO sealeorhich have been in pro.
gross at Chatham, Dover, Harwich, the Isle of Wight,
Loudon, Newhaven, Pembroke, Plymouth, Portsmouth,
Sheerness, Shoreham, and Torbay, and which are Co..
structed on the lame system and the same scales as those
adopted for the ordnance survey of the kingdom. "It is
of great importance," save Colonel denies, " now that we
are about to complete the survey of Northuniherlatel and
Cumberland, that the question of extending the caducei'
survey to the remaining three-fourths of England and
Wales should be taken into consideration during the ree•
seat maims of parliament, because if the molested survey
is to be extended over the remainder of the country it
should be undertaken at once, and whilst we have susd-
mirably trained body of surveyors nod druft.nicu for the
perfurmauco of the work. All parties appear to be :signed
as to the importance and necessity of having a court ni this
country analagous to the Landed Estates Court in Irelands
to give facilities for the transfer and registration of Po'
perty, and every lawyer knows how important to the w.a•
tog of such a court is an accurate survey mode under the
authority of government; it has, been experimentally
proved in Ireland, and will undoubtedly be also proved so
here."

DR. TEMPIM—The Rev. Dr. Temple, hemlmaster
of Rugby School, preached yesterday afternoon at the
Temple Church.
Tax UN I vaunt" or Lori Dox.—When the Univer-
sity of London was named as a new constituency in the
Reform Rill of last session a requisition was presented to
Bir John Roniilly, Master of the Rolla, signed by upwards
of RIO graduates, requesting him to allow himself to be put
In nominatioo for the university. The answer of Sir John
Hominy was in the affirmative, and the metropolitan wut.'l*
dry justly prided itself on the near probability of psoco.ug
a representative of so illustrious *descent, and so illndrious
in his own person. The fate of that project in known to &IL
The university, however, has now strong hopes that oiled
the four vacant seats will be allotted to it, suit the friend' d
Sir J. Romilly. who may be said to include the entire lowa.
Mg and liberality of that body, are once more in the field to
procure his election in case the event in question should take
place. A meeting was accordingly held at the Fnewasoni
Tavern, on Friday night, and a residution was passed thereat
reviving the former election committee of DM, as an ..,Mu'
five committee, to take such steps as may seem advinible to
bring Sir J. Hominy forward us a candidate in case the
"mat" is conceded to the university.—Obscrrcr.