_Arrival of Jung Bahadoor in Ceylon--Voyage to Calcutta--Rifle practice on board the_ Atalanta--_Rifle-shooting--Colonel Dhere Shum Shere--A journey along the Grand Trunk Road of Bengal--The experimental railway--The explosion at Benares_. Towards the close of the year 1850 a considerable sensation was created in the usually quiet town of Colombo by the arrival in Ceylon of His Excellency General Jung Bahadoor, the Nepaulese Ambassador, on his return to Nepaul, bearing the letter of the Queen of England to the Rajah of that country.…
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