The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-13 00:00:00

A RAILWAY ACROSS THE SIMPLOR.

The Paris correspondent of the Brussels Liam-
dance writes :—" On Sunday last the scheme for the panne
of the Alps by railway over the Simplon was submitted to the
Emperor, at the Tuileries. The plans are executed by the
company of the Italian line ; end the president, one of the
directors, and M. Labiate, the engineer, had the honour of
presenting it The Grand Diana gallery bad been placed at
the disposal of these gentlemen, for the exhibition of the
plans, which are 40 metres in length. Some workmen had
arranged along the whole length of this celebrated gallery
wooden emeriti and cross-roads, by which wert shown the
general plan and outline of the ?stile, so that the Emperor
end the persons who accompanied hies could in striking
follow upon the maps the projected line from Douro
D'Omeols, in Italy, to Brims, in the Valais, and so effect,
fa imeginadors, an actual prosy of the Alps, upon
a raised male, it is true, of two thousand. Thu'.
gnat with was commenoed on the Ist of August last year,
and ended ea the 7th. About 40 agent', divided into two
brigades, one werning to the north, and the other to the
south of the Alps, osier the leadership of two engineers,
have during four sacaths explored the mountain, and traced
the plan of the future railway which is to p MB over rocks,
eras torten* fill up valleys, gorges, and precipices,
before which mimes does not hesitate. The
stimulus of lustier a great work to accomplish
has alone sustained the picked men to whom the task aces
confided. They set up shelters sod encampments in woods
hitherto unexplored, carrying on their hacks beds, cloth-
ing, and provisions, as they bad often to live two
or three leagues from any dwelling. It was fre-
quently necessar► to lower by ropes down the
precipices the men who ha 1 to prepare the plans
amid empty space, end the snow and avalanches more than
once threatened to stop them summarily in their work.
The result has been to put before the Emperor 80 kilometres
of iron way in the Helvetia Alps, 44 of which will be
covered over, 23 in tunnels, and 21 in galleries. All these
perigee are ventilated either by shaft& for the tunnels
or wand openings for the galleries. Thee. openings
out at different points into acceded, have a startling
appearance They are veritable promenades a thousand
metres above the ass, offering the same security as those of
the Rue de Vitali, which they resemble, but presenting a
more picturesque and varied panorama. The execution of
the plan, according to the authors, would occupy less
than five years. At the god of this month the complete
project of Grossing the Alpe by the Simplon will be officially
submitted to the goverements of Fiume, Italy, and Switser-
laud. The estimated cost of this great project, including
the fixed and rolling material, the interest of the capital
employel, Los., is 72.000,000 frame."

A portion of thaeopenhegen paper, the Danmark,
is now prioted in thigh& The Warts of our ootemporary
In this direction are tar more encosesful than are those of
most coatinental journals when English is ventured twos ;
hat emeakeeelly the Danmark is • little confused. Thus .
we read in the somber for the 10th, apropos of the Priestess
of Walla, that " by bus princely bridegroom's ails, Den.
Mined Isagiter will forget everything meneeted with
absents, from her home, are her warm love to her parents,
her lambed, sad her spunky. She has been taught to love
sad aroma her berselemi, wad will never loam the memories
of Deemerk's guides plains."