The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-01 00:00:00

Metropolitan

Mr. Bazalgette's report on all the metropolitan
railway schemes going before Parliament this year
has just been presented to the Board of works.
As engineer to the Board, Mr. Bazalgette has to
state fully wherever these proposed works, whether
above or underground, interfere with streets, divert
their routes, alter their levels, or trench upon the
special works of the Board in sewers or subways.
The report says truly that the schemes proposed
for the metropolis this Session aro more numerous,
bolder, and more complicated than on any previous
occasion. They involve the construction of 2)8
new lines of railway and branches of 417! miles in
length ; with 11 bridges over the 'Thames, and two,
lines passing through the Thames Tunnel ; and the
total capital proposed to be raised is about
170,000,000. Hyde Park, the Green Park, St.
James's Park, Kensington Gardens, Newington
Park, hackney-downs, Loyton-grange Park,
Trinity-squaw, Finsbury-circus, Camden-square,
Oakley-square, Anapthill-square, Euston-square,
and Sloane square, would all be cut through,and
some of them in two or three places, and the same
would be the fate of the following open commons :
Stoke Newington, Clapham, Tooting (invaded by
seven diffdrent lines), Acton Back, Acton, Wimble-
don, Fulham, Deptford, and 'l'urnham-green.
Bishopsgate-street would bo crossed by railways
nine times; Whitechapel-road, 13 times ; King
William-street, city, four times ; Strand, four

times; Belgrave-road, four times; Uxbridge
-
road, Notting hill, five times ; Kensington-road,
three times; Edgware-road, Kilburn, four
times ; Euston-road and Marylebono-road,
thirteen times; Deptford Lower-road, throe

times; Acre-lane, Brixton, live times. St.
Stephen's-churchyard, and St. Pancras burial-
ground would also be invaded, the latter by no less
than three different lines of railway. There are no
leas than six competitors for constructing railways
along the line of the Thames Embankment, and
underneath a portion of the new street to the Ilan-
sion•house; and in executing all these "improve-
ments" it is proposed to divert the present course of
no less than 37 streets, to lower the level of 18, to
raise the level of 34, and to stop up 69; altogether
52 sewers are returned as partially destroyed by
these works, and no less than 526 as entirely de-
stroyed. The report is the most complete in its
analysis of the mischief and destruction of property
which would be caused by 831110 of these lines that
has yet been laid before the public.

Danish Account of the Battle at Oversee.

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 24.

The official Berlingske Tidende contains the fol-
lowing short but interesting report of the engage-
ment at Oversee on the 6th inst.
" We have been requested to publish the follow-
ing details of the rearguard defence—not outpost
fight—at Oversee, on the 6th, to obviate incorrect
representations. It is necessary to observe that it
!s the duty of every vanguard to arrest the progress
of the enemy, even should the last man be sacrificed,
until the retreat of the main body is perfectly
secured.
" The rearguard of our troops consisted of the 7th
infantry brigade, with two guns. The losses at
Overselk, had reduced the strength of the brigade to
about 2,750 men commanded by Col. Muller. The
force of the enemy under General von Gablenz was
composed of the Nostcz brigade, consisting of two
regiments of infantry, the Jager battalion, and the
regiment of Lichtenstein hussars—in all 4,0(10 men
—with two howitzer batteries. Our loss in killed,
wounded, and missing was 8(0 men and 15 officers.
That of the enemy is authentically reported at 710
men and 28 officers.
" It will be evident from the losses upon either
side that this engagemmt w AN one of the most stub.
horn and sanguinary in the history of modern war-
fare. At Waterloo every fifth man wan put hors de
combat, at Eylan every fourth man ; and while the
contest continued in these battles the greater part
of the day, the action at Oversee lasted only three
hol:.rs. During this time the enemy succeeded in
pressing; the vanguard back about 2,000 paces, for
at the end or? he action our forces were still stationed
to the north of ,!_he Bilksknow Krug, and upwards
of three-quarters of a mile to the south of Flens-
burg."