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

Metropolitan

Lprovements."

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 are more numerous,
bolder, and more complicated than on any previous
occasion. They involve the construction of 258
new lines of railway and branches of 417-1- 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
£70,000,000. Hyde Park, the Green Park, St.
James's Park, Kensington Gardens, Newington
Park, Hackney-downs, Leyton-grange Park,
Trinity-square, Finsbury-circus, Camden-square,
Oakley-square, Ampthill-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 different lines), Acton Back, Acton, Wimble-
don, Fulham, Deptford, and Turnham-green.
Bishopsgate-street would be crossed by railways
nine times; Whitechapel-road, 13 times ; King
William-street, city, four times ; Strand, four
times; Beigrave-road, four times; Uxbridge-
' road, Notting-hill, five times ; Kensington-road,
three times; Edgware-road, Kilburn, four
times ; .Euston-road and Marylebone-road,
thirteen times; Deptford Lower-road, three
times; Acre-lane, Brixton, five 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
less tha❑ six competitors for constructing railways
along the line of the Thames Embankment, and
underneath a portion of the new street to the Man-
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 np 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 some 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
is 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, bad 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 Nostez brigade, consisting of two
regiments of infantry, the Jager battalion, and the
regiment of Lichtenstein Hussars—in all 4,000 men
—with two howitzer batteries. Our loss in killed,
wounded, and missing was BCO 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 eogagement was one of the most stub-
Dorn and sang,uina.-7 in the history of modern war-
lira. At Waterloo every fifth man was put hors de
combat, at Eylau every fourth man ; and while the
contest continued in these battles the greater part
of the day, the action at Oversee lasted only three
hours. During this time the enemy succeeded in
pressing the vanguard back about 2,000 paces, for
at the end of the action our forces were 5611 stationed
to the north of the Bilksknow Krug, and upwards
of three-quarters of a mile to the south of Flens-
burg."