The Press.
London, England, 1855-11-10 00:00:00

Very few huts have arrived, and it is feared that a large
proportion of the troops will have to remain under canvas
(luting the ensuing rainy and winter season.—D. News CUT.
Oot. 27.

The next best accomodation for winter after the stone
house is considered an underground but ; and whoever has
the good fortune of possessing one from last year trusts to
it, and makes only the necessary repairs, while others are
in the course of excavation. They require less labour and
material than the stone houses, so many who cannot get
these latter content themselves with the more primitive
construction. Wooden huts are the pis aller. Only those
who cannot afford either a stone mansion or an under-
grounl hut resign themselves to wait for them. They are,
however, late in making their appearance. Scarcely a
single hut has as yet been erected, beyond those which
existed last winter, so that many even of the old regiments
have not more than half a dozen of them; in the regiments
which arrived in spring and in summer there are none at
all.—lb. Oct., 27.
DRUNKENNESS IN THE CAMP.
The English soldiers, by all accounts, still kept
up the national character, according to the late
opinion of a sitting magistrate, by getting drunk
upon every possible occasion. To such an extent
was this crime reaching that, according to the Times
correspondent, it threatens seriously to destroy the
morale of the army :
The oldest officers declare that in all their experience
they never saw anything to equal it. It will be asked why,
then, do not the officers, having a keen sense of the evil,
take measures to put a stop to it ? Simply because it is
not in their power. I believe they do what they can, in
the ordinary routine ; there are plenty of flogging parades,
plenty of men sent to pick up and carry stones, and you
cannot ride through the camp without seeing plenty of
men drilling in heavy marching order for punishment.
But cat, and stone-gathering, and drill are alike ineffectual
to check the horrible vice which is degrading our army,
and which must, if means be not found to stop it, ulti-
mately impair its efficiency and fill the hospitals.
Officers commanding regiments witness this state of
things with grief, and would, I am sure, gladly adopt any
practical means that might be ordered or suggested to alter
it. Such measures should proceed from head-quarters, or
from the War-office.—Timed COT.
The root of all this evil is the unusual amount of
money the private soldiers earn by road•making,
a day's pay amounting now to a net sum of Is. 91d.,
and the fact that in the camp there is literally
nothing except drink in which he can spend his
money. A colonel in the third division hit upon the
following novel idea as a corrective for drunkenness
n his regiment:—
One rather odd idea was hit upon the other day by the
colonel of a regiment in the third division, who sent his
adjutant to the Commissary•Oeneral to request he would
have plum-puddings made to sell to the men, in order that
they might thereby expend their money otherwise than in
drink.—lb.

The health of the army was otherwise excellent, al-
though a case or two of cholera had appeared.
MOVEMENTS OF THE FRENCH.
A private letter from the camp, dated 23rd ult.,
states
The allies appear to have abandoned anything like a
serious attempt in the direction of Baidar—the character
of the ground renders it utterly impossible. Figure to
yourself a series of crags and ravines, which we should
have to cross continually, and you will soon understand
that a campaign in that quarter is impossible, especially
for cavalry. For this reason it is that the Chesseurs
d'Afrique and the Division d'Aurelle have quitted Beau,
and abandoned the works they had commenced.—Time
Paris cor.
The Fremden Blatt of Tuesday, through the medium
of a Constantinople correspondent, professed to give
an account of a late council of war held at the quar-
ters of Marshal Pelissier. According to this paper
an advance from Kertch, the Tschernaya, or Eupa•
torso was never discussed at all. It was only deter-
mined to continue reconnaissances from the Baidar
heights towards the valley of the Belheck, and from
Eupatoria in the direction of the Russian line of
communication between Perekop and Simferopol, a
new expedition being first sent out to Kinburn and
Otchakoff.

By despatches vi& Marseilles, we learn that pre-
partitions for winter had apparently superseded all
further offensive movements :
Great preparations were being made for establishing
winter quarters. Marshal Pelissier had remodelled the
divisions of the French army. The first and the second
had descended into the plain of Balaklava; the third had
quitted the Tschernaya, and was occupying the camp; the
fourth had been sent to Eupatoria. General Aurelle's
division had returned from Baidar. The health of the
troops was excellent.
MOVEMENTS OF THE RUSSIANS.
Upon the north side the Russians were still
actively employed throwing up new earthworks,
while a strong force bad lately moved over on the
Inkermann heights:—
The enemy continues to be very actively employed about
the new earthworks on the opposite side of the roadstead.
The number of guns in the batteries has also been in-
creased, and an active discharge of shot and shell is di-