The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-04 00:00:00

BARRACK ACCONNODATION.

This morning wry issued the report of the official
committee ea barrack accommodation for the army. The
committee express an opinion that the accommodation
hitherto provided in barracks has been greatly inadequate
both for the comfort and convenience of the soldiers and fur
the creation of a higher tone of social babies. The y I
practice at present appears to be that the soldier eats his
meals is the same room in which he sleeve; and a large
number of those who gave evidence before the committee
recommeaded the retention of the practice, coupled, how-
ever, with the allowance of a greater amount of space
to each man in the bavrack•room. The com-
mittee do not concur in thin. They recommend
that a separate dining room should be established
in evil/ barrack, and that not lees than four feet, includ-
hog the interval between the beds, should be allowed to
each men in the sleeping apartment . Soldie.r. wives are
admitted into be:racks with their hatbands in the propor-
tion of Bto 100 men. No separate ao:onamodation has ever
been prepared for their reception. la some barracks they
are lodged in the r, area with the unmarried men, with no
means of separation from them except a eurtrin suspended
round the tad; in other regiment', the merried people are
placed in barrack•rcom, apart from the unmarried men,
but with s I couples in the lame room; but the
committee obis to both these moles, and they can
see no course open except that of either 'salad.
isay mai.ied women alt tgether, or providing them
war► se ormsodation beyoad the walls of the barracks.
Canteens at prc•ent are feinted to capitalists, who pay the
government a fixed rent for the house in which they live,
and, in addition, a fluctuating sum called privilege or head
money, regulated by the number of men occupying the
barracks. This latter sum rises to a en, considerable
amount, being as large as oar guiaea per mouth in some
plum for mil ten men in barracks. The role of spirits is
under a recent regulation, published in the caateen,sod now
the canteen lessee is merely a shopkeeper, who speculates
in the possibility of making the usual profit of Lie trade
from dealing with the soldier. He is not permitted to deal
in the canteen with civilians living without the barrack
walls, nor are the soldiers obliged to make their purchases at
his s►op. The committee do not recommend the abolition
of canteens, bat they advise the placing in the canteen a
pensioned non commissioned officer at a fixed 'alley, whose
sole duty should be to deliver to the men, at the prices fined
by • t Jasmines of °Mena, the articles which might be
supplied by i caracton outside the barrack, the canteens
being furnished with newspapers and other suitable perio-
dic ols. The committee suggest various changes in
officers' quarters, particularly for the accommodation of
thou officers who -e married, and recommend that • tend-
ing-room should be attached to the officers' mess establish-
ment. The report go - into • variety of details connected
with these venous matters, sugg-sting inc sssss d ablution-
rooms, kitchens, wash-houses, and other conveniences, while
it advises the formation of regimental librariee, to be com-
mas alike to non-commissioned officers and men, and re-

oosmends the continuance of the plan of having n chapel
an barracks to setae also cc a school.

Marvellous things are predicted of the fko which
is to be given at Marseilles on the occasion of her Majesty's
visit to Paris. For example, a ball in the moat besutiful
saloons of the palace, a grand supper in the sails de spec•
tact a fairy-like illumination in the park, with the great
fountains playing for the first time at night, and retesting a
thousand colours ; promenades with flambeaux through the
historical galleries, &e.
A new opera, by MM. Scribe and Auber, will
shortly be given at the Theatre Lyrique, Paris.
The Gazette du Nord has the following under the
head of Stettin, July 31:—" The day before yesterday 14
officers of the British navy who were taken prisoners from
the Tiger before Odense, arrived here, having been ex-
changed for Russian oaken. They were esoorted to the
frontier by a detachmeat of Cossacks, and then set at
liberty. Each of them has sworn upon his sword not to
serve against Russia for seven months. Their captivity has
lasted fin months. With the exeeption of Limit Seymour,
eon of the former English ambassador at St. Petenburx, all
of them continued their route to Landon the same light."

A letter from Montenegro states that Prince Da-
nielle he obtained leave from the Court of St. Petersburg
that ail young Montenegrins shall be received gratuitously
into the military institutions of that city. Ia consequence,
lie youths were oa the point of setting out for the Russian
capital, and amongst them meths son of his brother Mirka,
President of the Senate, and a son of his sister.
The following is from a soldier's letter printed by
the Kilmarnock Chronicle The other night I was on
the eatrosaheseate, end a good number of as were sitting
together =Wag ourselves. One was siagiag a song Galled
Mary, weep so mere for me,' in which occur these bean-
dial lines—
ewe, tar from La I dap la death.
is, nary, wisp so mare lot me.
whoa a shell oame in and bunt among as, sad killed the
ass while he was staging the wag. I never wwi so weed
firs say see In my life, it opened his droll cor.pletely, sad
be died i• se instant."
The ladipnicisises Gaya that Pismires baotber ham
boss ambit at Jots*