The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-26 00:00:00

m There had been no serious engagement slow.

Th, law of the Auto. fawn tha fir. of the place
averaged 100 per day.
" The front of the Quarantine Battery was de-
stroyed, and all the other fortifloatioas were da-
maged. _ _ .

" The enemy repaired by night part only of this
damage. The continued wet makes working difficult
foe all. We had great trouble to dig the fourth
parallel. It was an admirable and sudeciona
achievement.

" There was a rumour on tho 14th, that Omer
Pasha and General Bonnet were going to operate
spinet Liprandi.

" A despatch in the Conattletionnel, dated Konigs-
berg, April 23, states that Bessarabia, the government
of Kiew Bodolia, and the government of Kerma are
placed order military jurisdiction.
" The command of the Army of the South has
been given to General Leiden.
" General Annenkoff is recalled, and goes on a
minion extraordinary to Turk."

THE BALTIC

A ecesalar notification h been made at Memel
that the blockade of Liken oommeneed on the 17th
inst. The blockade of the ports between Lib's and
Rip oornmenced on the 19th.

A tilegraphie despatch from our own correspond-
ent informs us that the following vessels arrived at
Elsinore yesterday : Magicians', Geyser, Snap,
Snapper, Cuckoo, Gleaner, Pelter, and Princess Alice.
The latter broke her connecting-rod while on the
voyage. The Cuckoo proceeded.—Daily NOM.

ALDERSHOTT CAMP.

IN organising a Camp of Instruction as the Go-
vernment have done at Alderahott, three objects
should have been kept in view. In the first place, a
Commandant who had experience in actual warfare
ought to have been appointed to superintend the
instruction of the troops to be quartered there. In
the w coed, materials should have been provided
wherewith to teach these troops how to prot. ct them-
selves against the weather. And, in the third place,

inducements should have been held out to such re-
spectable firms in England as build iron, wooden, and
other houses, to enable them to show what means
modern science has invented, by which buildings could
be constructed capable of holding soldiers, and able to
be either put together, or taken to pieces, at the
shortest notice. What has been done towards carry.
lug out these Weft P Nothing whatever. The officer
appointed to command the camp is a gentleman of
sixty years of age, who for forty years of his life saw
no service beyond parade d4ye in Hyde-park or guard
mounting at St. James's Palace. The huts for the
troops are constructed and ready for thins. Bad as is
the manner in which they are built, and defective as
will be the protection they can afford against the
weather, the soldiers who are to be encamped at
Aldershott will learn nothing whatever in the way
of sheltering themselves from the rain and cold.
Thome buildings are in point of fact simply very bad
bones. The regiments that occupy them might—
so far as gaining any practical knowledge of the I
duties of butting themselves is concerned just as
well be quartered at any military barracks in Dublin,
Weedon, or London. As to the third requisite—
that of making the camp a means of figs&
ing out the best style of huts which makes
invention can construct foe field purposes—it km
Man also entirely ignored. Had this latter idea been
serried eat—had the many iron, wooden, and other
portable hems-buildiog firms been invited to test
their various plans in the camp—the whole of
the troops mimed to Aldershott might have been
hutted in foe next to nothing, instead of the
camp costing, as It will do, an immense cam to the
country. What says the Builder—a professional
journal on such matters regarding the huts
at Aldershott P " The arrangement of the huts is not
good. In fact, we should not be honest if we did
net say that it seems to us to be very
bad. A flat ceiling is formed with boarding
at the level of the underside of the debating ; and
lir windows, hinged at the top to make the matter
erne, are placed low in on the sides of the hut, not
more than 4 feet 6 inches from the hinges to the
floor. The room has the aspect of a large egg-box;
with a quarter of a hundred men sleeping in it, the
atmosphere will become poisonous." And in another
part ot the same article we Sod this paper saying—
" Nothing will be gained, we suppose, bymoustomiag
the men to get ill and be cured. They will not be any
better prepared thereby to stand unavoidable uowhole-
. _

some 'intimates when the time of real struggle
arrives." On questiocs like that of building huts, the
Builder may be considered an undoubted authority ;
and much is its j.dgment on what may with truth
be termed "the gigantic blunder at Aldarshott."
What can be the result of such an undertaking?
What benefit an accrue to the young regiments sent
there to learn the duties they will be celled upon to
fill when sent into the field P Provision to teach
them the practical work of hutting themselves during
a campaign, there is none whatever. Colonel Panay,
a diactoriishad dicer of the Indian army, whose
letter appeared in our yesterday's issue, says in
that communication-I'l beg to remark, that in

the beginning d last month I made a coo-
anniestioa to Mr. Moweal.t., of the Board et'
Ordnance, propesiog that walls of rammed earth
should be adopted (for the Aldenhott amp); and
that I' had an improved frame for that purpose,