The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-08 00:00:00

THE WOODEN HOUSES FOR TUE FRENCH

TROOPS.

The Emperor Napoleon has lately occupied himself
a good deal with the question of providing wooden houses
for the troops in the Crimea. Isis Majesty has discussed
all the points relative thereto with the Minister of War
and the chief of the engineering service. After examin-
ing different models of houses proposed, the Emperor
has adopted one which is 84 metres in length, and 4
metres 80 c. wide, 3 metres high in the centre, a Id
capable of accommodating 26 men. In the middle of the
house runs a passage 1 in. 20 c. wide, and on each side
of it are placed the camp beds ; each of the beds is 1 hi.
80 c., and above are shelves for placing the bread and
haversacks of the men. Iu each gable-end there is a
door, 80 c. wide and 1 in. 90 c. high, and it is sur-
mounted by a window, 45 c. high and 30 c. wide. Ti e
houses can be easily constructed-20 carpenters erected
one in three hours in the reserved garden of the Tui-
leries. At Toulon and Marseilles houses on nearly
the same model are being rapidly constructed, and
are being sent to the Crimea every day. Before the end
of the month a sufficient number for the accommodation
of 30,000 men will have been despatched. A great
quantity of planks and pieces of woodwork destine for
different purposes have also been sent from Marseilles
and Toulon. In addition to the houses for the men, a
great number are being constructed for the officers ; in
them the walls are higher, the camp beds are done away
with, and there are four windows in the facade instead
of two in the gable-ends. Each officer's house is des-
tined to accommodate S lieutenants or sub-lieutenants,
or 4 captains, or 2 superior officers, or 1 gene-
ral ;it can also serve as an ambulance. Moreover,
wooden stables for 10,000 horses' are being constructed
by a Paris carpenter on a model supplied by the Emperor.
Each stable is to be 24m. 72c. long, sm. 60c. wide,
and is to accommodate 48 horses. The internal' arrange-
ments are such that the horses can be duly attended
to, and the men can mount immediately in case of alarm.
sufficient
number the whole, towards 15th January next a
number of houses to lodge 3,090 officers, 80,000 soldiers,
and 10,000 horses will have reached the army
inthe
Crimea.

AWFUL VISITATION AT MESSRS. MAUDSLAT'S, LAM- I
num —The many hundred men employed in the engi-
neering works of Messrs. Maudslay ang Co.,
, e
on
t-
minster-road, Lambeth, were painfully exc
\Vednesday afternoon last, in consequenea of the folerlo-
ing awful visitation. It appears that one of the wi-
neers, a youn„; man naineu John Chiswell, a son of the
chief engineer to the Turkish Government, was employed
at his lathe, when all of a sadden he was noticed by
some of his fellow-workmen to stagger, and almost
instantaneously afterwards he fell upon the flooring
apparently in a fit. Some of the men itvtantly rantO
his assistance, picked him up, and sent for Dr. 1 iercy,
who promptly attended, and tried to bleed hiui,
.but on
opening the principal vein, DO blood flowed, and it was
found that life was quite extinct. Mr. A
principal beadle of Lambeth attended soon afterwards
hartdse,
and by permission of Mr. Curry, the,
, mtm landlord of the Pea-
cock Tavern, in Francis-street inster-jeroadi, the
s
body was removed to that establishment, where it was
laid out, and where it remains to await a coroner's in-
quest. The deceased is described as having been a very
sober and industrious man, and the precise cause of
death at present is unknown.