The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-20 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The whole of the 13th Brigade Garrison ArUllery, in com-
mand of Col. Buchanan, was yesterday paraded at Wool-
wich, in order to promote the identification of certain per •
sons connected with the death by violence of a pensioner of
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the north arch, leading to the barracks of the Royal Artil •
lery. It appears thit this house has for some time past
been frequented by parties of soldiers for gamboling pur-
poses. The deceased joined one of these parties, and on the
evening alluded to a dispute took place which resulted in a
fight. The deceased was severely injured in the head, r.r.d
died soon after his removal to his own home. One of the
party only was arrested, namely, Nl`Guire, a gunner of tho
Brigade, who was sworn to by the landlord artd his
petnim as one of the men whom he had seen rnaltre:-A-
ino• the deceased. . The remainder of tho.pa;:y, weio Sll p.•

p.;sccl to belong to the same brigade, e':nrequently tbo
whole of the brigade 17:18 yes!erday drawn out on the open
parade, and the landlord and his.potrnan, accompanied by
a civilian who happened to be at the house when the occrir-
rence took place, attended. After walking down the line,
and scanning the features of each man, they stated that
they could not recognise any one of the corps sa being pre-
sent on• the evening in question, mid the brigade was die-
missel to quarters.

Yesterday the Chatham battalion. of 11,-)y al Marine Light
Infantry, under the command of Li,mt.-Col. W.F. Foote,
left head -quarters, and proceeded by the divisional band,
marched some distance into the couuttY, taking. the direc-
tion of the Gravesend-road, and marching as far as Ga•d's-
bill. The 'division returned to quarters early is the after-
noon: The system of marching out will shortly terminate
on the commencement of the weekly field-day inspections
on Chatham lines. • • • •

THE BISHOP OF ELY'S WILL,--Those v;I:o Lai
come to pay the last tribute of respect to the vener-
able bishop were requested to return to the house and hear
the will read ; and the last act of his life is quite charac-
teristic of this pious man. After providing for his servants
and leaving one or two legacies, he has bequeathed the
whole of his remaining property to public charities and so-
cieties. Amongst those enumerated are the Christian
Knowledge Society, the 'Gospel Propagation Society, the
National Society, the Curates' Aid Society, and others of it
like nature ; the Charing-cross II spital, Addcubroake's
Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds Infirmary, and the Bedford
Infirmary.—Bedford

A PARISIAN REFUGE.—The following interest-
ing statement is taken from the Paris letter of the
Birmingham Tournal:—" An appeal has been made for aid
to establish one or two of the night refuges like those al-
ready successful in Loudon, and no doubt when the troops
return from Mexico this will be accomplished. The noble
effort made by hladlle. Jamblain for providing for women
condemned to roam the streets at night is the only thing
of the kind to be met with in Paris. This lady, the
daughter of a poor gendarme, and left at his death in
the most straitened circumstances, has found means to hire
a house, where, at any hour of the night, females of every
class requiring rest, warmth, and repose, may find a re-
fuge from the cold night air and the muddy streets.
The great merit of the foundation is the truly Christian
spirit which opens the Refuge to all alike without dis-
tinction of caste or creed, ago or antecedents. How many
poor lone and deserted females have been rescued by this
timely aid from a life of infamy or a despairing death I
From sunset till nine in the evening the door is open—
every female who chooses may walk in and ask for a night's
accommodation—after that hour the gate is closed. Mdlle.
Jamblain goes herself to open at summons of the bell, She
merely asks who is there P On the answer being given,
she requests the petitioner to get herself accompanied to
the gate by the agent of police on duty for the night, which,
if the applicant be honest, she of course has no objection to
do—if the contrary, she disappears, and is seen no more.
During the severe cold of last week, hldlle Jamblain in-
formed me that the great bell of the establishment was
going the whole night long. " The house was SO full,"
said she, " I was compelled to give up the little leather sofa
in the ante-room to the poorest and most miserable looking
applicant of all. And would you believe it, when called
upon to subscribe her name in the register of the establish-
ment, which, by the police regulations, every visitor is
compelled to do on admission, she proved to be an old
Countess, formerly as celebrated for fashion and beauty
as the Countess de Castiglione at this moment. She had
been refused admission to the miserable lodging she had
been occupying for some time past, not being able to pay
up the arrears, and had wandered about the streets in the
piercing cold until midnight, when she suddenly remem-
bered the brutal taunt of the coarse landlady of the lodg-
ing, "Go to the Refuge; it's quite good enough for those
who can't pay," and had reflected that the advice which
had raised her bitter indignation at the moment was none
so bad after all, " She came straight hither," said. Mille.
Jamblain, " and it was high time, fur had she delayed much
longer, she too would have been frozen to death en the
highway. But, soon cheered by the warmth and the secu-
rity, she grow as merry as a cricket, forgot all her sorrows,
and talked and laughed with as much ease as she must have
been wont to do in former times at her chateau in Melon."
Jamblain is not supposed to feed her visitors, only
to provide a good fire and comfortable bed, nevertheless the
sight of the starvation to which the applicants for adruisvr
were mostly reduced was more than si:u cou'd Lear, si
boldly called upon Providence to help her, and t'l7..ifS:
taken to grant her request was that of the relit
ruts
the cook of which establishment, a good honest isoup
vc.
by the scraps lett from the pupils' table,
Jam-
blain fetches away. And this
ilealUeli the
supper of her numerous guests, but with
it, the provision
tending, and "prolonging," as shen , fishes. The night re-
becomes multiplied like the loaves a :11i...ay
is all shohwhicto offer for the
aid either from
fuge is thus carried on without,
Pelice local aWhoritics, and
the Government or even any 0, t
bo accomplished saves us culissioiefdthebynotbhlt:tszi pe
eafl,.s.,:r7s of cord eifii‘tNi
earnest, willing, and energetic in the cauu el hum rlni • y like
Mlle, Jamblain."