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

THE ARMY.

The whole of the 13th Brigade Garrison Artillery, 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
the Royal Artillery, who was severely injured a few even-
ings ago at the " Gun," a licensed public-house opposite
the north arch, leading to the barracks of the Royal Artil-
lery. It appears that 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, and
died soon after his removal to his own home. One of the
party only was arrested, namely, M`Guire, a gunner of the
13th Brigade, who was sworn to by the landlord and his
potman as one of the men whom he had seen maltreat-
ing tb.e deceased. The remainder of the party were sup-
posed to belong to the same brigade, consequently the
whole of the brigade was yesterday drawn out on the open
parade, and the landlord and his potman, accompanied by
a civilian who happened to be at the house when the occur-
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 as being pre-
sent on the evening in question, and the brigade was dis-
missed to quarters.
Yesterday the Chatham battalion of Royal Marino Light
Infantry, under the command of Lieut.-Col. W. F. Foote,
left head •quarters, and proceeded by the divisional band,
marched some distance into the country, taking the direc-
tion of the Gravesend-road, and marching as far as Gad's-
hill. The division returned to quarters early in the after-
noon. The system of marching out will shortly terminate
on the commencement of the weekly field-day inspections
1 on Chatham lines.

THE BISHOP OF ELY'S WlLL—Those who had
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 sud so-
cieties. Amongst those enumerated are the Christian
Knowledge Society, the Gospel Propagation Society, the
National Society, the Curates' Aid Society, and others of a
like nature; the Charing-cross 11,spital, Addenbroake's
Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds Infirmary, and the Bedford
Infirmary.—Bedford Times.

A PARISIAN REFUGE.—The following interest-
ing statement is taken from the Paris letter of the
Birmangham. Tournal:—" An appeal has been made for aid
to establish one or two of the night refuges like those al-
ready successful in London, and no doubt when the troops
return from Mexico this will be accomplished. The noble
effort made by Madlle. 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 Jhristian
spirit which opens the Refuge to all alike without dis-
tinction of caste or creed, age 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 ? 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 contrail, she disappears, and is seen no more.
During the severe cold of last week, Mdlle Jamblain ia-
formed me that the great bell of the establishment was
going the whole night long. " The house was so
said she, " I was compelled to give up the little leather sof&
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
as celebrated
dshfeorprfoayshediontoanbed an
beauty old
compelled Countess, to do on
formerly
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 Mdlle.
Jamblain, " and it was high time, for had she delayed much
longer, she too would have been frozen to death on the
highway. But, soon cheered by the warmth and the secu-
rity, she grew as merry as a cricket, forgot all her sorrows,
and talked and laughed with as much ease as she mast have
been wont to do in former times at her chateau in Melun."
Mdlle. Jamblain is not supposed to feed her visitors, only
to provide a good fire and comfortable Fed, nevertheless the
sight of the starvation to which the applicants for admission
were mostly reduced was more than she could bear, she
boldly called upon Providence to help her, and the form
taken to grant her request was that of the Petit Serninaire,
the cook of which establishment, a good honest soul, puts
by the scraps left from the pupils' table, which Mdlle. Jam-
blain blain fetches away. And this is all she has to offer:
ex-
supper of her numerous guests, but with much Bto
‘l3l fis
ion
tending, and " pro:onging," as she calls 1,
The night re-
becomes multiplied like the loaves and fisheBl •
id either from
fuge is thus carried on without pecuniary a
authorities, and
the Government or even any of the
localr ecord of what can
serves as one of the noblest examples
be accomplished by the single efforts of one individual,
earnest, willing, and energetic in the cause of humanity like
Jamblain."