The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-30 00:00:00

THAMES.

TILE WILD SPORTS or TILE EAST.—Anna Lyons, aged
26, 7, Russell-court, Blue Anchor-yard, Whitechapel, was
brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with assaulting Mary
Monroe, an elderly woman, in the same place, who came
into court with her head bandaged and in a very weakly
condition from the loss of blood.
It appeared there was a quarrel between the two women,
who dwelt in an Irish colony, where rows have been very
frequent and plenty of wounds have been inflicted by the
people upon each other. In the course of the scrimmage,
as it was called, the prisoner struck the prosecutrix several
times on the head and face with a stone and rendered her

insensible.
Mr. John Domley, surgeon, High-street, Whitechapel,
said he had dressed the wounds of the prosecutrix. She
lot a largo quantity of blood. There was a triangular
shaped wound on the forehead penetrating to the bone, and
a second wound near it not a serious one. There were also
contusions on the face.
Mr. Woolrych committed the prisoter for trial.
Mary Sullivan was charged with assaulting and wound-

ing Mary Toomey.
The parties live in another Irish colony, Garden-curt,
Rosemary-lane, Whitechapel, where there have been many
savage affrays. The magistrates have either punished the
parties engaged in these encounters severely, or committed
them for trial; but without discouraging the quarrelsome
disposition of the inhabitants. The parties, Sullivan and
Toomey, two strapping Irishwomen, quarrelled and
fought. Mrs. Toomey got the worst of it ; but this was not
all. The prisoner, elated with the victory over a vanquished
opponent, obtained an earthenware jug, and struck Mrs.
Toomey a tremendous blow on the head with it. She re-
ceived a severe wound, and was carried to the London Hos-
pital. She now appeared with the head-dress of the Hos -
pital—bandages with the name of that valuable institution
painted in large capitals thereon.
The prisoner, in defence, said that Mrs. Toomey took up
a knife and threatened to stab her; and produced a very
large knife without a handle, of which Howland, an officer
of the Court, No. 89 H, took possession.
Mr. Woolrych believed some provocation had been given.
There was, however, no doubt a brutal assault had been
committed. He sentenced the prisoner to six months im-
prisonment and hard labour.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—HAUXLEY,NORTHITMBER-
LAND, Saturday Night.--The schooner Theophilus, of and
for Aberdeen, coal laden, went upon the Bond icai Busk Rock
the night before last. The wind at the time was blowing
strong, and there was a heavy sea, the weather dull and
foggy. Some fishing cobles attempted to reach the vessel
but failed; thereupon the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat
Institution was launched and succeeded in bringing ashore
the schooner's crew of five men in safety. This valuable
lifeboat had on previous occasions rescued the following
shipwrecked crews:—Brig Sophie, of Oporto, 11 men ;
schooner Georgians, of Inverness, 5 ; schooner Susan and
Isabella, of Dundee, 5; schooner Prospect, of Berwick, 6 ;
schooner Little Aggie, of Berwick, 4; and schooner Theo-
philus, of Aberdeen, s—total lives saved, 36.
It is currently believed that the Admiralty, in
anticipation of some of the recommendations of Mr.
Walpole's Committee being carried out by the perdsttenz
of some of its members, have decided upon
the forthcoming Navy Estimates a certain impala?:
huLch,gisntoy
be devoted to the increase of pay of naval office. • r
and Navy Gazette.
AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE AT LIVERPOOL
are due at
THIS WEEK,—The following stefra
013:31.anada and the
Liverpool this week with mails,
United States : I ho l3oheinian,trci:list boat of the season
from Quebec, is duo at Londonderry on Wednesday next,
21st 37;
theQ Edinburgh, from
with dates from Quebec on the
New York on the 21st, is also duo at Queenstown on the
same day. On Saturday next the Cunard steamship Asia
with dates fram Boston on the 25th
due at Queenstown,
and from Halifax early on the morning of the 27th. Alter
the 21st the Canadian mail steamers will cease to call at
Quebec during the winter months, their port of Sall and
departure until next spring being Portland, Maine.
The late Lord de Saumarez s residence, Mont-
pellier Lodge, Cheltenham, was offered for sale by
auction oa Itlonday, but found no purchaser, and was
bought in at £3,100. The first bid was £1,500, from which
a succession of advances carried the price up to £3,000, at
which point competition ceased, and the vendors exercised
their right of bidding by advancing another hundred, upon
• which no further bid was made, and the property was con-
sr.luently declared still for sale by private contract.