The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-11 00:00:00

THAMES.

AMENITIES OF BLUEGATE FIELDS, SIIADWELL.—Mar
garet Mc earthy, a strapping Irish woman, was brought
before Mr. Partridge, charged with violently assaulting
Catherine Morgan, an elderly woman.
The parties aro living in a notorious place called Blue-
gate-fields, Shadwell, which has always given much
trouble to the police and the parish authorities. A woman
named Caroline Warman, of Brompton, was on a visit to
Mr. Morgan, and this gave umbrage to the prisoner, who
said west-end ladies had no right in the east, to which
Mrs. Warman retorted that the west-end ladies were not
like those of the east, and were not fond of the black men.
Mrs. M'Carthy fired at this, denied the soft impeachment
that east-end ladies preferred the society of the
blacks to the whites, and took up a pair of
tongs, with which she struck Mrs. Warman twice, but it
did not appear she did much harm. Mrs. Morgan inter-
fered, on which the prisoner said, " You shall have it as
well," and struck her a violent blow on the head with the
tongs and stunned her. Mrs. Morgan was forthwith taken
to a surgeon, who applied a plaster to her wound, and she
appeared in court with the head-dress so universally worn
by the women of Bluegate-fields after a row there.
The prisoner, in defence, said that the complainant and
Mrs. Warman called her a black man's favourite.

Mr. Partridge—You have committed a very brutal as-
sault, and I sentence you to six weeks' imprisonment and
hard labour.

A ROBBERY ON THE ROAD.—Two men, named James
Briscoe and William Olding, were brought before Mr.
Partridge charged with stealing a sack of pease, the pro-
perty of Mr. William Freeman, of South Oakendon, in
Essex.

An agricultural labourer, named Solomon Saville, in the
service of Mr. Henry Cowes, a carter, was bringing up a
load of peas to market this morning. He went into a
coffee shop in the Bow-road to obtain some refreshment,
and while he was away a sack of pease was stolen off the
front ladder of his cart. Soon afterwards the prisoners
were stopped in Devous-lane, Bromley, by Maddigan, a
police sergeant, No. 42 K, with a bushel of pease in a sack.
The pease were in a sack, and the prosecutor came up
directly afterwards and identified the pease as a portion of
those stolen from his master's cart.

The prisoners gave a very unsatisfactory account of their
possession of the peas, and they told Maddigan they were
taking them to market, and bought them of a man on the
road.

Maddigan said this description of robbery had been fre-
quent on the road.
Mr. Partridge sentenced the prisoners to 21 days' im-
prisonment and hard labour.

NEW ACT ON INDIAN PRIZE MONEY.--An Act
has recently been passed to legalise the payment and distri-
bution of Indian prize money by the treasurer or secretary
of Chelsea Hospital, and to amend an act for consolidating
and amending the law relating to the payment of army prize
money. One of the provisions will meet the Banda and
Kirwee prize money, which will shortlybe distributed. It
enacts that " in all cases where grants of money in the
nature of prize shall hereafter be made by her Majesty or
by Parliament, or otherwise, to the Secretary of State for
India in Council for the benefit of officers and troops of
her Majesty's army in respect of captures and expeditions
in which such officers and troops may have been:engaged in
India, such portions of the same as are distributed in the
United Kingdom or elsewhere out of India shall be received
by the said treasurer, secretary, or his deputy, to be dis-
tributed to the persons entitled thereunto according to their
respective portions under the provisions of the said recited
Act (2 and 3 William 11T.), and of this and every other
Act amending the same." For the purposes of this Act
the words ' officer' and troops of ' her Majesty's army' are
not to be held to include officers and troops of her Ma-
jesty's European, or native Indian feces.