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Mr. Sergeant Talfourd has been elected Recorder of Oxford, in opposition to Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, by a majority of 10 to 16.
On the night of the 8th instant, at half-past ten o'clock, a party of Pill men between twenty and thirty, attacked the crew of the little steam-boat Fury, lying at Portishead, which vessel had been placed upon the river to tow vessels to and from King's Road and Bristol. They were provided with fire-arms; for, upon Mr. Whitwell, of the firm of Whitwell and King, shipbrokers, who was on board at the time, remonstrating with them, and directing the master to take parti- cular notice of the party, in order to identify them, a pistol was fired at him, and the ball passed close by his head, one of the party exclaim- ing, with an oath, that he (Mr. Whitwell) was the party they wanted. The crew then quitted the vessel, and left the Pill men in possession ; who took her down the Channel into deep water, and it is supposed scuttled her, as she has not been seen or heard of since. The Police have been actively engaged in apprehending the perpetrators of this piratical deed, and have secured ten of the nmber. The only reason assigned for its perpetration is the employment of the steam-boat in towing vessels to the prejudice of the Pill men. Since writing the above, I have heard that Captain Morgan, roaster of the Fury, can identify nine out of the ten that are taken. There are eighteen war- rants issued. The military have been called to the assistance of the Police in capturing the delinquents.—Shipping Gazette.
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