The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-23 00:00:00

POACHING AFFRAY.

On Sunday morning last, nbout one o'clock, John-
son, the fornek;t:eper to th...) President and Fellows of
St. John's College, was in Bagley Wood, with four of
his assistants, watching for poachers, when they heard
a gun fired i❑ the direction of Gobble Oak ; and on
proceeding to that spot they encountered five poachers,
three of whom had their faces blackened, sod one had
with him an air gun. As soon as the keeper and his
party came up to them they endeavoured to capture

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the poachers, who made a powerful resistance, but
ultimately, after a desperate struggle, three of them
were secursd and taken to the keeper's house. The
other two, whose faces were blackened, made their
escape, but in the same morning one of these was cap-
tured, for immediately after the affray the keeper sent
one his assistants on horseback to Oxford, in order to
give information to the university police, that they
rnlght be on the look out for the two msn who had
escaped. Accordingly, the inspector of the Univer-
sity police, Mr. A. Savage, lost not a moment in
setting some of his men, with the gamekeepers' assis-
tant, to look out for the two poachers, a description of
whose persons had been furnished. The result was
that about half-past two • o'clock the same morning
a man named Charles Stevens, a noted poacher, was
taken in St. Thomas's parish, and o❑ being brought to
the University police rooms it was discovered that his
face had been recently blackened, and that a large
wound in his head was then bleeding. The four men
were taken before the Berkshire magistrates, at
Abirgdon, on Monday last, when they refused to give
their names, but they were identified and recognised
by Inspector Savage to be Richard Johnson and
Charles Stevens, of St. Thomas's parish, and George
Beesley and John Colley, of Jericho. When Beesley
was captured by one of the keeper's assistants, he drew
a pistol and threatened to blow his brains out if he did
not release him ; but he still kept his hold, when
Beesley took some substance, which proved to be
quick lime, cut of his pocket and threw it in his face
and eyes, and from which he still suffers great pain,
and may probably lose his sight. Another of the
watchers bad his cheek lacerated and his eye closed
by a bludgeon ; and, on searching the spot where the
affray took place, there were found the pistol which
Beesley had, and which was loaded, primed, and
cocked, about 100 bullets, and a formidable bludgeon.
All four of the poachers w-ere committed to take their
trial at the next assizss for the county of Berks, and
Beesley was committed on a second charge, under a
recent Act, for ieflicting an injury on the parson by
the use of a deleterious material.—Oxford Journal.

SHIP NEWS.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.

PORT OF TERCEIRA.

It appears, by a letter received at Lloyd's, from their
agent at Terceira, that the Governor bad notified as

4. That a triangular white flat will be hoisted at the
battery of Point Sunto Antonio, on Mount Bmzil, when-
ever it is considered imprudent for vessels to anchor;
nod should a vessel not pay attention to the said signal,
the commander of the battery will be authoris:d to fire
a gun with bllnk cartridge, which will be repeated at
reasonable intervals in case the vessel should not pay at-
tention to the first gun. Tho expense of the powder
that may be so expended will be charged to the ship.
But iu the event of any ship being compelled through
great distress to run into the port in order to beach, or
,through any untoward circumstance or disaster on board,
then and in that case she ought to have her national
colours hoisted in the rigging, which will then be a
guide to the commander at the battery not to fire."

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 22.—The Dibdin, from New York
to this port, was abandoned Dec. 7, in lat. 50, long. 35,
and subsequently sank; thrco men lost; master and re-
mainder of crew taken off by the Lady Balwer, from
Quebec for London, and landed at Queenstown. The
Marchioness of Bute, from Quebec for Bristol, was
passed off the Calf of Man yesterday, with seven feet of
water in her hold, and obliged to keep up Channel, as
she could not be put on the larboard tack, by the Sea
Nymph, which has arrived at this port.
QUEBEC, DEC. s.—The Laurence Forestal, of Water-
fora, hence to Cardiff, has put into Sydney, Cape Breton,
leaky, and will have to discharge. A barque belonging
to Yarmouth, and bound from hence to Great Britain
with timber, was wrecked on the east point of Magdalen
Island, in the gale of the 20th ult.; the materials would
be saved; one man killed. The Arbutus, from Halifax,
Nova Scotia, for this port, was wrecked in L'Anse a
Beaufils, in the galcs, of the 22d ult,; craw sived, and
cargo in a very damaged state. The SAahia Burbidge,
hence for Liverpool, which had her bows damaged by
the ice off Riviere du Loup, has been put ashore at that
place, and it is thought will remain during the winter.
CHRISTIANIA, DEC, 9.—A dismasted and abaadoned
brig, apparently E,,glish, with a white stret.k and bul-
warks, was seen nearly under water ou the 27th ult., in
lat. 55 N., long. 3 W., by the Garonne. The Pet, from
Calcutta for England, which put into Moulmein on the
29th of June, after being on shore, was sold at that place
on the 9th of October. _ _

GRAVESEND, DEC. 22.—Wind N., moderate, with
heavy rain.
Arrived—Countess of Lonsdale, from Hamburgh;
Soho, from Antwerp; City of Paris, from Boulogne;
Grken Isle, from Nieudiep; Emma Eugene, from Syd-
ney; Sir Bouchier Ray, from Bordeaux; Emerald, from
Antigua; Salibbury, from Quebec; Ducheis of Portland,
from Berbice; Amity-hall, from Moulmein; La Reine
dea Angus, from Taganrog; Tiber, from Trinidad; Vic-
toria, from Teneriffe; Pomona, from Dania; Bimini,
from Cette. . _

Sailed—Ainaranthe, for Hobart Town; Tuscan, for
BarbadoQs; Fyenoord, for TOtterdana.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Maris ship, outward bound with emigrants, Dcc. 11, in
lat. 50 N., long. 12 W.
Biennia, of Liverpool, on the 13th inst., in lat. 52 N.,
lung. 8 W.
Thomas Blyth, from the Mauritius for London, on the
10th ult., in lat. 6 N., long. 23 W.
Matilda, from Liverpool for Table Bay, on tho 24th
ult in lat. 23 N., lotrr 29 W.

Stirlingshire, from Lirerpool, on the 28th ult., in lat. 28
N., long. 26 W.
Sophi, English bArque, on the 15th inst., in lat. 50 N.,
long. 7 W.
Sybilla, from Plymouth for Adelaide, South Australi2,
on the 15th inst,, in lat. 49 N., long. 8 W.

SEABORNE MAILS
[N signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-ofdee
by the night—and AI by the morning—dispatch.]