The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-02-01 00:00:00

Pox .LUCK.— Collecting old China.—Pit eh .

Art MARIC AB L Maitn—istoit.—A Reuter's tele-
gram from Gibraltar eays marriage of hie High-
ness the Sheriff of Guazan with an English Chrietian
lady, Miss King, took place at Tangier on the 17th.
Tne bride rode to the English Consulate on an Arab
horn. covered with a f ar let saddle and cloth em•
broidered with gold, and was premoted by the bride-
groom. The marriage was merely a civil ceremony,
and was performed by Sir John Drummond Hay.
The bridegr roar appeared in a flowing Eastern dress
of dark blue and was escorted by a guard of Moorish
eoldiers to the Victoria Hotel, where all the coneular
body were present. His Highness has now four wives.
Mies King, by her marriage to a Mahometan, forfeits
all protection of the English law.

AN EXECUTION IN SPAIN. —The journals of
Madrid.publinhed some revolting details concerning an
execution by garottiug which took ',lace there a few
days ago. The culprit, a man named Diego Soler-
Guir.lo, wan, according to the usual custom, confined
in the chapel of the ',thou (co capilla) during the two
day s previous to the execution. At eight o'clock hi the
morning the priest and executioner entered the con-
demned cell, and soon afterwards the culprit was
brought out to the scaffold, erected outside the Bilbao
gate, on a piece of wwte ground called the Campo de
Guarding. The Matrnment was a new one, and the
executioner uninitiated to his dread work. Guido,
pale, and trembl ng from head to foot, was placed on
the fatal bench, and the Executioner, almost as terri-
fied as the culprit him elf, lost a goat( deal of time in
placing the iron crarate round his neck, in conwqnenso
of its being too smalL The crowd, attriloffing this
delay to an act of clemency on the part of the King,
gave enthusiastic cheers; presently, however, a ham-
mer was produced and the crarate made to fit the neck
conveniently. The execution was then proceeded with,
and lasted no less than eight minutes.

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RING Our ! an MP. has just had his family
reinforced, and makes the following remark
" Ring out wild belle—and tame outs too..
Ring out the Inv es moon,
hugest the little site s •,•
r
Lii out the mule. ring lathe mires,
Rine in the milk and water ;
Aeay with paper, pens, and ink—
My daughter, oh, my daughter '

FLooolso bano-rrsits.--on Wednesday morn-
ing the punishment of floggirg was administered in
Newgate iirison, in the presence of Mr. Jonas, the
governor, Mr. Under.Sherilf Hewitt, Mr. Under-
Sheriff Crosloy, Mr. Gibson, the surgeon, Mr. Sidney
Smith, one of the principal officers of the prison, and a
few other gentlemen. John Thomas Brett, 26, Patrick
Regan, 23, and Georze Wals..n, 36, who were convicted
at the last i.ession of the Central Criminal Court, of
robbery wills violence, on a man named John Turner,
had thirty lashes each, and they have now to undergo
five years' penal servitude. James Al:earthy, 23, who
is under sentence of seven years' penal servitude, had
twenty five lashes, and a youth named Gaerge Davis,
who is under sentence of five years' penal servitude,
received twenty lashes. The minis' ment was inflicted
by two warders from Holloway Prison.
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DrEP.Ses Fisu.—Her Majesty's surveying
ship Challenger, Capt. Nares, has just arrived at
Gibraltar from Lisbon. Deep soundings taktn show
that a gentle slope extends from the Lisbon shore into
deep water in the direction of Madeira. Favourable
weather prevailif g after leaving Lisbon, a few hauls
were made sith the dredge, which were attended with
fair remits. On the finest day a common fishing trawl
was lowered to the bottom, a depth of three-quarters
of mile, with the greatest success, for on its being
hauled again to the surface not only did it contain in
great abuhdauce beautiful specimens of Corals nod
sponges, but several deep-sea fish were found captured.
These latter naturally arrived at the surface nearly
dead, expansion of the air in their bodies on bring
relieved from the pressure of the watt r at such depths
proving sufficient to tear them open and to render
them an)thing but graceful in aopearance as they
flosted on the etirfasrof the water with enormous pro-
truding eyes and with stomachs inflated. By the ex-
periments already made on board the Challenger it is
now placed beyond doubt that siutfler captures can be
made from the greatest depths, but the consequences
to the fish captured mutt always prove an insurmount-
able obstacle to any idea of acclimatisation wlsicl
might be entertained. The utmost care has bran an
will continue to be taken in jrceserving specimens
these newly-discovered animals.

LORD DARTMOUTH OW THE GAME LAWS •-•••
At tire annual meeting of the Staffordshire Chamber of
Agriculture, held at Stafford on Saturday, Lord Dart-
mouth delivered an adder so on the game question.
He depreeated the remarks which had been made
anent gamepreserving landlm de by various news
papers and magaztros, and proceeded to defend the
system of game preservation. After pointing out the
value of rabbits for food, he said ho would admit that
game, when over preserved, caused considerable
damage to crop') ; but when a good feeling existed
hetwe-n landlonl and tenant he consideted that the
damage could be reduced to a minimum. He neat
dealt with • harges which had been brought against
sportsmen of cruelty to animate and ULS, ortsmanlike
conduct in kiding game. The Timer charge arose
" bout a misconception by tho misinformed minds of
uoiters in the pubic peeler." As regarded the cling,'
of uosportemenlike conduct, he contended that an im-
proved system of farming had {reused C complete
alteration in the mode of field ebooting, and the *Aim
was only a new name for the old principle of coves
shooting. His lordship then remarked that game•
keepers were of tie greatest service, not only in pre-
venting poaching, but frequently *capturing thieves,
and be expie,sed his opinion that, if the game laws
were abolished, the coustry would be overrun by gangs
of marauders, who would •.o every kind of damage.
Considerable diacuseion @tamed, the speak its, while
admitting that a certain quantity of genre s uld ho
preserved for the amusement of the c, untra 4entry
unanimously condemning over-preservation, ad ad-
vocating the granting of the privilege to tanta of
shoollngs rabbits on their farms.