The Express rebuts the statement that Japan coal is sulphurous, destructive to fire bars and very bulky, and instances favourable experiments on H. M.S. Adventure and the fact that the French have order 10,000 tons of Takasima for Saigon, while the P-M.S. take 3,000 tons month for use in their Pacificas well as const steamers, in preference to Australian.—The Gazette notes the arrival on the 12th of the Jurgen with a cargo of rice from Amoy.—A native has been executed, and his head exposed on a wooden frame, for his share in the murder of a junk master and his son, Two accomplices died in prison.
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