The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-29 00:00:00

COALS, CINDERS, AND CULM

Parliamentary papers have just been published containing
accounts of coals, cinders, and culm shipped coastways, and
lolled to foreign parts, with the rates and amount of duty
rged thereon ; of coals exported from the United King-
n from the sth of January, 1828, to the sth of January,
2 ; and of coals shipped to foreign countries in 1841, &c.
t appears therefrom, that the total quantities of coal, cin-
i. and culm, so exported to foreign countries and the Bri-
settlements abroad, amounted altogether to 1,848,294
the gross total export duties which were received
eon being £12,015 ss. 6d.
he total quantities of coal taken coastways and by inland
gation into the port of London during the year 1841
noted to 2,912,738 tons.
appears that the total quantity of coals exported
sited Kingdom from the sth day of January,
sth day of January, 1842, was as follows :
Tons.
356,864
371,271
504,412
510,831
588,446
634,448

8, to the
Y ears.

615,255
736,060
916,868
1,113,613
1.313,709
1,449,417
1,606,313
1,848,294

APRIL 18.—I scarcely know in what words to
,orrible sight which I witnessed on Saturday.
,o, who in August last murdered a whole family,
f three females and a boy, his own near relatives,

day the penalty of his crimes. The spectacle of
!d to the scaffold must be everywhere appalling :
its peculiar forms render it still more terrific;
arnstances attendant upon the execution of the

victim of offended justice in this instance formed
,f horror such as has seldom been seen. The

Log, man, barefoot, clothed in a loose white robe,
id feet bound with cords, was conveyed in a
I by two galley slaves, to the place of execution,
ich led past the very house where his crime was
Strong bodies of horse and foot opened and
mrnful procession, which consisted of the ma-
; executioners, the Brotherhood of Mercy, call-

In the assembled throng to " pray for the soul
rother who is going to suffer," and in the cen-

inhappy creature himself, pale and livid as a
id drooping on his breast, and his eyes closed.
ears past devoted themselves

who have for

and gratuitous labour of administering religi-
tion and advice to the prisoners confined in
It this city, attended him on his way to the
['he crowd congregated on the occasion was
er was seen before in Lisbon ; it was literally
mass of living beings. I observed that every
I to bear the expression of pity, though
)rious Diego Alves, who was hung last year
not the least commisseration was evinced as he
ga lows. The cause of this difference in public
hat Mattas Lobo had all along manifested the

,w for his crime, whi^h the Others never did.
)p posite the house where the murders were com-

F pea, and the sentence, preceded
ion of the crime, was read aloud. The sufferer
-e, and then with a convulsive shudder closed
,ed his head again. What a train of harrow_
ie glance must have aroused I There
nich 11.. i had entered on that fatal night ;
h which he had eAcaped ; the blood stains
he let himself down

that hi

et uneffeiced ; in
faces that had welcomed their

smiling

awful part of this sad

to be told. Arrived at the place of execution,
was led to the ,00t of the gallows, where he

minutes in prayer. The-elder of the two
me forward and commenced the usual exhorta.

couraged him to hope for mercy at the Divine
bade him reflect that he had the advantage of
precise moment when dea'h, which to so many

like a thief in the night, would come to him, and
then he dropped down dead himself! The heat
under which he stood bareheaded, and the pain-
nt of the occasion, it i- supposed, brought on a
xy. to which it appears he was predisposed. Sur-
nce was soon procured, but unfortunately life
In a few minutes after the scenes of this world
or ever upon Mattos Loho himself.—Letter ire

AND SPAIN

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