The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1871-03-17 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

COIN INTO LIVERPOOL—On Sunday morninglast, there arrived in the Mersey one of the largest importations of silver that has over taken place at Liverpool. The Onion Compaey's downer, Wisconsin, Captain Williams, which arrived that day from New York. had on hoard the enormous quantity of 65 tons and S cwts. of silver coin, principally Spanish and Mexican dollars, a large amount of which is intended for this country. and the remainder for different parts of the Continent. As soon as the Wisconsin was secured at her moorings in dock, the work of getting the specie boxes ashore WM; oommenced, and in a short time safely completed. Waggons were in readiness, and the specie was conveyed to the London and North-Western Railway Station, where it was placed in fourteen closed railway vans, and despatched to London by an early train on Monday morning. It will be taken to the bank of England and divided. rhe different consignees, many of whom are resittent in Liverpool, will be °Milted to have their consign. .stents brontrht back to 141/4WDOOL  evening. • 011 Thursday morning preparations wer.• made for going eir to the rock; but as the sea bad been very strwig anrilg the previous day, and there was still a heavy swell, it was Froggested to postpone the departure for a day. This, however, Was overruled, and the "teat:l.T set off, he party intending to return in the e ening a:I P Snal. They did not, however, return, and .rxiety was felt on their th, count. The next miming a cutter went out from Gorey in seareh if Cie launch, but could seo nothing of it, the discovery being made that the reek lii,l. not been visited on the rr_wions day. Nothiec further could be ascertained, and the conchis'oh arrived at is that tho launch, with her unfortunate crew, had foundered, having been struck by a sea. She had on board at the time of leaving eight per• sons, viz., Mr. P. .1. Galliehan, the contractor; Thomas M‘Ghild, .he engineer of the Trinity llocse George Marie, a blanch pilot, who acted as eapt of the launch; Ritter.' Masurier, stoker • Psi p  'The Rev. Henry Green, of ttnntsford, author ol " Shakspere and the Emblem Wiit erg," is preparing for publication, by subscription, a work to be cat itt s 1 " Andres Alciati and his Book of Emblems, a gr. Whical Study," with illustrations. Messrs. Trill,rcr will be the publishers. Thomas Trembling, aged sixty-six, a farmer, at Bandon, well known in sporting circles as •• Cap Toudding,," on Tuesday, c tleul suicide by firing both bands of a double-barrelled gun close to his head, in one of his barns. Death was insjantamsms. the ,hotsemoingout .111 I Ike opposite gide of his heal. The committee 811110111$ id to deal with the section of engravings in the forthcoming International Exhibition consists ot 3lessfs, R. Fuer, Robinson. V.A., and William Smith. man of the National Portmit Didlery, to whom the public is indebt24.l for in:ivy great services in art smatters.  Pitman, Thomas (3-, I.ndeu, A. CostaDl, iekinit mid Wm. Gibbs, a "ay.  Mr. Taylor, of Jeans College, limo been sele •ted a the second man to represent Cambridge in tho Inter University billiard match.  CHARGE OF FORGET AND FRAUD AGAINST A BANKRuvr.—At the Dublin Poliee-office, on Saturday, Mr. Lambe, bike a builder, and now a harikrnpt, was charged with making false entries in his books, and committing perjury in the Bankruptcy Court. He was remanded.  THE CUMULATIVE Vo'rE.—A protest, signed by the following members of the Executive Committee of the Education League, has been sent to Birmingham to remonstrate against the attacks on th.. cumulative vote which have . been made in the Journal of the League :—Mr. Applegarth and Mr. Howell, Sir Charles Bilks, Professor Fawcett, Mr. Auberon Herbert, Dr. Hodgson, Captain Mann, Mrs. Fawcett, and Bev. F.Marham Zincke.  .£5OO DAMAGES FOR A WIFE'S watch. maker, named Broadhurst, living at Ashton-under I Lyne, obtained .2500 damages from the Manchester, I Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, at the! Manchester Assizes, on Saturday, for injuries susMined by his wife in a collision on the defendants' line, in December, 1869. The evidence showed that before the accident the woman was strong and healthy, but that her health had been quite shattered, and that she was now subject to epileptic fits.