A forgery, and it is understood to a very large
amount, has been committed on the bank of Messrs. Miles, Harford, and Co. of Bristolr The parties implicated are the cashier and another clerk, both of whom have been in the employ of the house for many years past,. and have received liberal salaries during the whole period of their service. The affair has undergone a private investigation by the Magistrates, and both the cashier and clerk have been sent to Bridewell previous to the examination being restimed.-13ristol Correspondent of the Standard.
Charles Miller, a shoemaker of Stockport, was committed to Kirk- dale Gaol, on Monday, on a charge of murdering his son. Miller and his wife had been quarrelling; and the son used some language which irritated his father ; on which the latter ran into his shop for a knife, and with it stabbed the young man in three places- The first wound, a deep one in the breast, proved fatal. Miller was intoxicated at the time. The deceased was about twenty-two years of age.
Early on the morning of the 4th instant, a robber broke into the dwelling-house of Mrs. Cocking, of Highem-on-the-Hill, by forcing an entrance through the sash window of her bedroom, fronting the street. He seized Mrs. Cocking by the throat with one hand while he covered her mouth with the other; but a little girl who was sleeping with her surprised him by crying out "murder." This took his atten- tion: and io his endeavour to silence the girl, Mrs. Cocking (who is seventy years old) by great presence of mind and determination got from his grasp and out of bed. Finding he could not silence both, and a waggon loaded with lime just coming past and the villagers in the cottages near him aroused, he found it necessary to decamp through the window ; in doing which, the ladder he had placed there fell with him. In the room he left an iron jemmy and a bludgeon, and in the garden his hat and a phial of oil of vitriol.
The town of Lancaster has for the last week been in a state of much excitement, in consequence of the riotous conduct of the labourers oil the Lancaster and Preston Railway. It appeasr that, while the ma- jority of excavators employed On this line consists of Englishmen, some few Irishmen had recently been hired by the contractors at a lower rate of wages ; which so incensed the former, that they determined to drive them from their work, and prevent their competing with them any longer. The difference between the wages of the English and Irish, it appears, was 9d. a day, the former receiving 2.1. fid. and the latter only Is. 9d. Severel of the Irish received very violent usage'; their exas- perated fellowaabourers in some cases having pursued them to their lodging-houses, and dragged them out from the places to which they had fled for safety. To effect their purpose, the English labourers as- sembled two hundred strong, ut Hampson Green, about five miles from Lancaster, and, armed with bludgeons, proceeded along the whole line, beettng every Irishman who came in their way. Some of them swam the ulcer at the Green Area, to escape from their violence. Some of the ringleaders were secured by the police, and taken before the Magis- trates, by whom they were committed to Lancaster Castle for re-exanai- ton. A large body of Irishmen employed on the North Union Rail. way have vowed to avenge the quarrel of their countrymen.—Lances- ter Guardian.
A quarrel broke out on Wednesday, among a gang of Irishmen at Parley, in Kent, about pulling some hop-poles in Mr. Ellis's grounds. They were generally armed with rip.hooks and knives, and several wounds were given ; one man's ear was cut off, and another's eyes were
kicked out by his own f eher-in-lew. A body of constahks froel ....- ley stopped the fray, and took some of the riegleaders into cuseele.
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