The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1869-03-06 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE SHRIEVALTIES OE YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE.—In the House of Commons, on Monday, Mr. Hardy inquired of the UnderSecretary for the Home Department whether any bill would be introduced during the session to 'divide the shrievalties of Yorkshire and Lancashire, or either of those counties. Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen said a bill bad been prepared for dividing the shrievalty of Yorkshire; but the question of doing the same for Lancashire having been raised it was thought Letter to briugin a bill applying to both mimic*.  There is not the slightest truth (says Land and Water) in the statement which is going the round of ' the papers to the effect that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales intends to keep a stud at racers. The traffic of the Great Western Railway was stopped for several hours on Wednesday by the bresk.clown of a coal train at Duntsey, near Chippenham, caused by the snapping of the axle of one of the trucks. No person was injured. A general order to the army announces that medals are in preparation to commemorate services in New Zealand and Abyssinia. ! Richard Cooper, an engraver at Birmingham, who attempted to strangle his son, alleging as a cause that he had no weans of supporting him, was sentenced at the Warwick assizes on Monday to five years' penal servitude. Her Roy ,1 Highness the Princess Christian of Sehicswig.flolstciii (Pi ine. ss Helen.' of Great Britain and 1re1,,,0l vs ,tely delivered of is prince at six a.m. on Friday. Her roy-al higheess and the infant prince are going on perfectly well. Three human skeletons have just been found in one of the vaults of Blair Castle, the residence of the Duke of Athole. The skeletons were buried about 18 inches under the surface, and were the remains ot I full-grown mem. One skeleton bore marks resembling sword-cuts behind both ears. The seamen held a meeting in Liverpool, on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of considering the grievances to which they are subject. A petition was adopted setting forth the complaints of the class, and it is to be forwarded to Mr. Graves for presentation to the House of Commons. .  The \Violin election petition inquiry Wee opened on Wednesday before Mr. Baron Martin. The siting members are Ur. Henry Woods end Mr. John Lancaster ( Liberals). The charges are mainly for undue influence exercised over voters, and for bribery by payment of rates. A deplorable accident, illustrating the danger of persons attempting to enter trains which are in motion, occurred at the Lime-street station, Liverpool, on Monday night. A woman named Bibby, living at Warrington, reached the platform just as the train started, and, attempting to enter one of the carriages, fell under the wheels and was instantly killed. An infant which she carried in her arms was also  seriously injured. A woman named Eliza Bowen, aged 50, was found murdered on Monday morning on some spare ground near Wednesbury. After she had been murdered she was dragged across a ditch and thrown over the brow of a cindermound. The appearance of the body showed that the unfortunate w,,maa had been subjected to atrocities of a chard, ter too horrible to narrate.  .