The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser. — 1854-11-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXPERTS.—At the Privy Council, held for  he nomination of sheriffs, a curious ioint was set right  'ter an abeyance of many years,  ,ne custom to summon a Privy Council to nominate the sheriffs, and to summon the judges to attend that council  DIE OMNIBUS AND ~.._ /RIVERS OI .._ _ in a position of inferiority. It seems, however, by the combined to do no work on Sunday, except in cases statute of Richard 11., under which this council meets, it where life or property is at stake." is not a Privy Council at all, but a special council of A MOORISH BARQUE arrived at Greenock recently, with , experts' (far more ancient than the Privy Council itself), a cargo of grain from Alexandria. It is said to be the first which exists for the purpose of nominating sheriffs, and is vessel of that nation which has anchored in the Clyde. composed of certain high officers and of the judges, all havA DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT was made at Sheffield, one ing equal votes, and being presided over by the Chancellor morning last week, to blow up a grinding wheel belonging of the Exchequer, and, in his absence, by the Chief Baron. to Mr. W. Ward ; but the plot was discovered in time to Such councils of experts, for various departments of prevent the intended result. administration, were usual in the middle ages, anterior to AT SHREWSBURY RACES, the cup, which according to the existence of the Privy Council. That for nominating custom was placed in front of the grand-stand until it had sheriffs, being under statute, has alone survived to our day. been won, was carried off by some unknown individual, A LIONESS of the Botanical Garden, Grenoble, known and has not been heard of since. by the name of Miss Sarah, contrived, one day last week, AT CHELTENHAM, an old man has committed suicide in to escape from her cage. The weather was cold and dark, order that his remains may be placed in the same church- and there were very few persons in the garden, all of yard where his wife was buried, and which is to be closed whom took to flight the moment the lioness appeared. this month. She first proceeded to the enclosure of the stag, who coinAT a meeting of the Victoria London Dock Company, menced butting at her through the paling with his antlers ; held on Tuesday, it was unanimously agreed to lease the she then approached the monkeys' cage, all of whom testiundertaking to Messrs. Peto, Betts, and Brassey, for a fled the greatest alarm; and, afterwards, the cage of the term of twenty-one years, from the Ist January next. eagle, who seemed in extraordinary fury at the sight of AN ALARMING COLLISION took place, on Wednesday her. All at once, she perceived, at a distance, the conserevening, near the Kegworth Station, on the Midland vator of the Museum, and ran rapidly towards him, but, Railway, between a passenger train and some cattle on drawing near, she recognised him, and began to caress trucks. Several passengers received contusions, but no him and lick his hand. He profited by her affection tolives were lost. wards him to lead her to the side of her young ones, and, THE OMNIBUS PROPRIETORS of the metropolis, who, with the aid of the keeper, he soon replaced Miss Sarah in according to their own account, have been losing money her cage. since 1851, had an interview with the Chancellor of the