The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-23 00:00:00

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

CUESTEN AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The traffic for
the week ending 14th of May, 1854, was as follows
Passengers, parcels, Sze., per railway, £2,654 2s. 10(1,..;
steam-boats, £471 Bs. 3d.; total, £3,125 lls. ld. : goow'
£3,694 ls. 6d.: total, including Carnarvon traffic, Perrail, £4,348 4s. 4d. ; steam-boats, £471 Bs. 3d. Ca'
responding week last year; per rail, £4,114 18s. Bd. ; Per
steam-boats, £376 Ss. Bd. Increase, £328 ss. 3d.

RETURN OF MR. NAYLOR TO HOOTON-HALL.--°rr
Tuesday, R. C. Naylor, Esq., arrived at Hooton-ba,ll,
accompanied by Mrs. Naylor, from their wedding tour. 'Ur,:
Naylor and his bride left Chester by the three o'clock
train, and came to the Sutton station, where they alighted
and entered their carriage. A procession was forme",
headed by the artizans employed in the alterations at the
hall; the-men carrying the banners used at the banquet,
and a streamer bearing the inscription; "Long life and
happiness--to the bride and bridegroom." The men in the,
constant employment of Mr. Naylor, in the park and
grounds, took the horses from the carriage, to which they
attached ropes, and drew the happy pair through the pa"'
to the hall, a distance of about a mile. In addition to 01e
general concourse of persons assembled in the hall to greet
Mr. and Mrs. Naylor, were the children of the Eastbata
and Thornton' schools ; and, in a few minutes after bet
arrival, Mrs. Naylor presented to each, child in the East"
ham school a bible. After the distribution, the children
partook of tea and buns on the lawn. The-workmen ware
also suitably regaled.
WALLASEY LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTTEi—The annual
general meeting of this board was held on Friday evening
at the Queen's Arms Hotel, Liscard, Mr. Penny in the
chair. The order of retiring by rotation, previous to the
new election, was adopted ; and Mr. Penny was unani-
mously re-elected chairman.—Power was then given t°
the chairman to make arrangements for the ensuing elec-
tion, after which the board proceeded to consider the tie°
bye-laws for regulating hackney carriages, horses, males'
and asses, plying far- hire within the district, and the
drivers and persons attending the same. One of the regn"
rations passed was, that there should be no fare -under a
shilling for cabs.—Mry Coulborn called attention to the
immorality of the females and others who plied,:lonkeY.l
for hire on the sands at New Brighton.—Mr. Hassell Sal':
that in those cases they- would have a discretionary-Power
of granting licenses.—The board then adjourned.
LETTING FOR HIRE WITHOUT LICENSE.—JOhagoIP
grove, the proprietor of a horse and car, was summoned
on Thursday, at the Birkenhead Police-court, at the in'
stance of the excise authorities, for letting out his horse .
and vehicle on hire without a license. Mr. Sharp, 01" .
lector of excise at Liverpool, who appeared for the prose"
cation, stated that the defendant was liable to a
penalty
of £lOO for each offence. The magistrates had the porer
of mitigating the penalty to £25, besides recommending .
the case of the defendant tO the commissioners of excise
in London, with the view of obtaining a further reitiga;
tion.. Mr. George Cooper. Page proved having obtained
from.the defendant, on the 18th April last, a home and
car on hire, to drive to Seacombe, for which he paid
.9,.e,;
The defendant admitted having no license, but deoze" r•
that he had more than one horse. He merely kept livers'stables, and the horses that were on his premises on the
in ...
day named belonged to gentlemen. The bench inflicted
the mitigated penalty of £"-', observing that, if the de'
fenckmt could show a good case, they would assist him ill
obtaining a further mitigation.
LIE ' BIRKENHEAD CO3I3IISSIONERS.—OR Tuesday :
evening, an adjourned meeting of this body was held :at st"
their rooms, in Hamilton-square, for the purpose of pass'
ing the accounts for the year just expired. These were c
read over. The receipts were :—lmprovement,
m 9e,11
18s. Sd. ; lighting and watching, £3,419 13s. - • ; mar
£1,24.9 15s. sd. ; sewerage, 1.18,56 4s. Od• ;
houses, £221 7s. • rents, £774 ls. 4d-; account a
on acco ,
street-making,£62B 25.; miscellaneous,£2l7 2s. Among's!,
the items of expenditure - were— paid for highways and'
scavengers, £2,009 ; the market establishment, £863 ;
slaughter-
park, £745, &c., &c.; and there had beenTh
adjournedpeaaccidoosunttOime /,'
unanimously divisible
passed,f o r
and. bondholders,the £3,664.meeting iii
sth-,of June, which will be the last' meeting prior to .10"
election.