The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-27 00:00:00

Same day, after extreme suit
Mrs: ELLEN GLI
livery-stable-keep(

for four days, aged 66,
E, wife of the late Mr. Samuel Gleave,

Saioe day, JAMES IRMIN, a guard on the London and
North-western Railway, between Newton and Manchester.
Deceased was incautiously crossing the line in front of the five
o'clock, a.m., train, when he was knocked down and killed on
the spot,

Saine day, JAMES FISHER, Esq., of Dulwich-hill, Surrey,
head-partner of the firm Fisher, Sons, and Robinson, of Wat-
ling-street, London, and of Nottingham, at which latter place
their immense factories are situated. It is confidently stated
that the above gentleman has died worth a million sterling.
On the 20th instate, very sudderly, aged 63 years, JOHN
PRIESTLEY, Esq., of Parkfield-cottage, Toxteth-park, near
this town.
Same dav, of scarlet fever, aged 8 years, MARY AGNES,
third daughter of JAMES SMITH, Esq., of Seaforth.
Same day, MARGARET, wife of Mr. CAROL MOLYNEUX,
flour dealer, Mill-street, and daughter of Mr. James Williams,
of Great Crosby.

Same day, suddenly, abed 41, SARAH, wife of Mr. H
BRIGG 4, chemist, Blackbiirn.

Same day, aged 33, Mr. RALPH POINTON COATES, of
Wheelock, formerly of Warrington.
Same day, Mr. ROBERT SNARN, architect, York. Deceased
was riding in a second-class carriage in the mail train from
York to Scarborough, and, when the train was proceeding for-
ward with great speed, for some unknown reason he left the
compartment in which he had been travelling in order to enter
another compartment of the same carriage. In so doing he
received a jerk backwards, mid his head came in contact with
one of the telegraph posts. The violence of the blow killed
him on the spot.

On the 2lst instant, in
STRINGER, M.A., patrc
Church.
On the 22d instant, lIF
RIGG, hatter,. Ranelagl
Same day, aged 58, E,
POINT, warehouseman

mes's:road, the Rev. T

RY JAMES, sixth son of Mr. JOHN

Efit Eibtrp..ool Atantarti.

MORNING,

Li, 1849

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THE debate on Friday night, on the second
reading of the Navigation Laws, exhibited the
ministry in a lamentably disorganised condition ;
and proved, if proof were required, their utter inca-
pacity to introduce any complete, or deliberately-
devised measure. First, we had from Mr. Labou-
chere a withdrawal of the only new feature of
the present measure—the only fruit of their
cogitations on the subject of the Navigation
Laws, since their abortive Bill of last year—
the clauses from 2 to 12 in the bill, relating to
the coasting trade. We stated, in our previous
remarks upon these clauses, that they would clash
most injuriously against the revenue laws; that
they must have been introduced without the slight-
est practical knowledge of the frauds to which they
would give rise; and that the encouragement
which they would offer to smuggling was an ob-
jection to them, which could not be overcome.
The honourable gentleman now confesses the truth
of our objections, and, at the same time, acknow-
ledges that had been decided, in considering them
easily to be overcome, upon the most flimsy autho-
rity, or rather upon none at all. Mr. Labouchere
is compelled to admit that the chairman of the cus-
toms was all along against the clauses ; and, that,
by implication, to get over this difficulty, those
officers whom ministers had consulted were " sub-
ordinate functionaries " :—we might very easily
give them an appellation less polite.
Mr. Gladstone next announced the failure of
his own reciprocity scheme, which we may describe
as one intended to take the wind out of the sail of
the ministry, and to enable the Peel party to bid
for the shipowners' interest to lift them into power.
The burnt child, however, apparently dreaded the
fire. The shipowners of Great Britain saw through
the tactics of the right honourable gentleman ;
and held aloof. Mr. Gladstone affects to complain
of this. He confesses that he could gain to his
motion no considerable amount 'of support; that
the shipowners were an impracticable body, adverse
to any change whatever, and would only have sup-
ported a motion for reciprocity in order to make of
him a tool to enable them to throw out the govern-
ment bill. Mr. Gladstone, however, knew very
well that the shipowners were not so obstinately
opposed to all change as he represented them ; and
that, in fact, they bad already published their ad-
herence to a clause in a new bill, modifying pre-
vious acts so as to fully meet every reasonable
complaint of the operation of the existing law. We
insert, again, for the information of our readers, the
clause in question :

into ti

in Britist

d be it enacted, that goods may be imported
aited Kingdom, to be used therein. not nnlv

but also in ships of

any such foreign

countr:

Ince-, or in ships of

any such foreign country 1
imported ; such goods ha