The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-17 00:00:00

OBITUARY.

Several de iths are announced. First on the list
is Captain Seobell, R.N., in his 84th year. This
gallant officer formerly represented Bath. He was
first elected in 1851, on the accession of the present
Earl of Shaftesbury (then Lord Ashley) to the
peerage. On that occasion, and also in 1852,
ho underwent a severe contest. In 1857
ho did hot come forward, but was suc-
ceeded by Sir Arthur Elton. Captain Scobell served
under Nelson and Coiling wood.—Major James
Leith, V.C., who has just died at half the age of
Captain Scobell, had a distinguished military career.
lie was in the Persian expedition of 1857, and
served through the greater part of the Indian mutiny,
and was twice mentioned in the despatches. He was
awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery
at Betwa on the Ist of April, 18.58, in having
charged alone and rescued Captain Need, of his regi-
ment, when surrounded by a largo number of rebel
infantry. Ile entered the army in May 1840,
and for a time served in the Scots Greys. In recog-
nition of his distinguished services he was promoted
to major in July 1858, and in May 1863 was
appointed to the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-
Arms.—Maj or- G eral lvistie, C. 8., served in India
nearly half a century ago, and waspresent at the siege
of Bhutpore. He was in the Afghan war, and also in
all the great battles with the Sikhs. He was made
a C.B. in 1867.—We have to announce also the
death of Colonel R. P. Warden, director of the Land
Transport Corps in A_hyssinia, which event took
place at Poona ; and that of Colonel Gawler, an old
Peninsula and Waterloo oflicer.—By the death of
Major-General Sir E. Wetherall, a good-service
pension of £lOO a year is vacant.

FREE TRADE IN AMERICA.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

General SCHENCK'S visit to Europe has this sig-
nificance, that be is the Chairman of Ways and
Means, on whom rests so much of the fiscal policy
of the United States ; and it is not improbable that
he desires to traverse the same European ground as
Special Commissioner WELLS to acquaint himself
with the facts which tended so much to colour that
gentleman's Report. The coming battle in America
is Free Trade versus Protection. The latter is in
possession of the citadel, and is strong in the affec-
tion and faith of the people in its doctrines. This
question was one of the side issues involved in
the great civil strife, and that the Confederates
fought for Free Trade does not recommend it to
the mass of the nation, nor that this was in a mea-
sure the reason why Engli6ll sympathy was given to
that side. Bu tsentiment cannot outweigh argument,
and if the doctrines of the Protectionists be false,
this must appear sooner or later in their working.
However imaginative and sentimental, Americans
are nevertheless an eminently practical people; and
if, which we by no means assert, the Free-traders
can prove their opponents to be upholding an error
injurious to the country, the beginning of the end
of Protection dawns. The arguments on either
side are plausible, and not unfrequently very strong ;
but although England professes to have solved the
problem; and to have proved her solution by a
career of maiyetotui proverb, in an oich.blogked