The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-30 00:00:00

REPOR7 OF COMMISSIONER WELLS•

The Hon. DAVID A. WELLS will soon be the
centre of a free fight. It did not require a keen
insight into the future to discern that a great. con-
test has been brewing in the United States—the
attack of Free Trade on Protection. Men may Call
Mr. WELLS what they please, but he will be more
or less compelled to head the Free Trade party.
His last report is acknowledged to be among the
most able of American State papers, and is known
to have discomfited the extreme Protectionists.
One journal says that every one who wants to form
a rational opinion on the great questions which are
to agitate the political world during the next two
years ought to read it at least twice. The Commis'
sioner, aware of the effect he was likely to Po'
duce, has taken care to keep plenty of ammuni-
tion in reserve in the shape of facts damaging
to monopolies, such as the dividends of mat'
facturing companies sworn to by the Unlted
States assessors. When he took up his po3itioa
he fortified it, because he saw that it was essential
for the benefit of the country ; and notwithstand-
ing the fury with which he is likely to be assailed,
he is generally considered to be impregnable. The
truth is that the tariff is so absurdly incongruous
that it even damages the manufacturers it was in"
tended to protect ; and, in consequence, the Com-
missioner receives support from unlooked-for quar-
ters. His attention is mainly directed to internal
revenue and the tariff; and there are two subjects eon'
netted therewith he especially advocates—an' 1131:
provement in the machinery of collection—by which
he means areform in the Civil Service; and a revision
of the tariff on a rational system which will really pre"
tect industries which ought to be fostered and are
in need of such protection, and stop the ridiculous,
system which oppresses the people for the benefit °I
a few monopolists. The first he illustrates by st:ovi:
ing that the total yield of the internal revenue is
now $150,000,000, which, if honestly collected,
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would be increased to at least $225,000,000, and f
this estimate of the best judges be correct the country;
is swindled to an amount equal to half the preserl4
internal revenue, or $75,000,000. But it is when
he touches on the tariff that difficulties &aka
around him. Whisky rings may be powerful, bat
they cannot openly attack ; like rats they have t°
make their holes in the Capitol, but the case differs
with the Protectionists and monopolists. It- is a
subject which many wish to pervert instead of
whicho
elucidate ; it is one of great difficulty,
perhaps can never be illustrated to the understand"
ing of a people until they are made sharply to ot-
perience the effects of the fallacies. When tau
secretly defraud like the revenue robbers they knelt
they are cheating, and do not attempt the useless
task of deceiving themselves or others. But not so
with the private interests involved in an erroneous
system of import duties. Those who feel that the
blow is directed against them howl aloud and drovin
all argument and scientific research. The reformer
meets men braced for a contest to do or to die,
while he finds it difficult to inspire the rest of tl:e
community with the conviction that it is their
battle he is fighting, and their business to give hire
a hearty instead of a lukewarm support. IndeeJ7 .
the first instance, the extreme Proteetioaists alwais
succeed in persuading the people that their interest
lies in fostering the monopolies. Mr. WELLS line,
steered a middle course on this difficult subre
turning as deaf an ear to Free-traders as to Protec
tionists. Every nation, he asserts, legislates on the
principle of Protection, and no European Governs
meat has adopted Free-trade further than to g 1 1
the fullest play to the national faculties and nature
advantages the people possess. What the C°l3l‘
missioner bits at are the monopolies he considers Weil
" corners" against the nation. Taking the ease%
pig-iron, Mr. WELLS exposes the effects of a seine
monopoly; and what is true of iron is true of e°°,"
but in both he strikes at the most powerful interee"
in America. The report is exciting the keenest at-
tention throughout the country, and DAVID ll'
WELLS has taken the lead on taxation and finance
subjects too new in the United States to be as yetthoroughly understood. Indeed it is asserted that the
Senators are too old to learn, and what little knevi
ledge exists is to be found only among the RePred
sentatives ; but on both Houses the report has ",
a great effect, which will be seen when such gnes
tions as the tariff and the reform of the civil e,
el'
vice are discussed.

General Sickles has declined the appointment ot
Delegate at Large, conferred upon him by the Union Tic'.„
publican General Committee, as he cannot, without Plrl;
judice to other duties, take part in local political orga
nations.
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It is said Governor Bullock intends to ILS
Europe in April, with all his family, and to be absent freo
one to two years from America. to
The Levant Times asserts that it is intent 11
recall Mr. Morris, the American Minister, in March.
probable successor would be General Nye.
Thomas Crompton Moore has left a legaeJ
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over $20,000 for the relief of the suffering and des"; u r
widows and children of Southern soldiers who die' °
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without regard to denominations, injured in the late
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within the States of North and South Carolimijj.
Georgia. Messrs. James Hall, Francis J. Porcher'
De Saussure, E. H. Frost, and Rev. John Rumny, ofDeciir
Carolina, are trustees of this fund, and are charged to
tribute it within seven years.
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BRAND - On the 29th ult. atßirths
70,. Prince's-gate, the Wife 01
Henry R. Brand, Esq., M.P., of a son

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FOWKE—On the 29th inst., at Bramley, Surrey! the
Fowke, of a son. pig
TRENCH - On the 23d inst., at Lenaboy, Galway, the
Anne Trench, of a son.

Marriages.
LYSLEY—LOWTRER—On the 27th inst W.
Bawtrj, fsCi•ef
shire, William Jerard, eldest son of J. Lysl4l44°,i
of Pewsham, Wilts, to Frances Elizabeth, only (I°lo7
of Sir Charles 11. Lewther, Burt. of of Swillingl°—
Wilton Castle, 'Yorkshire.
TRACERS—Poeocx—On the 28th inst. at at Notg we,
Dr. Travers, F.R.C.S., of 19, Lower. Philimore4ooo.4
Kensington, to Annie, youngest daughter of 1
Pocock, Esq., of 24, Ladbroke-gardens, W.
Deaths. 1/ICbcl.
FOSTER —On the 27th inst. at Castle,
jper Lostwithieli
Foster, Esq., aged 60. )
FREME —On the 27th inst., at Hastings, Janie"
Esq , of Wretnall House, Shropshire, aged 70.
Ki.w—Ou the 28th inst., at Wandsworth-roadi
Kew; Esq., aged 83. 1101'
NASII —On the 28th inst., T. Nash, nen of BO ''l°
and Old Kent-road, aged 79. 1.1 l
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&limo:Nips—On the 27th inst., at Bath, Lieut.--°
Simmonds, aged 84.re°'
WALLIS—On the 28th inst. at 25, Bessborongt. clirgs
S.W., Charles E. Wallis, Esq.,
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