The Sun. — 1842-06-28 (London, England)

HIGH %V ATER AT LONINIF . BRIDGE THIS DAY. 111 aming 3 minutes after 5I 1 ening 2-2 minutes after 5.  rill Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tenderer 3y, are excluded from the Columns of "TI le Sun."  - *,) Ari..k.ts?" KL4):N—ZipiN) •  apply the same principle to their home-made woollens. To Sir R. PEEL belongs the credit of having induced the Americans and the Germans to heap additional duties on the manufactures of Great Britain. Their new restrictions are planned contemporaneously with his, if they be not their offspring. There cannot be a doubt, if the present Ministry had proclaimed the principles of free trade which science has taught and experience has confirmed, and had acted on them, by opening our markets to the wheat and flour of the United States, and to the agricultural produce of Germany, that at least those States would have waited to see the effects of the new system, before they had reenacted and extended the old one. Had Sir R. PEEL, too, instead of haggling with France about duties, lowered our duties on wines, adjusting them on the ad valorem principle, all the South of France would have been in arms to resist new duties on English commodities, and the demand for higher duties on linen yarn would probably not have been acceded to.  But what are the principles Sir R. PEEL has recommended to the world? For months and years our people have begged and prayed for a free trade in food. Sir ROBERT PEEL came into office, in the midst of great public distress, and he has made it his especial business, after inquiring into the causes of that distress, to uphold the food monopoly in spite of the prayer of the people. lie denies, therefore, that this law is the causo of distress, and by re-enacting it he has declared to all the world that the principle of protecting native industry, as this species of legislative plunder is called, is the only safe and sound principle of national policy. He has proclaimed by his conduct, that restrictions are the source of national greatness. The same principle runs through his whole tariff. For the first time he has given a general form to the principle of protection as applied to colonies, and established a whole series of differential duties. France, Germany, and the United States, therefore, are imitating his example. They are acting on the worn•out principle of protection, which he has consecrated anew. Ours is the most melancholy suicide that ever a nation was guilty of. Great, powerful, wealthy, and glorious by trade, we have laboured to put a stop to it. We have laid violent hands on the neck of our own paver, and infected other nations with the horrible monomania of self•destruction.  The First Report from Mr. ROEBUCK'S, or the Compromise Committee, was made last night. It stated that JOHN 'WALTER, Esq., having been summoned to attend the Committee, had declined to comply with the summons ; and Mr. ROEBUCK moved that Mr. WALTER be called to the bar. The motion was agreed to, and Mr. WALTER ordered to attend this day.  Mr. WALTER may be able to give some explanation of his conduct, which will place it in an improved light ; at present, his refusal to attend the Committee seems not to be justified. There is no difference between the constitution and powers of Mr. ROEBUCK'S Committee and other Committees, and attendance -on them has always been readily given, because it has always been enforced by the power of the House. Mr. WALTER cannot be excused any more than others, and he will have to suffer the consequences of his refusal. He objects to the great powers possessed by the Committee, and if he mean to contest and try them by an appeal to the law, should the House commit him for contempt, if he be ready to suffer martyrdom for the public welfare, we should not deny that he is animated by a legitimate and honourable ambition. But Mr. WALTER has a special objection to the Chairman, who "at one time, in his place in the House, recommended any one who might be attacked in the Times, and did not wish to have the attack repeated, to horsewhip Mr.