The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-28 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.]

The affairs of the Peninsula continue to attract
the greatest portion of European attention. By
a paragraph which we copy from a French Pa-
per, it will be seen that busy communications
are passing between our Cabinet and that of
Madrid. The difficulties in the way of arranging
the affairs of that unhappy country are manifold,
and they are aggravated by the hatred between
the violent parties which disturb her becoming
daily more vehement by collision. It is almost
hopeless to expect a pacification betwee❑ the
Priesthood and the Liberales—
" For never can true reconcilement grow
Where wounds of deadly bate have pierc'd so deep."

And the middle party, which might moderate
their animosities, is too feeble to be attended to.
Our negociations are, we should imagine, princi-
pally confined to the question of South American
Independence. Spain must submit to the loss of
her quondam colonies; and the best that a friendly
nation can do for her, is to make the most advan-
tageous bargain. Perhaps this loss of the co-
lonies may do Spain the great service of spew-
ing her how secondary her real importance in
European affairs has become, and the necessity
of the union of all her parties, and the concentra-
tion of all her energies, to maintain any rank
whatever in the political, system in which she
moves. This would indeed be a true benefit to
Spain—almost great enough to compensate for the
loss of her colonies. Our good offices are also
of course required in case of Portugal, where on
a smaller scale the same parties and passions exist
as in Spain. We take it for granted that she
must lose'Brazil—for even if the present Brazilian
Emperor should, as is possible, succeed to the Por-
tuguese throne, he will not be allowed to retain the
two countries together. In the present order of
things it is not likely that any American State
could hold an European Power as a colony—and
1 a transference of the seat of empire to Portugal
would lose Brazil. The present proceedings in
South America render the imperial throne there
far from a secure one, without calling in any new
elements of discord. If the Governments of the
Peninsula were properly managed, it is possible
that a federal union of its two States, and a per-
fect renunciation of the colonial system, would
be the best policy which they could pursue.

We extract the following from the Dominica Chronicle of
July the 6th :—lt is our painful task to record this day the
death of the Hon. ARCHIBALD GLOSTER, Chief Justice and
President of his Majesty's Council of this Island, on the 3d in-
stant, in the 63d year of his age ; and in doing so we regret
much that no panegyric our poor abilities enable us to pay his
memory, can do justice to our feelings or those of his friends
on this melancholy occasion. Mr. Gloster's professional career
will long bear testimony of his sound judgment as a lawyer,
whilst his decisions and opinions will ever hold his name in
reputation as a Judge. Indeed, we could heartily with that
some friend of real talent would step forward, and favour
us with a short biography of so worthy and respectable
a character, as we candidly confess our inability to do
justice to the subject. Mr. Gloster in his youth studied
at the Inns of Court, and was duly admitted to the Bar at an
early period of life. He first began to practise in the Island of
Antigua, and his talents were duly appreciated in the West
India alonies, and from the inhabitants of many he received
marked tokens of their sentiments of esteem. He successively
held the appointments of Attorney-General in the Islands of St.
Vincent, Trinidad, and Grenada, from which latter office his
Majesty was pleased to appoint him (unsolicited) to the im-
portant situation of Chief Justice of this Island in the year
1812, and which high station he continued to fill with honour,
integrity, and independence of mind, until his decease. his
death the Colony has met with a loss of a worthy public cha-
racter, society is deprived of an accomplished gentleman:
his afflicted a widow and family an exemplary husband
father. aannad

COMBINATIONS IN FRANCE.

COURT OF ASSIZES AT ROUEN:

The trial of Roustel and his fellow-prisoners
for their participation in the riot at Houlme was continued on
Thursday the 22d. No evidence of importance was produced,
except that of a labourer on the roads, named i3azire. It was
at the suggestion of M. Adeline that he was called.
He stated that he was occupied the whole of. the day of the
6th on the part of the road opposite the manufactory- ; he was
therefore enabled to give an account of nearly all that had taken
place. He first saw, early in the morning, M. Levavasseur
and his son walking upon the road, and having done so tbr some
time, he saw them seize a young workman, who was near the
manufactory, by the collar, and.otherwise ill-treat him. When
the workmen were paid he heard one of them ask for an aug-
mentation, or for the re-delivery of the bonds they had entered
into. The workman who asked this was answered, that those
who had advised him to act thus had better come forward and
cause their engagements to be delivered up to them.
After some further details of no importance, the 'witness pro-
ceeded to say, that when the first mob assembled, M. Lavavas-
seur gave orders to the gendarmes to make a charge, but that
the gendarmes were prudent enough not to do it. M. Lavavas-
seur attempted to lay hold of another workman, under the wall
of the manufactory, and called the gendarmes to his aid by de-
siring them to charge that eanaille. After M. Levavasseur's
departure for Rouen, witness saw M. Adeline, the Mayor of
Houlme, come to the spot, and by his remonstrances caused
the mischief which was being done to cease. This was when
the mob had assembled the second time.

The gendarmes who had been examined on the previous days
were then recalled. None of them remembered, having- seen the
last witness, Bazire, on the road at the.time of the riot.
The witness, however, still peristed in his assertion, and
added that he had spoken with a gendarme at the time. lie did
not recognize him among any of those examined.
M. LEPETIT, the Advocate-General, spoke on the part pf
the prosecution for upwards of two hours. -
Messrs. GIFFARD and DAVIER, Counsel for Roussel and
Lefebvre, immediately answered the Advocate-General's
speech.
The Court then adjourned to the following day (Friday), when
the trial will in all probability be concluded. If the .Jury find
the prisoners guilty, Jules Roustel will be • subject to capital
punishment, and the other three to hard labour for fixed
periods.