The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-07-05 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL CHRONuLOGY OF LYDIA.

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A work of the above nature has just issued from the
• Lithographic Press, under the authority of that most la-
lborious and acute compiler, Monsieur Cesar Moreau. It
is in the faun of a brochure, and contains some eight and
forty folio pages of closely written matter, enough to alarm
the industty of the most elaborate financier. M. Moreau
professes to give in this work a view of the finan-
cial affairs of the East India Company since the
period of their establishment in the year 1600. Such
a work,going over two centuries and a quarter of the most
extensive and complicated operations of trade, cannot fail
to be highly desirable and important in a country where
commerce rests upon thefoundationsof truth and knowledge.
These important arithn tical facts which have hitherto
existed in a library of 73 folio volumes, of 1,200 pages
each, may be now had for the convenience of reference,
compressed into a space in a leas proportion than one page
to each volume. The solid masses of figures whieh every-
where meet the eye in this brudeure are truly startling; and
this is one of the greatest compliments that can be paid to
Mr. Moreau'e diligence. The arrangement seems to be as
luminous as the nature of the work admits of; and the
qualifications of this Gentleman, for the arduous task, are
already before the world in his work on British Trade.
As far u we have examined, it appears to possess the one
estential in matter of account, accuracy. We shall present
some extracts to our readers at an early opportunity.

LONDON UNIVERSITY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.
Ria,—Excuse me if I ask for a corner to point out to
your readers two remarkable circumstances attending the
meeting of Friday last, for establishing a London Univer-
sity.
The first was, that Mr. Brougham unblushingly de-
clared himself a Churchman !

And the second, that at a meeting for Establishing a sys-
tem of education on an extended scale in the metropolis
of the most Christian couutry in the world, the leading
feature in which swem was the total exclusion of reli-
gious instruction, the tint Magistrate of that metropolis
was in the chair.

What other inconsistencies the progress of this plan
may develope to us, time only can determine.
OBSERVER.

C01.717'S OF LAW.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.
St a,—That some alteration is necessary in the Courts of
Common Law for the more speedy despatch of business, and
the equalizing the labours and duties of the Chief Justices
of the several Courts, is evident from the following state-
ment of facts:—ln the King's Bench there are no less
than three hundred and sixty-one causes set down for
trial, for the present sittings, for the county of
Middlesex alone. For the City of London there
are 351 causes for the adjourned Sittings, which com-
mence on the 9th inst. to which number there will proba-
bly be from 60 to 100 new causes added between this and
the 7th, (the last day for setting them down). This num-
ber does not include those that have been already'tried in
the City of London since the 9.3(1 June, which amount to
about GO in number. The total number of causes set
down in the King's Bench for the present sittings will
therefore be near 800. In the Common Pleas the whole
cumber of causes s:c down both for London and Middle-
' st x does not exceed NO; and in the Court of Exchequer
net so many as a hundrt d. The reason of this immense
disparity in the business of the Courts would probab!y not
be very difficult to discover. I have not now time to state
my thouthts on the subject; but should this be thought
worthy c insertion in your columns, I may probably in a
day or two trouble you with a few observations on the
subject. 'V. D.
Temple, July 4.

IRELAND.
THE COMMISSION. FRIDAY. JULY I.
THE MCD ISLAND AFFAIR.

Our readers may recollect that we sometime since gate an ac.
count of a monstrous outrage committed at Mud Island upon a
party of I tdies and gentlemen, when returning about the lour of
two o'clock in the morning, from a party at Phibsborough.
Paul Spencer, Patrick Flinn. Julia Flinn, and John Muldoon,
were put to the bar, and indicted for a riot and an assault upon
Richard Glass, Andrew Ferguson, and others.
Mrs. Catherine Kane was the principal witness examined. She
stated that their party consisted of seven ladies and eight gentle.
men, who were returning to town un the morng of the Nth May,
front Phibsborsugh, where they had spent the evening, and that
when passing through Mud.hland, one of their party, named
D'Little, was in advance, and they heard him cry out for Doctor
Gainey, and murder and robbery ; that when site and the rest of
her company came up to the spot from whence the cry proceeded,
they saw Doctor thafney and Mr. Fergusson holding a young
man, one of the prisoners ; that that Mr. D'Little said he had
attempted to rob him, anti the young led denied it ; upon which
Mr. Fergusson said that if he weae innocent, he could make
it appear in the morning, but that he should go along with them
to the Police-office. In a moment Mr. Glass was knocked down by
a blow of a cudgel, and upon Mr. Fergusson coining to his assist-
ance, he was also knocked down ; could not say who gave the first
blow to Mr. Glass, but the prisoner Flynn hit both Mr. F. and Mr.
O. and when they were down he flourished his stick, and hunted
three times; that all the rest of witness's party ran away. leaving
Mr. Glass, 3lr. Fergu•son, Mrs. Glass, and herself; that Mr. Fer-
gusson, apparently quite dead, and Mr. Glass having a little sign
of life; witness requested of Flinn to spare him, when Flinn told
her to take care of her own life, and then Flinn shook her, and
Spencer and Muldoon shook Mrs. Glass. and struck Mr. Glass
again; witness described the manner in which Spencer, with his
shirt sleeves tucked up, and Muldoon were both enraged in strik-
ing the party. Mrs. Glass went for assistance to Mr. Glass, while
witness watched by him for about fifteen minutes. Witness iden-
tilted Spencer, Muldoon, and Flinn; there were several of the
prisoner's patty all armed with cudgels.
Mr. Glass, Mrs. D'Little, and Dr. Gainey, were exmined. as
was also Mrs. Glass, but none of them were able to identify the
prisoners.
Dr. Gainey thought he heard the prisoners called by their names,
but would not swear positively that they were the same names, nor
could he swear positively to the persourrof the prisoners. Thete
was no provocation whatsoever given by Mr. Glass's party tot pro-
voke the assault.
Mr. Glass stated that he lay insensible fur many days from the
wounds in his head, anti was attended by Surgeon Carnuchal.
Mr. Ferguson was also badly wounded.
!To a question from the ('oUST—Mrs. Kane replied. that it
was a little after break of day, and that she never hesitated about
the identity of the yrisoners whom she pointed out from about 15
other men. .

The prisoners examined several witnesses from the neighbour-
hood or Bsllybough Rridge and Mud Island to support an alibi.
After Judge TORHENS charged the Jury, they retired, and in a
few minutes returned a verdict of Ceilly against Spencer, Alul-
Joon, and John Flynn.
Judge TostuE les pronounced the sentence of the Court, which
was, that the prisoner; be each confined for twelve months in Rich-
mond Brides/ill, and kept to hard labour ; and in order to convince
the people in the prisoners' neighbourhood of the power of the laws'
to protect the unoffending, and punish the criminal, the men should.
not he discharged till they entered into securiries, themselves In
forty pounds. anti two sureties is twenty each, to keep the peace
fur sc‘cti years.

Y.IVERPOnr„ A _ITNDAY EVENING.

Wink N.N.W.—High Wata, l o'clock.
Arrived the With,'mina, lean Finland; Friendship, tucker,
Nal Messina; Hibernia, from Dublin; Sarah and *Caroline,
Pantie, and the Emerald. Howls, from Charleston, sailed ith June.
Off—The Trlident, Coffin, from New York; Chariot, from
Savannah; Codathian, Davis, from New York. The parcel beg
not come on shore.
The Silas Richards, Heldridgc, from Liverpool for New tort,
was spoken lid June, in kit. 4,i, long. 311.
The passengers by the Corinthian landed at Kinsale tin Friday
but.