The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-14 00:00:00

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QUEEX-SCICANT.. SEPT. 13.—A nrepossrfsing young woman.,
from the Emerald isle, named Prudence Shy, t, the wife of Geo►gge•
Short, a manufacturer of rope-yen, was brought before P. W.
Gregorie, Esq. the Magistrxe, caarged b}• her husband with con-
tinually beating himfdemolishins the windows, crockery-ware, and,
ntber utensils.

The husband, who has a woodemleg, in givlrg his evidence, took
hls station at a distance from his better-half. and was supported by
his employer, who came forward to speak to the ►ncainers of Mrs.
Prudence Short, whose eyes threatened vengeance tiu her accuser,
who evidently anticipated a sound drubbing by the tremulous
manner In which he brought forward his grievances. From his
statement, if appeared, that he had been martini to Mrs. Short for
'about three years; before the ceremony, she miscued as gentle as a
lamb, but after the marriage rites hail been performed, :she
'Willy showed thin all that meekness was only assumed, as she tient d
irago, and made it it rule to at.minikter bn him
sometimes twice a day, and all fornothing. Ilia
a rope-triskt.r, and In 'the factory where he
. of limy women employed, all or whom she
conduct witii bin ; and so far did her jealousy

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CA° pOitriert.loll of her, that she ems of coming to dle
factory, antl 'heating moat leverely of her IleeDielee-
The consequence was, that all of them their employment,
ni the serious injury of his master's Us Meet "legNilZ
deciaredathat her suspicions were groundless, sad that no man could
keep himself more to himself than he did. From her conduct his
home was disagreeable to him, and he was obliged to sit ins public.
house till nod-dine, to avoid' the 'enemies of his wife. On
Monde, evening, alter his tabours were over, he went Into the
Plough public.heuse to take a.pisituf porter, when Alra,Short entered
the room in which be was sitting, and with her list gave him such a
heavy blow In the mouth, that she loosened several of his teeth.
Ho took no notice of the blot, and smiled at her, when she re.
petted the knock, and was about adopting otbervictlence, when she
was removed by several persons out of the house. aftm which she
went home, and broke nearly every thing in the room. The luck-
less Mr. ;quirt concluded his statement by declaring that lie could
no longerlead such a life of Inhery, and that tinless some method
was token to keep his wife froid coming to the factory where be
worked, his master would no longer employ him.
The complaiment's toaster declared, mat in all his life he never
met with sut.it).a, desperate woman as Mrs. Short. Her language
was disgusting 4n the extreme, and, unless she kept away from the
factory, he must be under he necessity of discharging her husband,
who ties a quiet industrious man.
Mrs. Short, In aeswer to the charge, burst Into a flood of tears;
and said that she ought to be the complainant instead of her hue-
band ; and, as an Instance, exposed her arms, which were black
and blue. She said that he bad taken her away from her friends in
Ireland, and brought her to this country, where she had not a friend
in the world, and therefore hoped the Magistrate would afford her
pre& aims.' All that had been said about her was false. She was
always In good humour, and would never quarrel with her husband
if he would give her her own way.
The complainant said be had given her her own way too long,
Ind would do it no longer, and hoped the Magistrate would re-
strain her from annoying and beating him.
The Magistrate said, all hecould do would be to order her to find
security to keep the peace towards him, which he accordingly did,
and 3lra. Short, not being provided with bail, was locked up.
This morning a young man, named William Talton, alias
rusks',. atiainst whom a Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of wit.
ful murder, for having killed amen named John Guy, a carter, in
a pugilistic rencontre in Jews.row, Chelsea, about am weeks since,
was put to the bar before Messrs. GREGORIE and illsauLattri,
the Magistrates, upon the Corouer's warrant.
The prisoner is a brichmaker, about twenty years of age, and
has been living since the commission of the alleged crime in Castle-
lane, Chelsea, and from the circumstance of the whole of the
police bring on the look out for him, together with the remorse he
felt at being accused of the murder, he snrrendered hims:ll this
morning to Polak and Handley, the officers, for the purpose of
taking his trial at the ensuing Sessions at the Old Dailey. He was
accordingly committed.

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.
MAITYLEDOWE. SEPT. 13.—A most wretched-looking old man,
who had lost one arm, and was shivering from head to foot under
the effects of a paralytic stroke, applied as the nominee of a mein..
bee or Friendly society, for an order for the payment of a sum of
money, which is, according to the rules of the Society, payable on
the death of a member. The deceased member was a Julia Reade,
I who had lived with the applicant as his wife, and she, for war.t of
nearer conextion, had appointed him t' receive the mortuary fee.
To resist the payment of this sum, a Mr. Matthews appeared, as
desk. to this Society, which is kept at the Queen's Head, Paradise.
strqet. Now, Mr. Matthews, who was the very reverse of the poor
aPPlicant, in personal appearance, being, in point of fact, a short,
sleek, plump-looking gentleman, h undertaker, and also clerk to
the Society. His objections to the claim of the poor man, not.
withstanding the earnestness with which he enforced them, were all
overruled by the Magistrate, Mr. Griffith, who was about to
write an order for the payment of the money, when he was stopped
by Mr. Matthews, who said that he should not pay the money, but
appeal to the Sessions.
Mr. Gnryrotn—The Sessions have no mom Jurisdiction than
1 hare.

Mr. Matthews—Well, we are not enrolled, and nobody can corn.
pel us to pay anything:
Mr. GRIFFITH—IS it really a fact that you are not enrolled P
Mr. Mathews—lt is.
Mr. Guriririt—lt is a most shameful thing to get the poor
'people's money and then treat them in this manner.
Mr. Mathews, having gathered together his bundle of documents,
teas about leaving the office, when the Magistrate again remon-
strated with him on the folly of appealing to the Sessions, and the
injustice of depriving this poor man of his money, but he turned a
deaf ear.

Mr. lintrrint —Well, you are the most wrong-headed man 1
aver inew.

The Commis.loners of the Insolvent Debters' Court have frcYnVlEcilifrUtdaL7l:,
appointed Monday next, and the nine following days, for Short, a manufacturer
their sittings after the annual vacation. Oregorie, Esq. the M
• Ihe extensive repairs and embellishments which for tinuaily beating himfri
some time past have been going -on in the interim °Nile rri.
Ithrheonlalst;tl who II
lnd Court of Justice in the Old Bailey were yesterday his station ut a distance
completed. Every part has been newly painted, or white- his employer, who can
wished; the cushions, and linings of the bench, and Prudence Short, whose
Counsel's hox have been removed, and new ones of a deep who 9rieentl/ anticir
crimson colour substituted. The cloek has been newly smtaainenmeent tioiTappieheated,
.tpit, as have also the insignia of the sword of justice, about three years; bete
eumained by the sacramental cup, and surmounted by the I lamb, but after the
lia)al Coronet. *hick are placed in the compartment im- I plalnlYshowed that slit
aoediately above the scat on the bench appropriated to the out a complete virago,
Lord Mayor. The eorepartem itself is also covered with le severe besting' some'
cloth of crimson similar to that with which the beach is h ' buskins
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