Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-05 00:00:00

LONDON TALLOW MARKET.—AuctusT 4

The market was quiet to-dal

The public sales have
gone off without spirit. The greater portion was taken in.
545. 9d. is the lowest price, on the spot, for P.Y.C., and
555. 9d. per cwt. for the last three months.

BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, AUGUST 4

There was a less than average supply of Wheat at our
market to-day ; but to effect sales a reduction of Is. per
quarter had to be submitted to. Barley was unaltered.
Oats were only taken in retail. Beans were firm. There
was rather more doing in Peas, at steady prices.
MANCHESTER CORN MARKET.7—Auousz 4.

The weather continues fine,, and there was an average
attendance at our market to-day. The market was devoid
activity, but fresh 'Wheat and Flour sold, to a moderate
extent, at about the currency of last Thursday. Other sorts
.
Oats and Oatmeal meta limited
Beans and Indian Corn ruled

were Without enquiry
demand at lower pri,
steady.

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THE SCHOC

kNDALS AT BRIGHTON.

At the Lew

his cas,

1, which we

has just been tried

very painful proceedings
that were not inaptly described during the trial as ' the
Brighton school scandal. It will be remembered that in

statement appeared in a
headed " A Fashionable

Londe 'weekly .news , .
School—High. Life Below Stairs," in whicfi it was' repre•
sented that four aw" ladies, pupils at a fashionable
school at Brighton,. had been sent home to their friends
in the family way, and that a page in the family, sixteen
years old; was supposed. to have been the author of the
mischief, and that he had abSconded, and the school
had since been broken up. This paragraph was copied
into other London papers, and • also into the Brighton
journals, and it, of course, created intense excitement in
that town. Various inqinries were made with a view to
discover whether there was any foundation 'for the state-
ment in question, and, at length, the Mayor of Brighton
felt it to be his duty to convene a public 1-1.-Meting of the
inhabitants
.to consider the matter, and resolutions were
come to that the, staterr was' proved to be
nn o+tc.- „..a to have no foimaa—,..., whatever
I The newspapers that had published the statenit.t,

also.
contradicted it, and ; apologised. tor having inserted
The plaintiff in the present action, Miss Georgiana OIL
is the proprietress of a highly respectable school at'Brighton, and ,she : brought the present action , against' the

defendants on -account of Mrs. Wright, as sae. ,
having made a rcmsentation to a lady named Holloway,
the' Wife, of a 'clergynian, who also keeps a school at
Brighton, that the paragraph in question related to her
school, and that she knew of one young lady, having gone
home, who had not. returned to the ScheOl after. the
Christmas holidays, in consequence of her condition of
health. The defendant, Mr. 'Wright, is a dancing master
at Brighton, and he had been in the habit of instructing the
youdg ladies-at. Miss Gill's , establishment ; but it seemed
that last Spilt-oral-b.,. 1,. -- • •

alleged,

ady, on

parents, express

that a French mistrers Should be engag,A,
to the pupils, ad it eras suggested that th
statements had been raked .lin -"-

slanderoiis

n_ made manifest, out of a