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      THE HON . MR . VflDUERS'S ACCOICMODATION BIEiBS . Aw action was tried at the Guildford Assizes , to recover lOOOLon a bill-Of exchange drawn by tlie Hon . Francis Lawley , and accepted by Lord Maidstone . At the beginning of tfce year 1852 , Lord MaMstone became intimate with the Hon . Mr . Villiers , late M . P . for fcacnester , at whose request he accepted two bills for 1000 / . each . Both were bills , of accommodation , andwre accepted by Ms lordship solely for the convenience of Mr . VUliers , Jie himself not receiving any of the proceeds whatever ; but Mr . Villiers gave him a notification to the effect that , as they were accommodation bills , he should be-held harmless . These bills were received through the agency of a named Edward Rawson Clark , and from

      persoa forty to sixty per cent , was paid for interest . On every occasion , Mr . Villiers paid the interest , and handed the old bills over to Lord Maidstone , by whom they were destroyed . 1 VIr . Villiers subsequentl y ^ ot into difficulties , and left the country ; soon after which , Lord Maidstone was visited by Clark ,, who requested his lordship to give him a new bTLl for one of the 1000 J . acceptances ( the other having been paid ) , which would be due ma few days . Believing this to be one of the , genuine bills for 1000 / ., which had been accepted for the accommodation of Mr . Villiers , Lord Maidstone acceded to Clark s request and gave him a fresh bill . As Mr . Villiers was absent , and as Clark stated that the holder of the bill -would not renew it unless it had a second name , the

      Hon . Mr . Lawley put his name to it as the receiver , at the request of Lord Maidstone . In addition to this new acceptance , his lordship gave Clark a cheque for 100 £ , as interest . This took place early in March , 1855 . Not many days after this transaction , Lord Maidstone was astonished to learn that a bill for WOOL had been presented at his house , and that a notice was left stating that it lay due at the offiee of Mr . Stewart , solicitor , New Inn . Lord'Mmdstone went to that gentleman and informed himof what l » ad ; taken place with Clark . Mr . Stewart : declared that he knew nothing of the matter , and said that liis lordship had better communicate ^ with Clark upon . < 3 ie subject . This'was done , and a bill for

      10 & 0 L being then shown Lord Maidstone , he exatnteed it sniouiefy , and discovered that the document was a forgery , cthe . genuine acceptance having been already paid ( as Lord : Maidstone afterwards learned ) by Mr . Villiers ' s solicitor . Besides the ¦ present fraud , Lord Maidstone said that he saw six orseven other bills , which lie Tvas sure were all forgeries , and he believed thatthere - were no fewer than sixteen or-seventeen bills-of a similar character in existence . Several accommodation bill transactions had taken place between Lord Maidstone and Mr . Villiers , . and the former had invariably paid the bills on every occasion . Mr . Jennings , steward of White ' s Club , and Clutter

      of which Lord Maidstone is a member , Mr . - buck , casMer at Messrs . Hoare and Co . ( his Lordship's bankers ) , both corroborated his statement as to the 1000 / . bill in question being a forgery . After this ¦ discovery , An application was made to the plaintiff in the present action ( Mr . George Mather ) to return the bill he had received , and which was expressly given to restore the one that turned out to be a forgery , and also the l'OOZ . cheque ; but he jrefueed to do so , and the present action was ( brought to recover the amount of the 1000 ? . bill ¦ which . had been handed over to Clark , and which , it appeared , had passed from him to the possession of the plaintiff " .

      The most important facts in the evidence for Mr . Mather 'wore that he had repeatedly been in the habit of discounting bills for Clark , whom he had known a great many-yeara ; that one of Lord Maidetone ' s acceptances for 1000 / . had been originally paid into the hands of Mr . Stewart , his solicitor , but that on Clark wishing to renew . it ho again discounted it for him , and received 607 . for the accommodation ; and that foe then sent it , together wi 4 ih the cheque for 100 / . ( whicli had been paid to Clark by Lord Maidatono ) , to his banker ' s . It was on

      this bill iihat the present action was brought . Mather swore positively that the first 'bill was payable "three months after date , and would become due in a few days when he discounted it . This , however , was denied by a olerk in the Union Bank of London , -where Mr . Mather kept his account , who -stated that the only bill which bad been paid into their hands to Mather's credit was one drawn > at ten days' date , which was palid' -when it became duo . Xho counsel for the plaintiff contended that his client had given full value for the bill , and that he was entitled to recover tho sum of 1000 / . Tho Chief Boron having summed up , tho jury almost immediately returned a verdict for tho defendant .

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      THE CASE OF ARCHDEACON DENISON . The court constituted to try tho charges against Archdeacou Donison , ibr preaching dootrino contrary to tho Thirty-nino Articlos , reassembled in tho Guildhall of Bath on Tuesday , by adjournment from tho 28 th , ult . Tho ArchbiHhop of Canterbury and other ecclesiastical dignities having taken their seats , Dr . Lu » hington said tho JL ' rimato had dotiircd him to road the declaration containing hiu decision . " Tho question , " the judgo said , " which hi « Ciraco had to try was , whether tho . doctrine sot forth aud preached by tho Von . Arohdoacon , in tho Bormoim annexed to tho . articlos iilod in this . proceeding-, were or wore not directly contrary , uod ^ repugnant to

      ¦ any of the Articles of- the Glrarth . * 3 % e * i « Q © rity J of Parliament has established that 'tfaeTbnrfywBine ' Articles taust be taken to > be -the true expression of ^ rf ptare on every subject to which they advert . I 'state this in order tiiat it may be made known -to all why and wherefore the : Ven . Archdeacon was-not . peramtMd 4 © go into anexamination < of the Scriptures with a view to justify his doctrines . - The reason was this < . —There . eould net be a more inconvenient proceeding , or one- more opposed to the law than that , wfeen the Legislature < -f the country has authoritatively pr onounced ia the . given form of the Thirty-nine Articles what are tfee doetrraes of tne Church of England , « n individual sermon should * e compared—not with that standard which is the only hbatwith number of

      standard of Ae Churc , — a disputed texts of Scripture . What might be the possible consequence of the adoption of such a coarse ? One or more judges might be found who would conceive that certain doctrines were conformable ^ with Scripture ; but should they hold that those doctrises ( conformable in their opinion : with Scripture ) , were not -equally conformable with the Thirty-nine Articles , in what position would they then be placed ? That-anomaly is excluded by the law applicable to this case . It is excluded from . all our courts of - j udicature . The -only question whieh his Grace has tried or could try , having regard to the law , is , whether these sermons-do or do not contain doctrines which are direetly opposed and' repugnant to the Articles of the Church of England ? I shall now state the conclusions at which bis Grace has arrived . They are these : —That the 9 th , 10 th , 11 th , 13 th , and 14 th of

      the articles filed in this proceeding on behalf of the said fiev ^ Joseph Ditcher are proved , and that the charges therein made are established . " Tfee Archdeacon had contendfidthaithe body and blood of Christ are immaterially -and spiritually present in the consecrated bread and wine , and are received * y comiwunieants -whether they be worthy or unworthy ^ whereas the doctrine of the Chnreh of England , as declared in the 25 th , 28 th , 29 th , and 35 tih Articles , is , that the body and blood are only Teeeived when the < jomra « nioaat is worthy , the wicked not receiving them at all . ' " Hds-G * aee is also of opinion .-that the-other doctrines of the Archdeacon , with regard to the presence of the body and ; biood of Christ in the Holy Eucharist under the form of bread Jtnd wine , -although the bread -and wine are not changed in their , natural substances , are unsound , and repugnant to the 28 th and 23 th Articles .

      " His Grace /' concluded Dr . 1 / ash . ington , " desires me further to state that ie will allow time to the Ven . Archdeacon to revoke Ms error until Wednesday , the 1 st of October next ; when , if no such revocation shall be delivered by that time into the Registry of Bath and'Wells , he will . pronounce sentence in this court , which- "will be adjourned to Tuesday , the 21 st day of October next , and be held in this place jit half-past one oksloiek . "

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      THE ROYAX . HOLIDAY MAKING . The Queen has commenced her . annual trips . by cruising about the Channel . She started on board her yacht on Monday ; visited Dartmouth on the same day , and proceeded up the river Dart as far as the picturesque village of Dittenham , embosomed in plum-tree orchards . Prince Albert then started in a river steamboat , and ascended nearly as far as Totness . On his return to Dartmouth , the royal party landed , and took a carriage drive , and were received on the steps of the quay , by the municipality . They were afterwards escorted by Sir Henry Seale through the grounds of his seat at Mount Boone . The town presented a very festive appearance ,

      and was illuminated at night , the royal squadron replying by burning blue lights . On Tuesday , the Queen and her family went to Plymouth , paid a visit to the Earl of Mount-Edgecumbe , and then proceeded to Mount Wise , where her Majesty was received by a guard of honour , who formed an escort to tho residence of the Port Admiral , Sir William Parker . Some members of tho royal family experienced inconvenience from . the boisterous state of tho weather . during the passage from Dartmouth . Prince Albert and tho Prince of Wales , on Tuesday , visited tho steam-woxks . of Keyham , Plymouth , and inspected tho various operations , there conducted .

      On Thursday , the Queen and tho royal family visited Plymouth Dockyard , and aftorwards reviewed tho troops . The Queen then retnrned < to the yacht , und continued ion 'board until ifour o ' olock , when the Fairy was put into ¦ requisition to convoy tho royal family across the Sound , . aitdiup Cutwater and tho Laira to Saltram , tho country residence of JSarl Morley , where about an hour was occupied in driving through the-WQoda * md grounds . Shortly aftor aix , to tho groat satisfaction of tho inhabitants , her Majesty drove through tho town of Plymouth and fcjtoneiiousc , and rejoined tho yacht .

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      FIRES . An oil , colour , and Italian -warehouse in Camberwell has been burnt to tho ground . Moot of tho inmates were asloop at tho timo , but they were got out . Gunpowder , camphino , nii ( l saltpotro , in largo quantities , formed pnrt of the fltook-in-trado ; and a tremendous explosion of thesocombustibloH at one time took pluco . Tho uamoa thon rose to a- vast height , and several of tho adjoining houses were greatly injured ;

      A conflagration of vroore ! th « n usual < magnitude burs : out about seven o ' clock on Tuesday evening at the larg < pianoforte factory of Messrs . Broadwood , situated in th < Horseferry-road , Westminster , 'the -premises consist o : five distinct ranges of buiMiags , three stories high , eacl * ang » . sunning p ^ jsdlel wftfcvtha -e * b # w . jifterWMifonei left at . six o ' clock in the evesw& previous temhitkiom £ > £ the foremen inspected the whole f&wmiwy- wAmmi sign of fire was observed ; but in anotfeeFJranrrtte fl amr ' had got a thorough mastery over the building , f 1 Efa < brigade aa&Lne fromtbestatioa in the , Hoj « Wfe * J > w it 0 ad . oflZy one hundred . yat&s from the factory , follotfidjrtfy quickly , and then , came the pacisb jeogwes < ot Qt-Jrim ? a and St . Margaret ' s . But there w « 3 . a scanjityof water . A large body of police soon assembled , t > y < wJiQBe JBid men were enabled . - ¦ to enter the buildijags , 3 and ttonmwe

      sotne -of the property , a few thousand feet otmakage&y being thrown down from , the roofs . Out of ttkshfire ranges of shops , four bad ignited , when Mr .: &ta $ i £ Bt foreman of the fire brigade , in Mr . Bcsidwood ' sjaba ^ aoe , determined by a xlespentte effort . to cut off th « oootwmnication with thefiftii xange , aad by the eoaplay » iaDt cf a large number of men with pifikaxes and oUierdanideanents— -the wind favouring this . operation—rtbtfflAmes W £ re prevented extending to the . « ortfoen » moet : abop ? , which , beyond injury from , severe eeorchieg ^ od Hrater , have not suffered . The rest of the vast aaamiflictnry is a total wreck , and the loss thus occasioned to / Maaexs . Broadwood is understood to be something jaimost fabulous . Hearly one thousand pianofortes , ja -vaiioos stages of naaaufacture , have been « £ terly lost , aad tbe valueof the woods and other materials destroyed ^ uztscHatis to aji . immense suaxi . About two hundred instraaacnic ,

      however , in varioas stages of < K > astructi « o , -w * re leBCjued . The fixe was got . under about-ten o ' clock . The origia of the- ^ conflagration is unknown ; hnti ^ hai it was not auppressed soener seexus attnbtttai ) le * o tioe want of water in the arenfaia—a fact wbichi « aplies , a breacb . of contract on the part of the . Chelsea Waterworks Company . The greatest precautions . egainst fo . 'Juwe always been taken by Messrs . Broadwox » d , the fit < Hr « s . being cased in iron , and uoder tins ewre of -the iofficials of the houses in which the firm has iasared for . the last aevea-and-twenty years , during -ujuefc time there has not been so much . ^ 3 a chitaney on See . The pxeraiaes Are exactly opposite tiiegasometere of tbe diartered Gas Company , . and so alarajjaig m * a the . ftppoarance . of , the fire iat one . period tbat 4 jte lauthotities felt it praident to discharge the gas by a main in jconfiexkot with their pother gasometer in Spifcalfieldfl .

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      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A faxai . accident has occurred on the Bristol ,. and Exeter Railway , near Taunton , to . aznan named Iteades , a packer on the line . An . excursion train ifrom Lojodon . was passing at the same time as the up-express from . Exeter . The man ' s atteation appeared , to be Attracted by the dowxi-exeuxsion . train , and , not hearing the upexpress behind him , -he was knocked down by the latter , and literally cut -to pieces .- —Mr . J . Wthitaaore Wanslow , a young . man , of Trinity College , Dublin , eldest aon of the Rev . Dr . Octavius Winslow , . of Leamington ,.. and nephew of Dr . JTorbes WinslcKw , lost . his life , while bathing in the sea . at Dover , . on the , 6 th insU—A -yo . u « g man , of the . name , of . Benson , a joiner , has juet-withia fearful accident at the Norton Iron Works . While making some alteration ,, he was caught by the fly-wJUeel , and whirled round with fearful velocity two , or , ths : ee

      times , till Jhis body was shockingly campraseed and mutilated . —Two men have iheen killed by . ljg ilitn ^ g , at Poynton , near Stockport . A third ^ ras struck . dowju by the same fiaah , hut not injured , tJuxugh tlv « aoles of his shoes were separated from -the uppornlaatUora .- —Aoonaznercial traveller lias been washed away iby the aea wiilo walking on tho aands at Inatow , North Devon . — A Mr . Henry Augustus Hutateiq , of Bxiato ] , . andiJVIr . Clement Jackson , of Cheedle ,. weie drowned at Southport a few days ago while bathing . Mr . Hmiatein -got out of his depth , aud , not . boing a swimmer , was aoQo . in peril . Mr . . Jackson -went . to . his . Asgiatance , . but woa dragged . down by tho ( dutch of the dxawjiing aimn , !» nd iboth perished . T > ltis took . pluco . an Abe sight , of aoxao . near relatives , who . were . bathing .. closo by .- —Two m , en have baen . suffocated in some old ^ worlungs of a . colliery near Huddersneld . Theione man wont to search . 4 v £ tor

      tho , other , Jhis -wife . having oxpressed . unoasiness about liiiu , and jneUher jcturxicd . After Xresh air had . been pumped into . tho hole , . same other inon antercd , and found both the dead . bodies . —Two youngmenbarobwa drowned by tho upsetting . of a aailiag beat iu Brodffck Bay , Arron . Two others who were with them wore . ^ ot on shore , though much exhausted . —A Mr . &lavert ^> a Manchester merchant , has lout hi » life while bathiqg at Scarborough . He was a . good awnnroer , but ho a carried away by tho " back water ; " and , rthoqgb . Ajaablo

      eflbrt , to save iiim was made by tho li « v . . Canon tEro-vor , of York , who ran grout risk of losing Jiia . awn . life ,.. and by tho boat ' s crow ututioncd at tho . spot , ho was lost . — Ah explosion , resulting in . tho , losa . of . at least ; ton , lives , occurred at a now colliory of Lord Wiard ' s , at JUuuwford-liull , botwouu Oldbury and Dudley , . on Wcdnouaoy morning . Tlio ux . iote . nco of . 0 re-damp had been obs » urv » d r and tho man hud : been cautioned not to , go down with , a nalcod light ; but . t > no . of . thorn jdid ^ io , . pud tho explosion ensued .

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      AnatiST 16 . 1 S 56 . ] TH . E LEABEE . ^ 7 ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 16, 1856, page 771, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2154/page/3/