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The proceedings in the British Parliament since
oul last accounts were not of general interest


The most prominent topic Of the London pa
pers is the fatal riot near Canterbury, of which
VIC published an account on the arrival Of the
Great Western The subject had been brought
up in Parliament, in consequence Of certain seri-
Gus charges alleged against the magistrates of
Kent and the keepers Of the lnnatic asylum in
which Courtenay had been confined, for allowing
him to 60 at large. Courtenay's real name, It
seems, was John Nichols Thom.


The affair was investigated by tho magistrates
on the 4th, at Favcsham in Kent fifteen of the
prisoners being before them, four of whom were
committed on the charge Of wifu murder. Nine
Of the rioters were killed in the aflray.


The following is part Of an article on this
subject:


From The London Chronicle


Our pcasantry, to use the vulgar phrase, are
better fed than taught. They feed themselves.
but they are left to men like the Knight Of Malta
to instruct them. This is the point TO which
we desire to draw the attention Of cvery we'll
wisher to his country. How comes it that there
exists in Kent, or any part Of England, degree
ofignorancc so brutish degree of superstition so
grovclling, as the painful and humiliating ac
counts from the neighborhood of Canterbury have
brought to our knowledge? Why do we pay
three millions per dnnam to our clergy? That
the son of Cornish chandler, on the strength
OF pair of brawney shoulders and leather lungs
shall be received as the Saviour of mankind, and
make considerable rural population, men, women,
and children, believe him an incarnation Of the
Supreme Being!


To what purpose, then, do we pour three
millions per a,anuna into the bosom of the Church?
Are we not entitled to demand larger return for
so lavish an endowment? Have we not fair
right to complain that a clergy, which has now
been legally established, and munifcently pro-
portioned for more than three centuries, has left
so much as one district in the island in state
of such utter destitution of the very alphabet of
Christianity, and the first rudments of knowledge,
as to mistake person like Courtenay for the
Redeemer, to worship him as the Son of God,
to believe in his omnipotence, his Immortality and
his resurrection.