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M rim' Armstroeg left the turniiihe-rstid as ith the .t Iii s:ivisien. Ile woes:infest

calling himself Courtebay. Almost immediately afterwai;k, he saw Licatenant Handley', who accompanied the military, upon noticing the vhire flag said,

party; and he fii oily believed that they were bothdfired by Courtenay himself. Maria Glover, who lived in the same house with Grimwood, and lie had reason to believe that a person pointed out to him as Cam was killed by

Thomas Millgate, a coach-porter, was engaged in the fight ; and stated some pat ticulars not elsewhere tretttiotted respecting it.

proceeded towaids biol. When within two toils °leach other, Courtenay coin.

silenced running, and jumped over a stump of a tree ; and going dose up to the beard the man with the bloody hands say, " Oh, oh! I've done the deed ; officer with a pistol in his right hand and a bludgeon in ilia left, lie presented now how must I escape from it ?" Hubbard was produced, but Owen

the pistol at time officer, and tired. The officer struck at Courtenay with his did not recognize him as the person in the shirt.sleeves : he poiuted

sword ; and Courtenay staggered, but whether struck, or to avoid the blow, he out another person in the room as most like him. Owen had been to couhl not say. Coo; tenay advanced with thtee or four of his men, armed with the house where the murder was committed, to try, as he said, " to bludgeons, and struck at the officer as he was in the act of falling. William nice a little money upon some security." This man's appearance was Wins was next to Courtenay, and was one of the men I 1st niensionol : and thought to denote insanity, though he said be could produce " respect- another man, who is dead, also advanced with a bludgeon. Witness had a able references " as to his being in his competent senses. Hubbard bludgeon in his right hand, given him by Mr. Pell ; with which he struck swore positively that be saw no vessel of any kind with blood in it on Courtenay On the bead, when he staggered back ; but whether he fell or not he the morning after the murder. He was himself calm arid collected. could not say, as withess himself wad knocktd down. Ile fell on his back, and, looking up, saw Courtenay standing over him, and fighting at Little and the g hi: then the soldiers began to fire; and Courtenay fell close to him, and he did not afterwards see hint move. Wituess was then struck another blow by one of Courtenay's party. Ile gut up, and the man ran

A leathern bag with 140 bullets, a quantity of matches, a pistol-case, a burning.lens, and some articles of dress supposed to belong to Com- tenay, were found in Borsenden Wood.

who kept the shop, recollected that a person answering the description of One of the witnesses, Foreman, prevaricated in his evidence. He

swore at first that Ire saw the woman named Sarah Culver, who Iol-

lowed Courtenuy, and tried to pour water through his lips as lie lay a did not hear time conversation, or the knife drop; but her shop was corpse on the gromad, and two other men named Edes and Spratt, with fall of people, and she did not pay much attention to the persons in Courtenay's party in the wood during the fight; but afterwards he the back-room. The girl Edwin restated her evidence with perfect coolness and accuracy. Many particulars wore that be did riot see them. A verdict of "wilful murder" was returned against Courtenay and eighteen others, not including Sarah Culver and the two men. One of the prisoners against whom a vers diet was given was William ‘Yills, who appears to have been the most Lieutenant Bennett was buried on Saturday, with military honours.

Martin, who set fire to York Minster, died on Sunday, in Betble- Forty men fired three vollies over his grave, and upwards of six thou- hem Hospital. Ile passed much of the latter years of his life in sand persons ate computed to have been present at his funeral. His

reading Fox's Martyrology. fate excited deep and general commiseration. He was on furlough, Two children were burnt to death yesterday morning, by a fire in a and was merely passing through Canterbury, when his company was or-

committed was Thomas Ovenden, a wretched old man of severity ; and one of those discharged was Mrs. Burford. This poor creature was manity towards the prisoners, ordered her to be taken to a separate to return by six o'clock to keep an engitgetnent a hich be bud made to more rioters were committed on the charge of wilful murder ; and nine in a state of dreadful distress ; her sobs and groans were pitiful. Dr. were discharged on their own recognizances. One of the prisoners Poore, the Magistrate, who appears to have behaved with much hu- On Monday, the Petty Sessions were held at Faversham. Four lind in the house escaped.

Cbc Counter. The daily papers are filled with accounts of inquests on the bodies of the persons killed in the Canterbury riot, and with particulars which the London reporters have collected respecting Thom, the pseudo fin William Courtenay. 'The inquest on Lieutenant Bennett's corpse was held at Boughton, en Saturday. Major Armstrong gave the following account of the conflict in which the Lieutenant and Courtenay both fell. " la consequence of directions he received, he left the turnpike-road, having Policeman, when she comes too, tell her she has no occasion to alarm herself

about her fate. That will compose her miod. The fact is, her husband was one of the rioters: she went from Borst:mien to the Wood tu exhort him to quit them but she could not succeed, and her husband was shot dead on tho spot. She was taken, as she was leaving the ground, and was in consequence detained as a prisoner. Courtenny said to her that he would shoot her if she did not go away, and that he would shoot her husband if he did. Such being the case, we shall have great pleasure in ordering her to be discharged."

Verdicts of " justifiable homicide " have been returned on the bodies of nine of the rioters who were killed.

From the evidence given at the inquest on Lieutenant Bennett, it has been seen that Courtenay wus not instantaneously struck down after he had killed Bennett, but fought on for a few seconds, during which he received several wounds beside a the fatal gun-shot. The reporter of the Chronicle bears testimony to his extraordinary strength of body and beauty of countenance-

" I have seldom Aren more beautiful or regular features. Ile had a broad fair forehead, aquiline nose, small well-cut inotali, and full rounded chin. The defect of his person was a very blunt neck ; but be had enormously broad shoulders, and could not have been lesa than six feet in height. * * In the barn where his body first lay, I saw the whitish blouse frock he wore when killed. It was actuslly steeped in blood ; and t you perteieihg that it Lad been greatly torn, I was assured that the tears ha I beeni I nle by persons visiting the place, and W110, WIWI ating, Isuppose, the chat acter of Courtenay, had taken these as pteeioui relics to be preserved."

Courtenay was buried on Tuesday, at Herneibill. There were some apprehensions of disturbiumes, and the funeral ceremony was hurried over. To resume the reporter's ourrative-

" The manner in which the funeral was conducted was certain'y the most extraordinary I ever witnessed; for the instatit that Courtena)'s holly had been placed in the Van, the (Liver whipped his horses, and o'l the tem oorary hearse was started at a smart trot ; while those on horsebaek, or in gigs an I carriages, instead of doiog that which I have stIwoys soai done, at least at other funerals, of permitting the corpse to press.de them, commenced rattling :Molt; the road at a smart gallop, so as to he at the (laurel:yard helms: the body ; while after the van were to be seen nonning along, at the very heit of their hpeed, the peas sants who had collected outside of the Ited roo puidie. house. " The coffin td Courtanay was brought to the dowel:yard about balf.past ten o'clock. At that time, I could nut notice more than about forty own, some laiter- ing in the fields adjoining the churchyard, and offlors standiog near the grave. The number of %%omen et:nattily did not exceed to may ; hut it, the f tees and name r f two or Roes, of these were depleted the deeps ht yief and vonsterna- tion. Am(intsst the men, I noCeetl, it on the railings t; hich enclose the churchyard, Eve men, three of whom I recognieed as atootii.;st the prisnnees who had been discharged } estet day at Faversham ; and a fiturth showed, hy his bandaged head nail his ghastly countetamee. th it he Lad been tsee of those who bad been wounded in the late affray. I watched the countetatuees of those men especially, to 1P4., it I could obwe ve any si4n of affliction or of sto row ; but there was none : they were all impressed with the same ehatat•t,rs which they had evinced when their his demeolod upon the Faversham Nlagistrates—there was nothing mine to be seen about them than sullen indifference or stolid igno- rance. The proceedings before them did not alter a single mnsele. They either felt not the s:Idoess of the scene before them, or they looked upon tile in- terment of their late leader us a mockery."

The ofliciatiog clergyman, :11r. Haudley, omitted that part of the funeral service which relates to the resin rcteiiin of the dead,—:t I 'raid, apparently, of encouraging the prevalent belief uniting iourtenay's ig- norant followers of his speedy resuirection. Numerous particulars are given, whieb prove the foiatical belief of the peasantry in Couttemiy's divinity. One woman 'QM her on to join him with " a mother's blessing ;" and would not believe, till she saw her son's broken thigh, that ancliody who followe,1 " Si William " could he hurt ; and even after she had seen Cutirtenny's corpse in the coffie, she said that her son had gone forth to " fight for his Saviour." Wills, who wrote threntening litters to persons to compel them to join Courtenay, laid been remarkable for his industry and quiet conduct. He is a goud performer on the flute, and for many years had been a chorister at his parish-church. He had a pretty, well-furnished cot. tage, and good farm.

On the Thursday morning, after be had killed Mears the constable, Courtenay took his sword and hacked the Imdy of his victim, exclaim- ing, " Now, am I uot your Saviour? " He eihninistered the sacrament —in bread and water—to his followers in the wood before the battle, and harangued them-

" Ile told them on this occasion, as he did on many others, that there Was great oppression in the lend, and indeed throughout the world. but that if they would folloN him, he would load them on to glory. Ile depie:ed the gentry as great oppretsms; threatened to deptive them of their estates, and talked of partitioning them into firms of futiy or fifty acres sunone. those who fdlowed him. Ile told them that he had come to ev:th oa a cloud', and that on a cloud he should some day be removed from them ; that neither bullets nor weapons could injure him or them, if they had but faith in him as their Saviour ; and that if ten thousand soldiers came against them, they would either turn to their side or fall dead at his command. As the end of his harangue, Alcxander Fold, whose jaw was afterwards shot off by the militaty, and who is now in Maid- stone gaol on a charge of murdering the constable Mears, knelt down at his feet and worshipped him; so did another man of the name of Brankford. Foad then asked Thom whether he should follow him in the body, or go home and follow him in heart. To this Thom replied, ' Follow ate in the body.' Foad then sprung 011 his feet in all eestacy of jay, and with a voice of great emulation exclaimed, Oh be joyful ! Oh be joyful! The Say tour has accepted me. Go on—go on; till I drop, I'll fallow thee ! ' Braukfinal also was ac- cepted as a follower, and exbilOted the same enthusiastic fervour."

Cottrtenay tittered terrific denunciations of eternal torture in hell, fire against all who should refuse to follow him. To sonic he pretended

that he was two thousand years old. He fired a pistol, said to be

loaded with ball, against his own body and at a party of his followers, without injury. A sagacious correspondent of the Murning Rost sug-

gests, that there might have been sonic "jugglery " on that occasion ; which is truly most likely, the jugglery consisting in not putting in the ball. He put some lighted matches under a corn-stack ; but the stack did not take fire, because as Courtenay said, and his companions be- lieved, he had commanded it not to burn. He shot at a star with his pistol, and his followers declared that it fell into the sea. His great day was to have been Sunday last—" glorious and bloody ;" but his plans were disconcerted by the previous Thursday's performances. Sarah Culver was one of the most infatuated of his disciples ; and believes still in his iesurrectiou, with tnany others. She is described as a masculine woman about forty, with a beard like a man's. 31r, Francis, Aliss Francis, and u Miss Horne are mentioned as person

who supplied Courtenay with a good deal of money; but at length Mr. Francis demanded proof of his title to the Powdetham estates, of which he talked so much, before be gave him any more cash. This very much enraged Courtenay: he called with his followers on Thursday at Mr. Francis's house, and obtained some refreshment, but afterwards threatened to sack his house. On one occasion he said that he should destroy a union workhouse : and this is the only Instance given of his hostility to the Poor-law. Two numbers of a pamphlet were published by Courtenay at Can. terbury, price twopence. One was "printed, published, and declared by Sir W. Courtenay, K.M. ;" the other by " George Frederick Hills, for Sir IV. Courtenay, K. M." The subject of these pamphlets were chiefly the liberty of the press, the cause of agriculture, a cheap paper currency, and a more equitable distribution of property. The rhapsody is excessively stupid, and ought to have been quite harmless. It is stated that this madman was the son of a small farmer and maltster at St. Col unlit, in Cornwall ; fifteen years ago, he was a cellarman to some wine-merchant in Truro. He succeeded his former employers in their business, which Ile conducted with apparent success for three or four years. His premises were destroyed by fire, and he got MK from the insurance office—more, it was suspected, than the amount of his loss. He freighted a vessel to Liverpool, where he sold the cargo; end went abroad, living on the proceeds, and keeping up his establish- ment in Truro. He was next heard of as a candidate for Canterbury; since which time his career is pretty well known. He bad ulways an ex. tonne facility in quoting Scripture, so that no " untamed person," Bs his poor dupes in Kent said, " could stand before Sir William." Mr. Silatilton, a banker in Canterbury, %rho has also a farm at has written a letter to the Home Secretary, stating that five of his labourers, who were earning half.u.crown a day, and their wives and children from 78. to 48. a week, joined Courtenay, together with several small farmers, solely from their belief in his divinity and power to work miracles. Mr. Stioulton says that they are deplorably ignorant, and can neither read nor write. He also, doubtless, gained seine followers by his lavish expenditure of the money he procured. When be had a shilling hi his pocket nobody wanted a meal. lie shared all he had with his disciples, and lived as they did.