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Easter Monday was a real holyday to the thousands of toilers in Lon- don. The day was beautiful; and the crowds who filled the Parks, and sallied as far as Greenwich and Hampton Court, were enormous. Green- wich Fair of course carried the palm ; it is stated that nearly 100,000 persons were there, who had journeyed variously by steamer, high road, and rail. On the railway, indeed, it is pleasantly told by one observer, the army of porters were swept from their posts by the crowd like chaff before the wind ; all demands for tickets, and all attempts at anything like assortment of passengers in grades, were scouted as official pedantry, or joked off as pure facetiousness. " Third-classes " rejoiced in a success- ful assault on the sumptuous carriages intended for their monied betters ; and first-class dandies, in "delicate fig," were fain to be thankful for the few square inches of standing-room meted to them in the crushing boxes " opprobriated " to the poor. In Greenwich Fair there was a sad decline in fat ladies, a degeneracy in prodigious infants, and a shortcoming in in- tellectual brutes ; with a vast increase of incentives to utilitarian outlay,— as the "warranted correct likeness by the photo-costaorande process, for one penny," and the like.

Epping Hunt was revived : a red deer was uncarted at Bnckhurst Hill, and three or four hundred Cockney huntsmen started in the chase. Although there were such inducements to forsake the Metropolis for its rural suburbs, the treats for the mind's-eye, to be found only within the walls, attracted a greater number of seekers than ever. Nearly thirty thousand persons entered the British Museum somesix thousand more than in any former year. With the waning of the day the healthful and diffusive circulation was reversed ; the lungs relinquished their streams of revivified humanity, and the heart of the Metropolis—its theatres—was regorged ; and then the bead in its turn becoming full and drowsy, London again fell into its profound nightly sleep.

The Lord Mayor's Easter banquet was attended by a greater number of guests than usual ; several Foreign Ministers, Lord Dudley Stuart, and Sir Willient Moles worth, being among the number. The convivial tone of the speeches so far moved the sympathies of the French Ambas- sador that he declared himself quite "at home " in that mansion, whose hospitalities he has so frequently shared.

It is stated that "arrangements have been concluded for affording to the Metropolitan public much increased facilities of admission to the gardens and the grounds of Chelsea Hospital." The centre walk, and the beautiful terrace which borders the Thames, are to be opened without restriction daily, instead of on Sundays and particular days of the year only, as at present. At the Easter Vestry meeting of St. Michael's Walbrook, Mr. Rock and Mr, Flight requested the permission of the parishioners to retire from the offiee to which they have been reelected for some years, in order to their more effective waging of the contest with Alderman Gibbs and the Select Vestry. Affairs having now been got into something like order, they Wished to see a recurrence to the wholesome practice of electing new officers annually. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Henry Rock were elected in the place of the retired Churchwardens.

The second party of female emigrants, sent out by Mr. Sidney Herbert's Society, left London on Tuesday, to embark in the Tory for Adelaide. The emigrants were thirty-one-in number; and were all—as most of the first party were—young women who had been driven to the resource of needlework by inability to obtain places in families. Very effective -ar- rangements had been made in the Tory, a barque of 480 tons, for the comfort of the emigrants ; whose berths occupy the best part of the 'tween decks, are separated by a bulk-head from the rest of the ship, and are placed by lock and key under the perfect guardianship of the matron. The Reverend Messrs. Queckett, Brown, anti Sanger, mustered the young women in their cabin, counselled them on their religious and moral duties, and then gave them the various things useful on the voyage for comfort and advantageous employment. The young women unexpectedly replied, by presenting a memorial composed and written by themselves, affectingly describing their gratitude for what the Society had _done on their behalf, and praying God that they might never disgrace their patrons or their country. The Society take elaborate securities that the recipients of its benefits shall unite the characteristics of distressed needlewomen with those of well-adapted emigrants. Each applicant receives a paper of queries, on points concerning age, education, employment, recent earnings, family circumstances, and the reasons felt for emigration ; a householder's certi- ficate of character, and a medical certificate of physical qualification for active colonial life, are also required ; and over all a vouching certificate of genuineness from some known magistrate or clergyman. All requisites complied with, the applicants enter the Home, and remain under the per- sonal inspection and training of the trustworthy matron of the Society, till a sufficient emigrant party have been brought together.

At the Thames Police Office, on Monday, Jane Kirtland was charged with the murder of her husband. The deceased was a butcher at Shadwell ; the couple often quarrelled, and the husband had taken out divers peace-war- rants in consequence of his wife's violence. On the 23d March, a quarrel arose in the shop ; Kirtland called his wife a foul name ; she said if he re-

peated it she would chop him ; he did repeat it ; she immediately seized a chopper and struck him on the arm. Death followed, from inflammation. Before the Police Magistrate, the woman, conducting herself very coolly, cross-examined her son to show that the quarrel arose about her husband's Bending away meat to his relations.—Remanded for a week.

Emma Sanderson, a respeotable young married woman, living in Napier Street, Horton, has killed her infant and attempted suicide, during a fit of insanity consequent on a recent confinement. Some marks on the infant's nook seem to have created a morbid horror in the poor mother's unstrung mind. She was discovered in the act of strangling herself ; and when pre-

vented, said, "I have killed my baby, and if Mary [the servant] hadn't come in .I should have killed myself, and we should have been happy together." She then took a piece of tape from her pocket and said—" Take this, it's

what I have done .the deed with; rub it against the marks on the necks of the other children, and it will cure them, as it is now charmed." She has attempted her life twice since she was arrested. A Coroner's Jury inquired into the case on Monday, and returned a verdict of " Wilful •murder."

Mary Noble, whose sweetheart, Corby, is now reader sentence of transport- ation for a recent attempt on her lie, has applied to the Magistrate at

Clerkenwell Police Court, stating that she wishes to marry Corby, and go out

of the country with him : she 113 sure he was beside himself when he at- tacked her, and that he tenderly loves her, as she does him. She is desti- tute. Noble's relatives second her wish. Mr. :Combe recommended her to memorialize the Secretary of State; and in the mean time ordered her a ggrraatuity. Subsequently it was arranged that she should be sent to her ds in the oountay.

At the Manaionhouee, on Tuesday, Mr. Walter Watts was reexamined. The evidence given respecting the check for 1,4001. the produce of which was alleged to have been appropriated by the prisoner, with his stealing of the

piece of paper on which it was written, and his erasing an entry in the pass- book and making a fresh entry for a smaller amount, was of a similar nature

to that formerly adduced, though fuller and more complete. But es addi- tional testimony is expected to be obtained, Mr. Watts was again remanded for a week ; his counsel assenting, with the remark that he courts the ful- lest inquiry. The last evening of Greenwich Fair—Wednesday—had an evil termination. Some soldiers of the Royal Artillery having indulged too freely in practical

jokes on some of the persons entering the shows, a fightarose, which increased to a general fray between nearly a hundred soldiers on the one side and the actors and general sight-seers of the fair on the other. It grew beyond the control of the Police; and as weapons were seized out of the "properties" of the theatres, bloody work ensued. A large reinforcement of mounted Police under Mr. Mallalieu, and a picket of armed soldiers from Woolwich, were needed to stop the conflict: twenty-one soldiers were taken prisoners, and marched off to barracks ; some of these and many of the other party were badly wounded.