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London and its environs displayed the usual spectacle on Easter Mon- day, of immense crowds bent on holydaymaking; but the reports from the several places of entertainment are less specific than usual. Vast numbers visited Greenwich and Stepney fairs. Shoals of people squeezed into the British Museum, the National Gallery, and the other gratuitous and paid exhibitions. A great object of curiosity was the Vernon collection: people packed themselves into the cellars so tightly, that nobody could see; and after experiencing the pressure for a little while, the faculties of the visiter were absorbed in the labour of getting out again.

Easter Monday has not been neglected at the Mansionhouse; where the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave a grand entertainment to a dis- tinguished company. The Marquis of Thomond, the Earl of Breadalbane, Earl Waldegrave, the Earl of Cardigan, the Bishop of Lichfield, Sir Bald- win Walker, Sir Henry Bulwer, and several Foreign Ambassadors, were among the guests. The Cabinet was represented by Mr. H. G. Ward, Secretary to the Admiralty; whose health was proposed by the Lord Mayor with personal compliments, and with excuses for the holyday absence of the Ministers, on account of the arduous duties that have lately been thrown upon them. Mr. Ward, Sir Henry Bulwer, and the Bishop of Lichfield, made brief speeches.

Mr. W. F. Rock has been unanimously elected Guardian of the Poor by the parishioners of St. Stephen's Walbrook, in successful opposition to Al- dernrall Michael Gibbs.

`A ballot was taken at the India House on Wednesday, for the election of six Directors in the room of six retiring by rotation. The retiring Di- rectors were Lieutenant-General Sir James Law Lushington, Mr. George Lyall, Mr. Elliott Macnaughten, Mr. John Petty Muspratt, Mr. Martin Tucker Smith, and Mr. William Wigram. The ballot resulted in the elec- tion of Sir Robert Campbell, Bart., William Joseph Eastwick, Esq., Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart., Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Sykes' John Claremont Whiteman, Esq., and Sir Henry Willock. Major-General Sir Archibald Galloway was chosen Chairman, and John Shepherd, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, for the year ensuing.

The ceremony of the reception of a young lady into the order of the Sisters of Mercy was performed on Tuesday, in the chapel of the Most Holy Trinity, Parker's Row, Bermondsey. The chapel was thronged with fashionable-looking people. The postulant was a Miss Barry, the daughter of highly-connected parents who have recently returned from India. The young lady is said to possess a large fortune in her own right, which she will devote wholly to the service of the order with which she has connected herself.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, Joseph Cushway, the youth who fired a pistol at the girl Tyler, wounding her in the head, was put on his trial. Ctishway seems to have been excited by jealousy because the girl spoke to another young min. The evidence was quite conclusive. For the defence, it was urged that the accused merely intended to frighten not to hurt the girl. He was found guilty of firing the pistol with intent in do grievous bodily harm. Sen- tence, transportation for fourteen years.

Charles Lee was tried for stealing money from Mr. Hatfield. The accused is the gipsy who headed a predacious mob that started from Kennington Common on the occasion of a Chartist meeting in March last year, and broke into and plundered divers shops at Camberwell. Mr. Hatfield, a tailor of Southampton Street, was shutting his shop in alarm when the mob came up; they broke his windows, and Lee took money from his pocket. The fellow was convicted, and ordered to be transported for life.

William Scollard and his brother John, egg-dealers at Bermondsey, were tried for setting fire to a dwelling-house. The particulars have been already stated. The men fired their shop in more than one place, at night, while twenty-three lodgers were in the house. The evidence was very strong, and the Jury quickly gave a verdict of "Guilty." The sentence was transportation for life.

William Tootel, the son of the postmaster of Edgeware, who took advantage of his father's position to forge and utter several post-office money-orders pleaded guilty. In consideration of his youth—he is only sixteen—the Judge pissed the lenient sentence of eighteen months' imprisonment.

Hyde, a clerk in the Poet-office, pleaded guilty to stealing a letter containing a five-pound bank-note. Sentence, transportation for seven years.

On Thursday, William Williamson pleaded guilty to a charge of uttering a forged check for 2351.00 Messrs. Hankey and Company. Sentence, transporta- tion for life.

Eliza Copeland and John her husband were indicted for the murder of their child, five years old, by putting him on the fire in a grate. The child seems to have been neglected, and the father had threatened It; but the evidence by no means sustained the charge of murder: it was more probable that the deceased had accidently set himself on fire by falling against the grate while his mother had gone down stairs. A verdict of "Not guilty" was recorded without calling for a defence. The couple, however, were detained to meet a charge of ill-treating and neglecting the child. .

At the Mansionhouse, on Saturday, William Mansell, aged eighteen, and Ed- ward Hardy, twenty-two, were charged with forgery and robbery. Hardy had been clerk to Mr. Polling, a stock-broker in Capel Court; his master signed a check on his banker, directing Hardy to fill it up for 101.; but the clerk made it for 1051., got it cashed, and then lied with the proceeds ; Mansell being a com- panion. The culprits were discovered in a curious way. Ellicomb, an Exeter policeman, was watching at a coffeehouse near the railway station at that city for a man charged with arson; one of the amused 'resembled the person for whom Ellicomb was looking, and as the couple had a chest with them his suspicions were Increased. The chest was taken up-stales alhat the officer might search it there Mansell snapped a loaded pistol inhinvwn)mouth, but it wanted the per.. cussion-cap. Mansell had 104 sovereigns ine canvass bag. Mr. Pulling was averse to prosecuting the young men; bdt Alderman Hooper committed them for At Bow Street Police-office,-on Wednesday, Richard Loder, the overseer of the Justitia hulk, who absconded with 7501, was reexamined. A letter was read in which he confessed his crime, declared that he had never had any peace since its commission, and begged, on account of his family, a merciful treatment from the Crown.—Committed.

Miss Lydia Dixon, said to be the daughter of a deceased solicitor, has been detected at Richmond in the act of committing a robbery. A policeman saw her take a large roll of huckaback from a draper's door and secrete it under her shawl ; a large pocket, worn in front like an apron' contained a Cashmere dress and six lace collars; at her lodgings a great hoard of miscellaneous articles, sur- mised to have been stolen, was discovered. Miss Dixon was professedly a teacher of music, but had no pupils. Before the Magistrates, she said it would kill her to be sent to prison. Sir T. Reeve told her she should have thought of that before; and he remanded her.

At Lambeth Police-office, on Thursday, Miss Harriet Martin, governess of the Mart National School at South Lambeth, was reexamined on a charge of cruelty to John Hughes, a child three years old. It may be remembered that Miss Martin was accused of wilfully burning the child, by placing him on the top of a hot stove. The boy is now out of danger. The evidence adduced on Thursday did not tend to prove the criminal charge ; and Miss Martin received the highest character from divers persons who had long known her: she always treated the children kindly. Mr. Games, who appeared for the parents of Hughes, said that after what had now come out, he would not proceed further in the matter.

The Coroner's Jury on the bodies of the three young women who perished at Miss Mann's school, St. John's Wood, pronounced that they were "found dead in a small and ill-ventilated room; and that their deaths were caused by the poisonous fumes of burning charcoal which had been sold at an extravagant price, under the fraudu- lent name of prepared fuel; and that these attempts to vend charcoal under the name of prepared fuel, to be used in Carman's or any such portable stoves,_is a scands'ous imposition on the public." In answer to a question by the Deputy Coroner, the Jury said they attached no blame to Miss Mann.

An assassination has been committed in the Blackfriars Road. Henry. Lamb- skill and several companions had been drinking at a public-house near Rowland Hill's Chapel, on Monday, and Lambskill had quarrelled with William Bailey about money. As the companions walked home, Lambskin suddenly cried, " Bill has stabbed me I "and fell back into the arms of one of the party. No one saw a blow struck, and Bailey did not attempt to escape. Lambskill died in a short time; a small wound was found in his breast, winch seemed to have been made with a stiletto or penknife. On the arrival of a policeman, Bailey stood lean' against a lamp-post, and he was apprehended: in his waistcoat-pocket was fo

an open penknife, with a long blade such as would have made the wound, but un- stained by blood. At examinations before the Police Magistrate, Bailey has de- nied that he did the act—" Lambskin was one of his best friends." A Coronae& Jury has returned a verdict against him of "Wilful murder."