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The usual popular observances of Easter week have been duly honoured in the Metropolis. On Monday, the Lord Mayor gave the customary entertainment at the Mansionhouse. Among the company were, the Duke of Cambridge, the Earl and Countess of Wicklow, the Bishop of Ripon, Baron Koller, the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires, Sir B. Codrington, the Hurreen Khan of Delhi, Lady Harriet Howard, Viscount Fitzalan, Mr. Justice Patteson, M. Montezuma the Brazilian Envoy, M. Fortique the Venezuelan Envoy, M. Murphy the Mexican Chargé d'Affaires, Mr. Mark Philips, Mr. James Stephen, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East India Company, and several of the City aristocracy.

A stag was turned out, to be hunted by the Royal buckhounds, on Stoke Common, about six miles from Windsor. The Earl of Uxbridge, the Lord Chamberlain, was the only person from the Castle who was present. The same deer, " Mouse, ' was uncarted that was used on Easter Monday last year at the tarn-out on Ascot-heath. After a run of two hours and a half, he was taken near Salt Hill.

Last year, says the chronicler of the Royal sport, "an excellent

breakfast was given by the Royal Huntsman to the noblemen and gen- tlemen who are in the habit of following the Royal hounds. This sea- son that entertainment was dispensed with, in consequence, it is gene- rally supposed, of a number of those who hunt but once a year having taken possession of the apartment, and so unsparingly partaken of the prepared delicacies that those for whom they were intended were obliged to pursue their sport minus that agreeable meal. It is also said that some of the plate having been abstracted by the light-fingered fra- ternity in attendance, has had its weight in changing the place of meeting."

Greenwich Fair was held, of course ; but the unsettled sky and chill north-easter kept several of the holyday visiters at home. The attend- ance was more numerous on the second day ; and on both days, the fares of the steamers being reduced to sixpence, a very great number of persons passed up and down the river. The newer popular entertainments, which wax in attraction as the older are falling into decay, the public exhibitions of art, were visited by immense numbers. At the British Museum, upwards of 4,000 per- sons went through the rooms in the course of the day. The attendance at the National Gallery was greater than has been known on any holy- day occasion. There were a great many vans on the Western roads on their way to Hampton Court, to visit the Cartoons. The total number of visiters to the Tower was—to the Armouries 1,045, and to the Jewel Office 585; and the amount received for tickets, at the reduced admis- sion of 6d. each, was 40/. 15s. The number of visiters to the Jewel Office, at 6d. each, was larger than in any three months under the old system of high charges for admission.

The Standard contradicts the statement that Lord Teignmouth, the Member for Marylebone, is about to accept the Chiltern Hundreds.

London will be saved from the horrors of Popery; for it possesses two Operative Conservative Associations. One was formed at the Lecture-room of the (inoperative) Protestant Association, at Holborn Bars, on Tuesday. On Wednesday night there was a meeting of the other, the " Marylebone Tradesmen and Operative Association, for the purpose of talking and resolving against Maynooth College. The chairman, a Mr. Dalton, contrasted Protestantism and Popery— There was no nobler privilege tinder heaven than that of being a Protestant, the consistent follower of Jesus Christ. Our Saviour himself, with reverence be it spoken, was a Protestant : he protested against those errors and abomina- tions which the Church of Rome had since adopted and practised. It had been said, and he thought with truth, that Coin was the first Prpist. He sought by sacrifice without blood to gain acceptance with God; and because his brother was more righteous than himself he persecuted him even unto- death. He adopted this as his opinion, because he did not think that Popery began in what was called the Church of Rome. He looked upon Popery as the religion of human nature; as just that sort of religion which the cor- rupt heart of man had devised for himself—a revolting against the revelation of God.

Another speaker, Mr. J. Lord, was alarmed at a conspiracy to de- throne the Queen, which he had detected in a Catholic paper, the Lon- don and Dublin Orthodox Journal, so recently as the 5th March last— The passage, which was cunningly given in a letter purporting to be from a correspondent, appeared to be put forth as a sort of feeler respecting the right of her most gracious Majesty to the throne of these realms. ("Hear !") And in these days of menace, when it was exultingly declared that the first cannon fired by Great Britain in the prosecution of a war, however just, would be a signal for the emancipation of Ireland, the meeting would know what weight to attach to such a passage. Speaking of Louis Philippe, the writer says, " I often wonder how affairs would now stand in England if he was King; for it is not, perhaps, generally known that he has greater claim to the British throne than Queen Victoria, being descended from the eldest son of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, (daughter to James the First,) while Victoria is descended from the younger daughter." (Loud cries of" Hear, hear !")

The Chartists held a meeting at White Conduit House on Monday, for the purpose of electing delegates to form a Convention in conjunc- tion with ten other delegates who have been elected in the country. Through some misunderstanding as to time, none of the country dele- gates attended the meeting. About four hundred persons were present. The delegates elected were Mr. Neesom, Mr. Wall, and Mr. Boggis ; and it was stated that arrangements would be made for calling the Con- vention together early in May.

The great eight-oared cutter match between Oxford and Cambridge Universities took place on Wednesday. New boats were built expressly for the occasion, by Searle. The Oxford men, who have been beaten in every contest with the rival institution, were practising for a fort- night beforehand : their antagonists took it more easily, and did not put their boat into the water until Friday. The betting last week was 5 to 4 on Cambridge, and at the time of starting it was 7 to 4. The ran was from Westminster Bridge to the upper side of Putney Bridge. The signal for the start was given by firing a pistol at ten minutes past six in the evening. The Cambridge men got the advantage in the start, and they maintained it throughout : they passed the Penitentiary at Milbank half a length ahead ; at Vauxhall Bridge they were ten seconds in advance ; at the Red House at Battersea the Oxford men gained a little ; but at Battersea Bridge the others had more than re- gained the advantage, by thirty-two seconds ; and they shot the centre arch of Putney Bridge one minute and five seconds ahead. The Ox- ford boat was carvel-built, the planks not being overlapped, but fitted exactly at the edges, so as to form perfectly smooth sides to the boat.

A plan is in agitation for opening a park in the neighbourhood of the- Tower Hamlets. Lord Duncannon, Lord Normanby, and Lord Mel- bourne are said to be favourable to the project, if certain difficulties in the disposal of Crown lands can be obviated. Thirty thousand persona have memorialized the Queen on the subject.

At a meeting of chemists and druggists, held in the Crown and An- chor Tavern yesterday, an association was formed, to be called "The Pharmaceutical Association of Great Britain." An organized opposi- tion to Mr. Hawes's Medical Reform Bill was one motive to the meeting.

The usual annual report of the Royal Hospitals in the City has been published, with the statistics of their operations for the past ,ear. In Christ's Hospital, the number of cligdren apprenticed and discharged from the school during 1840 was 157, including five apprenticed to masters of ships from the Navigation School : the number of burials is 14: the children now under care of the hospital in London and Hertford number 1,245: there are to be admitted on presentation, 190; in all, 1,435. In St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the patients admitted, cured, and discharged, during the year, were, in-patients, 5,015; out- patients, 12,827 ; casual patients, 15,830; in all, 33,672: the number of burials was 419 : there remain under cure, in-patients, 475; out-patients, 1,398. From St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark, the number of sick, wounded, maimed, and diseased persons discharged, has been, 2,897 in- patients, 32,476 out-patients, including casualties (in which many of the sufferers were relieved with money and necessaries, on their discharge); the total number discharged, 35,373: the number of burials was 317 : there remain under cure 408 in-patients ; 736 out-patients : the entire number of persons relieved was 36,834. The number of offenders confined in Bridewell Hospital has been 1,084; besides 74 apprentices sent by the Chamberlain for solitary confinement, and 150 destitute vagrants ; in all, 1,308. In Bethlem Hospital, of curable patients there remained, on the 1st January 1840, 61 men, 110 women, total 171: admitted during 1840, 128 men, 180 women, total 308: there were discharged, cured, 64 men, 109 women, total 173; uncured, 25 men, 44 women, total 69: the number of deaths in this class was 12: and there remained on the 31st December, 72 men, 102 women, total 174. The incurable patients remaining in the hospital on the 1st January were, 26 men, 38 women, total 64: admitted in 1840, 17 men, 14 women, total 31: died, 3 men, 1 woman : remaining incurable patients in the hospital on the 31st December, 38 men, 50 women, total 88. The criminals remaining in the hospital on the 1st January 1840 were, 65 men, 15 women, total 80: there were admitted in 1840, 7 men, 4 women, total 11: the number discharged cured was, 5 men, 1 woman, total 6: died, 5 men, 2 women, total 7: criminals remaining in the hospital on the 31st December 1840, 62 men, 16 women. The total number of all classes discharged in various ways during 1840 was 325; and there remained in the hospital at the end of the year 340.

The intended change in the guards of the dockyards of Deptford and Woolwich took place on Wednesday, the old constables being supplanted by the Metropolitan Police. [The introduction of the New Police into the dockyards of Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Pembroke, must be pre- pared by special acts of Parliament.]

On Saturday, Mr. Deputy Tyars attended the Police Committee of the Common Council in Guildhall, to explain why certain books had not been delivered up to the notorious Joseph Adey. Mr. Tyars said, that after Adey had been imprisoned under a commuted sentence for felony, he assigned his books over to his brother, Mr. John Adey ; and, with the concurrence of the latter, Mr. Tyars had destroyed them, lest Adey should return to his old trade again. During a conversation on the subject, Mr. Alderman Copeland said he knew that Adey had re- covered money for people, for he had actually done so by himself; and a Magistrate named Gough had recovered several thousands through his instrumentality. But Alderman Copeland always refused Adey his twenty-shilling fee: he paid him five per cent, upon obtaining the property. Adey, said the Alderman, had obtained immense sums of money for merchants, which otherwise they would have lost : this fact was proved from the official returns of Unclaimed Dividends, which had been laid before the House of Commons on the motion of Mr. Palmer. Adey, who was present, said that he had prepared fresh books, in which was entered unclaimed property to the amount of 2,000/.

Ninety-eight persons were summoned to attend at Worship Street Police-office, on Tuesday, for non-payment of church-rates in the parish of St. Mary, Stoke Newington. One man paid the sum de- manded. Several of the others objected to the short notice which they had received of the summons ; and all the cases were adjourned for a week.

Mr. James Clark, one of the Official Assignees of the Court of Bank- ruptcy, has resigned, leaving a deficiency in his accounts. This is the second case of the kind which has occurred lately. Since the retire- ment of the other Official Assignee, Mr. Abbott, Sir C. F. Williams, the Commissioner, has exacted very precise accounts from all the Official Assignees, in each particular estate. This Mr. Clark could not give; and so he stated in a letter which Sir C. F. Williams read in court on Tuesday. He is not known to have engaged in any of the speculations of the day ; and his defalcation is said to have arisen from his appro- priating small sums to meet the necessities of the moment, until he was unable to render the scrutiny suddenly demanded. The deficiency is trifling in amount; being only 7,000/. spread over 300 estates.

On the opening of term yesterday, the Lord Chancellor entertained the Judges at breakfast at his house in Bruton Street. Mr. Justice Wightman took the oaths in the Court of Queen's Bench, as one of the Queen's Judges.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, Louisa Valentine, a woman of respectable appearance, was indicted for stealing a jacket The prosecutor, Edward Cook, said that his wife's name was Valentine but that she was no relation to the prisoner ; with whom, however, they had some slight acquaintance. She called lately, and took off the mantelpiece a duplicate ticket for the jacket, and afterwards redeemed it from a pawnbroker's shop, where it had been pledged. When pressed to tell where his father-in-law was, the prosecutor at first said that Mr. Valentine had only lately returned from Germany ; that he did not know where he lodged ; and that he had seen him once within the week, somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Commercial Road : but it ulti- mately came out, when a younger brother of Mr. Cooke's was examined, that Mr. Valentine lived with his son-in-law, and had actually break- fasted with them before they came into court that very morning. It was then explained, that Mrs. Valentine, who is a Frenchwoman, had come over to England to indict Mr. Valentine for bigamy ; and the im- plication was, that the redeeming of the jacket was a plan devised by the Cookes to bring her into trouble, and so to get rid of her. Mrs. Valentine was then acquitted and discharged ; and Cooke and his wife, who had given evidence like her husband's, were ordered to take her place, on a charge of perjury. They were committed for trial on a future day. Harriet Longley, the woman who threw her child into the New River lately to silence its cries of hunger, was convicted of murder at the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday. The Jury accompanied their verdict with a recommendation of mercy ; which the Judge, directing sentence of death to be recorded, promised to urge in the proper quarter.

Thomas Bradstock, a young man of respectable appearance, was con- victed at the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, of perjury in fraudulently voting at the late election of Bridgemaster for the city of London. He described himself as a Freeman of the City and a Livery- man of the 1/raper's Company. At a public-house, after the election, he admitted that he received five shillings for his vote. One of the party present charged him with being no Liveryman at all ; a dispute arose ; the circumstance got wind; and inquiries were instituted, which led to the present trial. He was sentenced to pay a fine of one shilling, and to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correc- tion for a year One John Read was brought before Alderman Pine, at the Mansion.- house, on Tuesday, for using very indecent and abusive language to the Duke of Cambridge, as he was getting into his carriage after the Mansionhouse dinner on Monday. Read threatened to punch the Duke's head ; and accused him of having robbed him of twenty-eight shillings. The man excused himself by saying that he was a poor bird- catcher ; and that he was so drunk that he did not know what he was doing ; he had lost all recollection of the matter. He was remanded.

James Roose, a clerk in the inland department of the General Post- office, was examined at Bow Street Police-office, on Wednesday, on a charge that he had stolen two letters. It was his duty to assist in sorting the letters ; and on Wednesday morning he was observed by a messenger to secrete one of them. An upper clerk was told of it, and Roose was called into the Superintending Presidents' room ; where one of the Presidents, Mr. Vandergucht, questioned him upon the subject. He hesitated, and then drew the letter from his pocket. It contained a sovereign. His excuse was, that he had been at Greenwich fair over- night, and had got so drunk that he did not know what he was about. When Mr. Vandergucht gave orders for a Policeman to be called, he exclaimed, "Oh, my poor friends ! Give me a razor and I'll cut my throat." The fragments of the second letter were found in his coat, on searching his lodging. He admitted that he had taken a sovereign from it. He was remanded for a week.

Another young man, Henry Price, assistant to a receiving-house- keeper in Thames Street, was charged at Bow Street Police-office, on Thursday, with stealing a five-pound note from a letter, and James William Stevens with receiving it knowing it to have been stolen. The letter was from Mr. Nalder, of the Chamberlain's Office, Guildhall, to a Mr. Ainslie, at Paignton, in Devon ; and it contained 751. in notes. It reached its destination ; but it had been opened, and 5/. had been taken out of it. The note was changed at a tea-dealer's in the City, and it was traced back to the prisoners. The charge was not denied. They were remanded till Wednesday next.

At Marlborough Street Police-office, on Wednesday, Charles Fanconrt was charged with stealing some gold-leaf, and Henry and George Bauldry with feloniously receiving it. Mr. Creswick, a composition ornament-maker, in Compton Street, Soho, said that about four months back he received an anonymous letter stating that he was robbed of gold. He directed Fancourt, who was his clerk, to warn his workmen of the consequences to themselves if they were detected in purloining the gold ; and he ordered the foreman of the gilders to account for every packet of gold which he received. This led to the discovery of an error in Fancourt's accounts, who had charged for a greater quantity than had been consumed or in fact delivered ; and it was afterwards found that gold-leaf manufactured by Mr. Seymour, the gold-beater employed by Mr. Creswick, had been pledged at a pawnbroker's. It was detected by its tint. Mr. Seymour said that there were about eight different colours of gold ; gold of that colour being supplied only to a limited number of customers. Mr. Seymour then agreed to mark his gold-leaf in a particular way. Mr. Creswick had a private key made to Fancourt's desk ; and on Monday week 500 leaves of the marked gold were found in it. George Bauldry was a friend of Fancourt, and he had been employed by him to pledge the gold. There was no evi- dence against Henry Bauldry, and he was discharged : the other two were committed for triaL Catherine Jones, a middle-aged woman, was convicted at Marlborough Street Police-office, on Wednesday, of a curious mode of conjugal casti- gation. Her husband went to Stepney Fair on Monday ; and he returned rather tipsy, and went to bed. He was waked suddenly by his wife's pouring hot water over him out of a kettle. It appeared that some one had told her in the course of the day, for a joke, that her husband had

been seen in company with a young woman : when he came in, she told their servant to put a kettle of water on the fire ; and when it was boiling, she used it for the correction of the supposed sinner. Jones, though in great pain, begged for leniency to his angry wife ; and pro- cured the bail which the Magistrate required for her good behaviour.

An inquest was held in Westminster, on Wednesday, on the body of Mary Connor, a little girl three years of age, who killed herself by drinking boiling water out of a kettle. The scald produced a stoppage in the throat ; and the child was taken to Westminster Hospital ; where an operation was performed to remove the impediment to respiration ; but she died within three days. The Jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

On Wednesday afternoon, Hezekiah Gage, a young man employed in the sperm-oil manufactory of Messrs. Bicknell and Co., at Newington Butts, fell into a cauldron of boiling oil. His screams drew the work- men to his assistance, but not before he was so scalded that his flesh came away with his clothes as they were removed.

A bad accident occurred on the Eastern Counties Railway on Sunday evening. The Romford train, on its way to London, arrived at the station in Mile-End at about half-past eight o'clock. Joseph Poole, a passenger, who had been riding in one of the third-class carriages, alighted, and was in the act of stepping across a platform with a suck in his hand, when, owing to the greasy state of the platform from the rain which fell in the afternoon, he suddenly slipped, and his stick breaking in half, he fell backwards on to the rails of the line. At this

instant a policeman called out "All right !" the train started; a piercing shriek was heard ; and it was then found that the engines and carriages had passed over the man. He was picked up and carried to the London Hospital ; where it was found that his left leg and his right foot were crushed. The left leg was amputated. It is not expected that the man will recover.

On arriving at the Poplar station of the Blackwell Railway, on Wed- nesday evening, William Drury, the conductor of a train, jumped off the front of the last carriage. He fell, and three wheels passed over his leg ; which was so crushed at the ankle that it was obliged to be amputated.

A strange story appears in this morning's papers, of a young lady who has been discovered disguised as a man among the male prisoners at Westminster Bridewell. The tale is, that she is of a respectable family in Sussex ; but that, being seduced by a footman, she dreaded the displeasure of her parents, and escaped to London in a suit of her brother's clothes. She afterwards encountered a variety of adventures and privations ; always keeping her sex concealed. At last she was committed as a rogue and vagabond to the Bridew ell ; but why does not appear. The whiteness of her neck excited the suspicions of a shrewd turnkey; although she had before, without detection, bathed with the male convicts, and her arms bad been examined by a surgeon, who thought she had some cutaneous disease. Letters have been sent down to Sussex to discover her family ; for she will not tell her real name. She was known by that of George White.