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B Mr' JANUARY 19, 1848.

[PRICE SD.

1 ; from the deanery of Athlone, in the diocese of
the Eirsht Rev. Dr. Brown, per the Rey. Thomas
Phillips, 121. 10s.; from Prince Edward's Island,
151. Rent for the week, 1051.

COUNT MONTALEMBERT AND
LORD PALMERSTON.

(From the Constitutionnel.)
M. de Montalembert, in the interest of the Jesuits,
has endeavoured to resuscitate prejudices and passions
against England. Greece is the theatre which he
has selected to show Lord Palmerston pursuing with
ardour the ruin of French influence, and if necessary,
by the ruin of Greece. He has represented him as
paying for the revolt. of Grivas, loading the Greek
Government with reproaches the most severe and the
least merited, and causing, by the anxiety which he
prepared for him, the death of M. Coletti. With
the exception of thei last allegation, which is purely
declamatory, there is something true at the bottom
of all this. It is true that the English Government
strives after the destruction of French influence, not only
in Greece, but at Constantinople, in Syria, in Spain, in
Italy, everywhere ; it is equally true that it employs, in
order to attain its object, all the means which it is
possible to make use of, without coming to an open
rupture. But why does it do so ? Why do we find
in every part of the world British antagonism
counteracting our designs, combating and destroying
our influence, and reducing our foreign influence to
the wretched state in which we behold it ? Has Eng-
land something to envy us ? It is the abasment of our
Government, the subordination of our Cabinet to an
absolute power. Is it the corruption which is eating
us up, the deficit in our finances, the general discon-
tent and uneasiness which prevail ? England, unfor-
tunately, has nothing to envy:us. If she endeavours to
destroy the miserable remains ofinfluence which France
still possesses abroad, it is because we have declared
against her a veritable diplomatic war. The two
nations united ought and could march together at the
head of civilization, and they could impose by their
moral ascendancy on absolutist Europe, the observa-
tion of treaties and respect for the laws of humanity
and for the rights of nations. Our Ministry deserted
that mission for a marriage and a dowery ; it de-
ceived the confidence of its ally ; it has boasted of its
conduct towards England, and of the famous trick
which it played her ; thus voluntarily breaking the
union which it had itself declared was necessary for
the peace of Europe. Is it astonishing that the chal-
lenge was accepted, and that we have at present to
contend against her wherever she meets with our
diplomatic agents ? This is what M. de Montalembert
knows as well as we, and what no doubt he would
have said at another moment. But Lord Palmerston
refused to support the interests of the Jesuits in
Switzerland. M. de Montalembert has in consequence I
forgotten everything, both the just complaints of
England against our Ministry, and the voluntary
rupture of the English alliance by M. Guizot, who
has flung himself into the arms of Austria."

ST. KATHARINE DOCKS.
A general meeting of the proprietors of the St.
Katharine Docks was held yesterday at the Dock-
house, Tower-hill, for the purpose of declaring a divi-
dend, for the half-year ended the 31st of December
last.

Mr. Thomas Tooke, the chairman 4
presided. the company,
The SECRETARY read the not; x 0 for convening the
meeting.
The CIIARMAN observed, that the accounts of receipt
and expenditure of the.
ocrepany for the year ended
the 31st'December last, had, as usual, and in accord-
ance with- the provisions of the Dock Act, been acces-
sible to the proprietors during the last fourteen
days. From these it appeared that the general
balance brought forward on the Ist of January last
was 88,5691.75., and that the' balance brought for-
ward on the Ist of the present month was 88,980/
19s. 3d., shaefing a slight increase. The gross
earnings of the company (fractions omitted) were,
during the year 1846, 229,8151., and the expenses
amounted to 124,270/„ leaving a balance in favour
of the company of 105,445/.; whereas the gross
earnings during the last year gwere 260,0041., and
the expenses 146,2681.; leaving a balance in fa-vour of
the company of 113,7361., being an increase of 8,1911.
in the nett earnings of 1847, as compared with those
of the year 1846. The accounts further showed that
a diminution of 5,3141. had taken place during the
last year in the charge for interest upon the floating
debt, 353,5001. of which had been already extin-
guished 1)y the measure of conversion in progress ;
which sum of 5,3141., added to the net earnings, con-
stituted an amount of 79,2341. applicable to dividend
for the past year; but 4,6271. short of 5 per cent.,
computed on the increased capital, which now
amounted to 1,700,6871. It would be in the recollec-
tion of such of the proprietors who were present at
the last January meeting, that the directors then
announced, " That unless there should be a material

increase in' the earnings of the company during the
(then) current year, they would not feel justified in
any further encroachment on the rest, but would
consider themselves as having no alternative but that
of proposing at the next (present) January meeting
a reduction in the dividend." And at the July
meeting a declaration of similar import was inci-
dentally made, in answer to an inquiry by a
proprietor. Notwithstanding the great augmen-
tation of business and increase in the earn-
ings during the ' past year, the gross amount of
which exceeded by several thousand pounds the gross
earnings during any one year Since the opening of
the docks; the net earnings were, as before stated,
short of the usual dividend. The directors, there-
fore, were satisfied of the expediency of adhering to
the determination, which they announced in January
last, not to encroach further upon the rest ; and they
were then prepared to recommend such a reduction
in the rate of dividend as may afford the means of
replacing, from time to time, the sums that have been
taken from the rest (of which amount the proprietors
have had the benefit in the shape of dividend) ; and,
further, of making some provision for contingencies,
which might be expected during the year, from de-
rangement in the mercantile and monetary affairs of
the country, the injurious effects of which must be
especially felt by the trade of the port, and, conse-
quently in a degree, by the dock company, in common
with all other establishments connected with the com-
mercial and shipping interests of London. Under
these circumstances, the directors recommended to
the proprietors to deClare a dividend for the half-
year ended the 31st -of December last, of two per
cent., the income-tax to be defrayed by the company.
It-however, would, be = satisfactory. to the pro
rietors to find ,from the statistical returns- of
business transacted in these docks during the last
year, 'evidence of the industry and unceasing
attention which have been devoted by the manage-
ment-to the interests of the company. He would now
submit a resolution for declaring a dividend as -pro-
posed, and expressed his readiness to afford to the
proprietors the fullest information upon the affairs of
the company that might be desired. And in reply to
several questions, he stated the wages bad been in.;
creased much by the large imports of flour, corn, and
rice, which required' more labour to store then than
the light and more vahhible article's. -

SPORTING IN
INTELLIGEN
CHESTER CU
st. lb. st lb
Sir Tatton Sykes ... 9 0 Keloshea 6 9
Pyrrhus the First 8 12 Magnet 6 9
Cossack

TELLIGENCE.
TCE EXTRA.
P WEIGHTS.

Chanticleer
Mendicant
Inheritress

War Eagle 8 6*alt
Poynton
Rat-trap
Cawrouch
Lightning
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Cc;ilingw;od
Red Hart 8 2 Erin-go-bragh
Dulcet -,8 2 Crim Con
Conjuror' 8 ONV py 1 atil ro
Blackbird
1 Conynghain
Patriot
G rimston 7 -121 Britannia
Morpeth - -- 7 1-I,Marianne
Lady Wildair .
Rowena
Mathematician
Giselle 7 BiStuits
Foreclosure_. 7 Pantomime ....— 6 3
Walmgate .bar, Witk-. Lyme
out - --
Newcourt 7 71Spectator 6 0

Sharstou - 7 71
Chit -
7 4
The Widow 7 6
Clermont
Foxwhelp " 7' 5'
Sheraton
King of.Moryen 7 .5
Raisthorpe
Bantam 7 3
The Liberator ' t 7 3
Joe o'Sot .. 7 21
Reminiscence
Whinstone , 7 o
Ennui ' • 7..:0
rum rougn

Milliner
Foinual la • 6 0
Sally Maggs
In fringe
Bedlam
6 0
liing of the Forest 6 0
,Passionate
Sultana
;{Blase
Wildrod
?no Roy 6 1a
I rilla,c 5 12
Shawn Buidhe
iiprandy Face
_ _

MI": SMITH was satisfied with the progress of the
docks, but thought the dividend ought.not to be. re-
duced. He should move that the proprietors them-
selves 'should pay the income-tax in future, as it
would he st, vain he.rw. pt that the tax would be
taken off by the IGovernnie, ougn iti ..41151.4
increased. - -
The CHAIRMAN said that the dividend would be
paid free of income-tax, and that the rest formed the
floating capital of the company, which it was unad-
viktble to trench upon, because the prospects of trade
in the ensuing year were not such as to hold out the
chance of increased activity among the shipping
interest.i.

West Countryman Z t)
Dunham
, Woodpecker
Crozier • 7 0
Clarendon..
Peep-o'-day, Boy ....., Z. Q
Oxonian
The Swallow"
Connaught Ranger... 6 12
Antler • 6.12

Premier
Enchanter.
'lloloraine
Lady Ilylda
Tom Jolly
Hawkeitone ...... 5 8
Scaudal
Tuscan
Mrs. Taft
Eagle's Plume
.

The -dividend was then agreed upon, and after
lanks had been voted to the chairman and directors,
be meeting adjourned.

Best of Three 6 12,
Intrepid
Jonathan Wild
Rufus
Gannet
Duke of Richmond 6
Clementina 6 12'
The Tartar 6 12,
Montpensier
Mary Stewart.
Administrator 6 12;
Fergus 6 12,
Sutlej
Mongrel
Tit-Bit
Romance
66
11001
The Admiral
Bingham 6 10
Tim Whiffler
Geraldine
Shelforth 6 9'
Maid of Lyme 6 9
The Premier
Louisa Newell 6 9
Maid of Motherwell 6 9

Great Western
Snuff Box
Shylock
King of Kildare
Jock o' Hazledcan 5 2
Blackball 5 2
!Prince Charley
;Hornpipe 5 0
Sampson 5 0
Good Boy
;Sylvan 5 0
Pet of the Fancy
Maid of my Soul 4 10
'Self Defence ...... 4 10
Ellen Loraine 4 10
Otterburn
Swiss Boy
Slug
Mr. Eddison's colt
Cracow
Latitut 4 7
Rainbow
!Sunny Sido 4 4
,Primrose 4 4
,Glen Saddel

ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED
MURDER AT CHATHAM.

At the county magistrates' office, Rochester, on
Monday, Henry Bartlett and Joseph Bartlett, of the
respective ages of 30 and 18, were brought before the
Rev. G. Davies and J. Smith, Esq., on a charge of
robbery, under most revolting circumstances. The
prisoners are the sons-in-law of James Henry Storey,
landlord of the Lord Hill beer-shop, 'Westcourt-
street. Shortly after eleven o'clock on the night of
Tuesday last, the house being clear of customers, the
prisoners went from the tap-room into the bar, where
Storey was sitting alone—his' wife, the mother of the
prisoners, having left her home on the previous day,
in consequence, as she states, of threats used by the
sons towards her. The gas having been extinguished,
Storey lit two candles, and the prisoners having first
secured the doors, returned to the bar, and bolting
the door on the inside, demanded money. Storey
told them to go to bed, promising to give them
a pound in the morning. They however per-
sisted in their demand, and said they would have
two pounds that night, which he refused to give them.
The younger one left the bar, and almost immediately,
returned armed with a bludgeon, and they com-
menced a most brutal assault upon Storey, striking
him several heavy blows on the head and face. They
then rifled his pockets of about three pounds worth of
silver, together with a silver watch. The lodgers in
the house having been aroused by the cry of murder,
hastened down stairs to the landlord's assistance,
when the prisoners, in their hurry to escape, knocked
one of the women down in the passage, and made
off at the back part of the house. Mr. Weekes,
surgeon, was called to attend Storey, and he stated
that he found him with five extensive wounds on the
right side of the head, one of which was nearly four
inches long, and penetrated to the bone of the
skull. He also found very extensive bruises and
swellings on the left side of the head, the right
eye much bruised and nearly closed, and the third
finger on the left hand broken. The prisoners, who
made no defence, were fully committed for trial at
the assizes.

ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OW THE EAR.—
Yesterday, at noon, the annual meeting of the supporters
of this charity was held at the institution, Dean street,
Soho. Mr. Masterraan, M.P., the treasurer, took the
chair, and at his request Mr. Smyth, the secretary, read
the report, by which it appeared that the expenditure of
the past year exceeded the income, in consequence of
the benefits of the institution having become more gene
rally acknowledged, and thus causing a'greater number
of applicants for medical relief. The recipients were
generally domestic servants, mechanics, and poor
foreigners, deafness being to the latter a peculiar draw-
back in a country whose language was but partially un-
derstood by them. Since the establishment of the i -
stitution, 15,000 persons had been relieved or cured, and
880 patients had been treated in ono day last year, a
proof of the increasing claims on the funds, &c., of the
institution. Several new remedies and modes of treat-
ment had been adopted, with, generally speaking, satis-
factory results. The experience afforded by the insti-
tution has caused much improvement in the practice of
aural surgery, and fully proved that deafness was fre-
quently produced by living in confined and damp locali-
ties, by intemperance, uncleanliness, and insufficient or
adulterated food. The causes being known, the pre..
ventatives were obvious. Neglect in the earlier stages
of the disease commonly rendered it incurable. The
report having been adopted, thanks were voted to
her Majesty and the other royal patrons of the in-
stitution, to its different officers, and the meeting
separated.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—An accident of a pecu-
liarly distressing and melancholy nature occurred yes-
terday in Finnieston, at a small cluster of one-storied
houses, called World's-end-street. About half-past nine
o'clock, Elizabeth Campbell, a young married woman,
accompanied by her brother-in-law, James Young, was
engaged in fastening a line for the purpose of hanging
clothes on, when about sixty feet of the south wall of
Hyde-park Foundry, which forms the boundary of the
little garden plot in which they were so occupied, fell
down on them with a tremendous crash. The wall is
upwards of twenty feet in height, and being of a solid
construction, the weight was immense. The workmen
in the foundry, on hearing the noise, immediately hurried
out, and made every exertion to extricate the unfortu-
nate individuals, who were completely buried in the mass
of ruins. Young was first got out, and although much
bruised, was still breathing. So heavy were the stones
and rubbish which covered his unfortunate relative, that
some minutes elapsed before she could be extricated,
but after they had succeeded it was apparent that the
poor woman was beyond the reach of human aid, her
skull being severely fractured, and both her legs and ono
of her arms broken. Her husband, a mason by trade,
was at the moment coming along the street to his break-
fast when the sad intelligence reached him, and he ar-
rived to see his wife carried a corpse into the house
which she had but a few minutes previously left in the
possession of perfect health. What renders the circum-
stance more distressing is, that she has left two young
children, the oldest not above, four years of ago, and
„
that she was far advanced in pregnancy. Surgical
assistance was immediately procured by .Mr. Neilson, of
the Hyde-park Foundry, and in a short time Dr. Thom-
' son arrived, who dressed the injuries which Young had
jreceived; and we are glad to state that though the man
is by no means out of danger, there are sanguine hopes
entertained that he may ultimately recover.—North
British Nail.

EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.—CIIRMISTS AND
DRUGGISTS.—A meeting of chemists and druggists was
held last night at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street, Mr.
Gore in the chair, for the purpose of considering the
expediency of extending to this department of occupa-
tion the benefits of early closing hours of business, which
have been so eminently advantageous in other depart-
ments of business. A perfect unanimity prevailed with
respect to the desirableness and expediency of an
arrangement so well calculated to advance the physical,
and, of course, the moral and intellectual, condition of
the young men employed in the establishments of che-
mists and druggists. Mr. Underwood, the secretary,
read the report of the society, which spoke in the most
earnest terms of the advantages which were calculated
to result from the adoption of early hours in the shops
of chemists and druggists. The report gave a very
clear and explicit account of the receipts and expendi-
ture of the society. A vote of thanks was passed to the
chairman and secretary, after which the meeting se-
parated.
THE LATE SIR HENRY CAREW ST. JOHN MILD.*
MAY, BART.—This gentleman, whose melancholy decease
we recorded yesterday, was in his 61st year. lie was
son of the late Captain Sir henry Paulet, who assumed
the name of Mildmay, by the daughter and heiress of
Carew Mildmay, Esq. He married two sisters, viz.—
first, in 1809, the eldest daughter of the Hon. Bartholo-
mew Bouverie (she died in 1810); he married secondly
in 1815, at Stutgardt, by the special permission of the
King of Wurtemburg, the next sister of his deceased
wife, a lady whose marriage with the Earl of Rosebery
had been dissolved a short time previously. By the first
marriage he leaves issue a son, Henry Bouverie Paulet.
born in 1810, a Captain in the 2d (Queen's Bays), who
succeeds to the title, and the portion of the estates which
remain in the family. Ho had issue by the second mar-
riage three sons, all of whom entered Austrian Hussar
regiments.
A man named James Degan, was ,arrested in
Liverpool on Monday, on a charge of being engaged in.
a murderous assault on Job Larkin, of Newtown, in the
King's County, in November, last- He was on board an
emigrant ship, and WAS about escaping to ,America.