The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-07 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

In the report of the division which took place in the
Court of Common Council on Thursday on the sub-
ject of the petition against the election of Mr. Childs
to the office of surgeon to the City police force, an
error was made in consequence of the bustle and con-
fusion which prevailed. It was stated that the majority
were in favour of the petition. The following, how-
ever, which has been copied from the Corporation
books, was the exact result :

Petition of Thomas Abraham and others against
the election of Mr. Childs as surgeon to the police read.
Motion—" To refer it to the Police Committe."
Amendment—" To lie on the table." Court divided.

For the affirmative—one, the Lord Mayor, three Al-
dermen, forty-six Commoners, and two tellers—Total,
fifty-two.
For the negative—One Alderman, nineteen:com-
moners, and two tellers—Total, twenty-two.
Majority in favour of Mr. Childs—Thirty.
The petition ordered to lie on the table accordingly.
It is proper also to state that the words in the Act
of Parliament require that a surgeon shall be elected,
and Mr. Childs, being a member of the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons, and having a qualification precisely
similar to that of the surgeon of Newgate, the medical
officers of the army and navy, and East India Com-
pany's service, was chosen by a considerable majority
from ten candidates to fill the office.

DEATH or DR. KNIGHT, OF MARISCHAL COLLEGE.
—lt is our painful task to announce the sudden and
deeply lamented death of this learned and respected
professor, which melancholy event took place yesterday
morning. Dr. Knight had been engaged in observing
the late 'eclipse, on Sunday week, when be unhappily
caught a severe cold; but having partially recovered, he
ventured out to attend his class; and this, we regret to
add, was followed by a return of his illness in a more
aggravated form. Inflammation of the brain unhappily
supervened, and baffled all medical appliance to arrest its
fatal termination, which took place about ten A.M. Dr.
Knight's sudden demise, while yet a little advanced be-
yond the prime of life, and while in the full possession
of his great and varied talents, must prove a loss, not
easily estimated, to the University of which for many
years he was so efficient and distinguished a member.—
Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday.
THE Cuuncw—The Hon. H. Arbuthnott has pre-
sented the Rev. Alexander Ramsay, M.A., of Clare
Hall, Cambridge, to the Incumbency of Tintinhull, So-
mersetshire. The Rev. Henry Thomas Cooper Hine,
M.A., Reader of St. James's, Bury SL Edmund's, has
been presented to the Rectory of Quarringtont Lincoln.
shire, on the nomination of the Marquis of Bristol. The
Vicar of Greenwich has presented the Rev. John
Young Ilughes, of St. Catherine Hall, Cambridge, to
the Perpetual Curacy :of Trinity Church, Greenwich.
The Lord Bishop of Peterborough has instituted the
Rev. Joni' Neale Dalton, M.A., of Gouville and Caius
College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage, of Greetham, Rut-
landshire. The Lord Bishop of %it, orce.ster has insti-
tuted the Rev. E. W. Foley, M.A., of Wadham Col-
lege, Oxford, to the Vicarage of Great Malvern, vacant
by the (I,!ath of the Rev. Dr. Card. The Rev. henry Philip Houghton, M.A., has been instituted by the Lord
Bishop of Peterborough to the Rectory of Markfield,
Leicestershire. The vicarage of Geddington, North-
amptonshire, has become vacant by the death of the Rev.
J
it is the gift of the Duke of I3uccleuch.
Suows.—The first Sussex cattle show of
the took place on Tuesday at Lewes. The stock
ochsnAeTa Hoeg;sTo
shown was deficient in numbers, but several of the
animals were much admired. At the dinner the Earl of
Chichester presided, and Sir Henry Sheffner eccupiefi •
the vice chair. Between fifty and sixty persons were
present,including George Darby, Esq., :M.P., /11r. John
Ellman, H. Blackman, Esq., &c. Politics, which formerly
occupied the attention of persons attending the dinner,
were scarcely adverted to en this oecasian.
SIR HENRY POTTINGER.—We understand that it
is the intention of tht, corporation and merchants of
i Belfast to invite Sir Henry Pottinger to a public dinner.
A requisition to the Mayor, calling upon him to adver-
tise a public meeting of the inhabitants for this purpose,
is in course a (signature,—News Letter.