The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-02 00:00:00

DECLARATION OF THE POLL.

Yesterday a common hall was held, at the Guild-
ball, for the purpose of announcing to the livery of the city
of London the number of votes which had been given to the
two candidates who contended for the office of Chamber.
lain. The attendance of liverymen was large.
Mr. Sheriff CsoLL said that it we. his duty to pro-
claim that the numbers who had voted for the two candi-
dates were as follows :

For Sir John Key, Bart., and Alderman 3,186
For Benjamin Scctr, Esq.
Majority for Sir John Key 271
The announcement was received amidst load cheering.
About • quarter of an hour after the declaration of the
state of the poll, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, having
on his right hand the Chamberlain elect, sad accompanied
by enteral aldermen, entered the ball amidst vociferous
cheering. Silence having been obtained,
The RECORDER (the Right Hon. Stuart Wortley, M.P.)
announced the fact that the Sheriffs of London had re-
turned to the Court of Aldermen the decision of the livery,
which was that Sir John Key, Bart., had been, by •
majority of 271 votes, elected to the office of Chamberlain
for the remaining part of the present year. (Loud cheering.)
Sir Joni's Kay then appeared, and proceeded amidst loud
applause to address the livery. Having expressed his
thanks for the honour conferred upon him, he said that if,
during the heat of the contest and the excitement of a most
unexampled struggle, any words might have fallen from
him which would have given pain to the humblest indi•
vidual, he deeply regretted it; and he trusted that
he might, then, cherish the hope, that as the contest
was over, all feelings but thee' of friendship and
confidence would cease, and that those who had elected
him, and also those who were opposed to his return, would
unite with the same eordiality as before to promote the
peace, to increase the wealth, and to add to the influence
of the City, in upholding and strengthening that which was
great and good. The example of a free city and the utility
of free institutions working admirably, and without cre-
ating dimension" or disunion, would surely prove to the
world that the true greatness and happiness of a nation
consisted in its freedom, and in the well disciplined order
of those who possessed it and need it wisely for the common
good. (Cheers.) He was then the servant of the chinas
at large, and henceforth he trusted that he should so con-
duct himself, that while he justified the choice of his friends,
he hoped he should also win the approbation of those who
on that occasion had been opposed to him. To all of them
he begged to return his thanks, and to assure them that he
should enter upon the duties of his office with the most
grateful recollection of the kindness shown by his friends
and of the courtesy which had been evineed by his oppo-
nents throughout the entire struggle.
Sir John then withdrew from the front of the hustings
amidst loud applause.
Mr. Score then appeared. He was greeted with enthu-
siastic cheering. He said he stood before them a defeated-1
but neither a dispirited nor disgraced candidate. It was
scarcely possible that • man of hie yew, and standing could
occupy a prouder position. Sought out by his fellow-
citisens as a candidate, and having received from them
spontaneous support almost unprecedented at such electioneri
he had polled 638 votes more than had been recorded for
Sir Was. Heygate in 1843, and 693 more than for Mr. An•
thony Brown (the two preceding chamberlains), well known
and deservedly respected as had been those gentlemen ; and
had it not been for the grossest misrepresentations respects
ing himself and his family, and other influences, he would
now have been their chamberlain. (Loud cheers.) The
numbers on the poll afforded an unanswerable reply to those
who contended that he had not been justified in receiving
and acting upon the requisition. (Hear, hear.) Their
chief magistrate, who had aspired to the threefold honours
of the civic state and to a place in parliament, gloried
that he was the son of a respected tradesman, and
so it was with the great majority of those whom the citizens
" delighted to honour." One of their late aldermen gloried
that he had in his younger days navigated a lighter upon
their noble river, and another had boasted at his own table
in the presence of royalty that he had begun life as a shop
boy. (Hear, hear.) Were all their traditions of "Richard
Whittington" to be forgotten, when gold put forward an
aspirant ? Was industry, perseverance, and unblemished
character to be forgotten, and the man put forward by his

fellow-citizens rejected because he had the marks of ink
upon his fingers (Laughter and loud cheering.) He was
quite sure that his honourable opponent would a►andon his
views as untenable, as he (Mr. Scott) belie red that the
worthy alderman was now convinced that they were so. If
not, how must he act in the office to which he had been
elected ? His first act must be to remove Hogarth's inimi-
table drawings of the "Industrious Apprentice" which
decorated the walls of his court. (Hear, hear.) After
some further observations, Mr. Scott retired amidst loud
applause.
Thanks were then voted to the sheriffs, and the court
was dissolved.

BATTERSEA-PARK.—Yesterday a bill in the Com-
mons was printed, brought forward by the government, to
enable the Battersea-park Commissioners to give 1,300/.
for the purchase of common rights over the site of the park,
to the charekvrardens of the parish.