The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-05 00:00:00

DERBY ELECTION.-THE DECLARATION.

FaiDAY.—The Mayor held a court this morning at
ten o'clock, for the purpose of officially declaring the result
of the election.
Mr. Strutt, with his mover and seconder, and several of
his supporters, were present. Sir D. Mackworth, acting on
the advice of his committee, did not attend, nor were his
friends in any great force on the occasion.
The Mayor, having cast up the several polling-books,
declared the numbers to be, for
E. Strutt, Esq R3S
Sir Digby Mackworth
Majority
and that the election had consequently fallen on E. Strutt,
Esq., of Kingston Hall, in the county of Nottingham, who
was (Lily returned as a burgess to serve in the present par-
liament for the borough of Derby.
The announcement was received with much cheering.
Mr. STRVTT then addressed the electors as follows : Mr.
Mayor and gentlemen, you have again placed me in the
proud position of one of your representatives in parliament,
and with grateful and heartfelt thanks do I receive this kind
proof of your continued confidence. Not only have I to
thank you for the honour you have done me in again elect-
ing me one of your representatives, but still more for the
position in which you have placed me on the poll i a position
which again has proved most unequivocally to this town and
to the country that Derby will never swerve from the liberal
principles it has so long professed, and that it was fully pre-
pared to answer the appeal which has just been made to it.
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, whatever may have been our differ-
ences of opinion on some subjects which have occupied our
attention in the coarse of this election, on this point all are
agreed, that as on the one side no pains have been spared to
circulate the charges which have been made against me, and
which have formed the sole ground of opposition to me, so
on the other hand I have not flinched from them. (Cheers.)
I bare retracted nothing; in nothing have I equivocated.
(Hear, bear.) At the commencement of the election I cer-
tainly did feel some regret that on my account the electors
of Derby should have been called upon at this time to incur
all the trouble and inconvenience of an election contest, but
I now rejoice that the attempt has been made to deprive me
of the honour you have for so many years conferred upon
me, for I believe the struggle will be of the greatest impor-
tance to the cause of liberal principles and religious liberty,
not only in this borough bat throughout the country. (Hear,
hear.) Our opponents told us on the day of nomination—
and they told us truly—that the eyes of the country
were upon us. If the eyes of the country were our witnesses
in the day of trial, I hope they will also be turned
towards us in the hour of victory, and in that case the strug-
gle which has been made en this occasion wal not be with- !
out its influence in other places, as well as in this town. '
(Cheers.) Let me now congratulate you, and if I say this
of my supporter I am bound to say the same of my friends
of the opposing party—who I regret are not here to-day, for
I should have been glad to congratulate them also on the
respectable manner iu which this election has been con-
, ducted, a manner creditable alike to the town of Derby, to
our opponents, and to ourselves. (Cheers,) And had Sir
Digby Mackworth been here I shouldhave been prepared to
tender him my testimony of the highly honourable manner
in which he has acted throughout this contest, and which I
must add is only in keeping with the high character he
bears. (Hear, beer.) At the nomination an opponent of
mine did me the justice to say that though I was returned
by one party of this borough, he had always found that, in
all applications made to me connected with the local interests
of the town, I always mad the same attention to my political
opponents as to my political friends—(cheers)--and though
I never have failed—and I trust I never shall fail—in the
due assertion of my political opinions at the proper time,

I never have sought to starry them beyond their doe sphere
In all matters of local business relating to the town I have
always considered =yes if as the representative not only of
the great and powerful party that returned me to parliament,
but of the whole constituency. (Chee:s.) On that prim-
ciple I have invariably acted, andshall continue toact. (Rear,
hear.) I have only again to thank you for the honour
you have again done me, and in bidding you farewell
for the present to say that though this contest has been a
strong one, I hope and believe, after the manner in which
both parties have acted, not one spark of animosity will be
left behind—for myself, I can conscientiously declare that I
eat rtain no particle of unkind feeling towards any indivi-
dual in the town. (Rear, hear.) *lhere is yet one other, and
most pleasing duty left for me to perform ; that is, to move a
vote of thanks to the mayor, for the able, eticient, and im-
partial manner in which he has conducted the business of
the election—(cheers)—to whose admirable arrangements
and firm and impartial conduct, the good lecling which has
prevailed ii mainly owing. (Rear, hear.)
The vote was seconded by Itlr. Jessopp, and carried unini-
mously.
The MATOa, in returning thanks, observed that he had
never seen an election carried on in so creditable a manner
by all parties, and he hoped the enample of Derby in this
respect would not be lost upon other towns. Three cheers
were then given far Mr. Strutt, and the court broke up. It
is due to the mayor, W. Ii ?dousley, Esq., to stain that the
I arrangements made by him far the accommodation of all
parties, and the preservation of the peace of the town, were
deserving Mall praise, and were eminently successful.
Sir D. Mackworth, who left Derby early this morning, has
issued the following address:
TO THE ELECTORS OP DERRY.
Gentlemen,—l cannot leave your borough without deeply and
gratefully thanking those of you who have recorded th,ir votes in my
! iavour, fur the support you have given to a total stranger in behalf of
your principles sod mine. We have been defeated, but such a defeat
In such a canoe will atf ird no now and hereafter a purer gratiltation
than swear can ever eoofer on our opponents. With every advan-
tage on their side —101 l long experience, °Meal
station, and an earlier canvass, you bare only lost the day by a can.
partitively small majority. At the rapidly approaching general clue
tion you will know whom sou can and wham you cannot trust. You
will have shown to all Logland an unexampled purity of election on
Protestant principles wholly unconnected with parse, and you will
have raised a true Protestant feeling in the bowel of your own elec.
' focal body, which will assuredly- grow stronger and stronger until
you an return to parliament a representative whom you can tally
approve. Cultivate that spirit, gentlemen, and it will lead you in a
mend eminence yet anaiunpled in aka days of expediency! Homy
from the side of our oppmenta will join you, deeply regretting thudr
past votes, and you will find Protagantium will rise with tenfold
strength from this temporary defeat. Gentlemen, I bid vou farewell :
fleece hhalll aces to feel a warm interest in your weitire, and the
deepest gratitude for your support of one who will not henceforth be
considered quite s stronger amongst you. I remain, Gentlemen, your
faithful and obedient servant, D. 3IACKWURTN, laeut..Col.
Derby, 4th Sept., 1340.