The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-07 00:00:00

DERBY ELECTION.

OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE POLL.
DERBY, FRIDAY MORNING, ELEVEN O'CLOCK.—The
official declaration of the poll has just been made by the
Mayor, in the presence of a large body of inhabitants, at
the Town-hall, and the bells of the different churches
aro ringing merrily. The satisfactory result of the elec-
tion has given pleasure to the vast majority of the town.
Mr. Strutt was received with plaudits on entering the
Town-hall at ten o'clock this morning. Sir Digby
Mackworth did not make his appearance.
The MAYOR having cast up the books, declared the
state of the poll to be as follows :
Strutt 835
Mackworth
Majority for Mr. Strutt —276
The announcement of the numbers was received with
loud cheers.
Mr. STRPTT then rose, and was received with loud
applause. He said, the electors had again placed him
in the proud position of one of their representatives in
Parliament, and with most grateful, most heartfelt
thanks did he receive this renewed proof of their confi-
dence. Not only had he to thank them for the honour
they had thus done him, but he had to thank them still
more for the proud position in which they had placed
him on the poll—(Loud cheers)—a position which had
proved most unequivocally to the whole country that the
town of Derby had not swerved from the principles
which it always professed, and that it had ID.ldly an-
swered the appeal that had been made to it.—(Renewed
cheers.) Notwithstanding the differences of opinion
that had been manifested on some subjects during this
election, he thought they would all be agreed in this,
that as on the one hand no pains had been spared to pro-
pagate charges against him, so, on the other hand, he
had not flinched from meeting those charges.—(Loud
cheers.) He had retracted nothing—(Cheers)—he bad
equivocated in nothing—(Cheers renewed)—and there-
fore there was no • mistake—(Cheers)--there was
not a doubt about this, that the electors bad
answered the appeal that had been made to them.—
(Cheers.) At the commencement of the present con-
test he expressed some regret that on his account the
electors of Derby should have to incur the trouble and
inconvenience of an election ; but he did now rejoice
that the attempt had been made, for the result of this
struggle was of the greatest importance to the cause of
Liberal principles, and the cause of religious liberty,
not only in this borough, but throughout the whole
country.— (Cheers.) At the nomination their opponents
told them that the eyes of the country were upon them.
If the eyes of the country were our witnesses in the day
of trial, they were turned upon us in the hour of vic-
tory—(Cheers)—and he was convinced that the struggle
that had been made would have its influence in other
places as well as in this town.—(Loud cheers.) Let
him now congratulate them—and if his friends who
had been arrayed in the ranks of his opponents (for
many of whom he felt personal attachment) had
been present on that occasion, he should have
wished also to congratule them upon the re-
spectable manner in which this election had been
conducted. It had been conducted in a manner credit-
able to the town, creditable to their opponents, as well as
to themselves.—(Hear, and cheers.) If Sir Digby
Mackworth had been there he would have said that the
fair and gentlemanlike conduct of his hon. and gallant
opponent accorded with the high personal character he
bore. One of his (Mr. Strutt's) opponents on the day of
election did him the justice to say, although he was
elected by only one part of the electors, yet, that, on all
matters connected with their local or general interests,
he gave the same attention to his political opponents as
to his friends. He now begged to say, as he had said on
former occasions, that although he would never flinch
from the due assertion of his political opinions, yet he
never wished to carry them beyond their due sphere, and
on all matters where he could promote their interests he
wished to be considered the representative not of a part,
but of the whole constituency.—(Hear, hear.) Upon that
principle he had acted, and would continue to act. And
now, in taking his farewell, they must permit. him again
to return tothem his most grateful thanks for the honour
they had done him, and the exertions they had made in
his behalf. He trusted, that although this contest had
been a strong one—and a strong one it certainly had
been—that it would not leave behind it one spark of
animosity.—(Cheers.) He retired from the contest with
grateful thanks to those who had supported him, but
without one unkind feeling to any one of his oppo-
nents.—(Much cheering.)
Mr. STREVIT again rose, and said he had now the
pleasing duty to perform of proposing a vote of thanks
to the Mayor for the able, efficient, and impartial man-
ner in which ho had conducted the business of the elec-
tion.—(Much applause.)
Mr. JESSOPP had much pleasure in seconding the
motion.
The MAYOR returned thanks.
Three times three cheers were given for Mr. Strutt,
and the large audience dispersed.
The affability and courtesy of Sir Digby Mackworth
pleased opponents as well as friends. The Honourable
and Gallant Baronet has left the town.,

THE PICCADILLY PAVIOURS.—WiII you kindly ex.
plain (asks a correspondent of the Builder), for the satis
faction of the public, why it requires exactly two men
and a boy (literally) to square, on the spot, the many
thousand worn paving-stones which have been, or which
still remain to be taken up ?—or why it would not be
better to employ some half-a-dozen carts, and a full
complement of men, to take them all away, and bring
back the required paving-stones ready hewn, all which
could be accomplished in a comparatively short time ?--
and why, while a sprinkle of workmen are employed at
the lower part of the street, others should not be at work,
lowering and preparing the ground at the upper ?
ESCAPE OF A PRISONER FROM GILTSPUR-STREET
COMPTER.—On Saturday, between one and two o'clock,
a prisoner, named Dennis Shine, effected his escape
from this prison. It appears that he was employed to
assist the workmen in making some repairs now going
on, and while they were gone to dinner, Shine availed
himself of a ladder which they had left in the yard, and
contrived to scale the wall and escape over the roofs of
the neighbouring houses. fie is a desperate fellow, who
was tried at the last London Sessions, and convicted of
the commis slon of a series of ruffianly assaults at a
house in Friday-street. Ile is described as having light
hair, fair complexion, stoutly built, 5 feet 91 inches high,
and about 21. lie has not yet been heard -of.
DENBY DIKE SIDE PlE.—The following are the
contents and dimensions of the Denby Dike Side Pie,
prepared for the celebration of free-trade principles :
Two sacks of flour, five sheep, seven fowls, seven brace
of partridges, two pheasants, hill a calf, two geese, two
turkeys, hares, rabbits, &c. This enormous pie was
twelve inches high, seven feet in diameter, and seven
yards in circumferences—Doncaster Gazate.