The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-07 00:00:00

GENERAL ELECTION.

SURREY—GUILDFORD, Auo. 6.

The animation end bustle of the town have be-
come much greater than might have been expected
from the appearance of things yesterday morning.
The attendance of freeholders at the opening of the
Court, at that time, was, as we have already stated,
very. thin; and though the rush to obtain places was
violent, the numbers that finally assembled were
but small. In the course of the day, however, the
arrivals of voters from different parts of the county
announced as they were by music and by the cheet-
ings of the various parties to the contest, gave an
appearance of the life and spirit usually displayed in
a contested election; and when the freeholders as-
sembled in the afternoon to hear the state of the poll,
the Hall was crowded in every part where a human
being could obtain a footing. The interest taken by
the freeholders in the event of the contest is now pretty
well manifested. It is a struggle between the bo
rough-mongering uristocracy of the county and the
freeholders at large. Indeed, Mr. Jolliffe has, with
characteristic openness, declared as mnch in a Bill
' which he has circulated through the town, in which,
after the words " No cant--no hypocrisy—no radi-
calism," follow the expressions used apparently as a
sort of party war cry, " The Jolliffes and Gentle-
men." It yet remains to be seen whether this open
expression of aristocratic party feeling will be tri-
umphant or not. The last election for the county
would hardly augur favourably for such an expecta-
tion. Mr. H. Sumner was unquestionably the
representative of the party which Mr. Jolliffe now
and yet his defeat was so signal,
attempts to
all
lrisdenergy and courage, the possession
of which no one will deny him, he has not ex-
hibited the slightest inclination to renew the
contest. The polling of yesterday afforded DO
evidence whatever of the probable result of the
election. Mr. Briscoe'; friends (as he himself
stated) lied made no exertions for that day, while it
Was universally known that Mr. Jolliffe's supporters
had been particularly active. When the poll closed
yesterday, Mr. Briscoe was 250 behind his oppo- '
nent, and during the first hour this morning he had
only polled fifteen votes, but at two o'clock it was
announced that they were within fifty of each other.
The cry, therefore, which some freeholder uttered
on the declaration of the poll yesterday, has been
made good, and the contest now begins to assume
the appearance of one which, according to jockey
phraseology, is " a neck-and-neck run." The Wey
which washes this town, exhibited this morning a
very lively scene. Three or four large barges, tern-
poratily fitted up with awnings, end well garnished
with preparatious for dinner, came up the river
with the Godelming voters in the interest of Mr.
Briscoe, who, havnig landed at the foot of the
bridge, proceeded, with colours flying and music
playing,
to vote fin their favourite candidate.
There is one thing remarkable about this election,
and that is,
the want of those squibs and jokes
which have generally kept up the spirits of opposing
parties. The best thing, in a humourous way, is a
" Proclamation," purporting to be issued from the
Manor Ilouse of Merstham, and signed " Jolliffe,"
in which it is with much serio-comic gravity de-
clared that, " it is desirable for us to have a seat in
the House of Commons for the county of Surrey, in-
stead of for our borough of Petersfield ;" and in
which the pretended prochunator roost royally di-
rects the county freeholders to return him according
to his desire. Curiously enough, but two copies of
this proclamation are visible about the town, aud
without reply,
still more curiously, it has been ;suffered to pass
Only one poetical effusion (so far
at twit as we hare been able to leatn) has yet
made its appearance. It purports to be the prO-
&lotion of" an old FreehOlder ; ' but, if report does
not much belie the fact, it is written by a young
and pretty woman, who most zealously supports
the interest of Mr, Briscoe.
Mr. Jolliffe's voters are conveyed to the poll in a
most gay and splendid manner, and his favours are
numerously distributed, and ere worn by it Ittrge
portion of the fashionable part of the commit:nap
in the "nolo of the day Mr. Jolliffe published an
Address to the freeholders, iu which be discrihod