The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

t! LONDON, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 9. Pill.

EAST SURREY ELECTION.

The nomination -a Candidates for the Eastern Division cf
Surrey trr,k ploec yesterday at Croydon, and`roan as early.
hour the tr ,n pre.cntcd the usurl animated appear-
ance for which it has been proverbial during its elec.,
tioneei Nato ithstanding the inclemency of the
‘v:•r,ther, a di izzling sleet having fallen all the nroi fling,
which froze as it tell, the windows were crowded with
d splayir.o flags and handkerchiefs decorated with
:he colour cf their favourite candidet- those of
Antrobus greatly predominating. Several banners
amid were displayed frem the principal inns and ho•
tell, while bands of music paraded the streets, and groups
of title pArtisairs collected, and hurraed or hooted
as the pa: ties decorated with the badges of their political
friends or opponents pared. At half-past nine the pro
c.ission of Mr. Antrobus, which had been formed at
Strea ham and Hunker' Heath, entered the town, headed
hy a band of music, and a variety of flags and banners, en-
tered the town The procession extended upwards of a
utile in length, and exhibited a variety of orange and
purple eh (rotations. Among the inscriptions on the flags
were—" Airtrobus for East Surrey," " Crouch and
&ater," Chinch and Queen," " United for our Queen
rind country," &c. Ste.
Mr. Akock's procession was else formed at Thornton
Heath, the standard-bearer and carriages displaying a va.
riety of white and blue 'banners and cockades. On the
hanneri were " Victoria, the People's Queen," " Liberty
and Independence," " The Repeal of the Bread-tax," &c.
A stroi,g body of the P division of Metropolitan police
arrived in the course of the morning, and assisted mate-
rially in preserving order at the hustings.
At ten o'clock Mr. Ann,Tr, the Under-Sheriff, entered
the Court-house, and having read the precept, adjourned
the Court to the Fair field, a. short distance outside the
town, where hustings had been erected, and a line
of wriggons drawn up on either side, in the form
cf a semicircle, to accommodate the friends of the
Cand,da'es. At eleven o'clock the Candidates and
thelr friends arrived on the gruund, and were re-
ceived with cheers and hootings by the vast body
who were aszembled in front of the hustings.
Thr Under-Sheriff, Mr. Abbott, appeared on the hustings
:portly alter 11 o'clock, and having again read the precept
aid the writ,

Mr. A. K. BARCLAY came forwaid amidst the greatest
❑proar and confusion to propose Mr. Antrobus as a
fit and proper person to represent the county of
East Surrey in Parliament. lle believed Mr. An.
trobus was a man eminently calculated to represent
the county, and of this he was sure, that if he was elected
cc would most faithfully dischargo his duty, and would do
all in his power to benefit his country.—( Great uproar
and confusion.) Ile, it wis true, was one of
those parti.-s who were denominated Conserva..
tives.—( Cries of f• Tory.") And they were
distinguished for their loyalty to their Sovereign.--(Great
laughter and hisses.) The cry for the Ballot was in hii
opinion en absurd cry. He believed that the people
of England did not desire the Ballot or wished to
have the Constitution tampered with ; all that was re-
quired wcs, that the institutions of the country should be
improved, and for those improvements Mr. Antrobus
would always be found a most strenuous advocate.
The worthy Gentleman concluded by proposing
Mr. Anirobus, but the noise and confusion that took place
during the whole of the speech, rendered it impossible to
catch one sentence in ten.

M. PAINTER then came forward to second the nomina-
tion of Mr. Antrobus. lie believed that there was
but one opinion of Mr. Antrobus—he was a straightfor-
ward, honest, and independent man.—(Great confusion.)
It appeared to him peculiarly fit that the electors of Sur-
rey should elect a Member that was unconnected with
commerce, which Mr. Antrobus was.—( Great confusion.)
Ti.e lectors of Surr,y, and Mr. Antrobus among them,
were for practical measures of Reform, but they did not go
s ) f. r a, to adopt those measures which were required by
th , Democratic party. Mr. Painter concluded by second-
itig tf.e nontinatit:n of Mr. Antrobus.

The Rev. Mr. COURTNEY then came forward to propose i
Thomas Alcock, Esq., of Ringwood Lodge. as rt fit and
proper person to represent the county in Parliament—
( Lend cheers and hisses.) He trusted they would allow
him, on the plea of age and idler-silty and actual ill- '
ness, to be covered.—( Loud cries of " Yes.") And '
now as he had many personal and intimate friends '
on the opposite aide, considering, also, that however
strong his political opinions and feeliegs might be,
never had in his life, aiel iie never should say any
thing personally cffensive to any man.—( Great interrup-
tien.) lie was sure they would acknowledge the great
dieadyelitage they laboured under in speaking in the open
air, but if they were to be put down by clamour it was all
mockery. He raid his friends had done all they could to
keep the people on their side of the hustings quiet, but he
regretted they had been so far unsuccessful that he had
riot heard a single word that either of the opposite gen-
th men had said. lie couicquently laboured under the
disadvantage of riot being able to answer them. He
would te'l them why he supported, Mr. Alcock, and why
be opposed Mr. Antrobus. He l:ad never seen the latter
gentleman till he had come upon the hustings that day.—
( No, nor nobody else.) He supported Mr Alcock because
he knew that on all important questions that should come
before the Legislature he would support her Majesty's
present Ministers—( Loud (heers)—sinking all minor
points ; and he believed that the weal and woe of Eng-
land, nay the weal or woe of the empire, rested on the
issue of the present contest.—( Renewed cheers.) If
his side prevailed it would be weal—if the other,
woe. Ile solemnly protested, and his opinions were
not those of yesterday, or of last year, but were the
opinions of fifty years' growth, and no man could •
charge him with inconsistency—( Cheers and great upriser
fcr some minutes)—he had often come forward before to
his own y ersonal detriment—( Hear, hear)—but looking
at that banner before him, on which was inscribed
" Church and State," let it not be supposed that they •
wished to fight under any other banner.—( Loud cheers
and hisses.) Who was there around him who wished it ?
( Renewed (beers ) He had not asked personally,
individually, or secretly for a single vote ; but '
although be had not done so secretly, he now came for-
ward openly, and in the face of day, to implore them to
give their votes for his friend, and not for the opposite
g ntlernan.—( Loud cheering, booting, and biasing.) He
appealed to his own parishioners as to what had been his
conduct in that respect.—( Great uproar.) Considering
the inclemency of the weather he was anxious to Le very 1 .
short, but Lis physicial powers would not enable him to
speak in the open air in the midst of clamour.—( Uprear.)
He asked them to hear him patiently—don't lit them
quarrel with Lim fur his opinions, as he never had and
Lev, r sheuld quarrel with them for theirs.---( Loud
cheers ) lie asserted his right as a free-born Briton to
state his opinions openly and fairly. (Loud cheers.) 1
'['hey were all freemen born, but did they all stand there
as fres melt and freeholders ?—( Loud cries of " No,
no.") If there was any one over whom undue influence
had been exercised he most emphatically denounced it
—(Great cheering.) Wherever undue influence was used,
whether on his tide or the other, he denounced it as a
base, ungenerous, and unconstitutional.—( Vehement
cheers followed by great uproar and hooting, which
lasted fur some minutes. Mr. Antrobus came forward and -
endeevoured, as appeared to us, to obtain a hearing for
the Rev. Gentleman.) All he asked from them was a
clear stage and nu favour. If they wished for
the peace, the prosperity, and the happiness
of the country, they would vote for Mr. Alcock.—[A
large game Ceclt was here held up in the midst of the
crowd, and occasioned great laughter and cheering ; it
was ultimately pulled to pieces and flung from one side to
the other, to the great amusement of the mob.] If the
electors were fond of cock-fighting, they would not find
his fsiend a shy coek.—(Great cheering and uproar.) Let
them not verity the words of the Duke of Wellington, that
all county meetirgs were a farce.--(Cheers. ) Did they wish
that to be a mob election, or did they wish to hear the
argualents on Loth sides?—(Cheer.) Was thc present
a trne to dismiss her Majesty's Ministers, when they were
triumphant' in all quarters? There was peace in the Le-
vant—everything was settled there—they had extended
their conquests in India ; and now that they had accom-
plished the peace of Europe, the Tory Press wanted to
produce a conflict between them and America. They were
not satisfied with the Ministers having conferred peace by
ine eriergy and decision of their Councils, and the bravery
and discipline of their fleets, which were supposed to be in
an u. fit state fur war—( Hear, hear)—but they now
a dto fix a quarrel between England and the Ameri-
c.
ns ; they were also jealous of the high compliment
which the Duke of Wellington had paid to the foreign
policy of Ministers, reore especially as they knew and every
body knew, that nobody could do more than the illus-
trious Duke to preserve the peace of Europe.—( Cheers )
'lie Noble Duke, with his usual magnanimity, had given
his unqualified approval of the policy of Ministers on the
Eastern question ; he had gone even further, and ap-
proved of the speech of her Majesty, and had demon-
streted that there had been no want of courtesy towards
France, ar.d that he had explained by the experience of
his own diplomatic life as regarded the Treaty of Vienna.
—(Cheers.) While they felt proud of the support of the
great and illustrious leader of the opposite party, who had
always been above party views, and who had come forward
to give his unprejudiced arid manly support to that which
he believed to be calculated to preserve the peace of
Europe, they did not on that account deviate from their in-
dependent cou. se of action. What had the Tory Press
said of the Noble Duke's speech ? Why that he
had been guilty of fulsome flattery.--( Cries of Shame.' )
Bet while they bad his support it matte.ed little what
were the bar kings of such paltry underlings. In refer-
ence to the American question, the St. James's Chronicle
(he didnot know whether his friend Mr. Baldwin were
present or not)—( Cries of He is")--that paper had
said that the American quarrel was oxing to their having
a weak and contemptible Ministry. After all the Govern-
ment had done for the peace of Europe, that little petty
quarrel was brought forward as a counterpoise
to the ;great success of their arms in the Levant. He
would not occupy their attention longer, but would pro-
pose Mr. Alcock as a fit and proper person to represent
them in Parlinment.
Sir E. Coreeertoox had great pleasure in seconding the
nomination of Mr. Alcock—(Cheers)—for he believed
that that gentleman possessed every qualification for re-
presenting the county of Surrey in Parliament, whether
as regarded his private character or his public
principles. lie had taken every opportunity of ascertaining
Mr. Alcoek's opinions. He had been delighted with the
open and frank manner in which he had avowed his opinions.
( Hear, hear.) However much he might be attacked cr
misrepresented—however much he might be borne
down for a time by misrepresentations to any part of the
constituency of the county, Mr. Alcock would, on all
occasions, prove an unflinching advocate of their rights.
--( Loud cheers.) He felt that the present election
would b.: a great contest—that they would have to
decide whether their votes and privileges, which
many of them had acquired by the Reform Bill,
should be placed in the hands of those who, however, much
they might now pretend to be Conservative, and to hold
rno,iurate views, had never shown that attachment to
the Constitution of the country as to make the
• House of Commons a full and fair representation
I of the pcopie.—(Cheers.) On the other hand, they had
agentlerean before them who had avowed his opinion no