The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-08 00:00:00

EAST SURREY ELECTION.
EXPIZESS-(THIS DAY.)

The neminati n of candidates for the E stern Division of
Su rey ok place ais morningat Croyd• n and 'Torn an ea, ly
hour the town presented the u;uel animat.A appear-
aece which it his been proverbial 'Curing it:; clee
tioncering phrases. Notwitly,tan-ling tl e inclemency of the
weather, a drizzling sleet hoi:ng fallen all the morning,
which froze es it fell, the windows were erpw,.led with
ladies, d splaying flags and handkerchiefs decorated with
the colour cf their favourite candidat those of
Antrobus greatly predomintting. Several bann!..rs
,i,id flags were displayed frem the principal inns and ho•,
tels, whiledbands of music paraded the streets, and gror:ps
of idle partisans collected, and burraed or hooted
as the parties, decorated with the badges of their political
Mends or opponents passed. At half-past nine the pro-
cession of Mr. Antrobus, which had been formed at
Streatham and Honiten Heath, entered the town, headed
by a band of music, and a variety of flags and banners, en-
te-ed the town. The procession extended upwards of a
mile in length, and ex'tibited a variety of orange and
purple decorations. Among the inscriptions on the flags
were-4. Antrobus for East Surrey," Church at d
State," " Church and Queen," " United for our Queen
and country," &c. &c.
Mr. Alcock's procession was also formed at Thornton
Heath, the standard-bearer and carriages displaying a va-
riety of white and blue banners and cockades. On the
banners were " Victoria, the People's Queen," " Liberty
and Independence," " The Repeal of the Bread-tax," &c.
A strong body of the P division of Metropolitan pol'ce
arrived in the . course of the morning, and assisted mate-
rially in prestrving order at the hustings.
At ten o'clock Mr. ABBOTS', the Under-Sheriff, entered
the Court-house, and having read the precept, adjourned
the Court to the Fair field, a short distance outside the
kown, where hustings had been erected, and a line
of waggons drawn up on either side, in the form
of a semicircle, to accommodate the friends of the
Candidates. At eleven o'clock the Candidates and
their friends, arrived on the groundiand were re-
ceived with cheers and hootings by the vast body
who were assembled in front of the hustiugs.
The Under-Sheriff, Mr. Abbott, appeared on the. hustings
shortly after 11 o'clock, and having again read the precept
and the writ, _ _ .

Mr. A. K. BARCLAY came forward amidst the greatest
uproar and confusion to propose Mr. Antrobus as a
fit and proper person to represent the county of
East Surrey in Parliament. fie believed Mr. An-
trobus was a man eminently calculated to represent
the county, and of this be was sure, that if he wasiclected
he would most faithfully discharge his duty, and would do
all in his power to benefit his county.—(Great uprofr
and confusion.) He, it was true, was one of
those parties who were denominated Conserve-
tives.—(Cries of " Tory.") And they were
distinguished for their loyalty to their Sovereign.—e(Great
laughter and hisses.) The cry for the Ballot was in his
opinion an 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 was, that the institutions of the country should be
improved, and, for those improvements Mr. Antrobtis
would always be found a most strenuous advocate.
The worthy. Gentleman concluded by proposing
Mr. Antrobus, but the noise and confusion that took place
during the whole of the speech, rendered it impossible-to
catch one sentence in ten.
Mr. PAINTER then came forward to second the nomina-
tion of Mr. Antrobus. He 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 shoal I elect a Member that was unconnected' a ith
coremercsawkieh Mr. Antrubus was.-2(Great confusion.)
The I lectors of Surrey, and Mr. Mitrobus among them,
were for practical measures of RAirrn; but fhey did not go
so far as to adopt those tteasarek were r q4'red by
the Democratic party. Mr. Paint: r Con6luded by second-
ing the nomination of Mr. Antrobus. • 7 •
The Rev. Mr. COURTNEY then came forward to propose
Thomas, Ateock, Esq., of Ringwood Lodge. as a•• fit and
proper person to represent the county in Parliament.--
(Loud cheers and hisses.) He trusted they would allow
him, ou the plea of age and infirmity and actual ill-
ness, ib be covered.—(Laud cries of " Yes,") Arid
now as he had many personal and intimate frjen'ds
on the opposite side, considering, also, that lioWever
strong ' his political opinions n I feelings mgat be,
he Lever bad in his life, and he never should bay any
thing personally offensive to any man.-:-( Great intearhp-
tion.) He was sure they would acknowledge the great
disadvantage they laboured under in speaking in the-open
air, but if they were; to be put down by clamour it was all
mockery. He and 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
nut heard a single word that either of the opposite gen-
tlemen' had said. He consequently laboured trader the
disaVantage of not being able to answer them. He
would te)l them- why he supported: Mr. Alceck, 'and why
he opposed Mr. Antrobus. He had never teen the latter
gentleman till he had come upon the hustings that dayraa
(No, nor nobody else.) He supported Mr. Atcock because
he knew that on all important questions that should come
before the Legislature he would support her Majesty's
present Ministers—( Loud cheers)—sinking all minor
points ; and he believed that the weal and woe ef. Eng- ,
Lind, nay the weal or woo of the empire, rested on the
issue Of the present contest.—(Renewed cheers.) If
Ilia side prevailed it would be weal—if the other,
woe. He 'solemnly protested, and his opinions were
no' those of yesterday, or of last year, but were the
opi lions of fifty years' growth, and no man could
charge him with inconsistency--(Cheers and great upreer
for acme minutes)—he had, often come forward before to
his own aersonal 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 cheers ) He had not asked personal)

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individually, or secretly for a single vote ; bu,
although he had not done so secretly. lie now came for-
ward openly, and in the face ef day, to implore them to
give their votes for his friend, and not for the opposite
gentleman.—( Loud cheering, hooting, and hissing.) Ile
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 be very
short, but his physicial poecrs would not enable him to
speak in the open air in the midst of clamour._(Uproar.)
Ile asked them to hear him patiently—don't let them
ouerrel with him fur his opinions as he never had and
Lever should quarrel with them for theirs.—( Laud
cheers.) He asserted his right as a free-born Briton to
state his opinions openly and fairly. (Loud cheers.)
They were all freemen born, but did they all stand there
as freemen 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
hese, ungenerous, and unconstitutional.—(Vehement
cheers followed by great uproar and hooting, Which
lasted for some minutes. Mr. Antrobus came forward and
endeavoured, as appeared to us to obtain a hearing for
the Rev. Gentleman.) All,he asked from them was a
clear stlege 'and no favour. If they wished for
the peace, the prosperity, and the happiness
of the country,.they would vote for Mr. Alcock.—[ A
large game coek was here held up in the midst of the
crowd, pcf occasioned great laughter and cheering it
was stitimately pulled to pieces and flung from one side to
the other, to the great amusement of the mob.] If the
electors were loud of cock-fig :dug, they would not find
his friend a shy cock.—(Great cheering and uproar.) Let
them not verify the words of the Duke of Wellington, that
all countypeetirgs were a farce.--( Cheers.) Did they wish
that to be a met) election, or did they wish to hear the
arguments on both sides.—( Cheers.) Was the present
a time a dismiss her Majesty's Ministers, when they were
triumphant in all quarters. There was peace in the Le-
vent—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
nut satisfied with the Ministers having conf..rred peaea by
the energy and decision of their Councils, and the travery
and discipline of their fleets which ware supposed to be in
an unfit state for war.—( Hear, 11(10—hut they now
wished to fix a quarrel between England and the -Ameri-
cans, they were also jealous of the high cernpliment
which the Duke of Wellington had paid to the foreign
policy of Ministers, more 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 )
The Noble Duke, with his usual magnanimity, had given
his unqualified approval of the policy of Ministers on the
Eastern question, be had gone even further, and ap-
proved of the speech of her Majesty, and bad demon-
strated that there had been no want of courtesy towards
France, and that he had explained by the experience of
his own diplomatic life as regarded the Treaty of Verona.
—(Cheers.) While they felt proud of the support of tee
great and illustrious leader of the opposite party, who had
always been above party views, and who had come forward
to give his unprejudiced and manly support to that which
he believed to be calculated to proserre the peacd of
Europe, they did not on that account detract from their in-
dependent cow 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.")
Bat while they bad his support it matte:ed little what
were the barkings of such paltry underlings. In refer-
ence to the American question, the St. James's aronirle
(he did not know whether his friend Mr. Baldwin were
present or not)—( Cries of "He is. )" That paper had
said that the American quarrel was ()icing 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 pee-
pose Mr. Alcock as a fit and proper person eo represent
them in Parliament.
•
Sir E. COLEBROOK had great plensure in sc,con3ing
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. He has taken every opportunity of ascertaining
Mr. Alcock's opinions. Ile had been delighted with the
open and frank manner in which he bad avowed.bieopinion2.
(Hear, hear.) However much he might be attacked or
misrepresented—however much he might, be borne
down for a time by misrepresentations to any part dyne.
constituency of the county. Mr. Alcockwould, on all
occasions, prove an unflinching advocate of their rights.
—(Loud cheers.) He felt that the present election
would be a great contest—that they would have to
decide vvbether 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 plight now pretend to be Conservative, and to hold
moderate views, had foyer shown that attachment to
the constitution of the country as to make the
House of Commons a full and fair representation
of the people.—(Cheers.) On the other band, they had