The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-05 00:00:00

SURREY

The nomination of candidates for the election of
two knights to serve in Parliament for the eascern
division of the county of Surrey took place yesterday
in the Town-hall at Croydon, Sir Walter Farquhar,
the High Sheriff, presiding.
Mr. J. H. PALMER nominated the Hon. Peter
John Locke King. . .

Mr. HUTTON seconded the nomination.
Captain FITZROY proposed Mr. Thomas Alcock
Mr. W. A. WILKINSON seconded the nomination

Mr. C. WOOD proposed Mr. Anthony Cleasby.

Mr. STENNINGseConded the proposal.
Mr. LOCKE KING then rose, and said he was so-

. liciting their. suffrages in .a most momentous crisis.
His opinions were so well known to most of them,
and so much too well known to his opponents, that
he would not talk about himself. (Cheers.) He re-
joiced to think that the £lO franchise had been
touched upon, because the more it was ventilated
the more beneficial it would be to the Liberal cause.
(Hear, hear.) It had been said that he had attempted
to introduce into this country the French law with
regard to property, but that he denied; for the
French law was founded on injustice. His proposal
was only to provide a proper distribution of pro-
perty among a family where the head of it died in-
testate; whereas the French law did not allow the
testator to will his property as he pleased, but di-
rected him as to how he should dispose of it. He
then explained the working of the English law and
the nature of thebill he introduced into Parliament,
.which did not interfere with the power of a man to
will•his property as he pleased, but only prevented
the eldest son taking all and the rest of the family
being left destitute in the event of the father dying
int'state. Passing on to the conduct of the Govern-
ment, he said Parliament was dissolved at the most
untoward moment that it was possible to conceive.
They had every prospect of a general European
war, and in the face of such a crisis the Conserva-
tive Administration dissolved Parliament. An able
man would scarcely haVe had the hardihood to do
so, but, on the contrary, would have applied for ex-
traordinary powers to keep it together. But the
fact was the Government had not the confidence of

he late House of Commons, and was therefore en-
deavouring by some means or other to obtain the
confidence of the country. Lord Derby had been
playing fast and loose with the foreign Powers—at
one time the friend of France, then assisting
Austria to trample on the liberties of Italy, then
asking Sardinia to disarm, and thus he had been
playing with them all. And what was their con-
duct in the House before the dissolution ? They
put off the explanation in the House of Commons
until the last day of the session, when nothing could
be said, and then Lord Derby went to a dinner at
the Mansion-house and made a speech diametri-
cally opposed to that which had been made previ-
ously. But he would ask them which speech would
they believe—the before-dinner one in the House of
Commons, or the after-dinner one at the Mansion-
house? Then whom had they at the head of foreign
affairs ? Why, Lord Malmesbury, who, but for the
seriousness of his position, would be the laughing-
stock of Europe. (Cries of " No, no.") The Reform
Bill was not a Reform Bill, but one for the perpe-
tuity of the Derby Government, and he could prove
that it was one of the most unprincipled that ever
existed. (Uproar, and cries of " Those are strong
words.") He said it advisedly, and he would prove
it. (Hear, hear.) How did they come into power ?
When Lord Palmerston brought in the Conspiracy
to Murder Bill they formed a disgraceful coalition
with the ultra-Radicals, and defeated the Govern-
ment, so that they might get place. They had since
then sacrificed their feeling& and let Jews into Par-
liament, and they had also assisted them to pass the
Property Qualification Abolition Bill. He thanked
them for that, although by so doing they had aban-
doned their principles. The next thing he had to
refer to was the £lO franchise, and in that they
were consistent, for they uniformly opposed it ; but
he beat them by a thundering majority. (Cheers.)
Looking at the Government as it was constituted he
did not believe the honour of England was safe in
the hands of Lord Malmesbury, and as soon as the
Parliament was assembled would do all in his power
to turn them out.

Mr. APTED asked whether he would do all in his
power to prevent England being entangled in the
approaching war ?
Mr. LOCKE KING said the policy he would advo-
cate would be to express sympathy in the strongest
terms for Italy, but at the same time to observe a
strict neutrality.
Mr. ALCOCK and Mr. CLEAsBY having addressed
the meeting,
A show of hands was taken, when the High
Sheriff declared it to be in favour of Mr. Locke
King and Mr. Alcock.
A poll was then demanded on behalf of Mr.
Cleasby, and a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff
terminated the proceedings.

WILTS (NORTH).
The election of two knights of the shire for the
northern cliyisioza of the county of Wilts was held