The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-27 00:00:00

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By intellect, we mean that sound progressive
knowledge whose stream originating with what
Lord WILTON arrogantly calls " the loyer,
classes," thence diffuses itself with more orless
force through every branch of the community,
and at last contrives to trickle through the upper
classes, by whom even its slightest gurgling is
not heard without emotion.

The lower classes taught by the upper ! What
an utter falsification of fact ! Who generated
that moral and intellectual power which ex-
torted from a reluctant aristocracy the re-
peal of the Test and Corporation Acts ? Who
by the same intellectual energy wrung from the
same aristocracy the memorable Catholic Eman-
cipation Bill ? Who were the first to appre-
ciate and speak out manfully in favour of regene-
rated France ? Above all, whose voice is likely
to be heard with the deepest attention—and this
despite the brayings of a whole herd of bo-
roughtnongers, sinecurists, and placemen
throughout the ensuing Sessions ? The people's
voice—the voice of that community from whom
all legitimate power is derived, and for whose
interests, represented by official organs, all legi-
timate authority is exercised.
The lower classes taught by the upper I And
what, pray, may be the amount of information
that the one have taught and the other have
learned ? We will answer in a word. The art
of paying an exorbitant rate of taxation, and of
believing implicitly, and without reservation, in
the utility of church pluralists, state sinecurists,
and political boroughmongers I Away, then,
with such trash as the people deriving their
education from the Aristocracy. How can ,
those be donors who have nothing to give ?
Let the case be reversed. Let the upper
go to school to the lower classes, and then per-
haps we may be enabled to find poets—philoso-
phers--orators—divines—statesmen among the
former, where we now feel that they are only to
be looked for among the latter. One thing is
certain—England can dispense with her aristo-
cracy, but her people are necessary to her very
existence. Our national glory would suffer no
great diminution by the extinction of the bo-
roughniongers ; our national revenue would not
be very perceptibly impaired by the abstraction
of an odd million or two from the Church and
State sinecurists ; our national literature would
suffer to a ludicrously trifling extent were any
accident to deprive it of my Lord NORMANDY'S
love-tales and my Lord GOWER'S poetics—while
with regard to the people—or as Lord WILTON
calls them, " the lower classes"—let us hear
what GOLDSMITH says; it is quite conclusive
on the subject :

" ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay ;
Nobles and Kings may flourish or may fade,
A breath can make them as a breath has made ;
But d bold populace, their country's pride,
When once destroy'd can never be supplied."

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).

SMITHFIELD MARKET.

In this day's market, which was largely supplied through-
out, each kind of meat experienced an exceedingly dull
sale, at barely Thursday's quotations, indeed, the average
price of the primed small Beef offering did not exceed
Ss. 4d., that of the primest large Oxen Sc. per stone. A
great many Beasts are expected to be turned out unsold.

pawn riga STOWS or Eimis. TO SINK rat OFFAI.S.
s. d. tot. 11, .. 4. toe. d.
Inferior Beasts llO 2 0 Large Lambs 0 0 0 0
Second quality ditto 2 0 2 4 Prlmesmall ditto 3 0 4 0
Prime large Oxen... 210 S 2 Large coarse Calves 910 3 2
Prime Soots, &0..... 3 2 3 8 Prime aniall ditto 4 0 4 4
Inflator Sheep 2 0• 0 0 Lug. Hogs 3 0 8 4
Second quality ditto 2 2 2 8 Small Porkers 4 0 4 4
Coarse.woolled ditto 3 0 3 8 Suckling Calves 12$. to 40t. each.
Southdown Wethers 3 8 4 0 Quarter old Pip 12s. to 18s. each.

SUPPLY, 115 PER CLIRK'S STATZSISNy.
Beasts. (Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. I Piga.
3,373 I 27,730 167 220

About 2050 of the beasts came up the different North Roads;
about 150 from the western and midland districts ; about 50 from
Norfolk, Sutlblk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire; about 15 (rola
Kent and Sussex; and most of the remainder from the marshes,
&c., in the neighbourhood of London.

NEWOATE AND LEAI)ENIIALL MARKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
a. d. tog. d. a. d. to s. d.
Heel 2 0 3 2 Veal
Mutton ...
Lamb 2a. lOtt. to as. 10d.

MEETING ON KENNINGTON COMMON.

(THIS DAY.)

A meeting, as the bill expressed it, of the middling and
working classes, was held on Kennington Gunman this
day, for the purpose of addressing the French people on
the late glorious Revolution in that country, and also to
petition hie Majesty to adopt some measures to relieve the
present distresses of the country. The meeting was called
for one o'clock precisely, at which time Mr, ihmtv HUNT
was to take the Chair.

At twelve o'clock the Common presented but a very
sorry appearance in point either of numbers or any-
thing decent or respectable, at that time there could not
have been more than five or six hundred persons pre.
sent, and those of the lowest description. After that
the numbers began slowly to increase, and a few minutes
before one o'clock, Hunt's " Patent Composition" van,
which was destined to hold the Committee of the " Poli-
tical Union," drove up in front of the Horns Tavern.
On one side of the van was a large tricoloured flag, or
rather sheet. A few minutes afterwards Mr. Hunt made
his appearance in a one-horse chaise. It was some time
before the orator was recognized; when he was, however,
he was received but in a very cool manner, there being
only a faint expression of applause, and that proceeded
from a few idle boys who followed his gig. Indeed Mr.
Hunt himself appeared to feel (we were going to say)
ashamed of it, for he threatened to give the young urchins
a flogging if they did not get further off.
Mr. Hunt then proceeded to the Committee-room, and
gave orders for the van to follow him. A few minutes after.
wards it returned with the Committee, and having reached
the turnpike gate, some railings were pulled dotvit for the
purpose of admitting it to the enclosed part of the Common.
At this time we should suppose the numbers collected
could not exceed more than from four to five thousand ;
indeed, we have no hesitation in characterizing the whole
affair a complete failure, and in such lhol order did the
concocters of it appear to be, that at the time our Re-
porter applied to the Committee for accommodation
to report the proceedings, agreeably to a circular
forwarded to the different Newspaper Offices, he
was informed that they (the Committee) hail been
endeavouring to obtain four vans ; but, (rain some cause
or other, the parties to whom the applications had been
made were inexorable, and consequently that all their en-
deavours on this head had turned out abortive. Under
the circumstances, we need scarcely add, the necessary ac-
commodation could not be afforded by the Committee, or
obtained by those gentlemen on the occision. It was
generally understood that a very strong detachment of
the New Police would be on time scene of action, but
that orders had been issued by the CAsnimissioners that none
of them should be in attendance, and not a single member
of the body was to be seen during the whole pro-
ceedings. As usual, on all similar occasion., there was
not wanting a small sprinkling of flags and placards in-
scribed with party inscriptions—such " Hunt and
Liberty," &c. &c., and the itinerant members of the Re-
ligious Tract Society were snore than ordinarily active and
zealous in the dispensation of their pious gratuities.
At half-past one o'clock Mr. HUNT having been
called
to the chair haraneued the assembled multitude in a
speech of considerable length, in he couse of which
he begged of them not to disturb the speakers
by cries of " Order," and also requested a gentkman who
quietly wits smoaking his pipe in the crowd, to lay
it
down, as the smell of tobacco was not agreeable to the
olfactory nerves of some orators. Mr. H thento
verted to the object ►
for which the meeting had been con-