The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-15 00:00:00

REPEAL OF THE UNION.

Ou Tuesday evening, in consequence of an adver-
tisement from Mr. O'Connell, calling upon his
friends to meet him at six o'clock, in Haves's Ta-
vern, Dawson-street, there were, long before six
o'clock, upwards of 300 applicants for tickets, but
the rooms not being capable of accommodating more
than half that number, 150 sat down to dinner.—
A good substantial repast was provided for the com-
pany. As usual, the Uovernment reporters were
in attendance.

Mr. O'CONNCLL, immediately upon the cloth
being removed, rose to address the assembly amid
the most enthusiastic cheers. As we have, said he,
met for business, and not for the mere purpose of
amusement, the sooner, I think, we proceed with
business the better. You all know that we are as-
sembled here in consequence of another exceedingly
foolish exhibition of power. Do they imagine that
by preventing us assembling at one place, they
can hinder us meeting somewhere else ? All they
can do by their last proclamation is to prevent us
breakfasting at Home's. We may, for instance,
meet here to-morrow and breakfast ; if they pro-
claim us down here, we can go to another tavern;
then we have all the public-houses to go to, and after
that we can have the private houses.—(Cheers and
laughter.) My two drawing-rooms are as large as
these rooms : some of my independent and parti-
cular friends can meet me there, and I will be
extremely happy that my friends, the reporters,,
will also come there to breakfast with me.—(Cheers
and laughter.) If they should issue a procla-
mation against my house, then we have 5,000 other
houses in Dublin, which will do equally well.—
(" Hear," and cheers.)—l have met in the course
of this day twenty individuals who before had not
taken part in politics, and have declared themselves
decided friends to a repeal of the Union. I also see
in this room, at this very moment, men whom I
never knew before to take a part in agitation.—
(Hear.)--I received this day what I should never
like to get, an anotryinc.us letter, advising that Mr.
Home should petitii n Parliament. Ido not advise
him to do so ; though I think he should try an ac-
lion with E. G. Stanley, for depriving him of 10/.
a-week, which he had clear out of the breakfast.—
(Cheers and laughter.)—l propose, gentlemen to
give three toasts, and I think we should confine our-
selves to,,three—the first, " The People ;" the se-
cond, " The King;" and the third, " The repeal
of the Union."—(Cheers.)—Mr. O'Connell, in the
course of a long address, alluded to the decided op-
position offered in Parliament by Mr. Stanley, Mr.
R. Grant, and particularly by Lord Anglesea, to the
Bill for the suppression of unlawful meetings in Ire-
land, and contrasted their now issuing proclamations
under that Bill with their former denunciation of its
principle and enactments.

Other persons, of no peculiar note, also addressed
the dinner party.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A very singular case of robbery came on before
the LORD MAYOR.

Wm. Varrell was charge I with having stolen
seventeen pair of soles at Billingsgate. 'II be fish
were produced by one of the officers of the market.
They were fine fresh soles, and the LORD MAYOR
asked whether the prisoner had stolen them in the
basket.

The officer astonished every body, by stating that
the prisoner had, when apprehended, every one of
the soles about his person, and that he must have
been but a short time hiding them, although he so
disposed them round his person, as not to appear to
have increased in bulk. He might have passed
through the market without notice, if he had not
long been marked as an incorrigible thief. When
he saw that he was known, he made off as quickly
as he could, and as he ran, the fish dropped from
him one by one, arid he got rid of eight. The
officers were in some measure impeded in the
pursuit by the other Billingsgate thieves, who did
not attempt a rescue, but struggled hard to get hod
of the fallen 11,;11. At length the prisoner was
seized, and from his trousers were drawn ten couple
of fine soles, some c►f which were actually warm
from the contact. Seven couple were pulled from
the upper part of his person, where they surrounded
him next to his skin.

The LORD MAYOR—WeII, prisoner, if you bought
those soles, I suppose you r:an tell us where ?
Prisoner—Please your Worship, I never said I
bought the fish, arid if I did, I'd only be telling
you a lie. I got them aboard a boat, and
that's the truth.

The LORD MAYOR—Where did you steal them,
tlien l Prisoner---Why, you see my Lord, I don't
exactly call it stealing, for you see they was laying
on the deck just in the way of the regular bad urns
what's about this here market ; and so, says I, if 1
don't take thee, why some 'tin doesn't Want 'em
half as much will grab 'ern, and so I stowed 'em
away, 'cause you see, my Lord,:l was out of work."
Mr. Goldham, the clerk of the marker, stated
that the prisoner was an idle incorrigible fellow,
whom many attempts had been made to reclaim.

The Lor) MAYOR expressed surprise at the pri-
soner being able to stow away such as enormous
quantity of fish about his person.
The prisoner said, he did not know how it was,
but he was always amongst the fish, and he supposed
they knowed him.—(Laughter.)—He must say that
the people about the market wouldn't let him get
an honest penny, and so he was obliged to borrow
the stray fish now and then.
Mr. Goldham—l assure your Lordship that I
have got this man many a job, and he has been for.
given two or three times, hut it is all useless. In
the middle of his work he'll whip a salmon or a cod
into his trousers, and off he'll go with it. Some-
•imes fellows of this kind will work all dly although
loaded with fish. An add thing happened some
time ago. Some large lobsters were brought and
one of these gentry, when he thought ail w,•as clear,
whipped one of them into his breeches, without
knowing that it was alive. I knew how it would
he, and I went up to keep him in conversation.
Presently I saw him very uneasy, and saw him put
his hand behind very often; but when I took care
to occupy bath his hands, he looked at me with
tears in his eyes, and said—" S'elp me G—, master,
I'm punished enough. He's got a fast hold of me
behind."—(Loud laughter.)—Mr. Goldham said,
the bite was more serious than it at first appeared
to be; and the unfortunate thief, instead of being
sent to prison, was sent to an hospital.
The prisoner %Terrell was then committed to the
House of Correetion for two months.