The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-07 00:00:00

AY, NOVEMBER 7, 1834.

were taken to discover if the bankrupt had left any son, or
other representative, in America, his wife having died about
the time he left England, but the assignees did not receive
any intelligence leading to the opinion that the bankrupt
had married again, and the claim set up here by an alleged
heir at law was considered valid.

On the proceedings under the commission being renewed
yesterday for the audit, Mr. Brooksbank informed the
Commissioners that information had just been received of
the second marriage of Patrick Phillips, the issue of
which was a son, who became of age on the 11th of May
last. Witnesses were alive to speak to the birth of the
child, and the certificate of the marriage was produced
to the Commissioners. The son, who is in Virginia,
had been told that his interests would be protected,
but the fact of the existence of the son was kept secret.
Abundant evidence had arrived from America, counter-
signed by the British Ambassador in the United States,
setting the question of the heir at law to the property be-
yond doubt. The badge of Patrick Phillips (who was a
Freemason) had remained in the possession of the son,
stating the deceased's name and the number of the lodge to
which he belonged. The reason why the son had not sent
over a power was, that by the law of the United States he
could not perform that act till he became of age. The
proofs now were full, and it would be his (Mr. Brooks-
bank's) duty to apply to the Master to review his report.
The Commissioners concurred in the adoption of this
course.

The son will come into possession of freehold property
worth 4001. to 5001. a year, and between 500/. and 600/.
now in the hands of the Accountant-General.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A poor Irishman named APCarthy, appeared before the
LORD MAYOR, for the purpose of claiming a reprobate son,
who was imprisoned in the Giltspur-street Compter, for a
few weeks by order of his Lordship, for having counselled
and assisted a diminutive imp, named Paradise, to enter a
house, by forcing himself between the bars of one of the
windows. Paradise had plundered the place into which he
had forced his body, and put the " swag" into the hands of
young M'Carthy, who, like a dishonourable thief, refused
to make fair division of the spoil, and there was of course
no tie upon the former to induce him to claim the whole
credit of the transaction to himself. Young M'Carthy,
who is about eleven years old, was found smoking his pipe
in Kent-street, and upon being apprehended he candidly
admitted that he knew something of the " crack," but he
vowed that he had no more than one man's share.

The LORD MAvon—Well, Mr. M'Carthy, this son of
your's is a very bad boy.
Old M'Carthy, who is the child of simplicity, replied—
Oh, then, God knows he never lamed it at home wid me.
It's I that's in trouble about him and his brother. I've got
four of cm, without e'er a mother ; and two of em's younger
nor this poor boy, that's a disgrace to us. Will your Honour
listen to me for a minute ? I won't keep you long.
The LORD MAYOR—lndeed I will.

M'Carthy—Oh, then, the Lord bless you ; you deserve
the name you've got ; you won't let the poor be kicked to
death without hearing 'em. Well, I went over to my own
country with the four of 'em about a year ago, but this boy
and the eldest wouldn't stay, but over they walks back
again here. Well, what was Ito do but folly 'em, sure
enough, for I knew how easy it was to get to the gallows.
So, when I arrives in London, the first thing I heard was
that the eldest was transported, and here I am now along-
side of the other, and the Lord knows what going to be
done to him ; and an't I to be pitied?
The LORD MAYOR—What could have made them such
profligate fellows ? M'Carthy—There's only one that
knows, your Honour, and he's able to turn their hearts.
I'm sure I've often gone to bed without eating a morsel all
day, and it's well to be able to lie down with a hungry
belly, and not hear men after me to say that I filled it with
what belonged to other people.
The LORD MAYOR—And where do you live, my poor
fellow ? M'Carthy—Over in Tooley-street, at Dinnis
Donovan's.

The LORD MAYOR—What is Mr. Donovan? M'Carthy
—Please your Honour, every one knows Dinnis, blind
Dinnis—the poor fellow that goes out with the bag-pipes.
He keeps a lodging-house up the court. If you go there
any time and ax for Dinnis, you sure to find him, if he an't
out ; as for me, I'd know him a mile off, though he's as
blind as a milestone.

The LORD MAYOR—I have no doubt that you are an
honest poor fellow, and I wish you were more comfortable.
M'Carthy—God bless your honour ; poor Dinnis makes
us as comfortable as he can. He's as good as a doctor to
some sick people, in partickler if they's got what's called a
strangurry.. I've known him cure a passage with one squeak
of his pipes. Now, if you let my boy go, maybe I could
get Dinnis to learn him the bagpipes, and they say there's
many a doctor that knows no more about physic than he
knows about playing the pipes.
The LORD M AYOR—You may take him with you, my
poor fellow ; and do you hear me, boy. If you follow the
example of your poor honest industrious father, you will do
well in life; but if you do not, you will leave it in all proba-
bility with a rope round your neck.
His Lordship then asked Paradise, who appears to be
about eight years of age, whether he was better than when
he was taken to prison ?—Paradise, who had been kept in
solitary confinement, said that lie never liked any thing so
badly as the matter of having nobody to speak to but him-
self, and he never would go into any strange house again
through the bars of the window.
The LORD MAYOR—How did you manage to get your
body between the bars ; they are not nine inches apart?
Paradise—Why, they told me I was able to get in any-
where, and that I was the only man as was able to rob
them stores. So I puts my body in, and in I goes.
Mr. HOBLER—If you try it again, you may be found
squeezed to death between the rails.
Paradise—Yes, Sir, that's just what I said, and you know
that would be as bad as the tother sort of squeeze.
The LORD MAYOR delivered this boy to his mother, after
having expressed his deep regret that there was no place
of refuge to which he could send either of the wretched
children.

A young woman named Ann Goodwin, who had been
for some time a servant in the family of a gentleman in
the city, was brought to the police-room in order to be re-
moved by an order from the parish in which her master
lived to that upon which she had a claim. She seemed to
be in the deepest affliction, and had a band tied round her
eyes.
The LORD MAYOR asked her whether she had not met
with any accident.
A female friend of the poor girl's said (for she was her-
self unable to speak), that a dreadful accident had a few
days ago occurred, by which the unfortunate creature had
for ever lost her sight. A blunderbuss was in play dis-
charged close to her face by a boy, and her eyes were in
an instant totally destroyed. Her master, Mr. Blackmore,
Gould-square, had acted with great kindness and humanity
to her, and was willing to do anything in his power for her
service, but she was quite inconsolable, and day and night
bewailed her irreparahle loss.
The LORD MAYOR said that it would be anything but
humane to send such an object of compassion to be a de-
pendant upon parochial bounty, especially under the cir-
cumstances of the present day. He had, he believed, some
interest at the excellent institution for the indigent blind,
and he should exert all he could command to obtain for the
poor creature before him admission there on the next day
of election.

Mr. Blackmore declared that the scene which took place
upon the occasion of the loss of the girl's eyes was of the
most heart-rending description. She was an exceedingly in-
dustrious servant, and was much beloved in his family, and
he, of course, would, to the utmost of his power, aid his
Lordship's exertions in her service.
The LORD MAYOR had no doubt of the powerful as-
sistance of the newspapers, which, by the simple statement
of what had taken place upon the application for the order
of removal, would obtain for the unhappy candidate a nu-
merous body of voters into the institution.
The girl's friend stated that the medical gentlemen who
attended her were of opinion that the pains which she suf-
fered all over the head since the horrible accident, would
never be likely to abate until both balls were taken out of
their sockets.