1 AUGUST 1863, Page 3

The charge of murder against W. H. Clarke, the young

man suspected of destroying Elizabeth Hunter, a child of eight years of age, in Islington, in March, 1862, has been dropped for want of evidence, and he is to be charged instead with indecent assaults on two or three little girls, committed previously to this murder. The evidence even for this minor offence is not very good in any one case ; it is the number of the eases which seems to tell against him. Mr. Barker committed him for trial.