The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-05 00:00:00

CLERKEN WELL.

Two boys named, Perkins and Walfourd, were
placed at the bar, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with
having been concerned in setting fire to Clara Carr, a
girl five years of age, by which her life is placed in
imminent danger.
It will be recollected that some boys were playing
together in Reform-buildings, St. Luke's, when a
man, connected with a manufactory, threw a lump of
brimstone into a dusthole, with which they com-
menced playing, and having lit a portion of it, they
flung it on the child's clothes ; she was instantly en-
veloped in flames, her person was dreadfully injured,
and her arms nearly burnt to a cinder. Her mother
ran to her assistance, and in attempting to extinguish
the flames her hands and arms were also severely
burnt. The child is now in St. Bartholomew's Hos-
pital,! and the mother an outpatient cf that establish-
ment. Perkins, who was the principal in the affair,
was apprehended on the spot, and he was remanded for
the apprehension of Walfourd. The poor mother at-
tended with her hands and arms bound up, and in
great agony.
After a lengthened investigation the prisoners were
liberated on bail, and delivered over to their parents,
to appear again in a week, when the fate of the in-
jured child will be made known.
SOUTH WARK.

Stephen Boxhall, sen., and Stephen Bozhall, jun.,
father and son, were brought up for reexamination,
charged with cawing the death of a man named
Prestage on Monday night last.
The circumstances which led to the death of the
deceased young man occurred in a beer-shop called
the Horns, in Bermondsey, on Friday evening. They
w ere altogether in the above house, and some words
having arisen between them, during which Boxball,
jun., used language of an offensive description to-
wards Mrs. Prestage, her husband resented the insult
by threatening to strike the offender if he repeated
the calumny. The latter did repeat the offensive ex-
pressions and struck the deceased, and, according to
the evidence of the witnesses, acted towards the de-
ceased with great violence by running his head
against the lower part of his abdomen, thereby
causing a rupture of the unfortunate man's bladder, of
which he died in the hospital on the Monday evening
following. Since the occurrence an inquest has been
held on the body of the deceased, and a verdict of
" Manslaughter" returned.
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The prisoners, who declined saying anything a
present in their defence, were committed.
WANDSWORTH.

Thomas Day, William Clark, and George Biden,
had their fourth hearing, before Mr. Beadon, on a
charge of being concerned in the death of Ely Wing,
late toll-collector at the Robin Hood-gate, Kingston--
bottom.

At the last examination Biden was allowed to be
sworn as a witness, but some circumstances trans-
piring which led to a suspicion of his testimony, the
case was abruptly closed for the
wh production f a
younger son of Biden's master, was in attend-
ance yesterday, and from the evidence he gave not
only proved that Biden had told a tissue of falsehoods,
but cleared up this mysterious and contradictory case
in a very extraordinary manner • as, however, an-
other witness of an equally important character was
required, it was deemed politic by the magistrate that
the evidence given should be withheld until the other
witness was examined.
Mr. Alfred Taylor, the chief clerk, then proceeded
to take the voluminous depositions of the numerous
witnesses, preparatory to the committal of the pri-
soners for trial. The depositions, which occupied
upwards of two hours in the taking, were afterwards
read carefully over to the prisoners by the chief clerk,
to which they offered no defence, and the whole of
the witnesses were bound over to appear at the next
assizes to be holden at Kingston, and there prefer a
charge against the prisoners of feloniously stabbing
and slaying one Ely 'Wing.
The prisoners were then formally committed, but
will be brought up again to-morrow.

THE CASE OF THE REV. MR. ROOLES.—The Bishop
-of Exeter has entirely removed the Rev. Charles Ruokes
from the diocese of Exeter. The time allowed for the
appeal having now gone by, the Bishop hal just insti-
tuted the Rev. Thomas Rutherford Dickinson; M.A., to
the rectory of Nymott Rowland, which the Rev. Mr.
Rookes held. _

The Earl Fitzwilltam has been unanimously elected
High Steward of Cambridge, in the room of the late
Lord Godolphin.