The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-21 00:00:00

ASSIZES.-(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)

OXFORD CIRCUIT, JuLr2o.
ASSAULT ON THE PERSON OF A LITTLE GIRL.
Reuben Painter, an old labourer, was sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour for an as-
sault, with an intent to commit a rape on the person of
Ruth Smith, a little girl, between 10 and 12 years of age.
The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence, addressed
him most seriously on the heinous nature of the offence,
and told him that it was only a slight difference in the
age of the victim that saved him from capital punishment.

LIBEL.—THE KING V. WELLER.
Mr. CARRINGTON, for the prosecution, stated that this
was a traverse from the last Assizes. The indictment was
against Samuel Well, r, a horse-dealer, in Oxford ; the
prosecutor was Mr. Henry Cleeve. at present a farmer in
Cambridgeshire. The libel was contained in a letter,
written by the defendant, charging the prosecutor and his
brother with an offence as abominable as any that could be
cotntnitted by human beings. Mr. William Cleeve, the
brother of the prosecutor, had married a daughter of the
defendant's, and they lived for some time at Blenheim, in
this county. but afterwards removed into Cambridge-
shire. Subsequently the defendant's daughter left her
husband and went to her father. Proceedings were com-
menced by her in the Ecclesiastical Courts, for the pur-
pose of obtaining an allowance from her husband, Mr. Wm.
Cleeve, but he had since left the country. The letter
forming the libel was afterwards written by the defendant
to an uncle of the prosecutor's brother. He would pro-
duce the letter to the Jury, and leave them to draw their
own conclusion from it.

The letter was then produced and read. It charged the
prosecutor's brother, Mr. William Cleeve, with brutality to
his wife, and in particular with having on one occasion
held her down while the prosecutor beat her, tore her hair,
and made her nose b!eed. It also charged the prosecutor
and his brother with the commission of an unnatural of-
fence, alike offensive to the laws of God and man.
Mr. Henry Clueve, the prosecutor, corroborated the
statements of the plaintiff's Counsel.

The Jury found a verdict of Guilty.
An important case is expected to-morrow ; Sir James
Scarlett comes down on a special retainer.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE -(THIS DAY.

FROM ELOYIPS
DEAL, JULY 20.—Wind E.N.E. moderate.—Remains
the Formy for DI, w South Wales. •

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 20.—Arrived off port the Mount
Hope, Green, from Mataaas; York, Spratley, from
London, for Van Diemen's L4nd.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 19.—Wind W.N.W. light breezes.
—Arrived the Waltvr Hamilton, Logan, from Gib-
raltrr. Sailed, his Majesty's ships Castor and Orestes
fi r the westward.

FALMOUTH, JULY 19.—Wind N. to N.N.E. fresh.—
Arrived the Eghatn, Turner, from London, mainmast
sprung, &c. bound to Cadiz.

- LIMERICK, JULY 18--Arrived the Ceres, Dunn,
from Quebec; Ward, Hare, from St. Andrews, New Bruns•
wick.

BELFAST, JULY 18.—Arrived the Hero, Smith, from
London ; Comet, Hurst, from St. John's Brunswick.

MARGATE, JULY 20.—Arrived off port the St. Peters-
burgh, Pering, from St. Petershurgh.
GUERNSEY, JULY 17.—Arrived the Two Sisters,
Tl,omas, from Monte Video.

BRISTOL, JUT 20.—Arrived the Antigua Planter,
Cherry, from Antigua.
Livaitroor., JULY N.—Arrived the Royal William,
M'Narluge, from New York; Margaret, Munden, from
Newfoundland. Off port, the Speedy, from Africa. The
African expedition, consisting of the following vessels,
sailed from hence to-day, viz. :—Alburk, Hill ; Colum-
bine, Miller; and Quora, Harris.

The Wilton, from Quebec to London, has been fallen
in with, water-logged, and abandoned about 150 miles
westward of the Blasquetts.

" FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 20.
" Gentlemen—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's
date, requesting that the Lisbon packets might be ordered to
touch at Oporto during the continuance of the interruption
which at present exists in the land 'communication between
Oporto and Lisbon ; and I am desired by his Lordship to
acquaint you, that directions have been given that the
Lisbon packets should call off Oporto, and communicate
with the commanding officer on that station.
(Signed) "J. BACK HOUSE.
" To Messrs. Cundleman, Foster, and Co."
DANG

ER OF PREMATURE INTERMENT.—
A correspondent states that on Thursday night, as the
coffin-hearers of a person supposed to have expired of
cholera in one of the city parishes, near Eishopsgate,
were carrying their burden for interment, they heard a
noise within the coffin, which induced them to lay it down
and open it: the individual was found not to he quite dead,
and his recovery is not at all improbable. We fear this is
not the only instance of premature interment during the
prevalence of the epidemic.
A DELICATE APPETITE.—A Jesuit one
day found a Brazilian worn in in extreme old age, and
almost at the point of death. Having catechised her, in-
structed her, as he conceived, in the nature of Christianity,
and completely
whether there was any kind of food which st e could take.
taken care of her soul, he began to inquire
" Grandam," said he (that being the word of courtesy by
which it was usual to address old women), " if I were
to get you a little sugar now, or a mouthful of some of our
nice things which we get from beyond sea, do you think
you could eat it ?" " Ah, my grandson," said the old
convert, my stomach
goes against every thing. There
is but one thing which I think I could touch. If I had
the little head of a little tender Tapuya boy, I think I could
pick the little bones ; but wo is sae, there is nobody to go
out and shoot one for me."—(Southey's History of Bra.
zil.)—This story alludes to the early settlement of the
Jesuit Missionaries in South America, when they &mid
the Indians with an almost incurable attachment to can -
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