The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-06 00:00:00

UNION HALL.

A smart-looking little hairdresser, named Hardy,
was charged with an assault on an old man named
Holman, in the same " profession." Defendant
was at one time journeyman to the complainant,
but as he made it a practice to get drunk in the
morning, which caused him to cut the chins, instead
of shaving the beards, of his customers, complain-
ant discharged him. The defendant then took a
shop opposite to complainant's, and shaved at half-
price. He next became " a Reformer," left off his
drunken habits, and obtained all the business Of
complainant. hen the latter went to remonstrate
with him on his conduct, he was assaulted.
Mr. Hardy was fined 20s.

As Mr. DUFTY, of Sutton Bonnington, was
viewing a plat of oats, his property, he happened to find a.
track which had been previously made; he pursued the
track, at the end of which he found a capital leg of
mutton.—Nottingham Review.

SUICIDE BY A SOLDIER.-011 Tuesday
morning an inquest was held at the King's Head, Salford,
before Mr. ROTTEN the Coroner, on view of the body of
Jour( PAATT, a private of the 85th regiment, who de-
stroyed himself by blowing his brains out. It appears,
that a few days ago, the regiment to which the deceased
belonged, had left fur Ireland, and he, instead of going
with the rest of his comrades, stayed behind drinking,
and in a moment of intoxication, in the King's Head
tap-room, he loaded a pistol before several people, and
suddenly placing the muzee to his mouth, he blew his
',rains and the upper part of his head to atoms.—Verdict,
insanity.

Suspension-bridges are becoming numerous
in France. In the valley of the Rhone alone, within an
extent of about sixty miles below Lyons, there are bridges
at Arles, Vienna, Serrieres, Andance, Tournon, Valence,
Bourg-Saint-Andeol, Beaucaire, and Fourques• The
bridge of Beiucaile, which is '7OO feet long, is remarkable
for its beautiful porticoes. That of Tournon ia the oldest,
and dates from 1824. On the river Loire there are
four or five ; the principal are at Cone and Andresieux.
On the Saone we find chain-bridges at Lyons, at the
Isle Barbe, and at Belleville. The bridge at Brie-sur-
Marne, near Paris, is remarkable for its opening of 300
feet. Eight are thrown over the Ain Within the space
of eight leagues.

BIRTHS.
On the 2d Inst. at Salisbury, Lady Poore, of daughter.
On the lst inst. at Stillingfleet, the lady of the Rev. U. Mark-
ham, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 6th inst. at Pancras New Church, by the Rev. Berry
King, Robert Horton, Esq., of the 74th Regiment, youngest son
of Edward Horton, Esq., of Baker.street, Portman-square, to
Margaret Fanny, youngest daughter of Thos. Greenwood, Esq.,
of Cumberland-place, Regent's Park.
On the 4th inst. at St. James's Church, the Viscount Sydney,
to Lady Emily Paget, daughter of the Marquis of Anglesea.
On the 4th inst. at Rogate Hants, Captain John William
Gage, of the 14th Regiment of 'Light Dragoons, to Mary Eliza-
beth, eldest daughter of Wm. Lushington, Esq.

DIED.
On the 28th ult. at Gippon-hall, Suffolk, Richard Bacon Frank,
Esq., the eldest sen of the Rev. E. Frank, of Campsall, in the
West Riding of the county of York, and of Earsham, Norfolk.
On the 119:11 ult. at William Holloway's, Esq., Rye, suddenly,
of a fit of apoplexy, Mrs. Esther Wells, late of Connaught-terrace.
Edgeware-road, London.
On the Ist inst., suddenly, Mr. William Denbigh, Union.street,
Southwark, aged 61.
On the 4th inst. Russel Skinner, Esq., Richmond-terrace,
Brighton, aged 66, of apoplexy.
On the 4th inst. at Vale-cottage, Sydenham, Charlotte Ann.
the wife of Mr. James Toplis, and mother of Mrs. Von der
Heyde, of Lower Thames-street, London, aged 75.
On the 2d inst. Mary Venetia, daughter of Philip Duncombe
Pauncefort Duncombe, Esq., of Brickhill Manor, Bucks, in her
eighth year.
On the 4th inst. in her 38th year, Eliza, with of Mr. Cooper,
Thayer-street, Manchester-square.

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