The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-04 00:00:00

Sir R. BIRNIE—Yes, and I am greatly surprised that
that Magistrate did not send up information to this, or

some other office in town.

As it is, if proper measures

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are taken, I have no doubt that a discovery will be made ?
—The applicant hoped no mention of his name would be
made in the public prints, as be and his father frequently
travelled at night by the green lanes, and other dark and
dangerous places near Barnet. Various parties might be
enraged at the loss of one of their companions, and so
might take an opportunity to waylay them, when they
were least aware of-any such designs.
Sir RICHARD had no doubt that his name, under such

circumstances, would not he mentioned, and then directed
the gentleman to give information of the circumstances in
the clerk's office, which would thereby appear in the Hue
and Cry and Daily Report. The gentleman afterwards
stated that he should have pursued the villains, but his
own horse was frightened, and galloped away as soon as
the other set off. He looked back and perceived that the
cart was going at a most violent pace, and that the tall
man lay in the same position as that in which he had
fallen—namely, his hack on the bottom of the cart, and his
legs sticking up above the seat. The horse pistol had been
flung over his head into the cart as he fell backwards. The
snow was very thick upon the ground, and no trace of
blood could be discovered, although the most diligent
search was made. lie looked narrowly at the parties and
their conveyance, but lie should be unable to recognise
them again unless they were wrapped up the same as they
were then. The horse and chaise, however, he thought
he should know again. Plunder, he was assured, must
have been their object. The gentleman' further stated,
that the night in question was moonlight, and he had every
opportunity of viewing the men ; but they had wrapped
themselves up in a way that completely put detection at
defiance. A similar outrage had occurred about four
years back.

Lord and Lady FALKLAND are passing their
honey-moon at Cumberland Lodge. His Lordship, we
understand, is in his twenty-seventh year, her Ladyship
in her twenty-third.— Windsor Express.

Lady MILDMAY, of Dogmersfield Park, the
Lady M. the Manor at Odiham, has made a proposal to
grant certain portions of waste lands in that parish for the
use of the poor.

THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL com-
mences the new year with a richer fund than usual of nar-
rative, instructive, and miscellaneous contributions ; while
its utility iu a professional sense is enhanced by the
variety of tabular documents it 'exhibits, which com-
prise information of the utmost value to the two ser-
vices. We allude particularly to the papers on the follow-
ing subjects :—Stations of the Army on the Ist January,
IS3I, and reference to the foreign service of regiments—
Army Regulation Prices of Commissions—Pay of General
Officers unattached—Regimental Pay_. Military Staff_
Pay on the Home Stations—Ditto on Foreign Stations—
Field allowances on Home Service—Ditto to Staff and
Garrison Officers on Foreign Service—Ditto to Regimen-
tal Officers on Foreign Service—Military Half-pay—Pen-
sions and Allowances to relatives of Officers—Ditto to
Officers of the Army for wounds received in Action, &c.