The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-24 00:00:00

THAMES.

CONVICTION OF A DESERTER FROM TILE MILITA.—
John Jarrett, a dirty and dissipated young man, was
brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with deserting from the
Tower Hamlets Militia. The magistrate, on reading the
charge, as entered in the police-sheet, said the regiment to
which the prisoner belonged was not embodied now.
Timothy Cox, a police sergeant, 45 K, said the prisoner
deserted from the regiment while it was embodied and met
for drill, and that he took his uniform with him, and dis-
posed of it.
Mr. Selfe said the person who bought the uniform was
liable to a heavy penalty. _ _ _

Cox said the prisoner was now wearing the regimental
boots, and that he foun him drunk in a public house, and
arrested him for desertion. The prisoner said I don't care,
you can only give me 3 months imprisonment for it.
Mr. Selfo convicted the prisoner of desertion, and said he
would be a disgrace to any militia regiment. He fined him
Z 5, and in default of payment, 3 weeks imprisonment..

ROBBERY BY A GERMAN MUSICIAN.—AIbert Altheburg,
a German musician, was brought before Mr. Self() charged
with obtaining a violin and two bows, value £4, by false
pretences, and with stealing a coat, two waistcoats, a jacket,
a shirt, and a pair of boots, the property of Henrich Leh-
mann, of the Pelham Arms, George-street, Growelleor-
square. The parties are both musicians, and had been
lodging together at the Running Horse public-house,
in Duke - street, Grosvenor-square. About a month
ago, while the prosecutor was from home, the prisoner
absconded, taking with him the articles aboveltentioned
belonging to his countryman, which he soon ditphsed of,
and spent the money he received for them. He also went
to a house in Whitechapel where Lehmann had left a
violin and two bows, and said Lehmann had sent him for
them. The violin and bows were delivered to him, and he
pawned them, and squandered the money in public-houses
and among loose women.

Mr..Wi;itgen, an intorpretor, who translated the evidence,
said the prosecutor had behaved very kindly to the pri-
soner, and had been put to great inconvenience by the loss
of his clothes and his violin.

The prisoner pleaded guilty, and Mr. Selfe sentenced him
to three months' imprisonment and hard labour.

THE "HON." _HUGH ROWLEY.

As the public will naturally be anxious to learn
the pedigree of this distinguished person, who has
figured for the last week or two at tbo Westmin-
ster Police Court, we extract the following letter
which has been addressed to the editor of the
Times

Sir,—ln reference to the letter that appeared in the Times
of yesterday from Messrs. Sturt and Baly, as solicitors for
the Right Hon. Frances Dowager Lady Langford, and the
Hon. Richard Thomas Rowley, of -the Royal Kent Rifles,
wherein they state that annoyance had been occasioned to
their clients in consequence of its having been supposed by
persons unacquainted with the family that the above-named
respondent was the brother of Colonel Rowley, I am re-
quested by my client, the Hon. Hugh Rowley, to state that
Colonel the Hon. R. T. Rowley, of the Kent Rifles, is not
the brother, but the uncle and late guardian, of the Hon.
Hugh Rowley, and that Frances Lady Langford is his
grandmother ; and, on the part of the Hon. Hugh Rowley,
I have to express his regret at the annoyance it is alleged
his grandmother and uncle have experienced. I have also
to add that the Lady Langford referred to in the proceed-
ings my client has been recently compelled to institute
against his late wife is the Right Hon. Louisa Augusta
Lady Langford, the mother of my client and of the late
peer, and the widow of the late Right Hon. Hercules Lang-
ford, Baron Langford, who was the eldest son of the above-
named Frances Lady Langfbrd.
I have the honour to be your obedient servant,
ELDON E. TOWNE.
30, Burton-crescent, W.C., Dec. 23.