The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-09 00:00:00

LEWES RACE S.—(This clay.)

ARISTOCRATIC PLATE.
Newington
Naughty Boy
Five ran.
LEWES HANDICAP.

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Queenstown
Relap-:c .
Eight ran.
TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES.

2

Gracchus
Flitch ..

Three ran.
COUNTY PLATE.

Tndulgence
Subterfuge colt

Five ran.
TRIAL STAKES.

Flitch
New Brighton
Fractious

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Five ran.
CASTLE STAKES.

Boundaway
Elthatn Beauty '2

CAPTURE OF ELLIOTT, THE GOVERN•

MEN?' .DEFAULTER.

Our readers will proleffily recollect the circumstance or
the absconding of AI% Elliot t, principal military storekeeper
at Weedon, in the month of May last, and its being cis-
covered that he was a defaulter to the Government to ale' ge
amount. Circumstances had arisen leading to the belief
that great irregularity had taken placa in the military stores
department at Weedon, but no suspicion rested on Mr.
Elliott, and a committee of the House of Commons v as
appointed to investigate them. Mr. Elliott attended bef re
the committee and gave evidence on one or two occasions;
and on Thursday, the 20th of May, Elliott left Weedon by
au early morning train, stating be was going to a'tend the
committee, which aroused uo suspicion from the fact that
he had attended the eommittee on a preview occasion.
Natiring, however, was heard of him again till the following
Friday evening, when he sent a telegraphic tnessaes
to Capt. Gordon, who was about to succeed him at. Weedua
he (Elliott) having been trauiferred to Dublin as military
storekeeper there, sating lie should return to Weerlon
the following limning (Saturday) in time to pay the nun e-
rous employes there. lie did not, however, make hie
appearance that morning, neither was he seen during the
day. On Sunday morning his son-in-law, who resides at
Weedon, received a letter from him stating he should never
return to Weedon again, but that he intended to proceed to
Boulogne, in which piece he should be when he (the son-in-
law) received the letter—a let ter, ns the sequel will 5110
intended to throw the authorities off their cuard. As sr on
as Capt. Gordon became aware of the contents of the letter
he suspected something was wrong, and although it was
Sunday, he telegrepued ta the War-office authorities, Pall-
Mall, who immediately put themselves in communication
with the Commissioners of Police, Great Scotland-
yard, whodirected Inspector Whicher, the most experienced
officer of the metropolitan detective force, to take the
ne-
cessary Steps for tracing the supposed ce:inquent, it not
th n being known that Elliott had embezzled any of the
moneys of the Government. Inspector W Weber eommenc.'d
his inquiries on the Sunday, ane form' that Elliott arrived
in London on the previous Thursday, and went to a house
in the neighbourhood of Regent-street, to a female named
Sinclair, whom lie had been cohabiting with for some time,
who was with him when he was apprehended, and with
whom he remained till Friday about four o'clock in the
afternoon, when they left in a cab, informing the lamilaity
of tire house they were about to proceed to Dublin. 14-
Spector Whicher also ascertained that Elliott went the saute
afternoon to Messrs. Cu; Biddulpb, and Co., where he ob-
tained cash for a cheque frr £:350, drawn upon the Bank of
Ireland, Dublin, where he bad opened an account during We
temp 'nary stay on receiving his appointment to the military
stores department in Dublin. The payment of the cheque
was stopped, fortunately for the Government, who will en w
obtain possession of his money there, but to the 1..55.1
Messrs. Cox, Biddulph, & Co., who cashed the cheque. Pur-
suing his inquiries Ire ascertained that two persons answer-
ing the description of Elliott and Miss Sinclair bad pro-
ceeded to Liverpool, and on proceeding there be found. that
Elliott and Miss Sinclair arrived at the Adelphi Hotel,
Liverpool, on the previous Saturday night about halfepaet
10 o'clock, under tlle assumed name of Mr. and Mrs. Brock.
El lio:t, then took a passage for both in the mail steam-ship
America, then erboet to sail for Boston, so that when the
officer arrived at Liverpool the fugitives es ere on their veyeee
across the Atlantic. Inspector Whicher then returned to town
aad communicated the result of his inquires to the authorities
at the War-office who at first were diposed to despatch
him to America after them, from the great amount of ia-
formation lie bad obtained, that could not have failed .ra
his discovering them ; but upon consultine the law offinrs
of the Crown it was ascet tattled that the extradition tit aty
between this country and America only applied to cases of
murder, forgery, aryl fraudulent bankrup.s, and nut .to
cases of embezzlement, and the consequence was, the in-
formation obtained by Inspector Whicher was forwar!ed to
the British consul at Boston, with directions that he should
have Elliott arrested and proceeded against civilly for ra
debt by the laws of America, as he could not be given up to
be brought here to be tried criminally. The British eons 11
put the it atter in the hands of Mr. Bowyer, one of u.e
detective officers of New York, who, from the particulars
supplied to him, succceeded in tracing the fugitives 10 days
after their arrival at Boston. lie went thence toAlbany whe'e
he found they had stopped at Treteoirt-house, as Mr. and Mrs.
Brook, and had left. for New York; he was unsuccessfal
there, and returned to Alharly, when be was informed they
had gone east to Springfield, Massachusetts, where they
passed as Mr. Everett and wife, of Toronto.
_ Mr. Bowe er
traced them to various places,
them{ itives always patroses-
thee the best hotels, and tie at last came,upon their track at
the International Hotel, Niagara Falls. Alter tracinz the
from Boston to Albany,
syracuse, Niagara Falls, Buffer),
Old Point Comfort, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and /imp): t,
he apprehended Elliott at the St. Nicholas, New York,
where he
will have to abide the result of a communication.
wPir the British Governmen

ATTACK OF 711 E MONTENEGRINS O.V
TILE TUI?KS.-61 I;A7' SLAUGHTER.
An official telt grrphic de:lntel' of the 4th instant, from
Trebigny, gives tl e fullowing details of the sutpit.o
Kolachiuo by the I%lontenegrins. Early on the morilinj;
the '26 h July, the Montenegrins, having attacked the tow a
!a great force, the Wit:bit:tuts of which, relying upcn tie
ettablishei security, were entirely off their guard, burnt :Al
the houses, killed about a hundred men, committed atrot
ties of the most revolting description, and at last retittd,
tt.ki.g with them taro hundred Mussulmans, women, an !
children. The excitement there was very great. At the
moment when the above despatch was sent, Kitnal Effenot
received from the Governor of Albania an t ilicial repc-I
upon the two rencouuters at Potlgoritza. It stated that
both these attacks, the Montenegrins, who brought artille'y
with them, were the aggressors, and fought upon Albant: a
territory.—Obscrver.

LORD LYNDIIURST ON ARTISTIC COPYRIGHT.-11
the House of Lords on Monday week, Lord Lyndhurst, its
presenting petitions. for the extension of the law of cop, -
right, said :—" Ever shwa the tune of Queen Anne cop -
right has been granted to authors for the protection of the t
works. But it is a strange circumstance that to paintin...,
the most delightful of all the arts, no protection by cop -
right has ever been given, and yet by the saint principle c
is an invention of the mind assuming a useful and benefici I
form.
employ There a
artists
ofr reouignufelrair dorea characterle dealers in
fsoprutthi:upsu
repoep,i
:s w
of
, ays
..
rying on the fraud. The copies are disposed of r.:onietitnes A
pri% ate sales, at public auctions in London, or, more gm
in -
rally, large commercial cities such as Liverpool, Mai. -
chesier, &c. A lady of very large fortune, who is i email. -
able for the admirable manner in which she applies it, pt:'-
chased a picture from an artist for £6OO, on the understate '-
lag that it should not be copied ; and she was very may 4
astonished on going to the Manchester Exhibition a I f
ye4rs afterwards to find there a painting which, wit:t t. s
exception of some of the subordinate details, was an *-13t1, •4
copy of her own. A noble margois purchased front the Exh -
bition a picture of some merit, for which he paid a coif
siderable sum. Ile was asked to allow it to be er graved,
and with his usual kindness and fondneesfor,the arita he co •
sented. Some time afterwards he found that while it h, .'I
been in the hands of the engraver it had been copied, at .1
the copy sold as the original at a sale in
_Lon.tfon. Tpa
to. go to 1..3
shop every morning at a certain time, and painter Morland made a contract
wcr.ti for a ce: -
i done dining the
tain number of hours each
dayuntilvlitliiiert d_aedalce:
completed t,., 4
or three pictures. At the same time the dealer eng,a2c...l
tine pictures
camp into cir
'ievalousrkr:orsloinat.vt
eahrsaed%rh:er:l73
ppit
tleedft
insteada ss um 'if
t :co inferior at fists, wh.eop
.ulation' A naval
' Lhat .
sort are ve v
popular, sent two pictureg to be lined. They
and when lie went to ii ot •
officer,dhtwoaihis
;ors place,o
whosel three,haant d
‘ fiveve
nho poe novels eoe.trit s • and writings
a long time, were detain. .1
1 , are after them tt e
man to whom he had entrusted them said that his worksh. p.
was not there—it was at a place some
went to this workshop, but lie did ,wiles off. The othe. r
d!-or, he ran up it, opened the )3?‘)).ov not find his picture..
The servant there said that the
mile or two off; but, seeing
r:earendaitn att.:et:oaf:top:he.:
al
\Adder slung under a ts:: s
three or four of which P-
- .
it
gave access f'n'id his pictures, surrounded by copit.r.,
%arc comp leted, and two or Or c
more in progress."