The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENI.N., SEPTEMBER 24, 1867.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—Th's Day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
Jacob Henry Cohen, picture-frame maker, was indicted
for feloniously forging and uttering an order for the pay-
ment of ls. with intent to defraud.
The evidence went to show that the prisoner was em-
ployed in the manufacture of picture frames, which, on
completion, ho sold to the London Stereoscopic Com-
pany, Chcapsido. The circumstance which led to the
prisoner's apprehension was, that early in the month
of July a bill for the payment of the amount charged in
the indictment was presented by him to the cashier of the
company, and it appearing to bear the genuine initial, of
➢lr. Reed, the manager, it was paid. It was shortly
afterwards discovered to be a forgery, and also
that the goods charged for ha I not been supplied.
Mr. Reed at once c:nnmunicated with Mr. Nuttage, ono of
the principals of the establishment, wh ) directed that the
p isoner should be given into custody and prosecuted.
One of the witnesses named lleild swore that he had seen
the prisoner making copies of Mr. Reed's and
another witness named Bannister spoke to the conversation
which took place at the Dolphin public-house, Milk-street,
where the prisoner was taken into custody.
The defence set up was a total denial of the forgery, and
further, the counsel on behalf of the prisoner stated ho
should call several witnesses to prove that the initials to
the bill were not forgeries., that Reed had signed the bill
himself, and that, therefore, the whole prosecution was a
deep laid schema of Reed's to prevent the discovery of his
own deficiencies.

The witness was subjected to a cross-examination by Mr.
Sleigh, who appeared for the prosecution.
The following witnesses were then examined on the part
of the prisoner:—
_ _ .

David Cohen said ha was the brother of the prisoner,
and that he knew Mr. Reed. Ile spoke of being present
when three maple frames and 12 others worn ordorod by
Mr. Reed, and also that ho was present after that—one
evening in a publichouso opposite the Ludgate Station in
Bridge-street, where ho saw Reed sign the invoice for
the sum of X 1 ls. On another occasion ho took a
letter to Mr. Rood at the Stereoscopic Company, and after
Mr. Reed had opened it ho saw him put his initials to the
invoice which the lotter contained; he returned it to him,
telling him to direct his brother to attend for payment on
the following day.
These two invoices form the ground of the present
prosecution, the allegation of Mr. Reed being that nothing
of the kind over took place.
The cafe was proceeding when we went to press.
THE FORGERIES ON THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

Tho grand jury have returned seven true bills against
William Henry Hodgson for forgeries on the Bank of
England.

THE MURDER IN THE KENT ROAD.

The trial of Louis Bordier for the murder of Mary Ann
Snow will take place to-morrow before Mr. Baron Martin.
The prosecution will bo conducted by the Treasury, but
as no counsel has yet been retained by the prisoner
it appears to be the impression that ho will
plead guilty. In such cases the Court inva-
riably impresses the prisoner with the awful con-
sequences of such a proceeding, and advises the full
hearing of the evidence the prosecution intend to bring
forward to prove the charge. In the event, however, of the
prisoner persisting in his plea of guilty there is no power
to provent him duing so.

CON SU LiCAMERON AND THE EMPEUOR THIRD EDITION.
THEODORE.

SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK.

Mr. Charles Beke in aletter to the Times says
In the discussion of Consul Cameron's first de•
SPORTING INT.ELLIGENCE—This Day

tcntion in ju1y,1863, and the subsequent imprison-
ment of himself and the other Europeans, there
appears to be a great confusion of times and places.
As I am innocently a main cause of that grossly
misrepresented officer's originally falling under the
Emperor's displeasure, it is due to him and the Bri-
tish nation that I should set matters rip •ml t by s
the facts as they really occurred.
Notwithstanding the repeated attempts to throw
blame on Consul Cameron for proceeding into the
interior of Abyssinia, it is now an acknowledged
fact that he was accredited
.to the Emperor Theo-
dore by Earl Russell's letter to that monarch of
February 20, 1862, and that he went to his Coart
in pursuance of express instructions. On his ar-
rival there iu October, 1862, be was most favour-
ably received, and in the beginning of November
he left for the coast with the memorable letter to
the Queen, the not replying to which on the part
of her Majesty's Government was one of the
causes, though anything but the only cause, of the
Emperor's displeasure.
Having been prevented from reaching Massowah,
Consul Cameron forwarded the Emperor's letter to
Aden by two Abyssinians, and he himself went into
the frontier province of Bogos. In doing so he is
alleged not merely to have acted contrary to instruc-
tions, but also to have incurred the displeasure of
the Emperor. In both respects this is not the fact.
The Christian inhabitants of Bogos had long been
under the protection of the British Consul in Abys-
sinia, with the knowledge and approval of the Bri-
tish Government, and Consul Cameron, in follow-
ing in the footsteps of his predecessor, Consul
Plowden, believed that he was acting according to
orders. But since Plowden's death, in 1860, Egypt
bad become a largo cotton-growing country, and
it would not do for England to quarrel with so
valuable an ally for the sake of a paltry tribe
of Abyssinian Christians. So Consul Cameron
was blamed by Earl Russell for doing precisely
that for which Consu:Plowden had been highly com-
mended by Lord Palmerston. Thus it is that in
Earl Russell's most ill-timed despatch of October
sth, 1865, to Colonel Stanton (which has far more
to do do with the present lamentable war with
Abyssinia than is imagined by any one except those
few who know the facts) it is asserted that " Capt.
Cameron in going to Bogos acted without orders,
and incurred the displeasure of his own Govern-
ment." And more recently the policy of England
with respect to Bogos has been declared by Lord
Stanley, in his despatch to Colonel Stanton of De-
cember 15, 1866 (Blue-book, page 95), to be that
" Her Majesty's Government do not feel themselves
in any way called on to interfere in differences and
disputes between native tribes residing respectively
on the frontiers of Egypt and Abyssinia."
Still this is no reason why Consul Cameron
should have incurred the displeasure of the Emperor
Theodore. On the contrary, his visit to Bogos was
made in the cause of that monarch's Christian sub-
, jests, and in company with Samuel, the Emperor's
steward, formerly my servant ; and had our Consul
but returned direct from Bogos to the Emperor's
Qourt, even though without an answer from the
ueen, no harm could have ensued. For he had
only to show that sufficient time had not elapsed for
such answer to arrive. In fact, his own despatch of
October 31, 1862, forwarding the Emperor's letter
to the Queen, did not reach London till Feb. 12,
1863, and Lord Russell's answer to that despatch
was dated April 22 ; so that when Consul Cameron
returned to Gondar in June, 1863, and met the
Emperor there in the following month, sufficient, or
hardly sufficient, time had elapsed for Lord Russell's
answer to reach him. It has nothing to do with
the question as it then stood that in that answer the
Emperor's letter to the Queen should have been
totally ignored. Both Cameron and the Emperor
expected a reply, and neither of them for a moment
imagined that no reply would be sent. All, then,
that Cameron had to do, had circumstances
been favourable, was to account for the delay
as above stated, which could not have failed
to be satisfactory, especially as M. Bardel, who
had left the Emperor's Court with him in Novem-
ber, 1862, and bad gone direct to Paris with a letter
to the Emperor of the French, was not yet returned,
and in fact did not return till September following.
The real cause of Theodore's displeasure, then,
was not so much that Consul Cameron returned in
June, 1863, without the so anxiously-expected
answer from the Queen, as that, instead of waiting
first at Massowah, or at all events returning direct
to'Bogos, he had been in the interval into neighbour-
ing Egyptian provinces, in the Emperor's own words,
"He went to the Turks, who do not love me. . •
Ile stayed with them some time and returned to me.'
The explanation of this is that while in Bogos
with Samuel, Consul Cameron received from the
Foreign-office a despatch containing certain com-
munications which, under the circumstances detailed
in my work "The British Captives in Abyssinia,"
I had made to the Board of Trade in the months of
November end December, 1862, respecting the ex-
pediency of adopting measures for the development
of British commerce in Ethiopia, and which, as I
was informed by the Secretary of that Board in a
letter dated Jan. 10th, 1863, " had been referred by
her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
for the reportof her Majesty's Consul at Massowah."
In consequence of the orders thus conveyed to
him Consul Cameron went into the Egyptian pro-
vinces of Taka and Kalabat, " to see about cotton,
and trade, and so fortb," as he wrote from Kedarif
on May 25th, 1863, in a letter quoted in my said
work, or, as lie has since written from his prison at
Magdala, in a letter dated the 13th of Nov., 1866,
which has been duly recorded—" At Bogos I got a
letter from the Foreign-office directing me to report
on the comparative merits of Souakin and Mas-
sowah as the seat of a Consulate; also to report on
the trade of Souakin. It was that which led me to go
to the trading stations of Cassala and Matatnma."
This, then, is what the Emperor meant when he
accused Cameron of " going to the Turks," and
this it is that poor Cameron himself alludes to when
he says, in his letter of the 25Lh of May, 1866, to
Mr. Henry 1). Seymour, M.P., printed in page 55
of the Abyssinian Blue-book—" I feel somewhat
like the lad in the Arabian Nights,' who made
his cheese-cakes with pepper, and found that in so
doing he had committed a great political offence ?"
I have thus shown what was Consul Cameron's
primary offence. The neglect of the British Go-
vernment
in reply to the Emperor's letter, the
abandonment of the Christian Abyssinians at Jeru-
salon], and other grievances aggravated his displea-
sure, and led to the imprisonment of our Consul
and the other Europeans. Still all this appeared to
have been condoned on Mr. Rassam'a arrival with a
friendly letter from the Queen. What led to the
subsequent imprisonment of her Majesty's Envoy
and the whole party is a totally different question.
I regret to say that a letter from me, which ap-
peared in the Times on Sept. 14, 1865, by drawing
forth Earl Russell's ill-advised despatch of Oct. 5
following, became, without any fault of mine, the
primary cause of the misfortunes which have since
ensued, as I purpose showing on another occasion.

NEWMARKET RACES—THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
TRIAL STAKES.
Tho Trial Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 59 added; for two
year olds Gst 71b, three Bst 91b, four 94 91b, tire., six, and
aged 9.4 121 b ; fillies and geldings allowed 316. A.P
Speculum
Philosopher
Dales:llan

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HOPEFUL S FAKES.
The Hopeful Stakes of 40 sovs each, It ft, for two year
olds; colts Bst 10:b, fillies Bst 81b; wieners of a 400
sous swevstakes with 10 subs 6113, of two such stakes
)lb extra; ell oth:•r wieners of 100 sovs in phituS ..r
stakes 31b extra; those by Arabia•as or out of Aratb..an
wares allowed 141 b ; the second to receive 50 soya out
of the stakes; the last half of A.G.M.

Athena..
Tregeagle
Redivivus .. 3
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SON'S.
A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each; two year olds 6st 10Ib,
throe Bst 101 b, four and upwards 9st 31b. T.Y.C.
Woodpecker -

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GREAT EAS FERN HANDICAP.
The Great Eastern Railway Randicap, of 15 sovs
each, 5 ft, with 100 added; winners of a handicap
value 200 sovs. after Sept. 16, at 10 a.m., 71b, of any
other handicap 31b extra ; weights accumulative ; the
second to receive 25 sovs out of the stakes. T.Y.O.
88 subs.
Mistletoe
Water Cure
Pericles
Won by half a length; a neck between second and
third. Twelve ran.
HANDICAP OF 20 SOVS.
A Handicap of 20 soya each, for three year olds and up-
wards. T.Y.C.

Indian Star 1
Grand Duke
Problem

GRAND DUKE MICHAEL STAKES.
The Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sous each, for three
year olds ; colts Bst I.olb, fillies Bst 61b; the winner of
the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, or St. Leger, 71b
extra; maidens allowed 51b; the second to save hie
stake. A.F.

Friponnier • • . 1
Hermit 2
Hippie
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LONGEVITY IN ESSEX.—The death is announced,
in the parish of St. Martin, Colchester, of Mrs. Ann Rum-
sey, widow, in her 104th year. It is an interesting cir-
cumstance that she was the daughter of the celebrated
navigator, Captain Cook, who was massacred by the natives
of Owbyhee, in the South Sea Islands; and that she was
born only a few years after the accession of George 111. to
the throne of England.
HANGING A FENIAN.--A circumstance has
just taken place in Barnsley which shows very strongly
the feeling among the working classes on the subject of
Fenianism. It appears that a young man in tho employ
of Messrs. a J. Taylor and Son, manufacturers by
steam power, declared to some of his fellow-workers in
the warehouse that he was a Fenian, and that
his sympathies were with the cause of those who
had figured so conspicuously a few days ago in
Man Chester. This declaration had no sooner been made
than a jury was empanelled, and the self-declared Fenian
put upon his trial. Ho was found guilty and sentenced to
be hanged. A rope was placed around his neck and he was
drawn up and suspended in mid-air. After he had been
hanging a short time he was cut down. The culprit had
already got black iu the face, and there was the mark of
the rope upon his neck. The young men were taken be-
, fore a magistrate and fined 10s. each.