The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-31 00:00:00

MONETX

MONDAY.

The stock Markets opened to-day with a steady appear-
ance, and notwithstanding that business was not exten-
sive, prices improved hi many instances. Subsequently
less animatiOn was apparent, and a portion of the advance
was lost. Consols, however, have continued firm, at an
improvement of * per cent., the quotation for delivery
being 94g to 94k, and for July 94* to 941. Reduced and
New Three per Cents., 92/ to 92k. Exchequer Bills, par
to ss: prem. Bank Stock has marked 234 to 236. India
Five pet Cents have been done at 114, 1141, and India
Fonds at 20s. to 255. prem.
The inatlott for English railway stocks has been firm
on the whole. Metropolitan has been weaker, and
lower ; but in other respects the movements have been
favourable. North-Eastern Consols have been 1 better ;
Great Eastern, Midland, and Great Western, g ; and
Caledonian, Brighton, Great Northern A, and South.
Eastern,
In Indian railway stocks, the transactions have been
limited, and prices have been without change. Canadian
shares have been quiet, and unaltered. In foreign shares
very few transactions have taken place.
Five-twenty Bonds have been in request at a rise of
the 1862 issue being quoted at 89i to 89i ; and the 1863 at
88* to 88g. Ten-forty Bonds left off at 86 to 861. Erie
shares closed at 181 to 19 ; and Illinois Central, 110 to 111,
Bank shares have been qtiiet, and quotable change.
Foreign bonds opened with great animation, and several
important upward movements took place. Towards the,
close, however, a reaction set in, and lower prices pre'
veiled. Egyptian of 1868, after official hours, were A
better ; Italian (1861), *; Honduras,* ; Turkish (1809),
Spanish, however, were flat and lower.
Telegraph shares have been rather quiet. Anglo-
American have fallen *, but Anglo-Mediterranean and
Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta have been * higher.
Telegraph Construction shares have receded *.
For miscellaneous securities there has been very little
inquiry. Hudson's Bay shares have risen
The sum of £31,000 has been sent into the Baik

to-day.
The Hansa, from New York, has brought £31,800, and
the Seine, from the West Indies, 2.367,400,
The prospectus has appeared of the Bedford and
Northampton Railway Company (Limited), with a capital
of £400,000 in £2O shares—debenture capital, £133,000—
to construct a line 20 miles in line from Bedford rl4
Turney and Olney to Northampton, being a continuation
of the Midland Railway, and thus completing a direct
route from London to Northampton. The Midland
Company undertake to work, stock, and manage the line
for 50 per cent of the divisible receipts.
The discount market continues to be freely supplied
with capital. The demand has been less active to. day,
and three months' paper has been readily negotiable at 2i

per cent:
The NtSainets which left New York on Saturday took
out £200,000 in specie for Europe.
The Syria has brought £40,000,
At a meeting of the Scottish Widows' Fund Society,
at Edinburgh, the new policies for the year were stated to
have been 1,298 for a total of £732,377, yielding in new
premiums £29,858. The accumulated funds are 25,045,815,
and the income is £617,680.
It is understood that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
has abandoned his proposed stamp duty of id. on

coupons.
In consequence of the continued drought and the less
favourable aspect of agricultural affairs, the wheat has
latterly been assuming a much stronger position. At
Mark-lane to-day considerable steadiness was apparent,
and an advance of from is. to 2s. per quarter took place
in values. All kinds of spring corn have been rather
higher in price.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE-MONDAY.

LATEST PRICES - AFT,

ER OFFICIAL HOURS.

SECURITIES.

Brazilian, 1865, 5 p c 921 92i
Egyptian, 1868, 7 p C 82i 83
Do. Rail. Deism., 101102 t
Italian, 1861, 5 per cent 5911 591
Peruvian, 1865, 5 per cent 89 90
Portuguese, 1869, 3 p 331 34
93 94
Buseiau, 1866, 5 p c
Do. Nicolas, 4 per cent 6B 69
Spanish, 1867, 3pereent 3l 32
Do., 1869, 3 per cent 30/ 31
Turkish, 1854, 6 per cent 87 89
Do.. 1865, 5 per cent 5l 52
Do., 3865, 6 per cent 73/i 74
U. S. 540 Bonds, 6pc 1882 891 89
De., 1865
Do., 10-40 Bonds, spc 1904 86 86
Erie Slim.. lOU dole. all pd. 181 19

South-Eastern
80m.,8ar.,&C1.1ud.g.5p0 10741084
East India guar. 5p c 1141144
Grand Trunk of Canada, 15 151
Do. Ist Preference Bonds 674 68
Great Indian Pen. g. 5. 1084109 ix
Great Western of Canada 16f161
Madras g. 5 pc
Scinde, Delhi, do.
Sciude, Punjaub, do lO7 108
Dutch Rhenish 2si 26
Eastern of France
Great Luxembourg l4i 144
Northern of France
Ottom, (Smyrna to Aidin) 74 71
Recife d Man Franc 16 164
San Paulo (L.) guar. 7isco p c 20i 21
S. Aus. & Loin. Veneta. 154 154

THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE
OF PERSONATING WOMEN.

Park and Boulton, the two men charged with persona-
ting women with the intent to commit a felony, were
yesterday brought up for further examination at Bow•street,
when the following additional evidence was heard for the
defence :

Mrs. Louisa Peck, of 36, Southampton-street, Strand,
said her husband was a managing clerk, and they let
lodgings. Lord Arthur Clinton became her lodger from
September to November, 1868. He occupied the draw!uk
room floor, and during the three months he resided
there she had seen Lady Arthur Clinton, his
wife, tome to the house. He was visited by
gentlemen, and Mr. Boulton lived with him. Lord A.
Clinton took the lodgings for both. Both were absent on

one occasion to go to Scarborough to attend a theatrical
.performance, and they were absent about a fortnight, but she
-ieas slot Awe. He had a sitting-room and bedroom in the
aktrue &I% atid there was a bed in the bedroom and
itting-room. Witness could not say in which bed Boulton
alerts but both beds were occupied. Mr. Park visited at the
*use once or twice, but she could not say whether it was
Mors they went to Scarborough. No one to her know-
ledge Went in the room after they retired to rest, and she
should not allow it. She did not know whether Park or
Anyone slept on the couch, and she did not know how they
Slept the night Park %vaa at the house. Witness
never saw Boulton in female attire, and he
was in the house every day as an ordinary
lodger, and dressed as a gentleman. She heard one
evening from her servant that they had dressed for a
theatrical entertainment, and in female attire. Witness
had seen Mr. Thomas and he was always dressed as a.
gentleman. She had seen Mr. Cumming often dressed
as o, gentleman. Boulton was never guilty of any
familiarity whatever, and the conversation she heard wag
proper. There were no terms of endearment used, and
they conducted themselves as gentlemen should do.
Maria Dian was servant at her establishment during the
time the prisoners lodged with her, and she assigned as a
reason for leaving her service that she was delicate. She
said that she was in a consumption, and that the place
was too hard for her. Duffin never made any complain'
to her of the conduct of Boulton and Lord A. Clinton on
any subject whatever. Witness had been to the
Treasury Office a fortnight ago, and her statement
was taken down in writing, and questions were
put to her in reference to Boulton and Lord Arthur
Clinton, and she answered those qnestions truly. She
had not seen Maria Duffin since she left her service, and
no application was ever made to her for her character.
Duflin told her that she was going to be married, and
witness was not aware that her servant was going into
half a dozen different places. After seeing Maria Duffin's
evidence, witness communicated with Mr. Abrams, the
defendant's solicitor, and the memorandum produced is what
she gave voluntarily to him. It is untrue that Mr. Thomas
came as a gentleman, and went out dressed as a female,
and only once did Mr. Boulton dress as a lady.
Cross-examined—She had never seen Hart's writing nor
had she ever received any letter from him. Boulton did
look effiminate, but she had never seen him painted.
She fancied Boulton was a woman, as he looked as such.
Witness did not say at the Treasury that she thought
Boulton, Park, and Thomas were women dressed as men,
but she said she was told that Thomas had a mother
living near Russell-square, and that he was an illegi-
timate son of some duke. She might have said
at the Treasury that they looked as ladies, but
would swear he did not say they were women
dressed up as men. She did not believe they were
women at any time, and had never heard Boulton called
" Melia Clinton." Witness was away from home in Sep-
tember. She had never seen any cards with the name of
Lady Arthur Clinton on them. Lord A. Clinton did not to
her knowledge visit Wight and Louis Charles Hart. She
would swear that she did not say at the Treasury that
Lord A. Clinton used to visit Mr. Wight, and that she
believed it was through that he took their
rooms. She did say that she refused Lord
Clinton three times, but at last he sent his
piano in and took possession. Lady Arthur Clinton came
but she did not think she was a proper person. She was
refused admittance, but not by witness. She came while
Lord Arthur Clinton was away, and witness did not see her.
Witness had not the slightest doubt as to Boulton's sex at
any time, and he always behaved himself as a man. She
never saw a hair-dresser at her place, and if he came it
was not to her- knowledge. Lord Arthur Clinton and
Bennett returned from Scarboro' together, Two velvet
skirts and velvet jackets were left behind as well as two
ladies' walking-dresses. The photographs produced were
Mr. Hert (Park) and Lord Arthur Clinton.
By Mr. Besley—Mr. Hert conducted himself with pro-
riety, and she heard that he was in the service of the
est-office. Mr. Wight conducted himself as a thorough
gentleman. The reason why she considered the person
who called as Lady Arthur was an improper person was
from what she had been told.
Via, Clarke, 29 years of age, said she went to Mrs.
a Vark's servicen May, and left in April. Duffin was in
the same service. Witness was there at the time. Lord
Arthur (Minton and Boulton lodged at the house.
She slid not know what bed Park slept in.
Nord Arthur and Boulton slept there on the same
fight. Witness made the beds while Lord Arthur and
Boulton remained, and Maria Duffin assisted her. At all
times the bed in the dressing-room was used during the
time Boulton and Lord Arthur Clinton lodged at the
house. She saw Boulton once in female costume, and
that was in the evening. Mr. Boulton told her that Mr.
Park and himself were going to an amateur per-
formance, and she saw them get into a cab, and
they let themselves in when they came home with a latch-
key. Boulton was not generally in the habit of dressing
in "female's clothes. She used to accuse him of being a,
female, and he used to pass it off as a joke. Witness had
!Token to Park, and she had never heard any indecent or
improper conversation between them. She never heard
Lord Arthur address Boulton as my dear, or my darling.
She had newer seen Cumming- or Thomas dressed as women.
Park used to say for two or three days at a time while
Lord Arthur and Boulton lodged at Mrs. Peck's, but she
4auld not tell which slept in either bed. Each had latch
keys, and as a rule they generally came in after she had
Crone to bed. She took Boulton for a female, but she did
hot see him wear a wedding ring. She had heard him
sing, and he had a womanish voice. Sne thought he was
Lfemale all the time he was at the house, and.
ord Arthur used to address him as Ernest. She remem-
bered a lady and gentleman coming to see Boulton, and
they were represented as his father and mother. She
heard Mrs. Peck say that she thought that Boulton must
be a man, or his father and mother would not have visited
him if he was a woman dressed up in man's clothes. Not-
withstanding the visit, she still thought Boulton was a
woman. The hairdresser used to come once or
twice a week, and would dress Boulton and
Park's hair, but she did not know his name.
His shop was opposite Drury-lane Theatre in Brydges-
street. Knew Thomas Cummings and Hanns who visited
the house. She thought Park was a lady as well as
Boulton. When they went out as women Boulton dressed
in white muslin, and. Park in black silk, as she understood
to an amateur performance.
By Mr. Besley : Boulton was not when at home dressed
in a loose dressing gown and shirt. The lady called to
see Lord Arthur when he was ill before he went to Scar-
borough, and she was shown up to him. Others visited
Lord A. Clinton besides Boulton and Park, and they all
behaved themselves as gentlemen and with propriety:
Mr. Arthur Gladville, examined by Mr. Besley, said he
was a dealer in work, of 36,Southampton-street, and occu-
pied the second floor of Mrs. Peck's house. He saw Lord
Arthur and Boulton almost daily, and Park was a fre-
quent visitor. Boulton, except on one occasion, dressed
as a gentleman. On that occasion he was
invited to see the little party before they went out. Park
and Boulton were dressed as ladies, and Lord Arthur in
evening dress, and he was told that they were going to a
theatrical entertainment at the West-end. One was
dressed up as a young woman, and the other more
matronly. The door of the sitting-room of Lord
Arthur Clinton' was as frequently open as shut. He
certainly should have heard if there had been anything
coarse. He never suspected anything to the contrary-that
they were gentlemen.
By Mr. Poland : Did not know anything of Boulton
more than as he had stated. He never had any conver-
sation with either of them, but was lodging in the houso
at the time Mr. Wight and Mr. Hart lodged-there.
Mr. Flowers said it might be useful to the counsel for
him to inform them that he had made up his mind to
commit the defendants for trial, and he did not think, con-
sidering the conflicting evidence, that he could do otherwise.
That might influence the counsel in their addresses, as his
impression was, under the circumstances, that the less
that was said perhaps would be the best.
Mr. Besley, at the close of the last witness's evidence,
addressed the bench, and said the case was one of the
most extraordinary which had ever come before a court
of justice. He alluded to the charge being made of the
principal offence, and observed that Mr. Poland had
asked him to commit the defendants fora conspiracy in 1868.
He said that the defendants should not be called upon to
answer a charge so long back. He asked the magistrate,
as he had made up his mind to commit them for trial,
to commit, not for conspiracy, but for a misdemeanour.
He said, also, if the temptation was not in money
he should like to know what it was, as no money was
found on them of any amount, and Mr. Gibbins and
Lord A. Clinton had paid the bills. As there was no evidence
in that direction, he asked that the prisoners should be
committed for the minor offence of misdemeanour. He
asked that all prejudice should be thrown aside.
Mr. Flowers ultimately committed the prisoners to ta se
their trial at the next session, for the committal of . the
grave offence, and also on a minor charge. On Leins
asked if they had anything to say Park stood up an
emphatically " I am innocent of such a gross charge."
his
father, leaving the Court, Boulton shook hands with Ins
father, who had attended the several examinations, and.
Park with his brother and others of their friends, and
they were then removed without ball being acceotsa

LABOULAYE AND THE COLLEGE DE FRANCE.
Laboulaye, who has been so roughly treated by the
students of the College de France on account 'a his
nomination to the Senate, has written to M. Julien, the
head of the College, to propose the suspension of his
course of lectures. At his last attempt he was not, he
says, allowed to utter a word, but large
sous were even thrown at his head, and ladies who
accompanied him were annoyed by the rioters. He is
not the man to submit to such insults, but if the autho-
rities wish to maintain the law they must invoke the aid of
the police: Af. Laboulaye thinks it becomes an old pro-
fessor to pity the madmen who insult him. It is the
office of public opinion to condemn outrages which attack
alike the citizen and the professor, the liberty of opinion
and the liberty of instruction. M. Laboulaye has been
professor in the college for twenty years.