onsols without very much
depressing the market?

_A._ I should think not certainly.

_Q._ Do you remember at what price Omnium left off on Saturday the 19th?

_A._ I have referred back to the books; I cannot state from my own
memory.

_Q._ Have you the books here?

_A._ No; they are the books of the Stock Exchange.

_Q._ Mr. Wetenall's accounts?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ How soon after the business at the Stock Exchange began on the
morning of the 21st did the news arrive there?

_A._ I should think in about half an hour after, but I really am not
quite certain to that point.

_Lord Ellenborough._ The business begins at ten, I believe?

_A._ Yes.

_Mr. Gurney._ As soon as the news came, had it a sensible effect on the
funds?

_A._ Yes; a gradual effect, according as the report was believed.

_Q._ Do you remember after some time whether there was any check or
decline?

_A._ Yes; there was about the middle of the day.

_Q._ I mean the first decline.

_A._ Yes; afterwards they recovered.

_Q._ To what was that recovery owing?

_A._ It was generally attributed to the news that came through the city.

_Q._ You mean the chaise coming through the city?

_A._ Yes; it was generally believed it was a confirmation of the former
report.

_Q._ Did that second rise which took place upon the chaise going through
the city, extend still higher than it had been on the report of the
arrival of the messenger?

_A._ I think it did.

_Cross-examined by Mr. Park._

_Q._ You are not under the same restraint as the other persons are, can
you tell us whether these were real transactions, or only fictitious
ones which daily take place at the Stock Exchange?

_A._ The accounts which were given in, I think were given in for time,
but I have only taken out the figures.

_Lord Ellenborough._ I should imagine the witness would say that from
the magnitude of the accounts he would think they were for time?

_A._ Certainly.

_Mr. Park._ I want to know, for I have never had Omnium in my life,
whether you are not competent to say from your knowledge of these
accounts, that these are all what they call time bargains?

_A._ There is nothing stated upon the face of these accounts as to what
days the purchases are made for; possibly they may be for time.

_Q._ I ask you whether from your knowledge of these accounts and the
investigations you have made, they are not time bargains?

_Lord Ellenborough._ He has no persona