l knowledge of them, he can know
nothing but from the magnitude of the sum, he may suppose they must have
been time bargains.

_A._ Certainly; there is nothing upon the face of the accounts to lead
to any such conclusion.

_Mr. James Wetenall, sworn._

_Examined by Mr. Gurney._

_Q._ I believe you are employed by the House to take the prices of the
day at the Stock Exchange?

_A._ I am.

_Q._ At what price did Omnium leave off on Saturday the 19th of
February?

(_The Witness referred to a paper._)

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ Where do you get those accounts from?

_A._ I collect them from the Stock Exchange.

_Mr. Gurney._ Do you go about all day long taking the prices?

_A._ I collect them at different times in the course of the day.

_Q._ You go about taking an account from all the persons who are there?

_A._ I take them from different persons who are in the market.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ This is a printed paper?

_A._ Yes.

_Mr. Gurney._ It is printed under your directions, I believe?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Is your original paper destroyed?

_A._ It is.

_Q._ Is this paper a copy from that of yours?

_A._ Yes.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ Did you ever compare this with the paper on which
you took down the prices?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Where do you get the contents of your written paper?

_A._ From the gentlemen in the Stock Exchange.

_Mr. Serjeant Best._ I submit that this paper cannot be evidence. The
Witness states that he collects from the gentlemen in the Stock
Exchange, the prices at which they buy and sell, from time to time, in
the course of the day; he says he compares this printed paper with the
original written paper; I am not objecting to that, but I submit, the
written paper itself could not be evidence.

_Lord Ellenborough._ It is all hearsay, but it is the only evidence we
can have; it is the only evidence we have of the price of sales of any
description. I do not receive it as the precise thing, but as what is in
the ordinary transactions of mankind received as proper information, and
I suppose there is hardly a gentleman living who would not act on this
paper.

_Mr. Gurney._ At what price did Omnium leave off on Saturday the 19th of
February?

_A._ 26-3/4.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Do you furnish the Bank with these papers?

_A._ Yes.

_Mr. Gurney._ Was that 26-3/4 the money price or the time price?

_A._ The money price.

_Q._ The time price, I believe, is about