?
_A._ No; if I perceive there are any particular fluctuations, I then
make it my business to collect the prices.
_Q._ Do you mean to represent that the Stocks had not risen from what
they ended at on Saturday before any news came to the Stock Exchange;
had not they risen considerably that morning?
_A._ I think not, because if I recollect, there were reports in the
morning that news had arrived.
_Q._ We have heard from some gentlemen that they sold stock as soon as
the Stock Exchange opened; now I ask whether stock had not been sold at
a rise before the news arrived?
_A._ Yes.
_Mr. Gurney._ But you say before the market opened there were some
reports of a Messenger having arrived?
_A._ Yes.
_Mr. Charles Addis, sworn._
_Examined by Mr. Gurney._
_Q._ Have you a house in Shorter's-court?
_A._ No, I have not; I am concerned for a gentleman who has some
property there.
_Q._ You have the letting of a house for a gentleman there?
_A._ I have.
_Q._ Was any application made to you in the week prior to the 21st of
February for any part of that house?
_A._ Yes, on the 15th or 16th, I think Mr. Cochrane Johnstone applied to
me for an Office in a house, the letting of which was under my
management.
_Q._ What number in Shorter's-court did he finally fix upon?
_A._ It is number 5, the house almost immediately adjoining the Stock
Exchange.
_Q._ Did he on that day take any part of the house of you?
_A._ He took one room for an office in that house on that day.
_Q._ The house in which Mr. Fearn is now?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ How soon did he take any more?
_A._ He called on the following day and engaged another office.
_Q._ That was the 16th then?
_A._ I believe it was the 16th, I will not be positive, and he called on
the following day the 17th, being the third time.
_Q._ Did he, when he called on the 17th, write that letter in your
office (_handing it to the Witness_.)
_A._ This is a letter he left in my absence in the office, on which day
I cannot say, but this was a letter that he left for me.
_Q._ That was on the third day after he had engaged the three offices?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ He had then engaged all three?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Are they three rooms in the same house?
_A._ Three rooms in the same house.
_Q._ (_To Mr. Fearn_) Is that letter Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's hand
writing? (_handing it to the Witness._)
_A._ I believe it is.
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