?

_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.

_It was delive