Part 108

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 one per cent. higher?

A. In general.

Q. At what price did Omnium commence on the Monday following?

A. 26-1/2.

Q. That is the money price?

A. The money price.

Q. Therefore the time price was 27-1/2?

A. I did not take the time price.

Q. After this news arrived what did it get up to?

A. As high as 30-1/4.

Q. At what time was that?

A. That is impossible for me to say.

Q. How soon did it get up to 30-1/4?

A. I cannot say; it did rise to that by degrees.