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Read in the Wunder reader — freeQ. Then when you are not otherwise employed you fill up that paper from time to time?
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.
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