Q. You think you had sold considerably before you saw them?
A. I think I had.
Lord Ellenborough. Cannot you fix the time of your sale?
Mr. Gurney. I shall prove the prices every half hour.
Mr. Serjeant Best. I am not at all conversant in those things, never having speculated in stock at all, but I am told it is the practice sometimes to sell stock which the persons have not to transfer?
A. I have heard of such things.
Q. Consequently, if I had been at the Stock Exchange that morning, and had found the Omnium up at 34, which I believe it was that morning——
Mr. Bolland. No, thirty two.
Mr. Serjeant Best. If I had been at the Stock Exchange that morning, and had found the Omnium up at 32, and had known that the good news must soon turn out to be all invention, I might have sold if I had liked, a million of stock, according to the practice of the Stock Exchange, though I did not happen to have a sixpence.
A. It certainly might have been done.