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2WO'rc the LOUD CHIEP JUTRr.F -W d n f .nn i'us was an action of trover, brought by the asignees of a bank- rupt o the name of Proctor against thie defendant, to recover the value of certain good0which he had converted to his own u4e. The case was of no public importance, and afler a partial hearing was ad- iournerd till tO-raorrow. In the cotthe of it, a clerk of tie bankrupt, calted Thompson -was put into, the witness-box by the plain- tiff's counseaanaI examined, with a view of proving the commis- sion ofan act of bankruptcy by his master. In answer to questions put Ohiun by the defendant's counscl, he swvore irst that he wss,and then thlat he Wu hot, a creflitor of the bankrupt's estate. Being asked to explain .,his Mntyadittjon, he said that he had made a mistake, and ~iatthf had meant to say that he was still a creditor of the bankrupt. ,~er this declaration he was of course deemel an incompetent wit- ness. He 2ftrwtd wva9 a.dmitted asa n evidence, having cohsented to'alease the bankrupt's estate, and to accept an undertaking of one esf the assignees to pay htt all that was due from the bankrupt. Be- lag aked why he had said he was not a creditor oF' the estate, he rep4edI that hc had said so, because he had been told by a clerk of I Dourgal3, the plaintit?'s Attorney, that he would not be admissible as a wmness, if he confessed that the ban!krupt's estate still OWed him money. Tbe LoUD CHIEp JUSTICE, upon hearing this decaration, de- sRied that the Witnegs should not quit the court upon finishing his testimonZ. Just before the adjournment, his Lordship examined r. Ali IougaUis clerk, who positively swore that'he had not given the witness any hint to coiicel the fact of his being a creditor, a de- PositiOn to the accuracy of which Mr. Sergeant PELL, who had heard the 'onveration between them, bore testimony. The LonD CxZEF JUSTICr, at the rising of the Court, gave- the witness Thompson, who appears to be about 20 years of age, a severe reprimnand for the revasicatieon of whith he had been guilty, and told him, that if it Lad not been for his youth, he should certainly have given him a month' s Itnprisonment in the Fleet. V reserve our report of this trial till to-morrow-. COURT OF COMlOo PLRAS VVC.--.-- n-f a STICLATR V. STpVFsQnv-