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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 22, 25 September 1885, Page 19

A practising barrister in London, writing to the St. James Gazette, said that in England alone, and iti those British possessions where Knglish counsel have a light of audience, there are no less than 7200 practitioners, without reckoning thu members of tie Scottish, Irish, Manx, ■ r colonial bars. In thu metropolis there are as many as 3000, and only a moderate percentage of theae are earaing a respectable income, whilst it is estim ited that not more than 50 are making from £2009 to £10,000 a year, and not more than 25 fiom £10,000 to £20,000 per *nnum. Practically (observes the writer ot the letter referred to) the greater men at the bar make considerable it comes, for which they *ork very hard; the smaller men are year af er year practically making nothing at all, and are often absolutely out of pocket. Some of them have private means ; others are subsidised from home. Others make a little money by journalism, or reporting, or piivate tuition. They bear their sufferings as bravely as did the Spartan youth who was hiding th stolen fox. Bat they suffer tetribly.