The charges of lawyers in this country are more

specific than- those made on the other side. This

case, for example :

«. d.
To examine you with a view to ascertain what affidavit

you could make, 6 8

To take instructions for affidavit, 6 8

Drawing affidavit, 18

Attending your reading over draft, 6 8

Engrossing, 6

Attending you to get sworn, 6 8

Preparing five exhibits, 5

Oaths and exhibits, . . , 7

Attending judge praying order to register certificate, ... 6
Attendance to draw up order and attending registrar as to

form in which it should be drawn, 6 8

At judge's chambers thereon order and filing affidavit, ..60

Copy to keep, 2

Attending to filing certificate, 6 8

Paid, 5

Paid on filing order, 2

Attendance to obtain office copy, ' 6 8



130 LIFE OF BISHOP TBOMSON.
Walking to the court, I said, " How many lawyers
have you in the city?'^ "About fourteen hundred
solicitors do the business ; then we have barristers
very numerous. As to those admitted to practice
they are innumerable. Thousands of them are sup-
ported by their friends or by private fortunes/^

The judges are all on circuit except Baron Mar-
tin, who, the solicitor remarks, is considered one of
the best and purest, and who is now sitting at cham-
bers. He is a fine-looking old gentleman — patient,
thoughtful, and grayheaded, without the John Bull
ruddiness and rotundity.
Lawyers here have the same character for shrewd-
ness that they have with us. They tell a good story
of a miserly merchant who invited a lawyer to din-
ner, and when he had well drunk, indirectly popped
a legal question and received a satisfactory answer.
