The threfl Sydney ladies, Mrs Labertonohe, Mrs Captain Loftus (daughter of Lord Augustus Loftus), and Miss Labertouehe, who, sfter ooming Home and gadding about in v society " during the " Colinderies " sea son, started in business as fashionable court milliners under the norn de commerce of 4t Viotoire et Compagnie, " are aot finding trade altogether play-work. They were defendants last week in an aotion brought against them by a professional expert (a Mdlle. Louise Baldossi;, in conjunction with whom they initiated tbsu- _.it.v venture. Mdlle., it geems, had a fairly prosperous basiness when the Labortouob.es (introduced bj aogus. patronesses} gbwq to hn. This business they purohaaed, alter valuation, by promiiaory note, agreeing to engage Miss BaldoPßi at £250 per annum and 5 per cent on all profits, as "managing premiere."

Joa will easily |»e_B what happened. No sooner was the partnership deed fairly signed ; and sealed than the ladies began quarrelling. < Mamma Labertoaohe's notion of a fair division of labor -&a that she and her daughters should preen themselves and gossip io tke ahownroom, or atalier (as they prefer to «all it), whilst Miss Baldossi overlooked the •work-room. Miss B. appears to have given way to this at first, till she found Mrs Laber- , iotxohe attending to her own old customers, in- ! -itoad of aendiug for her, as had been agreed. J Then she did rebel, exhibiting, according to j Miss Paulia.. Harriet Ellie Labertoucbe, I " auoh a violeat temper " that "Ma " was ] v quite afraid of her, -" Further differences -ensued in consequence of Viotoire et Cie. not giving aatiefaction to august patroneHsess { like Lady Caleten, Mrs Percy Nutford, and j others, who complained of misfits. These j misfits the Labertouches attribute to Miss j Baldossi, who, 4hey allege, proved on being i tested a verj second-rate dressmaker, and not | worth. half the salary she claimed. Miss j Baldossi retorts that she had been in business Cot tea years, receiving from Mrs Mason £120 | •nd from Kate Biley £220 a year. She tried on the bodices, etc, at Kate Biley's, and tbeis < -were no misfits there. Misfits, in fact, Miss ' Baldossi thinks, are generally attributable either to the whims of the customers them ealvea or to the " interference of uninatructed amateurs " like Mrs Labertouehe. 