The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-20 00:00:00

"Yours, truly, Si
In the beginning of March the plaintiff, who had in
the interim repeatedly called upo❑ the attorney, wrote,
ano:her letter stating that if the mater were not imme-
diately settled, she would cause an application to be
made to the court for redress, to which she received
an answer, which for style and matter is certainly a
literary curiosity, and which we cannot refrain
from giving to our readers verbatim. It come
menced with a bill of costs in this unopposed suit,
amounting to 11/. 2s. It then gave credit for
12/. 10s., viz., 21. received on account from the
plaintiff and various payments from the defendant
amounting in all to 101. 103., to which account was
appended the following epistle :

•' Mrs. --
" The last letter you wrote me must have been penned
by some low, insolent follow, whom you had better not
for the future have anything to do with. I have made
out the amount in full, giving you credit for all I have
received, and by which you will perceive, after all your
bluster and impudent threats against me, that there is
only 11. Bs. due to you. This amount you can have, I
dare say, on Saturday next, and then I wish to have no
wore to uo with you.—Yours obediently,

Here, then, this excellent attorney wishes to have
no more to do with the plaintiff, or to take no further
stops after he has succeeded in extracting sufficient to
pay his 1 11. 2s. costs, where there was no defence.
But, strange as it may appear, the 11. Bs. has never
since been paid, but the settlement has still been put
off for a further time.

Such facts require no comment on our part, they
will be fully appreciated if any opposition should be
°tiered to the Bill, or if claims for compensation
should be put forward by those who allow such prat•
tioners to use their names or to act under their
authority.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes the following telegraphic
dispatch :
" THE PREFECT OF THE RHONE TO THE MINISTER OF
THE INTERIOR.

June 18, 11 o'clock, A.M.
" Lyons is perfectly tranquil. The Croix Mousse and
Guillutiere are being disarmed. The operation is going
on well and without resistance."
In the National Assembly on Monday an autho-
rization was granted for the prosecution of M. FELIX
PYAT. The report on the Bill for the Suppression of
the Clubs was brought up by M. JULES DE LEY-
STERIE ; and M. ODILON BARROT avowed and justi-
fied his conduct in threatening the Siecle, the Presse,
and the National, with suspension. The Presse has
adopted a most characteristic method of avenging its
wrongs. M. Emma DE GIRARDIN, not being any
longer permitted to write leaders on the state of
siege, or the rights of the minority, makes M.
ODILON BARROT do for him that which he is no
Linger permitted to do for himself. He re-publishes
M. BARROT'S speeches on those subjects under the
monarchy, and there are extant speeches of M.
ODILON BARROT on these matters sufficient to furnish
leaders for the Presse for the next month.
The _National says—
" The explicit declarations made from the tribune yes-
terday by M. Odilon Barrot confirms the menace con-
tained in the official warning transmitted to us on the
previous day by the Commissary of Police.
"A seal is now more than ever placed on our lips.
We shall henceforth leave it to the old Union
Monarchique, the dissembles IVationale, to the Constilu.
tionnel, and other similar journals, to comment on the
acts of the legislative and of the executive powers. We
,hall confine ourselves to recording them. The Govern-
ment will consecpcntly have nothing but praise without
counterpoise; ideas are no longer free."
M. DAUPHIN, Colonel of the 7th Legion, has been
arrested, and sent to the Conciergerie.
It is said that M. LEDRU ROLLIN has arrived at
Stutgardt.

Vie publication of a History of the Revolution of
1848, by M. DE LAMARTINE is announced for the
30th of this month.

The rumour of the entry of the French into Rome
has not been confirmed. The Pairie, indeed, says,—
" A report was in circulation at the Assembly last
night, that a steam vessel which arrived from Civita
Vecchia at Marseilles had brought accounts of the
French troops having entered Rome by the breach on
the 14th. The POPE'S Nuncio is said to have received
dispatches to that effect.
Nothing official, however, has transpired on the
subject.
The Moniteur contains the following : " The Government bas received the following dispatch
from General
THE GENERAL COMMANDANT•IN-CHIEF OF TUE EX-
PEDITIONARY CORPS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN TO
THE MINISTER OF WAR.

"'Villa Santucci, June 10.
' "'Monsieur le Ministre,—By dispatch of the 7th, I
I had the honour to make known to you the march of the
operations of the siege up to the 6th inclusive. 7th. In
the night of the 6th, they debouched by a trench which
hereafter will be turned towards the battery directed
against the bastion No. 6. The communication covered
in the rear by the parallel has been completed. The
works undertaken at the Villa Corsini, to improve the
po-i(ion of the troops on the extreme left from the at-
tacks, are being carried on. They will be finished on
the 8:h. The tete-de-pont at St. Palo will also be
finished and armed to-morrow. In the same night of
the 6th, the artillery commenced the construction of a
battery (No. 4) outside the trench, parallel to the
right face of bastion 6. This battery is intended
to counter-bombard that bastion, and batter in breach
the scarp which is uncovered to its height. Bth.
They have continued the covert way connected with
the battery, turning it from the opposite side in order
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proved. In one of the trenches on the right approach-
ing close up to the bastion a shot from one of the

nagement of a case under the pretence of conducting
it more cheaply than the recognised officers of the
court. When such a party is entrusted with a cause
an immediate advance is required of cne or
two pounds. In the majority of cases,
the deposit, which has thus been obtained
by something very little better than a swindle, is
appropriated by the recipient who takes no further
trouble in the matter. Happy is it for the creditor
if such should be the result, for he only sustains the
loss of the sum so advanced. But if unfortunately
the suit should be actually instituted, and an order
for payment obtained, a bill of costs is trumped
up, which absorbs the entire amount ; or if,
after payment of the debt, a balance
should chance to remain, it is infinitely more difficult
to obtain payment from the legal gentleman than from
the original debtor. This may appear to be an ex-
aggeration, but original documents have recently,
been placed before us which fully sustain our state-
ments. Indeed we could not have credited the possi-
bility of such proceedings unless the most convincing
evidence had been afforded of the veracity of our
informant.

A respectable widow, who gained her livelihood
by letting furnished lodgings, had lent a sum of 121.
to a person similarly circumstanced, in the year
1844, in order to enable her friend to settle the rent
then due. No question existed as to the validity of
the demand, every shilling of which was for money
actually lent, without bonus or interest of any kind.
Repeated applications had been made for payment,
which would have been accepted by easy instalments,
but in vain ; no settlement could be obtained.
The debtor was either unable or unwilling
to satisfy the just demand. After having waited
patiently more than two years, the creditor was in-
duced in an evil hour to employ an attorney, whether
one of the privileged few or not we are at present
unable to say. Proceedings were commenced some
time in the year 1846. On the 2d of October in that
year the attorney to the plaintiff (who had re-
ceived proposals for an amicable arrangement from
the defendant), cautioning her against any interference
in the matter, and desiring that she should " leave it to
him to settle." She did so, and a demand was shortly
afterwards preferred (according to the usual prac-
tice) for an advance of 21., without which no further
step could be taken. 'With considerable difficulty
this menu was provided and handed over in the
month of March following, nothing having been done
in the interval. The party was then summoned to
the Palace Court, and no defence being offered, an
order was made for the payment of the debt and
costs by instalments of 10s. per month, the first pay-
ment to be made in May, 1847. Since that period
the instalments were punctually paid to the attorney,
but not a shilling was handed to the creditor, who
was not only kept out of her original demand, but
even of the 21. she had advanced. Repeated applica-
tions were made to this respectable atttorney for
payment, but althongh constant promises were made
nothing could be obtained. On the 13th February
last we find a letter from the attorney, who was never
at home when called on, in the following words :
Mrs. ---,
" I hope in the course of a week or ten days to do
something for you. I will, you may rest assured, not
lose a moment, but business has been flat, and money
very scarce, or I would not have troubled you to write
or to send to me.