ggisrotT4ngoits. The Law Profession, We are astonished at the dally para graphs that meet our eye of the'number of young men lately admitteth9 prac tice law in .the different Statis of the Union. Probably no avocation yields a poorer return, or is so much overstock ed. To be . a good lawyer reqUires not only brilliant talents, great tact:, and profound knriwletlge o but a capacity for mental application such as feti,! men have a taste for and few constitutions can endure. As Lord Eldon remarked, .• a man must • work like a dray-horse and be paid like a pauper..": Nor is success at the 'bar sure, even with all the requisites we have mentioned.— Chance often elevates the hard student to fame, but as often retaining hint in' obscurity. Of the bar of Philadelphia, for -instance, we can speak from an in- Innate knowledge ; and we could point to more than one lawyer, with a head already beginning to grow gray, who, with every qualification to adore his highest walks, has been tunable to struggle up, merely because he has ne ver yet had a case, or a succession of cases, of the right character to develop his abilities. The _fact • is, -there are five times as many lawyers as there should be, both here and elsewhere ; and, in consequence four fifths of the profession must starve. 'The evil is increased by the tendency of clients to seek an attorney of acknowledged repu tation,' thus preventing the man of as yet unknown fame from obtaining a start. It is true, some kind-hearted friend may . entrust a case to the aspir ing •young advocate ; but it is rarely such a one as.is calculated to, Tate an impression, and years may 'pass be fare even this opportunity occurs to a youth without influence. We know two men who. have had distinguished success in the last ten years, but they owo their position to an acquaintance with foreign .tongues and the foreign clients this brought them. The great est lawyers, both of this and past genera tions, were years before they made enough to support themselves ; and few men, whatever their abilities, can hope to pay their expenses until after many a long term of suspense and heart-burning. The business, of -the courts every where, during the last few years has declined one-half, in consequence of the bankrupt act, and other laws can celling the claims of creditors. There is really There done at conveyancing, both here and elsewhere, than at the more legitimate business of the law.— Yet the number of lawyers-has increas ed two-fold in the last - ten years, so that actually the chances of success are scarcely one fourth ofk.what they , were in 1835. But all the present leading attorneys had made their reputations at • that period. What chance then has a c ,young man now in the profe,ssion ? 'Ten to one he will not pay his office rent the first year ; fifty to one he will not make his expenses ; a hundred to one he will never rise to opulence or fame. , Amid such fierce competition there are scores of chances even against a man of ability and acquirements,-un less he is backed by an influential fami ly. or meet with some lucky case which avotlce lifts him into notice. , -- We could point to young men of ten years standing at the bar, well-read and of strong intellects, who do not make as much as antarket street clerk. We could point to others, who started life under the satire auspices, but who now are irrevocably doomed to the lowest walks of the profession, because they took to pettifogging to keep themselves from starving.