The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-28 00:00:00

CIRCUIT RETAINERS.

13. A special retainer in a country cause must be given
fora particular assize.

14. If the venue be changed for another place on the
same circuit, a fresh retainer is not required.
15. If the cause be not tried at the assize for which
the retainer is given, the retainer must be renewed for
every subsequent assiz=! until the cause is disposed of,
unless a brief has been delivered, and then the usual re-
fresher fee is sufficieat.

16. A retainer may be given for future assizes, without
a retainer for the intervening assizes, unless notice of
trial shall have been given for such intervening assizes.
17. Where a renewed retainer is necessary, it must
be given before the end of the term preceding the assize.
18. In any case requiring the renewal of a retainer,
an adverse brief or retainer cannot be accepted without
notice to the original client.

APPEALS, WRITS OF ERROR, AND NONSUITS.
19. A special retainer, in an appeal, or on a writ o
error, may be given before the appeal has been lodged,
or the writ of error issued.

20. Counsel in the original cause cannot accept a re-
tainer on an appeal or writ of error for the opposite
party, without affording the client in such original cause
the opportunity of giving such retainer.
21. After a nonsuit, a retainer cannot be accepted from
the adverse party in a second action without notice to
the client for whom a brief has been held in the first
action.

OPINIONS AND PLEADINGS.
22. Where counsel has drawn pleadings, or advised,
during the progress or in contemplation of an action or
suit, a retainer cannot be accepted from, or pleadings
drawn for, or advice given to, the opponent without
notice to the first client.

PROMOTION OF COUNSEL.
23. The retainer of a counsel does not cease upon his
being promoted to a higher rank at the bar.

FORM OF RETAINER.-NOTICE.
24. When a retainer is given by the plaintiff in a cause
A v. B, and an action or suit is afterwards brought by
B v. A, the counsel cannot take the retainer of B with-
out notice to A, if the causes of action are connected.
25. A mistake in the tale of an action or suit does not
render the retainer inoperative, if it can be shown that
the cause of action or suit is the same, and that there is
no other to which the retainer can apply.
26. The notice to the client mentioned in these rules
is intended to afford hitn an opportunity to give a special
retainer to counsel.

ASIOUNT OF FEES.
27. The fees given for general retainers are as fol-
low:
In the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and
Exchequer of Pleas, five guineas.
In Chancery and Bankruptcy Appeals, five guineas.
In Bankruptcy, five guineas.
In Parliament, ten guineas.
In the Privy Council, ten guineas.
28. Tile fees given for special retainers are as fo!-
Iows:--

At Common Law or in Equity, one guinea.
In Parliament, on Bills and Election Committees, five
guineas.
In App-als to the House of Lords, two guineas.
In the Privy Council, two guinels.

Yesterday the Committee of the Free Baths and
Washherrees in Glasshouse-yard, East Smithfield, made
their third annual reporaltDuring the last twelve months
the number who had availed themselves of the baths had
been 33,655 ; washers and driers, 34,843; and 12,610
ironers. Many poor persons purposely go to the esta-
blishment from a distance of five or six miles. Inde-
pendent of the above advantages, a great number of the
poor in the numerous and densely crowded courts and
alleys in East Smithfield have been supplied gratuitously
with whitewash, chlorides, and other disinfecting agents,
to cleanse and purify their dwellings. A supply of
coals are also furnished to poor families, who have not
the means of speedily drying their humble abodes, to
prevent injuriousness from damp, &c. The receipts of
the baths and washhouses for the past year was
397/. .ss. lid. ; the expenditure caused a debt of
1021. 19s. lid. The funds are now exhausted, and an
earnest aAprrpoLa.LisTmtleadef public support.
MARG shipwrecked emigrants, ninety-
one in number, landed here on Thursday last, and are
in the must destitute condition, having lost all their
clothes and other property. On Friday a meeting was
held to determine on the best means for their relief; a
subscription was immediately commtnenced, and a com-
mittee appointed to purchase clothes and to request do-
nations of clothes from the inhabitants. The appeal
was responded to, and on Saturday these distressed
people were to a certain extent supplied. The vessel is
now broken to pieces, and there is no probability of
their recovering their effects. They are of a superior
class of emigrants, many of them from Berlin. Their
unfortunate situation it is hoped, will receive the public
sympathy. A circumstance occurred here on Sunday
morning which has occasioned great surprise :—A man,
named Watson, was found dead near the jetty, by the
Coast Guard man on duty, and at no great distance
from him, attached to a line, were seventy-five half
ankers of brandy. It is supposed that on the previous
eight, about nine o'clock, the line was handed to him
from a boat about a mile to the eastward of the town,
and his object was to drag them over the rock as the
water flowed, and get them under the cliffs; but the
number of tubs being great, the strength of the tide
drove them on the jetty ; and as the weather was pierc-
ing cold, and he much in the water, he was frozen to
death by the intense cold.
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27. —The
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's
ship Jupiter, Captain F. Meehan, sailed this afternoon
with the usual Spanish and Portuguese mails, ten passen-
gers, and fifty tons of cargo for Lisbon and Gibraltar.
The Pacha, Captain John Weeks, with the homeward
mails, from Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar,
due on the 24th inst., has not yet made her appearance.
She is hourly expectd. She had not reached Gibraltar
ou the 18th inst., when the Indus left. The Erin is also
expected from Constantinople, Malta, and Gibraltar on
Friday or Saturday. The sultan, Captain George Brooks,
will take her departure on the 29th for Constantinople,
via Gibraltar and Malta. The steamer Grand Turk,
Captain Henry Newbolt, lately in the service of the
South-Western Steam Navigation Company, having re-
ceived new boilers and undergone repairs, has been taken
up by the Government for the conveyance of mails
between Alexandria, Jaffa, and Beyrout. The Grand
Turk is to leave Southampton on the Bth of January,
for Alexandria, touching at Malta and Gibraltar. She
is intended to sai; from Alexandria for Jaffa and Bey-
rout, carrying her • Majesty's mails and dispatches, on
the Bth of every month, in conjunction with the Penin-
sular and Oriental steamers between Southampton and
Alexandria. The royal snail steamer Severn, Captain
Vincent, leaves on Tuesday next, the 2d of Jenuary,
with the West Indian and Mexican mails. The Thames,
Captain Abbott, is the next homeward s•eerner with
mails from iii West Indies and Pacific. t•;he may be
expected 011 111, 5Lb proximo. The ds,pal :u:o of. t;.e
American Etcamer United State.., Capt.dri Hackatafi;
from Havre, is postponed till the Bth of January ; she
will in all probability call off Southampton on tee 9th
inst. for freight, mails, and prissengere. The American
frigate St. Lawrence, 44, Captain Hiram Paulding, will
leave Southampton water the beginnibg of next week,
on a cruise to Libor, and Cadiz. Si eamrs in dock—

Great Western, Severn, Medway, Eagle, Indus, Sultan,
Madrid, Moiltrose.

Iformur Visrrorts TO TUE BRITISH MUSEIIM AND
NATIONAL GALLEAr.—From the calouluti.,os of the per.

sous appointed. 11,819 persons are known to have visited
the British Museum yesterday and Tuesday; upward• of
2,000 umbrellas passed through the hands of the offic. r.
during the first day. The National Gallery had 6,910
visitors. The United Service Museum, Whitehall yard,
2,100. The privilege of free admission to the public is
still Airther extended tO this day.

ARK E'
Middle's W. COAL
Hartley M
14s 9d
Carr's Hartley
East Adairs Main l4s Od
Hasting's Hartley l4s 6d
Holywell Main lss 6d
New Tantield l4B Od
Ord's Redheugh
Townley l4s, 6d
Windsor's Pontop ...
Wylam
West Hartley .
Wall's End, &e
Clarke

;:r.—yzsTERDAT.

[ Framwell Gaie 18s 6d
South Killingworth las Od
Haswell l9a 9d
Stewart's
Whitwell
West Pease .. .. 15s 6d
West Cornforth .. lBs Od
Woodefield
Cowpen Hartley
Hartley ... ..... ....
Halbearth Splint . 13s 6d
Sidney's Hartley
Ships at market, 58.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bansms, DEC. 26.
Actual Debt, 23( per Cent . •
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .. .. •• • •
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •• • •
Ditto Three per Cent •••• • • • •
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto • • • • • •
Ditto, ditto,lB4o ••.••••• • • • • • • • 85 g
Ditto,dltto,lB42 .• ••••• • • • • • 85 g
Ditto, 1844... .. .... ••••• • • • • • •• • 76
Ditto, 1836....... •••••• • • • • 7t
Ditto, 1838 .....................
Ditto of the City, 1832
Ditto, 1843 ........
Bank of 8e1gium......
Issue of 1841 ................
Exchange on London, 25.45,

___ .. ~.. 81%

• • 65

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEC. IS.
5 per Cents. ...• ..
4 per Cent....••••••••••••••• - c'
3 per Cent.... .• ••
2% per Cent;
1 per Cent
Loan, 1834.......
Ditto, 1839 •
Bank Shares.. •• •
Estorhaav's Loan .

~.......... 141
84
. • • .... •...1,900

RAILWAYS.

The Northern....
Gloggnitz
Venice Milan ..
Bui'wets
Leghorn
l'esth ............
Sienna

.. .. .... ' 9934

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TREATMENT OF DEBTORS COMMITTED BY TILE
COUNTY COURT.—At toe court at Chelmsford on Wed-
nesday, Mr. Gurdon observed to Mr. Neale, the gover-
nor of the gaol, who was present, that a person who had
been committed by him from Rochford Hundred had
boasted that he was allowed to smoke in the gaol, that he
was very comfortable there, and did nut care for the
commitment. Mr. Neale said it must have been an
empty boast; the persons committed by this court were
not allowed the privileges of common debtors—they
were treated as misdemeanants, and there was a separate
place for them. Mr. Gurdon said he was aware of that,
but he thought it ought to be publicly known. Subse-
quently Mr. Neale produced the printed rules with re-
spect to this class of debtors, by which it appeared they
had oatmeal gruel and bread for breakfast and supper, a
pint of soup and bread for dinner three days in the week,
and three ounces of meat, half a pound of potatoes, and
eight ounces of bread on the other four; and it is added
" They shall not procure or receive any tobacco, wine,
beer, or fermented liquor, except by order of the sur-
geon, on the ground of health. They shall be permitted
to see their relations and friends only once in the course
of each week."

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genuine Pills have the arms of John Kaye, together
with a lac-simile of his signature, printed on the direc-
tions for use, wrapped round each box. Price Is. lid.,
2s 9c1., and 4s. 6d., per box. To be had of all respectable
Medicine Venders.

BIRTHS.
On the 23d inst., at South Willingham Rectory, Lincoln-
shire, the w.fe of the Rem. A. Corbett, of a daughter.
At Brixton-place, on the 24th inst., the wife of Mr. John
Whelham, of a daughter.
On the 24th inst., at Royal-crescent, Notting-hill, the lady
of C. J. Plumptre, Esq., of a son.
On the 25th inst., at Lower Clapton, Middlesex, Mrs.
Boult, of a son.
On the 24th inst., at Hyde-park-gate, South, the wife of
C. R. Harford, jun., Esq., of a daughter.
On the 25th inst., at Stoke Rochford, the lady Caroline
Turner, of a son. _

On the 25th inst., at Wimpole-street, the wife of J. Corny
Sherrard, Esq., of a son.
On the :'6th inst., at Glocester-road, Hyde-park-gardens,
the wife of H. Mills, Esq., of a son.

MARRIED.

At St. John's Chapel, Edinburgh, on the 19th ult., Charles
G. Addison, Esq.. of the Inner Temple, to Frances Octavis
Murray, youngest daughter of the late Lord Cringletie, one
of the senators of the College of Justice of Scotland.
At Canaan-park, Edinburgh, on the 21st inst., Alexander
Rattray, Esq., only son of the late R. Rattray, Esq., W.S.,
to Maria Ann, eldest daughter of the late J. J. Boswell, Esq.,
of Edinburgh.
On the, '23d inst., at St. George's, Hanover -square, Henry
Curl', Esq., of the island of Barbadoes, Deputy-Assistant-
Commissary- General, to Marianne Ellen, second daughter of
J. E. Tillett, Esq., late of Liverpool.

DIEb.
On the 20th inst., at Keinpsey, Worcestershire, the Rev'
E. M. Rudd, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, aged 72. the On the 22d inst., at Newington-terrace, London. in
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prime of life, John Chillcott, Esq., of the Royal Vineb
Work. 3.
On the 223 inst., aged 73, S. Sutton,
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hancrer, Bedfordshire.
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On' the 24th inst., at Wimbledon, Sarre • Peter Mac of,
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Esq., aged 77.
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On the 24th inst., in St. Peter's-square, Hamlne'-
„John Winclgortb, E6q. Esq of Mugger-
fourth
On the •2 inst., in Devonshire-place, Neil Hulse,
nifiee,
son of the late Benjamin. Harene, of toots COI"'
Kent, aged 29.
Samuel
On the 25th inst. at Wilminton-square, Mr° -
Mills, of Crane-court:Fleet•streeet aged 76. A, park •
On the 25th inst., at St. Grore'a-terrace, Hi— --
Hannah Maria, the wife of E. Tr,herne, Esq y the
widow of W. Huntingdon, Esq. 01 that ..ed 8.•
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THE COUNTRY MARKETS. Nl:Rawest, DEC. 23.—We have a large
supply ei,
whet, and the condition being improved, it meets a.good
denismi, at luily last w'eek's prices. But moderate show
of oats and beans, and each to be bought at less money.
Prices to the growers—Wheat, new red, 591 b to 621 b,
42s to 475. extra, 48s; white, 591 b to 62ib, 43s to 495,
extra 51s • old red, Glib to 631 b, 47s to 495; extra 50s;
white, Glib to 631 b, 48s to 51s; extra 53s per quarter;
oats, old, 391 b to 401 b, I lid to 12d; new, 9d to 10d per
stone; beans, old, 398 to 41s per quarter.
BASINGSTOKE, DEc. 27.—Corn; 'The market was well
attended this day by corn factors, millers, &c., from
Reading, Southampton, Winene,ter, Andover, arid other
district., as well ai farmers from. this fine wheat growing
part. Some excellent white, grown near Strathfieldsaye,
weighing 651 b per bushel, and in excellent condition,
made 51s per qr; tine red wheats, weight 631 b per bushel,
555; second rate ditto, 52s to 543; common wheats
at from 44s to 48s per qr; Flour, 36s to 42s per sack of
28011); best bread, 13d the Sib loaf. Barley of fine qua-
lity was scarce; the best malting offered this day was
some bright foreign grown, weighing 561 b per bushel,
making 36.; second rate English, 345; moderate grind-
ing, 30s; inferior ditto, 26s to 28s, per qr; barleymeal,
15s. per sack of ten score pounds; malt, fine pale, 8s 6d;
common ditto, 7s 9(1 to 8s 3d per bushel. Beans were
offered, and last weeks prices asked, yet to sell is per qr
decline had to be submitted to; best old ticks, weighing
61 lb per bushel, sold at 40a; to split from 36s to 38s;
Egyptian ditto, 34s per qr. Peas: finest boilers, from
40s to 425; grey, for pig feeding, 36s to 38s per qr. Oats
of slow sale: the best Scotch and Polands, 245; good
sweet black, 20s to 225; common feed, 16s to 18s per qr.
Rye, 14s to 14s 6d per sack. Tares new, lOs 6d to Ils
6d; old, 9s to 9s 6d per bushel. The trade in small
seeds was very dull. Hops were for sale at about the
prices of last week; very few sold. Pigs were plentiful,
yet but few found purchasers, though reduced prices
would have been taken, both for large and small stores.
Fat pigs, large size, sold at 10s• porkers, lOs 6d per
score. Some cows, heifers, and calves were for sale; yet
the chief number were without purchasers.
CHELTENHAM, DEC. 21.—The following were the
prices:—Old wheat, 6s to 6s 8d; new ditto, 5s to 6s;
barley, malting, 45 to 4s 6d; ditto, grinding, 3s 6d to
4s per bushel. Old oats, 283 to 30s; new ditto, 22s to
265; peas, 45s to 50s; old beans, 42s to 465; new ditto,
36s to 40s per quarter. Old hay, 80s; new ditto, 70s to
755; straw, 40s to 50s per ton.
GLOucEsTEI.--On Saturday last there was a very
small attendance, and but little business was done; a few
sales of English wheat were made at about last week's
rates, but free foreign sanap:es must be quoted about is
per quarter lower. The sales of barley, oats, or beans
were so limited that prices are almost nominal, but the
turn was in favour of buyers of either article.
WORCESTER.—On Saturday last our market was
well supplied with wheat, and the whole found buyers at
fully the currency of this day se'nnight. Barley of all
kinus rather lower. Oats unaltered in value, with a fair
sale.' Beans nearly maintained their value. Peas in
very limited request.
EAST LINTON, DEC. 25.—1 n to-day's market there
was less wheat, barley, and (oats; more beans. Except
for oats sales were dull, with declining prices.
Top of wheat, 465, weighing 63iln peribushel.
„ Barley, ass 55 ditto
Oats 22s 451 ditto
Beans 33s 66i ditto
New ditto 005 00 ditto
AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER.
Wheat.- 21 7s 0 I Oats ... 1/ Oa 7
Barley ... ..• 1/. 7s 6 Beans ... 1/ 8s 2
DUBLIN, DEc.26.—As usual at this season there was
a small attendance at our corn exchange to-day. The
business done was trifling, and we note prices nominally
as on Friday. White wheat, 23s to 275; red, 2ls to 265;
barley, 12s to 17s 6d; oats, 9s 6d to lls 6rl per WI;
oatmeal, Ils to 128 ; bakers' flour, 15s to 18s 6d per
cwt.; Indian corn, 33s to 355, per 4801bs.
BELFAST, DEC. 22.—Grain—We have small supplies
at market this morning, and prices are generally a little
in favour of the seller. Oatmeal is at an advance of 2d
to 3d. Monday, Dec. 25.—Grain—Being Christmas-
day, we of course have no market. On Saturday, how-
ever, there was no change in any article, and but little
doing.