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

GENERAL RETAINERS.

16. A retainer maybe given for future assizes, without
a retainer for the intervening assizes, unless notice of
tri,Al shall have been given for such intervening assize:•.
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 ti the original client.

APPEALS, WRITS OF ERROR, AND NONSUITS.
19. A special retainer, in an appeal, or on a writ of
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. Amer 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 accept( d 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 him an opportunity to give a special
retainer to counsel.

AMOUNT OF FEES.
27. Tho fees given tor general retainers are as fu;
low:

In the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and
Exchequer of Pleas, five guineas.
I❑ Chancery and Bankruptcy Appeals, five guineas.
In Bankruptcy, five guineas.
In Parliament, ten guineas.
In the Privy Council, ten guineas.
28. The fees given for special retainers are as fol-
lows:

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

Yesterday the Committee of the Free Baths and
Washhonses in Glasshouse.yard, East Smithfield, made
their third annual report.gDuring 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
3971. ss. 11d. ; the expenditure caused a debt of
1021. 19s. Ild. The funds are now exhausted, and an
earnest appeal is made fur public support.
MARGATE.—The shipwrecked emigrants, ninety.
one in number, landed here on Thursday last, and are
in the most destitute condition, having lost all their
clothes and other property. On Friday anu eting 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. The 7
unfortunate situation it is hoped, will receive the public
sympathy. A circumstance occurred here on Sunday
morning which has occasioned great surprise 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
night, 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
on tnhpr of t.sitiq being great, the strength of the tido
drove them oa 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, WiIDNESDAY, 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 o❑ the 24th inst., has not yet made her appearance.
She is hourly expected. She had not reached Gibraltar
on 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 tale 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 fur the conveyance •f mails
between Alexandria, Jaffa, and Beyrout. Th• Grand
Turk is to leave Southampton on the Bch of January,
for Alexandria, touching at Malta and Gibraltar. She
is intended to sail 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 mail steamer Severn, Captain
Vincent, leaves on Tuesday next, the fd of January,
with the West Indian and Mexican mails. The Thames,
Captain Abbott, is the next homeward steamer with
mails from the West Indies and Pacific. She may be
expected on the sth proximo. The departure of the
American steamer United States, Captain Hackstaff,
from Havre, is postponed till the Bth of January ; she
will in all probability call off Southampton on the 9th
inst. for freight, mails, and passengers. The American
frigate St. Lawrence, 44, Captain Hiram Paulding, will
leave Southampton water the beginning of next week,
on a cruise to Lisbon and Cadiz. Steamers in dock—
Great Western, Severn, Medway, Eagle, Indus, Sultan,
Madrid, Montrose.

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HOLIDAY VISITORS TO TUE BRITISH MUSKIIM AND
NATIONAL GALLERY.—From the calculations of t !e per-

soni app iinted, 11,819 persons are known to have visited
the British Museum yesterday and Tuesday; upwardi of
2,000 umbrellas passed through the hands of the °Me, ri
(luring' the 6r S d ,v. The Nati.nal Gallery had 6,910
Ths Uuic:•d Se:•vice Must um,
2,100. The privilege of free admission to the public is
still further extended to this day.

1. That a general retainer applies to all courts in
which the counsel receiving it shall practise.
2. That if the counsel should be offerel a special
retainer by the opponent of the party having given such
general retainer, in any other court than that in which
he shall usually practise, the general retainer entitles=
the party giving it to notice before the offered retainer
is accepted.

3. That the general retainer lasts for the joint live.;
of the client and counsel, or so long as th, counsel con-
tinues in practice, except it be lost, according to any of
these rules.

4. In case a special retainer or brief is offered to
counsel against the party who has given a general
rvtainer, the counsel is at liberty t,) accept the special
retainer or brief of the other party, unless within one
week after issue joined, or replication filed, a special re-
tainer or brief be give❑ by the party who gave thu ge-
neral retainer.

5. Where a general retainer has been given and a
brief is not delivered to the retained counsel in any
action, suit, or other nroc•:,eding, in which the party
giving the general retainer is c,.neerned (Ind pea ling in
the court wherein the counsel usually practises). th,
general retainer is entirely lost, unle,s in cases where a
brief is given t.) a junior counsel only, and the s-rvices
of the retained counsel appear unnecessary to the re-
taining solicitor.

6. Win•re a general retainer is given for one pt'rson,
and he is sued wi;h others, and he defends xeparately,
the retainer is binding; but it is otherwise if he defend
jointly.

CORPORATION AND PARTNERSHIP RETAINERS.
7. Subject to the foregoing rules, a general retainer
given for a corporation will continuo, unless the cor-
poration be dissulved, or the grunt of a new charter be
accepted.

8. When a general retainer is given for a partner-
ship or firm, it continues so long as the style of the
partnership or firm continues, and extends to all mat-
ters aff.cting the partnership, notwithstanding all the
partners may not be included in the action or actions
brought.

9. A general retainer may be given for a provisional
committee in respect of any subject of action or suit,
by or against such committee, or any member or mem-
bers of it, arising out of the concern in which they are
provisional committeemen.

SPECIAL RETAINERS.
10. A special retainer may be given as well before as
after the commencement of an action at law or suit in
equity, or a proceeding in builtruptcy.
11. A special retainer gives the client a right to the
service of the counsel during the whole progress of the
cause, including interlocutory applications and bills of
exc- ption and rehearing.
12. The retained counsel is entitled to a brief on every
occasion in which the case is brought before the Court in
whch he usually practises, except where the services of
the junior counsel only appear to the retaining solicitor
necessary.

CIRCUIT RETAINERS.
13. A special retainer in a country cause must be given
For a pqrticular assize.

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