The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-16 00:00:00

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED

BANK OF FRANCE.

Luz's, Nov. 15

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.

Nov. 8.

Nov. 15.
c. fr. c
182,500,000

fr.
Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 0!
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches 22, 22,
Reserve in landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4
Notes in circulation ... 958,124,575 166
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight
11
Treasury' account cur-
rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris 212,488,681 90 219,225,481 02
Do. branch banks 30,093,194 32,805,449
Dividends payable 990,506 75 933,295 75
Dis&nints and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last

22,105,750 14 22,105,750 1

4,000,000
966,115,6245

19,272,993 85 19,401,078 55

10,372,684 60 10,811,036 02

six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

2,372,304 91 2,372,301 9

'14,085,590 69 12,557,496 G 2

Total -
CREDITOR.

Nov. 8. Nov. 15.
Ca 61.1 in hand and C. in fr. fr. c.
Branch banks
Commercial bills over- .
due
Commercial bills die- .

counted, not yet due 294,219,411 13 310,573,616 21
Do. branch banks 360,418,262 361,145,290
Advances on deposit of
bullion 29,771,800 30,900,600
Do. branch banks 9,884,100 9,890,000
Do. on French Public
Securities 14,422,200 14,347,900
Do. by branch banks 8,155,300 8,119,300
Do. on railway shares
;"4 and debentures 36,167,900 36,088,500
D. branch banks 25,603,200 25,700,400
Do. on Credit Fencier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Government Stock re-
serve 12,980,750 14 12,98040 14
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalisdes
(Law, Juno 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches
Expenses of manage-
ment.... 2,035,481 33 2,072,331 63
Sundries

Total 1,652,520,419 80:1,668,022;899 01
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France.
(Signed) ROULAND.

The Jamaica Committee and Mr. Coleridge.

-.....--....

We are requested by the Jamaica Committee to
publish the following correspondence which has
passed between Messrs. Shaen and Roscoe, their soli-
citors, and Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., with reference to
the retainer which was accepted by the latter gen-
tleman from the Committee, but objected to by Mr.
Rose. The first letter was addressed by Messrs.
Shaen and Roscoe to Mr. Coleridge :

8, Bedford-iow, Nov. 2.

Dear Sir, —ln reference to the objection which has been
taken by Mr. Rose to the retainer which we have left with
you on behalf of the Jamaica Committee, we of course have
no wish to take any opinion or decision except your own,
and in reference to it we venture to submit that the Ja-
maica Committee, as is well known from its advertisements
and other printed papers, consists of Messrs. J. S. Mill,
M.P., P. A. Taylor, M.P., treasurer ; F. W. Cho: sou, hon.
secretary, and others ; and that if they are incapable of re-
taining counsel, it must, of course, be upon grounds equally
applicable to all other voluntary societies.
As a matter of fact such societies have Leen constantly
in the habit of tendering retainers, which have been as
constantly accepted and acted upon by counsel for many
years. Some mouths ago Mr. E. James, Q.C., M.P., and
Mr. Fitzjames Stephen accepted retainers on behalf of the
Jamaica Committee. It is, perhaps, not altogether imma-
terial that in this particular case, after we had left the re-
tainer at your chambers, a correspondence ensued in refe-
rence to it which resulted in a Rote from yourself, intimat-
ing that you accepted the retainer.
As amatter of reason it is frequently quite as important to
a voluntary association to retain the services of counsel as to
a corporate body or an individual. It is unnecessary to do
more than refer to the litigation which has of late years
been becoming more and more frequent and important, con-
nected with provisional committees for the formation of
joint-stock companies. In Chancery, indeed, voluntary
associations are every day parties to litigation, as they are
also as individual members in the courts of common law.
We happen at the present moment to be engaged in a case
of considerable importance in Chancery in which the
Bishop of Natal is plaintiff, while the defendants aro the
counsel of the Colonial aishopric Fund, a voluntary body
without any incorporation or legal status todistinguish it
from the Jamaica Committee.
If the objection is good, it is good against all voluntary
associations, and this would, in fact, outlaw all societies for
the promotion of literature, science, and the fine arts, and
all clubs, and all the numerous societies which are formed
for the express purpose of enforcing certain branches of
the law, such as the Society for the Suppression of Vice,
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Society for
the Protection of Women, dm.

Should you deem it advisable that the question shall be
submitted to the Attorney-General, we shall be glad if you
will kindly lay before him this letter as what we have to
say on the subject.—We are, dear sir, yours faithfully,
(Signed) SHAEN AND ROSCOE.
To this Mr. Coleridge replied as follows :
Westminster Hall, Nov. 3.
Dear Sirs—l consider your retainer binding, and, for my
own part, think there is nothing at all in Mr. Rose's objec-
tion. I shall take no steps in the matter, but if lam told
by the Attorney-General that I am bound as a matter of
professional rule to act for Mr. Eyre, of course I must do
so. I can hardly conceive he will do so, and I shall not
myself ask him any questions. Why, under the circum-
stances, it is thought the least worth while on either side
to contest the matter I cannot understand ; but that is no
concern of mine.—Believe me to be, your faithful servant,

(Signed)

J. D. COLERIDGE.

On learning the decision of the Attorney-Gene-
ral, Mr. Shaen wrote the following letter to Mr.
Coleridge :

Nov. 10.

Dear Sir,—The Attorney-General has stated it to be his
opinion that the retainer of Mr. Rose does, and that the
retainer of my firm does not, prevail. I took the liberty of
requesting the Attorney-General to let me know the grounds
of his opinion, but he declined to do so, saying that such a
course was not usual.
If you consider yourself bound by this opinion I inu.s_tno_f
course subMit, but I respectfully protest, on behalf of 1,2,
clients, that they ought not, on unexplained anhd unbe`;
grounds,-to lose the benefit of a retainer wiiiii,c,,ys lots
under-
given and accepted in good faith. I
stood that the relations between couhuaseletat
fonnded, not upon any law of contract, .
but
of the bar,
hon-
ourable understanding, and that the
etiquette
to retainers, was
which 1 presume regulates the practeictLudu
ct unbecoming
designed only to protect counsel from antdillnitelti
hweeere.
gentlemen. If lam right in thist,he
the retainer which was
given in
nhich cannot be upset by the
an honourable understanding w
tautially that of another
vceansetubrye
itioiystui
tbinniiftetrhmast
offer of a retainer which is subs
()god you in vain to lend
ame. If my retainer is to be
your n.
Rarity in its wording, then in^
them
omi
tihtteeee,ewppheorthaeyfe already requ
the introduc-
tion name of the professionof unpublished technical rules,
tion or the iimintenam7i)eh
they
upset on account ofitnypcLfu
arc unnecessary and for
protest against , .
upon a subject
ifutted. if my retainer is to be upset on
eaesutuhseeiJvaticieanicafoetohuoiiniiiatitenee
ofis
doctrine which rests
if enforced univer-
sally, DO Ditellialbl
unabletWl;heGl rotiuhnneadyn atyll.lefal: nut ictiol a''
retainod y
the
grounds,
which,a
would practically outlaw vast numbers of associa-
tions
hfoirs,med to promote the best interests of society, anti
in fact, violated by the every day practice of the
leaders of the profession.— I am, dear sir, yours faithfully,
(Signed) NV. SIIAEN.
Mr. Coleridge replied as follows :
The Athenaeum, Nov. 12.
Dear Sirs,—l regret the decision at which the Attorney-
General has arrived, but you will remember I told you
some time ago that, whatever his decision, I should feel
myself bound by it, whether I agreed with it or not. I
muat adhere to that determination. I cannot set myself
against the authority of the head of the bar, in a matter as
to which he is the recognised judge. 1 hope you will see,
as plainly as I do, that it is really of extremely little con-
sequence.—Believe me to bo your faithful servant.
(Signed) • J. D. COLERIDGE.
Messrs. Shaen and Roscoe. - . •