The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-04 00:00:00

THE LATE SIR. W. FOLLETT.

We have been permitted to publish the correspondence
which passed between Sir William Follett and Sir Robert
Peel, in May last, with respect to the proffered resignation
of the Attorney-General. It is highly creditable to both
parties.

" Park-street, May 20, 1845.
"My dear Sir Robert,—l am about to write to you on a
subject painful to me, but which I am afraid I can no longer
avoid. When I first returned to this country from the
Continent I felt no doubt, from the improvement that had
then taken place in my health, that I should he able to give
my regular attendance in the House of Commons, and to take
my fair share of the business of Parliament, as well as the
other duties of Tmy office ; but it has been ordered otherwise,
and the fresh attack of illness under which I have been suffer-

ing since my return has again obliged me to keep away from
the House. This has distressed me much, holding the office
which I do, and feeling that I was not able to perform
one of its most important duties. Still, I had hoped
that it was temporary only, and that as the warmer
weather approached the illness would be removed. My
physicians have, however, recently announced to me that my
present illness is much more serious than I had at first imagined,
and that, although I am now going on very favourably, yet that
time and care and quiet are essential to give me a fair chance
of recovering from it. This announcement makes me no longer
hesitate, in justice to you and to the Government and myself,
to place my office of Attorney-General at once in your hands,
and to pray of you to lay my resignation before the Queen
whenever you may think it best that the vacancy should be
declared.

"I cannot, my dear Sir Robert, conclude this letter without
saying how deeply grateful I feel to you for the unvarying kind-
ness and friendship you have ever shown me since my first en-
trance into public, and I need not say the pain it gives me to
write this letter, and to take any step to separate myself from
you and from your Government, with all the members of which
I have so long cordially acted ; but there seems to be no
struggling against long-continued, though varying, sickness,
and I have no choice in submitting to inevitable misfortune.
" I have net mentioned to any one out of my family my in-
tention of writing this letter, as it has struck me that it may
not at this moment be convenient to the Government to have
a sudden vacancy announced in the law offices of the Crown,
and that it may be better to arrange with you when my retire-
ment should be made public.—Always. my dear Sir Robert,
most sincerely yours, W. W. FOLLETT."
" Whitehall, May 21.
"My dear Follett,—l received, with the deepest regret, on
my return from the House of Commons, this morning, your
letter of yesterday.
" I will ask you. for the present, to confine the communica-
tion of your wishes and feelings with regard to retirement ex-
clusively to me. It would give me the greatest pain to con-
template the necessity of your absolute relinquishment of office.
There is no temporary arrangement which I would not make—
no relief to you from labour and anxiety connected with official
or Parliamentary duties which I would not most cheerfully
propose, rather than choose the alternative of permanent sepa-
ration from you.

lam deeply grieved that you have not mad more rapid
advances towards recovery ; but earnest!), hope that complete
repose and the approach of milder weather will, at no distant
period, re-establish your I,,alth, and enable you to resume your
usual occupations.

With feelings of regard and esteem whiell I cannot ade-
quately express, " Believe me. tic.,

" ROBERT PEEL.

" The Attorney-General."
[ln a subsequent letter, a copy of which we have seen, Sir
Robert Peel begs him to retain the office of Attorney-General,
with the distinct understanding that he should not be asked,
on any occasion, to attend the House of Commons, and for the
present should not hear a word on professional business."]—
Law Review, No. 4.

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HYDROPHOBIA.
TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN.
SlR.,—Some time past you had the kindness to publish my
letter on Hydrophobia, through which I tried to attract the,
attention of the medical practitioner and the public to the fact
that Belladonna, Cantharis, Hyoscyamus niger, and Stramo-
nium have been found very efficacious both in curing and-pre-
venting that dreadful disorder.

In the Times of to-day 1 see again a case of hydrophobia at
Cuckfield, by which three horses have been destroyed without
any aid.

May I ask the favour of your assistance to awaken the dor-
mant faculties of the people on such a terrifying subject, by
giving publicity to the present.—l beg to remain, Sir, yours
very obediently, GF. V. V., M.D.
Aug. 1, 10, Chadwell.street, Myddleton-square.

TRIAL BY JURY IN WALES.--it appears from a
statement in the Carnarvon Herald, that at the assizes held at
Beumaris on Monday last, before Mr. ,Justice Parke, an ac.
cused party, who had been at large, on bail, surrendered to take
his trial for a felonious assault with intent to maim &c. ; and,
on a jury being empannelled to try him, it was notified to the
Ceurt that eleven of the number did not understand English ;-
upon which the Judge observed that the foreman (the indivi-
dual who understood English) could explain the case to his fel-
low jurors. The foreman returned a verdict of " guilty," and
the man was sentenced to four months imprisonment. On the
morning of Wednesday, the gentleman who acted as attorney
on the prisoner's behalf, and as deputy to the sheriff, applied to
the court under curious circumstances, stating that eleven of the
jurors, by whose verdict (understood to be unanimous) the pri.
staler was sentenced to four months' hard labour, were not con-
vinced of his guilt, had intended to acquit him, and had in-
structed their foreman so to do. Mr. Baron Parke smiled,
and told the attorney to forward an at to the Secretary of
State. To this unfortunate prisoner trial by jury has indeed
proved " a rnoakerT, a delusion, and a snare.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
REPO) TS FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

GROUP (K) OF RAILWAYS.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30.
CAMBRIDGE AND BURY ST. EDMUND'S RAILWAY

BILL.
Viscount Sandon reported from the Select Committee on
Group (K) of Railways, an:l to whom several petitiolls
against the Bills comprised in the said group, together wit'
report of the Board of Trade thereon, were referred, that jo
the case of the Cambridge and Bury St. Edmund's Rallis**
Bill they had heard counsel in support of the said petitions,
and had also heard counsel in favour of the said Bill, old
that they had examined-the allegations contained in the
preamble of the Bill, "but the same had not been proved to
their satisfaction.

THURSDAY, JULY 31.
LONDON AND NORWICH RAILWAY BILL. •
Viscount Sandon reported from the Select Committee ell
Group (K) of Railways, and to whom several fpetitiole
against the Bills comprised in the said group, together with
the report of the Board of Trade thereon, were referred, 03t
in the case of the London and Norwich Railway Bill tbq
had heard counsel in support of the said petitions, and b.
also heard counsel in favour of the said Bill, and that the9t.
had examined the allegations contained in the preamble of
the Bill, but tlw satne had not been proved to their satifactiee•

THE LATE COLONEL ROBINSON:
We have ,inother distirignii.hed name to add to our rec4l.
ileavy eaticlty bst—th:tt of Lieutenant Colonel H. D. 11°'
her!.;:ai oF the 'Bombay army, n h r dkl on the Gth
01 ehohra, at a villtga b,,tween Kolopore and Bel;
alllll. '1.116 loss' of this amiable and tAented offi'-'e•
will b severely telt, riot only by his Europe's
friends, hut by thousands of the natives of the Deccan'
who have. bt.en in times past the objects of bis
enevoenee, and whose gratitude has been displayed
in a. sitteere and permanent attachment to their bevy
factor. C,:onel Robertson entered the Company's set'
vice in the year 1805. and on the establishment o!- Bri-
tish supremacy over the Mahratta territories in 1818. tal
was selected by Government as one of the officers t°
whose inanag9ment those districts were then entrusted'
At first, we believe, he held the combined offices of judge,
collector, and magistrate, of Poonah, and the oneroll
and important duties of these situations were discharge°
by him in such a manner as to afford the greatest sad'
faction to his official superiors, as well as to gain
esteem and regard of those beneath him. Colonel
Robertson remained at Poonah till the year 1834,
period of seventeen years, and appears, during this Pro•
tracted term of service, to have been in the highest de.
gree respected by all classes of the community, On his
arrival in Bombay in 1842, he received the appoint:
ment of officiating resident in the Persian Gulf--'
post which, however, he relinquished in consequence
of the treatment which he received at the hands
Lord Ellenborough. In August of the fallowing yell!'
having resigned this situation, he carne to the Preti
dency with the view of returning to Europe, ar,
during his short stay took the opportunity of
ing Poonah, the scene of his former labour
and exertions. The inhabitants flocked to him is
great numbers, to pay their respects, and vied with esrf
other in their manifestations of gratitude and regard'
"From ten o'clock a.m., to four, p.m.," says a 1411,
written at the time, " his temporary place of residence
thronged with natives of all classes, sects, and persul.
sions, and he, with his accustomed courtesy and urbanili
receives them all and converses with them. They C°
him the father and the .benefactor of the people of the
Deccan. Next to Mr. Eiphinstone, he is certainly al
most popular man amongst the natives of the Decett
and they wish, from the inmost recesses of their hear;
that he was once more placed over them. In apealo°''
of Colonel Robertson, they say that notwithstandil
his having held a plurality of situations in Poonah,
that, too, during the most troubled and difficult doll
justice was even more speedily administered than it
now, under the complicated machinery of a sepsr°° f
judge and collector." Colonel Robertson was -a map
very considerable talent, and with' an amiable dispos,,6l;
tion possessed sound judgment and discrimination. t,
literary abilities also were of no mean order.—Bomvw
Times, June 14.