The Sun. — 1849-02-13 (London, England)

EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1849.7  well to imitate instead of brawling aloud to mobs in the city of London. Instead of Mr. Healey deserving the abuse which was heaped upon him, he deserved well of his country, if he had, as he firmly believed was the case, removed the mask from the face of a man in power —a Member of Parliament, a coroner, and an editor of a public journal. After alluding to the admissions which had been made on the other side, he said if they came to the conclusion that there was not a desire on the part of the plaintiff to implicate, and inculpate some of the parties at the bar» racks, their judgment might be warped with prejudice, and they must entertain views entirely opposite to those held by the majority of persons. The deceased was a private in the 7th Hussars, and bore the character of a confirmed drunkard. Upon the Ist of June, 1846, he was in a mom with a sergeant and several other soldiers, and he took up a poker and struck the sergeant a violent blow in the chest, and, but for the interposition of parties present, he would no doubt have murdered him on the spot. The sergeant was on duty at the time, and could it be expected that an event of this kind would be passed over ? A court-martial was constituted, and on hearing the charge, it directed that the prisoner should receive 150 lashes; and though it was painful to carry out that sentence, it was absolutely required that the act which made it necessary should be put into operation. On the 15th of June he was flogged, and after it, being a man of spirit, he went briskly into his room, whistling on his way. The healing progress continued to go on rapidly until the 4th of July, when his back was quite well, and it was reported he would be fit for duty in the course of a few days. The weather was then extremely hot, being 88 degrees in the shade, and though relaxed very much from his confinement, he insisted, despite of all remonstrances, to wash out a damp cell. He was engaged in that operation about three-quarters of an hour, and next day complained of a pain in his side. The pain extended to his head and left shoulder, and other symptoms of an impeded circulation made their appearance. Bleeding and other remedies were adopted, but he did not recover, and upon a post-mortem examination by Drs. Hall, Warren, and Reid being made, they expressed an opinion that his death was in no wise con• netted with the corporal punishment which he had received but arose from inflammation of the heart and pleura., Notwithstanding, however, the very regular manner in which proceedings had been taken by the military authorities, Mr. Wakley, instead of holding the scales of justice as even as possible, stated to the jury that which he knew was not true, in order to poison their minds and enlist their prejudices. But Mr. Wakley loved the sweet voices of the people; he could not live without their applause, and in order to obtain it he hunted out alleged grievances and abuses of this nature. He knew enough of human nature, however, to be aware that ambitious men despised every obstacle to the attainment of any object they might have in view. They stooped at nothing, worthy or unworthy, and whether their ambition was that of the demagogue who sought to engulph his country in ruin in order tcz instal himself in authority, or was that of a less aspiring nature, no impediment was too great to surmount, and no circumstances too extraordinary to be taken advantage of. But Mr. Wakley's patriotism was of the modern school, and he did not appear to have studied the examples of the ancients on this subject. The Court adjourned for ten minutes on the application of the Learned Sergeant. The address for the defence will probably occupy the whole day.