The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-01 00:00:00

FRASER'S MAGAZINE.

No political article graces ". Regina" this month, and
readers who delight in grumbling will therefore be
greatly disappointed. Since the end of May the State-
coachman has been driving at a frightful rate, the May-
nooth affair has been settled, the Colleges Bill is in a
fair train, free trade is triumphant, and the corn-laws are
doomed to destruction. No High Tory, therefore, could
write on politics without weeping and lamentations, and
re-echoing the doleful strains of Newcastle and Win-
chilsea. But the calamity is too great to be entirely
passed over. The " organised hypocrisy " is be-
coming every day such a prominent feature in the
Cabinet especially chosen for the preservation
of Church and State and the triumph of monopoly.
that absolute silence is impossible, and in a character of
Lord Lyndhurst care is taken to telllhim,:amidst the most
fulsome praise, that he is a desperate renegade, and fit
company for Peel and his other associates. " Lord
Lyndhurst, like his brethren in the Ministry, was a
conscientious anti-emancipationist in August, 1828 ; he
was a stanch emancipationist in April, 1829. He took
up both sides with equal facility. Again, he was one of the
most powerful and effective agents of the Conservative
party in undermining and overthrowing the Whig Go-
vernment. He is now one of the foremost of those who
are acting as a Government on \Vhig policy." The
rest of the number, however, is abundantly cheerful, if
we except the three epechs of the (French) Re-
volution," the first of which appears under the
title "Destruction," and gives a horrifying pic-
ture of the violation of the royal tombs in the
Cathedral of St. Denis and the disinterment of the
bodies of some twenty or thirty Kings and Queens and
scions of an illustrious line at the instigation of Barreret
the aFsociate of Robespierre. Those who delight in
wonders and few do not, will find plenty of them in
" Animal Magnetism and Neurhypnotism" which throw
all our modern mesmerisers into the shade. We give
the following as a specimen. It is abridged from Os-
borne's " Court and Camp of Runjeet Singh," and is
given as a proof that a man may be buried for mqiiths
without feeling any inconvenience. After detailing the
particulars respecting a certain Indian buried for a month
and rising from his grave alive, the writer adds :

" There is this difference, however, between the two in•
stances, in the latter he was actually buried in the earth for
ten months, a sentry set over him night and day, and a crop
of barley sown over his grave. This was witnessed by Gene,
ral Ventura, and performed in the presence of Runjeet and
his court. The Maha Rajawas so sceptical about the matter,
that he had the Fakir dug up twice in the ten months, when
he was found to be in exactly the same position, and in a
state of perfectly suspended animation. At length, at the
end of the ten months, he was finally taken up, in the pre-
sence of Captain Wade. His tongue was precisely as he him •
self had placed it before his sepulture—forced back, and
filling up the gullet. By the application of the usual resto-
ratives he came rouud, and was perfectly well again in two
hours. We ought, perhaps, to state that there are other in-
stances recorded of the interment and exhumation of this

" Poets, Painters, and other Shadows" will be read
with pleasure by all who take delight in the
fine arts, using the term in the most general sense.
It is written in a spirited and also a poetic style ;
takes, on the whole, a very correct view, according to
our judgment, of some of the more remarkable poets and
painters who have afforded such enjoyment to men in
the civilised state. It contains also a great deal of in-
formation respecting the works of Reubens and other
Dutch painters, and still more respecting the Italian
school, without exception the first of modern times—
whether we look to painting, poetry, music, history, or
novels, or, indeed, any of the arts which distinguish
Italy from all other countries, and make her'yet, though
conquered and a slave, the first in taste, in execution, in
beauty, and description, among all her proud and power.
ful rivtls. " Gracia capta Romam cepit," said Horace,
but with all his prophecies which have been fulfilled to
the letter, as far as time has gone, he never ventured to
say, that when Italy was subjected to the same fate with
Greece, she would still shine in all her real glory, and
teach her barbarian conquerors that they could not
subdue her. We could give many extracts from this
article, and confirm our statement, but we are compelled
to omit them for want of space.