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

a BODY AND SOUL.

" Gratings of flesh and bone stand between hu-
manso ls ; and yet men can fancy that there may
e usucha thing as an embrace upon the earth, when it is
only the gratings that knock together, and behind them one
soul only thinks upon the other."
The last adventure of " llereward the Saxon," by Thos
Knight, is a stirring tale of the brave but ineffectual
struggle of our Saxon ancestors against the Norman
Conqueror. The number also contains a review of the
opera season, and of several new books which have been
recently published. A supplement is delivered gratis
with the present number of the New Monthly. It con-
tains all that has hitherto been published of the " Rove •
lations of London," by the editor, and the work will
henceforth be continued in the pages of the New
Monthly.

FRASEIr S MAGAZINE.
No political article graces " Regina" this month, and
readers who delight in grumbling will therefore
greatly disappointed. Since the end of May the Stale.
coachman has been driving at a frightful rate, the gar
nooth affair has been settled, the Colleges Bill is in
fair train, free trade is triumphant, and the corn-laws
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doomed to destruction. No High Tory, therefore, coal
write on politics without weeping and lamentations, a?
re-echoing the doleful strains of Newcastle and WIZ
chilsea. But the calamity is too great to be entire!!
passed over. The " organised hypocrisy " i 5 r,
coming every day such a prominent, feature
Cabinet especially chosen for the preservatt°ll
of Church and State and the triumph of monopelloi
that absolute silence is impossible, and in a character,
Lord Lyndhurst care is taken to tellAhim.,:amidst then o;
fulsome praise, that he is a desperate renegade, and ;i1
company for Peel and his other associates. "
Lyndhurst, like his brethren in the Ministry, wake
conscientious anti-emancipationist in August, 1828 ; ,
was a stanch emancipationist in April, 1829. He too;
up both sides with equal facility. Again, he was one oftl,
most powerful and effective agents of the Conserve°
party in undermining and overthrowing the Whig Ogre
vernment. He is now one of the foremost of those Ll°
are acting as a Government on Whig policy." I
rest of the number, however, is abundantly cheerful,
we except the three epecls of the (French) -r.
volution," the first of which appears under
title "Destruction," and gives a horrifying 14Vo
ture of the violation of the royal tombs iLt
Cathedral of St. Denis and the disinterment of' 1,111/1
bodies of some twenty or thirty Kings and Queens
scions of an illustrious line at the instigation of Bartr,
the associate of Robespierre. Those who delight
wonders and few do not, will find plenty of them 4
" Animal Magnetism and Neurhypnotism" which thr9o
all our modern mesmerisers into the shade. We gr,l,
the following as a specimen. It is abridged from ,
borne's " Court and Camp of Runjeet Singh," ae",:j
given as a proof that a man may be buried for wont',
without f'eeling any inconvenience. After detailing 9;,D
particulars respecting a certain Indian buried for arm°
and rising from his grave alive, the writer adds :
" There is this difference, however, between the two in
fol;
stances, in the latter he was actually buried in the earth p
ten months, a sentry set over him night and day, and a„,cll
of barley sown over his grave. This was witnessed by to",r
a
ral Ventura, and performed in the presence of Runjeet
his court. The Maha Raja was so sceptical about the roat!tc
that he had the Fakir dug up twice in the ten months, vv,
he was found to be in exactly the same position, and 0,14
state of perfectly suspended animation. At length, at ",.
end of the ten months, he was finally taken up, in the
sence of Captain Wade. His tongue was precisely as he blot
self had placed it before his sepulture—forced back, en,
filling up the gullet. By the application of the usual relive
ratives he came round, and was perfectly well again it to.
hours. We ought, perhaps, to state that there are other
stances recorded of the interment and exhumation of w"
Fakir."
"Poets, Painters, and other Shadows" will be Oil
with pleasure by all who take delight in tb:
fine arts, using the term in the most general seas.,
It is written in a spirited and also a poetic styli
takes, on the whole, a very correct view, according
our judgment, of some of the more remarkable poets 5
painters who have afforded such enjoyment to met,
the civilised state. It contains also a great deal of,tni;
formation respecting the works of Reubens and o'o
Dutch painters, and still more respecting the Itali
school, without exception the first of modern does:,
whether we look to painting, poetry, music, history' ,oi
novels, or, indeed, any of the arts which distingl.A
Italy from all other countries, and make her yet, thoull;
conquered and a slave, the first in taste, in execution, ;
beauty, and description, among all her proud and poweo
ful rivals. " Gracia capta Romam cepit," said Hors 1p
but with all his prophecies which have been fulfilled;
the letter, as far as time has gone, he never ventured,li
say, that when Italy was subjected to the same fate all
Greece, she would still shine in all her real glory, ot
teach her barbarian conquerors that they could tnbij
subdue her. We could give many extracts from ed
article, and confirm our statement, but we are comps'
to omit them for want of space.

TA! T'S MA G A ZINE.
The more interesting articles in this number ty
" Mitchell's Fall of Napoleon," and the " Politics ofbo
Mouth." We looked for something good in anotio
entitled " Ireland and her Agitators," but it coos
chiefly of extracts from " Saints and Sinners," suPP°A
to be written by the Private Secretary of Mr. O'Cort°,,,,
What Tait, however, says is to the purpose, and es.r,
cially the remarks at the close of the brief noticed
What care the great body of the British people for `"
Established Church of Ireland ? Is there one man i°ol
among us who recognises the principle a ecclesias,4 I
establishments in any shape, who will hesitate Ifto
moment in replying to the plain question, what oug's°
be the established church of a Catholic count:Jo'
The " Letters from Naples" contain little or no Olio
and merely repeat statements respecting the 118fois
poverty. and idleness of the people, and the beaug
climate—facts generally known to English readers."
commenting on the fall of Napoleon, the writer v 3, oil
in the opinion of the author, that this great Generioiljr
been much overrated, that he had committed faults
out number, that his crowning victory at Marenell'efi
use the words of Cromwell, was an accident, and if
had been active and fit generals opposed to him, his
must have been annihilated. Of this there can 10 pi
doubt. The battle was completely gained, and
Meias done his duty all the efforts of Dessaix and J
man would have been in vain. Austria, in fact, vr°,?;
good genius of Bonaparte up to the Russian caul
her wavering and vacillation,' her want of moral co! ,t
carried him to victory, and the very same qualit!e,3o
Prince Schwarzenberg had nearly decided the dal 1:0
favour in 1814, when a million of enemies were tigPod
against his troops On the plains of France. In 9'
brief notice of " Sybil" we find these remarks:—
"Its tendency or avowed object—for the real one, afte
is in the first place to entertain—is well understood. .if,
D'lsraeli is for the hour the fashionable preacher of dr
culating library; and he suits his sermons to the titue9;
his audience, with much more tact than the author of P$
stone, Hannah More, or even Miss Edgeworth." Oss
We have room for only the following extract frortiod
political artichi. It relates to the banking and cull!"
system of Scotland, and is entitled to much 10414
We may remark that, in the same article, the to3Kffi
cent ttemo.istration of the zeal and resolution of the
traders, afforded by the Covent-garden Bazaar, is„pi
garded as the greatest stroke yet made by the LI
and to it is attributed the remarkable change whit
peared in the House of Commons CM the motion bro
forward by Mr. Villiers:—
" The 11 -^Q left us 'th a tbi

_ne sma_ space left us we wish to occupy witk
words on a matter affecting Scotland alone, but affectolati
most vital interests of that country—Sir Robert Peel's 14
ference with the banking and currency system of Se°_,,t
That interference we deprecate in the strongest terms'
highly detrimental to Scotland, while useless to the 1014
at large. Throughout the whole Scottish community' O
exists on this subject no difference of opinion. All elAl;00,
Tories, Whigs, ard Radicals; landlords and tenants of ep;
houses and landed property; rich and poor, creditors,ol
debtors, are unanimous in deprecating any meddling Wijeti,
system of currency and banking which has existed so tif'
and has been found to work so well. The suitableness'
ced
different community, of the Scottish banking and curt"
system, we are not called on to prove. Possibly in aF
inanity so large as that of England, so busy, so wholP,t,
sorbed, as are both public companies and private indisn
with their own affairs, so ignorant and regardless of tbi
fairs of others, it might be productive of less uninixe9
nefit. But here, in Scotland, where not only banks and el
public companies, but private individuals, have so tapit
more leisure, so much more curiosity, and know each .°too'
so much better than do the two millions of London citl2,
our system of banking leads to none of the mischievol,
sults which possibly it might produce in England. Sireif F
had no such swindli:,g company in Edinburgh or Glase,pr
the Independent and West Middlesex Assurance Conly_s d
That monstrous and impudent fraud was openly carry 0,
in London; and it was reserved to a citizen of Glase011:
expose and break it up. In Scotland we have no equifje
to that rapacious and dangerous, although perhaps useff
even necessary personage, the English bill-broker.
by private loans are with us things comparatively rare'
banker acting as the careful and intelligent agent bet tf
those who have money to lend and those who requ"
borrow."