The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-04 00:00:00

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Notes Issued .......£27,914,365

Government Debt .£11,015,10
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March 3, 1864.

SARCASM—TILE GREATEST OF DR. NEWMAN'S
CONTROVERSIAL WEAPONS.—In one of those lec-
tures to his Puseyito brethren in which ho used to pierce
them so sharply, though so tenderly in manner, with every
species of raillery, says the sLS'peeteior, Dr. Newman con-
trasted very strikingly the secular Protestant-Government
view of things,—tho sort of view Lord ralmereton would
tike,—with the sacerdotal Catholic sieve,—the tort of view
l'io Nono would take, and a more characteristic illustration
of his peculiar power of sarcasm we do not remember:—
"Look at your poor-houses, hospitals, lunatio asylums, and
prisons—how perfect aro their externals I What skill and
ingenuity appear in their structure, economy, edininistra-
tion! They aro as decent, and bright, and calm as what
our Lord seems to name them—dead men's sepulahres.
Yes! you can hammer up a coffin ; you can plaster a tomb ;
you aro naturo'n undertakers, you cannot build it at home.
You cannot feed or heal it ; it lies like Lazarus at your gate
fall of sores. You coo it
gasping and panting with priva-
tions and penaltlea ; and you sing to it, you dine'to it, you
show it your picture books, you lot off your fire-works, you
open your menageries. Shallow philosophers, is' this
wode of going on so winning and persuasive that wo
should imitate it ?" Who cannot hear the ring of
mockery with which the father of the Oratory laughs at
the to
pow, np a decent and present-
able l:o t fthatThere is the same
has ever read it does not
efforts
show
of of the
earthly world
e ni
under-
current of scorn in his moat touching and tender
addresses and appeals. V
remember that masterpiece of cruel oratorical effect in tho
sermon, written after his Conversion, on " Neglect of tho
Divine Calls and Warnings," in which he describes the
T.u:n ow of lost soul against tho condemnation of Christ,
.. liavo bad a COniCinUee, I have a cultivated mind," &c.,
and then returns U) consider all that may be said en earth
of the wretch thus undergoing his final sentence of eternal
torture ? " Men talk of him from time to time—they quote
his words, perhaps they even raise a monument to his
name, Or write his history. So comprehensive a mind I
Such a power of throwing light on a perplexed subject, and
bringing conflicting ideas or facts into harmony Or, 'lt
was the saying of a sensible man ;' or, ' A great personage
whom some of us knew or, It was a rule with a very
worthy and excellent Mend of mine, now no more ;• or,
Never was his equal in society, so just in his remarks, so
lively, so version°, so unobtrusive s' or, I was fortunate to
sou him once when I was a boy ;' or, So great a benefactor
to his country and his kind; ' His discoveries so great;'
His philosophy so profound.' 0 vanity! vanity of
ivani-
ties, all is vanity 1 What proflteth it P What prodteth t
Ilia soul is in hell. oye children of men, while thunsti)luin
speak, his soul is in the beginning of those tormilel
occur
which his body will soon have part, and which w
die ?''
GERMAN FORClts,—The Hessian ('rezone says
—" According to the military co
et_ift_ostitution of the
reserves
Germanic Diet, the contingents of the the
Confederation
^ ""
of the 'secondary and smaller Status
or
aro ne follows :-13avarin, 65,°6R men—Wurternburg,
d II„oby of Bettie, 11,357
25."5—nahao 18`334.--e
States forming the 10th
wick. 3,842—the other s
6ts'ialler nrati- lianorer, 93,933—8 run-
s 22,000—Nassau,
-
d.or,,,es,
the other hand, the 0,319 .),7358 , men. On
Federal corps Federal contingents of Austria amount
to 173,841 men—°f Prussia to 117,1‘Electoral Hesse
Limburg and Laixambourg to 642—a.
to 10,413-and of Lin'
together 331,0 ton. There can bo littyo doubt that the
secondary and smaller States can easily defend themselves
he two great rowers, especially if they are not
against t
popular force, and to establish Far-
al
ifilietitourayPsTidi riberal rcy