The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-12 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

The primary question on Natural Religion is, " Is there a
(Tod ?" There are two modes or forms in which it may be an-
swered. One, by reasoning from certain abstract principles
assumed, and. thus attempting, a priori, to demonstrate the
necessary existence of such a Being; and the other, by reason-
ing, a posteriori, from-final causes; or the intelligent adaptation
of means to ends, discoverable in every department of nature
or creation. According to the former mode, the existence of a
God is necessarily involved' in the very first principles and
elements of knowledge, and therefore; susespttble of being
demonstrated without any reference whatever to final causes or
external manifestations of intelligence and design: According
to the latter, it is merely a deduction which experience enables
his to make from certain arrangements in the economy of nature
and'providenee, incompatible with any other supposition than
that of their having proceeded front an intelligent and govern-
ing mind. The distinction, then, between these two methods
of reasoning, is obvious. If the existence of the ..Deity is
ptoved to be necessary, the idea of his non-existence involves a
contradiction ; but it his being be "only inferred from certain
inditations in his works, it in no respect differs from any ordi-
nary matter of fact or belief, the reverse of which may be
easily conceived though it cannot be proved.
In the Volume of nature, which-is spread out before,us for our
instruction, there are written, in legible characters,- which even
he who inns may read, all those truths which the unenlightened
reason of man can ever hope to discover, but which, in the pride
of his understanding, he sometimes seeks to explore, in a region
where he is certain at last to lose his way.
At DOG'S Aeeeerzoe.--After the battle of Baiossa, the
wounded ofhOili nations, were, from want of means of tran-
iport, necessarily left upon the field of action the whole night,
and part of the 4dlotrieg day. General Rousseau, a French:
general of division, was of the number; his dog, a white one of
the poodle .kind, Which hadlieertliAt iii quarzers upon the ad-
eance of the i'rencli force, finding that the General returned.,
notiwith those who escaped fie& the battle, set out in search of,
him ; found him at night in his dreary resting place' and ex-
pressed-his. afilietion by moans and by licking the hands and
feel of his dyinarnaster. "Wheri the fatal (rim took place some
hosts after, he seemed:fully. aWare of the dreadful.ohange, at-.
tached.hiraseff closely to the bcidY' dud for three daYs refusal
the. sustenance which was offered him; Arrangements having
been made for the iriternient"Of the dead, the body, of the Ge-
neral was, pike the rest, committed to ifs honourable grave; the,
dog lay down uporr the earth which coveredthe beloved remains,
and evinoed by silence and deep dejection his sorrow for the
loss, he had sustained. The English Commander, General
Graham, erhote'fine feelings had prompted him to superintend
the last duties due to the 'gallant slain, observed the friendless
mourner, drew him, now no longer resisting, from the spot, and
gave him his protection, which he continued' to him- until his
death, many. years after, at the General's residence in Perthl'
shire.---:.Eraited, Service Journal.
A Arch WAG.—The following jeu d' esprit was-handed up to
:kr. Justice. Parke, during the trial of an indictment for the
nori,repair of a bridge, at the late Dorsetshirc assizes-:
" Because the list, is full, my lord,
And time sb fastly marches,
I move that this bridge cause be heard,
Beffore the Court 6f Arches,'?

THE PREACHER: A, Gascon preacher Stopped short in the
pulpit ; it was in vain that he scratched his head;: nothing
*culla come out. "My friends," .said he, as he walked quie4
down the pulpit stairs, "my friends, I pity you, for you have
last a fine discourse."

A French ship, 'calla Le &knee, lately arrived* at Havre
from Rio de Janeiro, with .a cargo of parrots. Le Silence must
have made-some little noise both in the old and new worlds.
MEASURES " SISEET."—.Sir George Shea hearing that
the only measure that passed the House during a stitting of nine
ide~ks was one Sugar Bill, all the others having been put oil;.
said he supposed the rest would follow, " en sweet," if not "teat
Wlief." •
A SHORT' Sinuota—On St. Stephen's day, a Monk was ap-
pointed'to pronounce a long eulogium upon the saint. As the
day was pretty -dell' adVaneed, the priests, who were getting
hungry, and were apprehonsire of a tedious panegyric, whiS-
perecl to their comrade to be brief. The Monk mounted tile
pulpit; and, after a short. preamble, said, " My brethren, it is
only about' a year since I told'you all I knew about Sfi Ste-
-Oen., •As 4 have heard, nothing new with regard to him since
that time, I Shall addnothing to whafl, said before." And so,
Making the sign,of the cross,. he walked off.
CATCHES AND SNATCHES.—What do they mean by the mu-
sical golls terra-"-catehes?" asked one of theignorcrmi, at a late
fund festttal, of a theatrical wit. " Merely snatches of songs,"
was the reply. "Thank you," said.stupid, "I.never knew that
before."
d. Lorr or Cipianns.—Spring Rice, speaking of the. Whig
automatons that make up the, ministerial majorities, the other
day, to the gifted Tom Babble, said, "Taking the tuttle of the
whole. (as Joe Hume says,)' that is, arithmetically, and nume-
rically, they dre. mre- ciphers." "Aye (answered Tom,) I,see,
Rice—you speaking. of them not: individUaliy, but in
round numbers."
LAZlNESS.—There_was a young Garcon gentleman at Con-
stance, named Bonac, wlikirrse- every morning very late. As
his, comtades, used, to'rip • Chin upon his laziness—" lam
obligee-said he; "'to .g eetry,morning to a long pleading
between 'laziness and diligence. The latter exhorts me to get
up, and employ myself in,. something useful; the other inge-
niously pleads;the-.eocutint of a.arna bed, and that rest is bet-
ter than labour. I listen to the pleadings on both sides, till
matters are made up, and this is The cache of nay late rising."
WEN'S L AST.—" Tours in Upper India!" said Alderman
Wen the other day, reading the title of a new work, "Bless my
eyebrows t this must be a blunder; I always thought Tours was
a town in France."