The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-04 00:00:00

DEATH OF RAMMOHUN ROY.

This celebrated and distinguished individual, the Rajah
Rammohun Roy, the first Hindu of any consequence, who not
only abandoned the idolatries of his connexions and ancestors,
but translated portions of the New Testament, and wrote and
published at Calcutta in support of the religion of Jesus Christ,.
is dead. His visit to England' excited great interest. His opi-
nions were Unitarian. Previously to the commencement of the
inquiries .preparatory to the renewal of the East India charter,
as is generally known, the Rajah visited this country for the
purpose of giving information, and of promoting the interests
of his countrvinen by advocating a more liberal intercourse
with India. it is understood that his advice on this subject was
of extensive effect. During his residence in England he had
never very good health, evidently being oppressed by the cli-
mate, and appearing subject to bilious attacks from that disor-
dered state of the stomach which resulted from our dense atmos-
phere as compared with that of his native country. His talents
and ae_quirements were great; he wrote and spoke English with
ease, accuracy, and even elegance; but about his whole de-
meanour there was a charm of modesty and reverence that pro-
duced a most agreeable effect on all who saw or conversed with
him. • He was much sought by many distinguished
but though he drove about in his carriage, he never altered his
simple mode of living. Nor would he in any way compromise
his religious opinions; be regularly attended the Unitarian
chapels at Hackney, in Bloorfields, in Essex-street, or Regent-
street, remaining constantly in a recumbent posture during
prayers, and payinglhe most devout attention during the deli-
very of sermons. He lately went to Stapylton-grove, near Bris-
tol, to pay a long-promised visit. He there regularly attended
Dr. LantCarpenter's Unitarian chapel, at Lewin's-mead, Bris-
tol. A few days ago he became ill of bilious fever, and on
Friday died of it; the anxious attentions of physicians were in
vain. A more remarkable man has not distipguished modern
times and advance of opinion.

A DEEP PROJECT.—Mr. Hayter is projecting a picture de-
scriptive of the moving of the address in the first reformed House
of Cornmons. He proposes to (rive a portrait of each member on
his paying ten guineas ! What a precious large picture it will
be—ij it should ever be finished. However, the ten guineas is
an object. Gully, and Cobbett, and Faithful, and one or two
more of that kidney, will no doubt exhibit. The value of such an
assemblage as composes the reformed House of Commons, is
another question.—Age.
MUCH BETWEEN THE CUP AND LIP.—A young couple in
town, who for two months had woo'd, resolved at lgrigth to
wed; and, with this intent, they, a few days ago, went through
the proclamation ceremonies. On Monday last the blooming,
blushing bride took out the extract of the proclamation of bans,
and the-long-sighed-for ceremony, that was to unite her with
her favourite " wabster lad," was on the point of consummation.
Heigh ho! Were it not for the coartesy we owe the ladies, we
might say of fickleness what the poet says of frailty,—" Thy
name is woman." On "the bottling-night" the fair one had
seen her lover paying some rather marked attentions to one of
the female guests, which nettled her a little, and she had seen,
for the first time, subsequently, too, to the night mentioned—
what was of still greater importance—a Young tile-maker, who
seemed, in her eye, to possess greater charms than the knight
of the shuttle ; so she substituted one for the other; and the
minister, who knew nothing of this trifling transposition, tied
the hymeneal knot as firmly as words could do. The first in-
quiry of the ladies will doubtless be, " How did the. weaver
stand the shock ?" Admirably. His calm bearing under his
loss would have extorted praise even from a Stitpo. He nei-
ther fleeched, nor prayed, nor sighed, nor sobbed, nor gnat,
nor—

" Spak o' louping o'er a Him."

He merely " spak " to the Fiscal to get his name erased from
the Session books, that his future matrimonial prospects might
not be blighted by such an unlucky and profitless entry, and
the best means "o' getting back the price o' the braws." The
tile-maker and his fair rib were yesterday apprehended, and
have been put in ward, until this hymeneal knot, as puzzling
to the local authorities as was the Gordian knot in days of yore,
can be untied; an operation in the performance of which it is
supposed both the Courts of Session and Courts of the Church
must lend a helping hand.—Paisley Advertiser.