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332 resolved to teach his black subordinate a sound lesson.

Vidyasagar plainly saw that, after all, it was quite impossible for him to work under such a superior. He now sought for opportunities for an early removal. With this object he addressed the following letter to his great friend and patron, Halliday:—

"Calcutta, Sanskrit College, —May 1857.

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"When I had the honour to wait on you on Saturday last and solicited your permission to make a few suggestions regarding the appointment of an Inspector for South Bengal, you were pleased to direct me to submit a written memorandum upon the subject. I have accordingly availed myself of the permission and beg respectfully to suggest that if you should feel inclined to transfer me to that post, the appointment of my successor in the Sanskrit College may be made in consultation with me, as from an intimate personal knowledge of the several parties from whom the selection may be made, I think I will be best able to recommend the most proper person for the place. If however it should be thought inexpedient to place the division under my charge on account of the Government English colleges and schools in it, I would earnestly solicit that at least the districts in which there are model schools, viz, Hooghly,