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 and delivered an eloquent speech in the Town Hall. It was finally decided by Government that the ghat should remain where it stood, on the condition of its being remodelled upon a plan consistent with the requirements of sanitation.

In July 1864 Vidyasagar received a piteous letter written by his protege Michael Madhusudan Dutta from France. He had gone out with his family to England to study law two years back and after some time his Calcutta agent discontinued all remittance. His letters too remained unanswered. Alone with his family in a foreign land, surrounded by clamorous creditors, he was on the threshold of a French prison when it struck him to write to Vidyasagar for immediate assistance. Evidently he did not rely on rotten reed. By the end of August he received Rs 1500 from Vidyasagar who had procured this amount by loan. Rs 4500 more had to be sent to Europe on Mr. Dutta's account. He was called to the bar on November 18, 1866, despite all