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its degrading effects, spoils more than mends the recipients. I would therefore beg leave strongly to recommend that this rule may be rescinded at once.

"There is also another point to which I would beg leave to draw attention. At present, the majority of the Wards occupy rooms in the ground-floor and sleep in them. As long residence in such rooms, in the insalubrious climate of Calcutta, may eventually affect their health it seems very desirable that measures may be adopted for their accommodation on the first floor, if practicable.

"In conclusion, I beg leave to apologize for intruding on the Board with the above suggestions, which I felt it my duty to lay before them after an anxious and careful consideration of the subject.

"I have &c.,⁠
(Sd.) "Isvar Chandra Sarma."

"11th January 1865."

After the lapse of a few months, Vidyasagar submitted, on the 29th August 1865, a second memorandum setting forth his views on the scheme of bringing the Institution into a successful working order. The memorandum is quoted below:—

MEMORANDUM.

"The object of the Wards Institution is to give the wards a fair amount of education, train them up as useful members of society and turn them out good landlords. But the education they receive is scarcely worth the name, and they generally leave the Institution with a mere smattering of English. Nor can any better results be expected in the existing order of things. To remedy the evils, certain suggestions were made by me in my report of the 11th January