যুরোপ-প্ৰবাস । G. will commence. I see no earthly 9th January, 1865. chance of my being able to return to London. God alone knows, how many more terms I shall yet have to loose. If I had gone on uninterruptedly I should have becn called to thc Bar next June and returned home by the end of the year. But I am not a man to give way to despondency. I am making the very best use of my unfortunate exile and I think I may without vanity say, that I know more languages than any Bengali now living. But learning is not money, and money is all in all amongst a degraded people like ours. Only help me to get out of this scrape, my dear Vidyasagar, and I shall know how to treat the fellows "la bas' as the French say. The winter, this year, is very severe and yet at times you have days that might be called "hot.' A few days ago, it snowed the whole night and the sight was splendid in the morning. Streets, house tops, Gardens were all covered over with snow; one might say if poetically disposed that our 'gi-lists' had overflowed its shores and inundated the country. Things, alas ! are getting on very badly with us I have had to apply to the "British charitable Fund in Paris for the loan of 20O Rs (5OOO Francs), You cannot imagine how degraded I felt when I had to appear before the committee. Such a lot of ragged and stinking devils were these ! But as the proverb says “Adversity makes us acquainted with strange bed-fellows." The members, I am bound to say, treated me with great consider 18th May, 1865.
