weak. I don't think I shall be able to visit

Monghyr.'

On August 18 his nephew writes to a friend that he is somewhat better. But the improvement was of short duration, and on the 30th of the same month he breathed his last.

The disposition which he made of his private estate by will was typical of the man and worthy of his great reputation. The legacies and bequests for religious, charitable, and educational purposes amounted to nearly seven lakhs of rupees.

The largest of these was a sum of three lakhs of rupees left in trust to the Calcutta University for the foundation of a law professorship, to be called the 'Tagore Law Professorship,' 10,000 rupees to be paid annually as salary to the Professor, and the residue to be applied to the printing of the lectures, and the gratuitous distribution of at least 500 copies of each course. To the District Charitable Society he left 10,000 rupees; and a similar sum to the Calcutta Native Hospital.

For the maintenance of a hospice and dispensary, and for the service of the temple at Mulajore, he left a lakh of rupees, besides the estate of Mulajore and the surrounding villages, yielding an income of 16,000 rupees a year; and a sum of 35,000 rupees was further set apart for the erection of a building for the accommodation of the Sanskrit College at the same place, already mentioned. To various dependents he bequeathed upwards of a lakh of rupees.

But perhaps the noblest of all the provisions of the will was one by which the deceased left a sum of 100 rupees for every rupee of monthly salary to all his servants of ten years' standing or upwards, and a sum of fifty rupees for every rupee of monthly salary to all his servants of five years' standing and upwards.

His vast landed estates he bequeathed to the direct elder male representative of the senior branch for the time being of the family of his brother, Bubu Hurro Coomar Tagore, and upon failure of his lineal male

descendants, to the testator's own general heirs.

After a long and expensive litigation, the provisions of this will were, however, materially modified by the Privy Council.

On October 29, on the requisition of the British-Indian Association, a public meeting was held in the hall of that institution to do honour to the memory of Prosunna Coomar.

Among those present were Mr. John Cochrane, the Hon. Mr. Skinner, Mr. H. L. Dampier, Mr. J. B. Roberts, Mr. C. Paul, Mr. W. P. Davis, Mr. R. Turnbull, Mr. Orr, Raja Satto Charan Ghosal, Raja Norendra Krishna, Kumars Sattyananda Ghosal, Harendra Krishna, and Grish Chunder Singh ; Babu Digumber Mitter, Doorga Churn Law, Peary Chand Mitter, Debendra Mallick, Rajendra Lal Mittra, Kishori Chand Mitter, Roma Nath Law, Koonja Lal Banerjea, Persad Dass Dutt, Persad Dass Mallick, Moulvi Abdul Luteef Khan Bahadoor, Manockjee Rustomjee, Esq., Cowasjee Rustomjee, Esq., and many others.

On the motion of Raja Satto Charan Ghosal, the chair was taken by Mr. Cochrane, who read the following letters :

'TO THE RAJA SUTYA SARAN GHOSAL BAHADOOR, C.S.I., Vice-President B.I.A.

'Sobha Bazar Rajbaree, October 29, 1868,

'MY DEAR RAJA,-I have just received the printed letter, and much regret that uncertain health prevents my attendance at the public meeting, called by you this afternoon, to commemorate the good name of our citizen, the late lamented legislator, the Hon. Prosonno Coomar Thakoor, C.S.I., with whom I was intimately associated from the beginning.

'His public career as well as his private virtues are so well-known to the community, that it needs no support from me in the proceedings of the day. In conclusion, allow me to offer my mite of deep condolence to the Thakoor family for the personal bereave

ment.

'Trusting his memory is in the grateful

'Ooterparah, October 29, 1868.

DEAR SIR, I regret exceedingly that

owing to ill-health I shall not be able to attend the meeting that has been called for to-day for the purpose of commemorating the memory of Hon. Prosonno Coomar Tagore, C.S.I., but I yield to no one in the grateful appreciation of the important public services which my late lamented friend rendered to our country, and in deploring the national loss which his death has created amongst us. From the commencement of his public career he was always a staunch and independent advocate of our political rights, and a zealous promoter in the cause of social reform. In the columns of his own paper (the Re