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182 LIFE OF BABU RAM GOPAL GHOSE. The Magazine is to appear, if possible. On the 1st proximo. Krishna, Tara Cband, and Peary are to be regular contributors. They are pledged each of them to give one article, each number. Tara Chanel will also look over tbe articles generally, and I am to be the puppet show of an Editor, and probably an occasional scribbler. I do not think we could make a better arrangement. But unimportant as my share is in a literary point of view, it must occupy a good deal of my time and attention, and I feel assured that unless I am relieved in the course of 5 or 6 months by Rusik ( Rusik Krishna Mullik ) coming here as he has talked of doing it. I will have to give it up. With this conviction you' will think it strange and perhaps wrong is me to undertake what I have done. Be assured I have been com- pelled to do so, as no one else would catch the mows, and I have thought it worth our while to have some discussion or agitation among our class, even though it should be for a short period. It will be s shame indeed to have to give it up after a short career, and this crisis may infuse some decision into Rusik' s mind. Would to God it may: A PROJECT FOR A TOWN HALL IN THE NATIVE QUARTER. For some days past I have been thinking of another public object. A Town Hall in the native part of the Town, where we might hold our meeting, and place our libraries, our pictures, and statues. We are yearly growing to be an important class. We shall, we hope, have subjects peculiarly native to discuss frequently in public. Such, for instance, as petitioning government I have made an estimate, and find the cost to be nearly 20,000. The question is how are we to get up so large an amount What do you think of this project t Tours affectionately Ram Gopal Ohoss. . Calcutta £6th July 1843. My dear Gobind, I have been encouraged by our mutual friend Shyama Churn (Sirkar,) to write to you, I know how much I am to blame, and