Moreover, the American subscribers sent a most vexatious and absurd remonstrance against any part of their contributions for training young men to the ministry, being employed in teaching science.

"As if," said Dr.Marshman, "youths in America could be educated for ministers without learning science." Another disaster was that, on Lord William Bentinck's arrival in India in 1830, the finances of the Government were found to be in so unsatisfactory a state, that salaries were everywhere reduced, and that which Dr.Carey had derived from the college at Fort William was thus cut down from 1,000 rupees per month to 500.

At this time, the missions and preachers dependent on Serampore required 1,500_l._ a year for their support, and only 900_l._ was to be had, and this when both Marshman and Carey were seventy years of age, and still were toiling as hard as ever.
There were other troubles, too, as to who was the owner of the buildings, whether the Baptist Society, or the missionaries as trustees, and as having paid a large portion of the price.

A great inundation of the Hooghly had nearly settled the question by washing the whole away.

As it was, it did much damage, and destroyed the beautiful botanical garden that had for twenty years been Dr.Carey's delight.