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of Edinburgh, Session 1874-75. 
ing the proceedings of the Shareholders’ Committee, applied all 
his energies to unravel the complicated affairs of the Bank, and 
to retrieve as far as possible the ruined fortunes of the shareholders 
• — a task in which he was acknowledged to be beyond expectation 
successful. He was very methodical in his habits, one of which 
was early rising; and, long after he had reached eighty years, his 
elastic step might have been seen almost daily in the West End 
Park — a mile from his house — at an hour when hut few w'ere awake. 
Mr Euing was in early life somewhat shy and reserved, having 
in his characteristic modesty formed a more humble estimate of 
his own abilities, and of his fitness to take part in society, than 
was entertained by those who had the privilege of knowing him 
in after years, of profiting by his varied information and refined 
taste, and of observing his deep and lively interest in literary and 
social questions. He early set himself to the task of self-improve- 
ment; his thirst for fresh knowledge never abated; and he found 
a constant pleasure in its gratification. His letters written from 
the Continent, during his last tour a few years ago, show, I am told, 
the same desire to learn everything, as do his letters written in 
1816, when he made his first visit to France ; and many of his 
hooks, even of those lately acquired, contain memoranda indicating 
their perusal and evincing a marked interest in their contents. 
In politics he took little part. Though earnest in his religious 
opinions, which were formed with conscientious independence and 
held with firmness, he was very tolerant in spirit; and, catholic in 
his sympathy with all forms of Christian work that approved them- 
selves to his judgment by their fruits, he had but little relish for 
controversy. Simple and unostentatious in his personal habits, he 
yet found pleasure in the frequent exercise of a genial hospitality, 
to which his unfailing cheerfulness lent a special zest. 
Mr Euing was eminently successful in business, and at full 
liberty — so far as family ties were concerned — to follow the bent 
of his own wishes and tastes in the application of his wealth. He 
had a singularly warm and generous heart, and was early drawn 
by it into those walks of practical philanthropy, with which his 
name is specially associated in the minds of his fellow-citizens, 
and in which he found growing pleasure as years went on. "With 
rare self-denial he made it a rule— to which he systematically 
