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THE SCOTTISH

THE
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LEVENTH
if CONTRIB.

ROOMS, ED
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be first t

lations of the Corporation of the Scottish Provident In;titu•
ti"n." _ _

WILLIAM J. DUNCAN, Manager of the National Sank of
Scotland, seconded the Motion.
The Motion having been put, and reference made to that
part of Art. 7 of the Laws as proposed to be amended, which
provides for forfeiture in case a member, "being of sane mind,
shall commit suicide," it was suggested thr,A, as it seemed to
be considered very doubtful whether a pr.,rson who did commit
suicide could be, or would be held by a jury to be, of sound
mind, it would be better to avoid ant ground for question by
doing away with the forfeiture altogether.

The CHAIRMAN said that the clWuse, as put by the Commit-
tee who had prepared the amndments, stood originally thus—
"or shall, within six months from the date of the Policy, com-
mit suicide." This form met the views of a great majority of
the Directors, but it had been altered as it now stood to secure
unanimity' as there seemed,really to be little practical differ-
. •

ence oetween tne two. 'the Meeting unanimously adopted
this sugeestion, and resolved that the rule should stand thus
—" or shall, within six months from the date of the Policy,
commit suicide."

then read seriatim, and approved ot; and Mr. Chambers
motion adopted unanimously.
___The Lord PROVOST then proposed a vote of thanks to the

Directors for their arduous and most successful labours during
the past year, which was seconded by JAMES PEDDLE, Esq.,
W.S., and carried unanimously.

A vote of thanks was, in like manner, given to the Board of
Directors, and to the Board at Manchester; to the Auditors
iger, Medical Officers, and other

Office-bearers of t:

lowing Gentle

t for the ensuing year was vested in the fol

ECTOR

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

I 'N D I A

DEFEAT OF THE SIKH ARMY

The mail of the 4th of March from Bombay brings in-
telligence from the theatre of war in the Punjaub to the
21st of February, on which day a battle was fought by the
united forces of Lord Gough and General Whish, which
ended in the complete rout of the Sikh army. Of this
victory, however, no details have arrived by this mail, as
the despatches of the Commander-in-Chief had not reached
Bombay when the steamer left. We are enabled to state,
however, that semi-official accounts leave no doubt as to
the complete success of our arms.
The procesdings of Lord Gough from the date of our
previous letters, and up to the 10th of February, were
chiefly confined to the defence of the position which the
British army occupied at Chillianwallah. The Sikh
forces, having received some addition to their numbers by
the junction of Chuttur Singh, the father of their leader,
Shere Singh, took up positions to the right of Lord
Gough's camp, as if with an intention of out-flanking; the
British. This movement led to the supposition that the
Sikhs contemplated an attack; but nothing of the kind
took place. The enemy caused a good deal of annoyance
to the grass-cutters and camp-followers ; but no. serious
encounter took place, for Lord Gough persisted in his
plan of waiting for the arrival of the Bengal division undEr
General Whish, and of the Bombay column commanded
by Brigadier Dundas.

During several days, from the 6th to the 12th of Feb.,
various skirmishes took place, but no serious encounter,
as the British general continued to act on the defensive.

On the Bth, a prisoner was brought into the catnp,.who
gave the news that Dost Mahommed was collecting the
revenue in the Attock districts, and that he had built

bridges over the Indus and the LUandye.
On, the 11th, the Sikhs advanced to a village near the

nritisn camp, as it to oring on an engagement, and the
whole line was turned out, but no fight took place. The
Sikhs plundered the outward and inward mails from the

A proclamation was published by Sir Henry Lawrence,
in the name of Dhuleep Singh, the young Maharajah of
'lore, which promised forgiveness for the past to all
' hould retire to their homes, and threatened
hment to all who persisted in the rebellion.

those who s

proclamation was

an effect arr

zst the Sikh chieftains, many of whom were
I with the course which the compaign had taken,
aey found that money and provisions were wanting.
On the 12th the Sikhs, who, during the late feigned
tacks on Lord Gough's camp, had found means to
.re-
move their heavy guns from their intrenchments at Rus-
sool drew up their cavalry at the village of Coira, and,
' marched towards

er its cover, struck their tents,

ich the
That po-

Goojerat. This retreat allowed the British an opp,
of examining with attention the ground on wl
battle had taken place on the 13th of January
sition of the 8

fisting of
h they I

rtunitv

All, with

mble line of intrenchments, in front of
lanted large bushes in every direction,

'heir eanif

, tched upon the slop
battery in the midst of broken ground

bridge.

To the rear of this natural fortre
1i

r the J

on the memorable 13th of Ja-

upon t

Id have cost

lives than

ce Lord dougl:

days, shewe

k on the morning of the 13

Genera

Ramnu-

•edun and Chimbur

r to WUzeerat

ion near the town of (

lied from Supnoree to

nt to j

from the Chenab

;e of boats o

nu Lord Gough
last preparations were n
on the 21st Lord Gougl► attacked

a the 19th mare
the 20th the

Pattam, whicl:

mniet,

•eat portion

e Singh

en him on an point
Singh fled, leaving

)f his guns and of his =Munition, as well
g camp, in possession of the victors, who

the pu

t of the dispersed Sikhs'when

and ran away. Burn was thrown upon the pavement and
killed on the spot, while the horse and shandry fell into
the-dam. The deceased has left a wife.
THE EDUCATION NEEDED.—We quote the following
remarks from a truly eloquent speech delivered at an
educational meeting in Manchester on Thursday, by the
Rev. Hugh Stowell :—" If man:,were a pure and untallen
being, cultivate and refine his 'intellect, and it were
enough, if his heart were right with God. But if man
were born with a heart " deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked," the education that did not lead the
young heart and the mind into control with the great
virtues of the Bible—such a system educated the brute
and the fiend, but did not educate the renewed mind.
(Cheering.) He said that if they educated, and religion
was not in some way brought to- hallow and to sanctify
the whole, they would raise up, as the Duke of Welling-
ton in his great sagacity had said, they would raise up a
generation of clever devils. If that were his (Mr.
Stowell's) own sentiment, they might probably brand it
as fanatical, but no man could call the hero of Waterloo
a fanatic. (Hear.) France presented to us a more
educated body of people far than England. But might
we exchange French intellectuality for our system. It was
stated some years ago in the Edinburgh Review, an organ
not likely to make an incorrect representation on such a
subject, and it was stated by Mr. Chancellor Raikes, on
the authority of the minister of education in France, that
there were seven times as much crime committed in the
most educated departments of France as in the least edu-
cated districts. (Hear.) That was an important fact;
and if they brought forward statistics of ignorance in our
own country, they could bring them the statistics as to
the effects of secular intellectuality from France. (Hear,
hear.) Look at what education confined to secular in-
struction had effected in Prussia ; look at the recent con-
duct of the artizans of London, and compare it with the
tumultuous proceedings of the populace at Berlin. Give
him, he said, English parochial education based upon
religion, rather than Prussian education without religion.
(Applause.) It was true that they might by intellec-

ke man ra

.her elevated

grosser and more grovelling appetites of his
nature ; but be bad learned in the course of his experience
that the lusts of the mind were an deadly as the lusts of
the flesh. (Hear, hear.) The broad distance between
heaven and hell was caused not through the intellect but
through the moral condition, and the moral condition
depended on the state of the heart and affections towards
God. And there was no balm for man's deadly disease_

above the

aostate

trained a child withou,

alvation through the

Irist Jesus, their education mocked bim, and
,re than fit him for this world. But he did
t to his neighbour who did it to his God."

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