confroiited the enemies of their country, our martyr 'stategman will livo la the remembrance of mankind ; the memory ot hia death, en- shrined in the annals of cveiy civilized people, Trill stand forth an example, ever bright and powerfully attractive, ofvirlue and/ortitude, not to youth only, but also to maluresl manhood. Wei! mav we enquiru what education did for such a man. Whilst wc admire his great abiliticg and extensive lei'r'iiLg, the suund principle which guided iiis public life com- mands still more the homage of our approval and applause. To what c^ise or influence di<l he owe this great endowment ? To nothing else than his early training, to the anxious care of an affectionate and accomplislied mother. Genius was born witli him, indeed, but nevertheless his mind might have been narrowed and warped by unworthy prcjudi'je?, contracted views which would have rondcred unavailing all his intellectual power. If lie was ever above such prejudices, if his mind was always open to conviction and ready to recei»re sound impressions, he was indebted above all for these qualities to the teachings of his truly chiistian mother. His filial duty towards her was in proportioa to her loving and well directed cave. His reverence for her when grown to man's* estate, whilst it proves the dulifulness of his early days, ac- counts at the same time, for his strict adher- ence to what he conceived to be principle and duty in after lite. The taste for letters by which he was so soon distiriguished, was in- spired, we cannot doubf^ it, by the lessons tanght him by his excellent mother. This lady was not only generally well informed, she also possessed remarkable knowledge .of tlie poetry of her own land, no less than that of other countries. She was skilled in music and could thus impart, as Ave are well assured that she did impart, to her tender charge— the son who was destined to fill so bright a page in the history of the New World, the legends of Scotland as well as tliose of her native Ire- laDd,in me'octious verse allied to the sweetest power of BODg. No wonder if he loved such a mother. No wonder if this, dutiful filial affection was to him, as it could not fail to be, the source of mauy blessings. No wonder if it remained deeply graven in his inmost soul, and was dearer to him even than lame itself. "My motlier! at that holy name Wi^in my bosom there's a gush Of feeling which no timo can tamo, A foelhtg which for years offamo £ would not, oouldnot crush !" Whilst yet a boy Thomas D'Arcy McGee was thrown ir^to thp arena of public political life, That his career at that enrly period of his exigtefncc mw tree fr6'm error, few will now maintain, That he was not hurried into due to two very powerful causes, the sotind principles imbibed in his tenderest yeiirs, and Uio companionship of tiic lato ^anlcl O'Connell. If we have to liimeut that lie was borne away tor a time on tlm tide of an ill-regulated enthusiasm, we must bear in mind that tbat enthusiasm, like a mighty current, swept over Europe, and tUrt whilst ir< the continental nations it aimed at the overthrow of all "existing institutions, in Ireland, it only " nteuded with abuses, and by accident merely, may it not be said? or the force of untoward circumstances, came to be iu coullict with coustituted authority. It sought to remedy the crying evils which pre- vailed, by throwing light into dark places, — byeduealing a people who for cent'iries liad been denied the blessiinf of education, — by creating for fhoni a literature, and a national literature. Need wo wonder if in tho sudden blaze of noon-day splendour wliich no dawn pieccdetl, men's vision was disturbed, and they failed to see their way in the confusion of thought and conflict of opinion, which was necessarily eonecquent on the rapid and un- expected awakening of a nation's mind from the sleep of ages? As regarded one man, at least, correctivej were at hand. Thos. D'Aicy McGeo never could forget his early principlcri. The good grain hivl fallen upon good and very good soil. It could not fail to spring up aad iu due time produce truit a hundred fold. The lessons of the great O'Connell were as the dews which freshen the good seed and f ivor its growth. His peaceful labours had opened for his people tbo doors of the constitution — that constitution whi'.h, however much abused for a time, had a fold in its vast mantle for tho dowu-troaden and oppressed. To tlio yoTjng, and ardent and inexperienced, his wisely concei^^ed measures appeared to, bo in- operative and unavailing. In their enthusiasm for a future^ and not an ideal one, tot it is now at Land, but which had a$ yet, toi iTo realized, they forgot the past— they forgot that by his slow, but sure moral means, he had overthrown in a comparatively short time, the gigantic fabric of iniquity which brute force had consumed whole centuries in build- ing up. Was the coterie or faction called "Young Ireland" ever able to' accom- plish anything like this? But there were such odds against them. None greater, nor so great as against O'.Connell. The difference was in their weapons. The moral power which O'Connell wielded was no less mighty than thesword.of justice in the hands of the civil ruler. Tue pby^sical iorce to which " Young Ireland" had recourse without professing it, was worse than useless; or if it had any use, it was in this, that it showed ."that they wbotako the sword, shall perish by tbo sword:" in other wordsj thftt \h^y whpj i^ th<? i*cQ of » free oouif 5 Btitution, the freest over yet known to tuan, liopo to prove the jnstioo of their ciiiise by blows and deeds of violence, must perish, the victims oftheir own devices. This importir»t truth which youtli, incixperieiiceii ardent, en- thusiastic, could not discover, wiis nmoifestto maturer yeaiB, and Thomas D'Ai y McOee, inNtructed by the principles and 'xample of O'CoOnell, enl'ghtened by experiei ce, Ruidi'd by the promptings of his riper Jtid;;nent, nni- niat^d and encourf»Rtd bv tlio inspirations of bis superior genius, beheld and acknowle-lgcMl the errors of his too early political career. But he had not in reality, as yc t, comnienced any Huch career. In the times to which referent*! has been made, he was a m.'in of letters and a journalist, and less a politician than his rolii- tions with the "Yonng Ireland" clob, might lead us to suppose. These relatioas were as the friendships of childhood, and like them eph- emeral. They passed away with his boyhood, and all that remains of them is a faint and perishing remembrance. His literary hibors of the game period eojoy fis they deserve, a bet- ter fate. They alono would be a lasting monu- ment to his name.* The works of bis youth, we are well assured, are read with interest even now, by his fellow countrymen in Ire- land, and they will long survive in the litera- ture of his country. That could have been no mediocre talent whicli attracted the notice of O'Connell, and was induced by that great man to devote itself (o his cause, — the cause of reform in Ireland through momi and con- stitutional means. Ihe friends of Mr. McGee, in Canada, shewed an equally sound apprecia- tion of his great abilities. They invited him to take up his abode amongst them in the rich and prosperous city of Montreal. He was not long there, applying, as was i. , wont, to the congenial labours of li^yrature and journalism, when at the general election which took place about a ycat after his arrivl, he was chosen one of the three representatives of tiio city in •The gigantic products ot nis short but crenttul life, must be proof positive, even to his enemies, of ceaseless in-dugtry, and a marvellously sustained intellectual cnlture, incompatiblo with serious faults of any kind. The ten or eleven hundred lec- tures delivered by him in twenty years, the unnumbered pieces <f matchlefs eloquence which he poured forth,— his immortal speeches in and out of Parliament, — his voluminous political writings, — and the many literary works in prose and pootvy in his name, — and lastly, the blasting shock of his hideous tak- ing olf, before the blossoming of manhood! Speak trumpet-tongutd foe the moderation and the raany untold virlues of his whole lite." — Archbishop of Ualifax^ funeral crcftion on\ the the Canadian Parliament. .Now(I858) in re- ality commenced his career as a politician bnd stitesman. It has been alreiidy alluded to in this disv,.»urKe. You all know how briliiant it was and alas ! how biief ! Twiee in the Min- istry, and since he left it, without anvriifferen- 00 Willi his colleagues, but (vjin the purest, most patrio.ic, and most disinterested motives, he was more than ever at the head of all at- fciirs. From the first even before ho w.<s elected to I'arllament, the consistent advocate ot the Union of these Provinces, he was until his latest brtath its ablest defender. More, need it be said ? much more than any other ho was the public man — the statesman of Canad I. lie was «-epeatedly, habitually recofj- nixsd as such. A truly mas?nilicent proof thisi recognition was given only a te at days before that on whieh he was called away so suddenly and so nefariously from the country which loved him and will long revere his memory. The reckless, ungrateful and most criminal hand whieh consigned him to an ui^timely grave, struck at the heart of the Canadian peo- ple, and all who do not hasten to repudiate ^dl bympathy with th(! foul and tie ndisti deed, in- cur their just contempt and undisguised hos- tility quite as surely as the perpetrators of such acts, together with their patrons, abettors and accomplic( s, who aro Iho enemies alike of God and man, daring- ly and impiously place themselves un- der the bann of the Church and the cTirco of God. We mourn the loss of (Janaiia's ablest statesman and most eloquent orator. lint Ihu cruel and unexpected blow has also hurrltnl from our sight and from our soticty, a deeply road scholar, a pleasing essayist, a great his- torian and a good poet. What varied learning did he not bring to bear on the subjects which he selected for the numerous lectures that he so willingly undertook in the cause of charity' and benevolence? How gracefully and with what untiring energy, did he not; deliver those lectures ? If any one thing more than another be deserving of special notice in this place and on this occasion, it is this, that all iho efforts of his fascinating oratory tended to extinguieih animosities, reconcile ditt'ertnces, promote peace and good will among the various classes and denominations of his f<;l- low-countrymen of Canada. This alone would entitle him, as it does entitle him, to the prayers and benedictions of the Church. It does more ; it gives him aright to the blessing of God hiitiself. " Blessed *re the peace-ma kert, for they shall he called the children of (Jodf (Matt., 5, 9.) If for this caase the grosgest ignorance — ignorance that no tongue of man or angel ever can eniighten — assailed him with reproach, endeavoured to crush hitn by III ■ '■■ ' ' ' ' cal jnan^, and at length, when tlio cup of their iniiiuity-was fliltd brim-full, nnd their roproba- tiuii was complete, etruck him down in thu dead of night, bia reward is bt-yond exprvs. Kioii great, iu the Kingdom of God. JJlrtsed are tluy who auffer persecnlion for Justicv take ; for theirs is the Kingtiom of Heaven ! (id. ib. ; v. 10.) With what humiiity did hu not rpeak of his grejit literary laliiurH? Not faithur back than last St. Patrick'^ day, whe^n ho sat an honored and a dtscrvedly houorod n^an in the midst of the nio^t < niinent r«prc«entativn men of thin Dominion, who bad axsembled at the national banquet, as it may wt'll bu term- t'd, in order to mark their appreciation of His great abilities and HUcovR^iful services to the 81a(c, ho ve:y modestly, in loply <o a well- merited complimont, a(idr(/K3td to him by ibo Mayor of the Capital, »vho praised his History of Ireland as his iiiru-atcMt work, that he was well aware of in mani/ faults and imperfecliom, and that if he were favored with life and health a few years longer, lie would endeavour to find time to correct them. And yet this is the work of which compefont < ritics have said that It is the moti to bu rttlied on, of tho few readable histories of Iroltnd that exist, while in point of style, grace and beauty of diction, it is in- finitely superior to several histories which are considered authentic, \>u^ which none but the most determined student would undertake to lead. Mr. McGco leldoni wrdto versos. But when he did, his poetry like his prose, was devoted to tho cause of truth. How true iu feeling acd in seutiment are not his lines on Tasso's tomb! How nobly was he not inspir- ed' by the sight of Christian and classic Rome! Who amongst us, tan ever forget bis intensely pstbttic, most moving and truly pious stauzas to the memory of his friend of Montreal, the late Mr. Dcvaney? Poet, orator, historian, issayist, titatesmant Who ever combined so many qualities, i>o many talents ? Who ever becamb eminent, and so greatly eminent, in so many ways ? Welt may Canadians mourn. Quando ultuminvcnicnt parent? His extraordinary in- tellectual powers were accompanied and grac- ed by no less benevolence and amiability of character. Who ever sought his aid and was denied it 7 Who among the lowly and tho poor, that does not now raise his voice to Heaven in prayer for his eternal peace ? What benevolent charitable asscciation throughcnt the land that. does not plead in his behalf the promise ot theLoid to thosd who comfort him in the persona of his afHictod servants ? " I was hungry, and you gave me to eat ; I was thirttyi twd you gave me to drink ; Ao. Amen. 1 say to you as long you did such things to one of these ray {e^gt br«tt)r9p, yoq did it to oie."— ifoM. 15: 85.40, J?ot only did Mr, ajcQee contriluty largely towards raising up a nition-x! literature in this new uatl.m, which his patriotic etforts had so powerfully aided in building up, hu sttidied also to encourage and fostor literary efforts on the i)art of others. It wai not necessary in Older to gain his favor and win his words of approval, that the aspirant to liturary honots should sliare his political or religious views. He knew neither sect nor party iu the .leld of letters. Sound thought, pure, geuerops and noblu sentiment cogethei^with tho truth of feeling, were his only to%U. Where these cx> istedj he hesitated uot to judge every writer according to bis uprits. Nor was ha a rigid critic, it woa his aim and policy, — a policy which flawed from bis inherent goodness, not less than from his zeal in the cause of lite-ra. lure, to encourage by commendation any dawn- ing of authorship , rather than to correct and instruct by the strict truth of criticism. Moro matured works, he know, would ccme with maturer years. The expanding buds of talent required only to be carefully tended. And who more considerate than D'Airy McGoe In his care for such precious germs? When ho rose to a high position in tho State.lm was, it is far from being too much to s'ly it, the Mecicnas of his time and country. If it had pleased Divine Providence to preserve him a lew years longer from the savage bands of bidden enemies, we might have indulged the pleasiiiti: hope of beholding in our own day, in these United Provioces, an epoch not less renowned in letters than the augui^tan ugu of Rome, or an eia like to that of Leo X. in modern Italy, or to the reign of Louis XIV. — the classic ago of France, or to our own brightest days ot lit- erary fame — thoShaksptarean, Miltonian, Ad- disonian, and Johnsonian epochs. But, alas ! how vain are all human hopes ; how are the micrhty fallen I Cities of Canada that have witnessed suih a deed, lament and we^p — weep until your tears have washed from your polluted laud so foul a stain. May never tho rain of Heaven, nor its freshening dews dt- scend upon you more, till your iniquity bo blotted out!* And let the children of grucn Knn weep 1 Their friend, their stay, their David is no more ! Their voice, tog thtr with his eloquent speech, is for ever silenced in these land:). Who will ever reciiect them ? Who will ever heed them .any more ? Their enemies will say that they are men of strife, of violence and blood. In vain shall a friendly voice, in days to come, bo lifted in theit cause. 'I'he awful handwriting which the murderer's hand has written upon (ur cities' walls, and which neither time nor tho skill of man cau * King David lamenting the death ot Saul and Jonathan said : " Ye mountain.s of Gelb^e, let nei- th'tt dew nor rain oome down upon ynj, for there was cast away the shield of the TaUant..the shifld efB§ul,&o." Cu.Kui99i,?l,3 (ever obliterate, will nxj out against them. Ko power can still this cry— no reasoning confute it. Ah 1 mourn, O people that were late so favored I Amid the general sorrow none have such cause to W!e tp as you. Who ever was — whoever could (lave been— more your friend than him whos* loss we deplore ? No change of place, or time, or c'rcumstances, could ever alter oi diminiRh iiis affection for you. Hi'h love for Ireland only grew in iuvensity m he grew in yenr.t. Neither (he fame wliich crowned his genius in the land of his adoption, nor the honors that wiro .. aped upon liim in the State and by the people, ever leHKened his /.eal for lier weh'aro. Neither his vaiied literary occupations, nor his multifar- ious duties in the Parliament or counsels of Canada made him forget, even for one moment, Iiis loved Erin, or cease from laboring to pro- mota her interests. On tlie occasion of both his visits to Europe, as a Canadian statesman, and in the fuitherance of the affairs of the im- portant Dominion of Canada, he failed not to urge earnestly on tbe attention of the most eminent British lalattHmen of the two great parties, the iiec..-8!jity of reform in .Ireland. When bu. rounded on last St. Patrick's day by the great men of the land, who had assembled for ro other purpose than to pay the T.ell won tribute of honor to Iiis great talents and public services, far from being elated by so great a triumph, for liis modesty waa cVer equal to his merits, he declared emphatically in the midst of tliat il- lustrious assembly that he thanked them more than for the great honor which their presence conferred upon him personally, for the opportunity whicli it afforded him of causing his views in regard to Ireland, to be wafted over the Atlantic, and communicated to.tho statesmt-n of Great Britain, in a way which, he hoped, would produce a salutary impression on ibcir minds for the good and the happiness of his dear native land. *'I shall not," he said, "presume, Mr. Mayor, because I am your chief guest, to monopolize the evening ; I will only say farther on the sub- ject of Ireland, that I claim the right to love and serve her, and her sons in Canada, in my own way, which is not ty either approval or con- nivance with enterprises my rsason condemns 03 futile in their conception, and my heait rejects as criminal in their consequences. (Loud cheers.") Before I close, Mr. Mayor, permit me to add one thing more : speaking from this place — the capital of British Ameri- ca— iu this presence — before so many of the most honored public men of British America — jet me venture, again to say, in the name of British America, to the statesmen of Great Btitain->-' settle for our aakes and your own ; for the saljie ot international poace, settle j^romptlf and generouily the eocial and eccle- siastical condition of Ireland, on terms to satisfy the majority of the people to be gov- erned. Every one sees and feels that while rCngland lifts her white cliffs above tho waves, she never can sutler a rival Government — sf, hostile Government — to be set upon the other side of her : whatever tho aspirations for Irish autonomy, tho Union is an inexorable politi- cal necessity, ks inexorable for England as for Ireland ; but there is one miraculous agency which has yet to be luUy and fairly tried out in Ireland ; brute force has failed, proselytism has failed, anglification has failed ; try, if only as a novelty, try patiently and tlioroughly, statesmen of the Empire I tho miraculous agoncy of equal and exact justice, for one or two generationr.' (Loud cheers.) Gentlf- men and Mr. Mayor, I again thank you for the three-fold gratification you have atTorded me this evening ; for your great undeserved complime::t to myself personally ; for being allowed to unite with you in this way in a union banquet of Irish-Canadians in the capi- tal of Canada ; and lastly, for the opportunity you have afforded me, of saying a word in sea- son, on behalf of that aucient and illustrious Island, the mere mention of whicli, especially on the 1 Tth ot March, warms the heart of every Irishman, in whatever longitude the day may dawn, or tho stars look down upon his politi- cal destinies, or Jiis piivate enjoyments." (Loud cheers."* On the day l);toro that which fiendish malice resolved should be bis last in this world, he wrota at length to a member of the British GoTernm<?nt, tho Right Hon. the Karl of Mayo, nst so much in order to thank that nobleman for the well deserved oulogium which he had pronounced upon him in Parlia- ment, as to represent to him how necessary it was that the work of Reform, and of thoro^igh Reform, should hi enfgetically proceeded with in Ireland. If a p.owerful section of the groat Conservative j aity are now prepared to consider favorably Ireland's rights, if tho Re- formers of the Empire now as one man ar-^ engaged, heart and hand, in forwarding the essential work of Irish Reform, who knows to what extent, all this is duo to the earnest and unceasing representations and remonstran- ces of the Hon. Thomas E'Arcy f '[cGee ? O, that I could say that no Irishmao had a hand in his untimely fatel* * " And by whom has this tremendous deed been perpetrated ? Was it by wild Indians? — a savage, a CLerokoe, a Blaoktoot, a Hottentot, or a New Zealander? Was it by an Orangeiran — English. Scotch, American, or Canadian? Waa it by a Benijal tiger, a hvena, ot a demon in hu- man form? But, Oh. God I to think that this Prince oflrishmeo, for mere blood money, for pri« vata vengeanoa, wonld havo been trailed for monthly and straok down \>j the miioraant blood la wLttti3ver liglti Wo consider him, tho Honoiabli) Tbomas DMrcy McOeo was no commoQ man, but errare human' umeit; was he, iu uvuy riHpcct, ubovc tho condition of our commou liunianity? waH ho all excellcn';e — all pci faction? To bh'- that hu was obovu i\\i human w^'okncHH, would Burely bo exaggeration ; but ho was more. Ho roio superior to such wcakncsfi. Ho did what fow TDvn do. Ho won a victory which fow iispirc! to. Ho realized tho Rrnurt idea of the pre-christiau Faj^e; — tho sublime teaching of tho christian faith — he conquered himself. If he heard thisoulogium, the truest, tliu greatcHt that can be pronounced upon him, ho would disclaim thu honor of a conquest >.ioro glori- ouu to liim thnn nil the laurels ho ever gathered in tho wide and varied field of litera- ture, or in that arena which only few can Rtrive iu, tho moro t'X.ilttid sphere of Ktattsmnnsbip; lie would have said, like him ofthe giant mind, who wos so intensely human, and yet so far beyond humanit}', •' by the grace of Ood lam wftat I am." (I. Co-. : 15, 10.) lEe was not inde«d called to the same apostleship ns Paul. But bis was nevertheless, a great apostleship. It was thoapostlefchip of I'eaco. And ho wai notunworthy of it. Ho who called him to so great a mission, blessed him with f^uccess ; and an united people, may we hope, will long enjoy its happy fruits. His work whilst it follows him beyond the grave, (^Blesaed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith tho spirit, that tliey may rest from their labors ; for their works follow them. [Apoc. : 14 ; 13],) yet remains behind nim. The memory of his martyr-fate will impress it dseper and deeper every day, tor ages to come, on the minds of his felloiv- countryr i, and unborn generations will not only poiu. to him as an example of virtu: and Jorti iide, but also as the preacher ef peace and the regenerator of his country. Nor was D'Arcy McGeo a mere philanthropist. The t'.achings of (ho CUurcli Catholic found an echo in his expanded mind. The principles of Christianity which he had imbibed in earliest youth. Were tho principles of his maturer monbood. What ho learned and followed in i red hand of cne of his own conntrymen, is perfo'Jt- ly overwhelming." — Archbishop of Halifax. tho simplicity and Innocence of childhooc^ he accepted in after years, as thu guide of his powerful and highly developed lutelloct. His was a profound, but not a blind belief. Ho was highly gifted with divine faith, as with so many othor mental endowments. His eu- lightencd reason beheld in tliis faith a grcriter light than its own, and ho honored i* with the most humble and devoted obedience,— obe- dience which was renHonable, but complete ; thus realising tho sublime and truly philoso- phic doctrine of St, Vnul : " ralionabili^ o^.v - (jiiium ventruiii.'' (U'l-- • 12; 1.) What he be- lieved ho fuired i ofess; and many will bless his menior j loving pains whieli ho bestowed iu ptt/v^ing to them, "xpoundiii;,' and imprepsing upon their minds, those all important doctrines which were a stay and a joy to himself. Nor did he fiil to pnu'tic- what both iu private conversation anU on all fUtiii^ public occasion^, ho so often and so elciiuently preached. What couhl have been more edifying than his luobt regular and devout attendance at public worship ? What mor*} alfecling — what nioro cheering to every chris- tian miud, than his child-like attention to the preaching of the word of Ood ? But he was also u most pious communicant, fulfllUn^ with tiliul aiftotion, all the spiritual dutic? which the Church imposes on her children. It was fitting, but not to by wondered at, that when thu hourof viKitutie.i came, such a man should be tound iit his post. If to Icvo God and to serve him be one and tho same thing ; surely hih is now tho ic^t of those to whom all things happen opportunely and concur for their good, because thtylove Cod. " Biliijentibus Deum omnia co-opernnlur in bonump (Rom. 8, 28). On the day btfore that on which he was so sud- donl}-, but surely not unpreparedly called away, ho was engaged directly iu tae service of Cod on the Lord's own Day and in His holy place. Later, and until the last moment, he was actively employed in doing the will ot God — serving hi.s neighbor — laboring to ad- vance the cause of pi ace and friendly feeling amongst his fellow-men. " Well done thou good and failhfid seiv.ant." Such are our thoughts regarding him whose loss we mourn. Wo can only add our earnest wish and fervent prayer for his eternal happiness. Requiem mtcmam dona ei IJomine !