THE LATE T. D'ARCY M'GEE.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 289, 4 July 1868, Page 3

THE LATE T. D'ARCY M'GEE.

A sketch of thelateT. D'ArcyM'Gee, assassinated at, Ottawa, appears in the New York Herald. We condense therefrom the following particulars: —" Mr M'Gree was bornin Carlingford, Ireland, 13th of April, 1825, and received his education at Wexford, where his father, Mr James M'Gree, hell a position in her Majesty's Custom House. At the age of -seventeen Mr M'G-ee came to the United States and settled in Boston, where he became connected with the Boston Pilot, working in the composing room at a small weekly salary. On his arrival he was friendless and penniless, but his industrious habits, and, above all, his fine : talents, soon brought about him friends and improved his condition. He was in a short time placed upon the editorial staff as a leading writer, and finally became editor of the Pilot, performing the duties at the same time of foreign editor on the Daily Times. After remaining a few years in Boston, he returned to his native land, and became attached to the Dublin Niition as an editorial -writer. When the revolutionary troubles broke out in 1848 he was compromised in the movements, and compelled to seek refuge in this country. On his arrival here he started with John Mitchel, the American Gelt, an organ of Irish feeling and sentiment. Abandoning this enterprise on account of financial difficulties, after remaining a while longer in New York as a sort of a political leader of his countrymen here, he went to Canada and settled £a Montreal. There his political opinions seemed to have undergone a decided and radical change. Once an ardent republican, he now became a strong royalist, snd was soon taken in hand by the Government and placed in the path of political preferment and success. He was President of the Executive Council in Canada from 1864 to 1867, and held the office of Minister of Agriculture; was made Chief Commissioner to the Paris Exposition in 1855 and to the Dublin Exhibition in 1864, and also to the local Paris Exposition. He was also a delegate te all the conferences held to promote the union of the colonies of British North America. In advancing this scheme, now almost fully completed, Mr M'Gree was found a valuablo agent."