The Sun. — 1868-06-02 (London, England)

STAMPED 51.  much nure about fighting than the self-absorbed multitnle know about the principles of difficult questions. There are millions who have uo leisure to think for themselves, except individuAlly or domestically. In those momentous relations wherein our des:inies, aul those of our chillren's children are commingled, and constitute—however enormous and complicated the object may bc—a single unit of value, whole communities would drift away to a joint perdition but for men like him whom we have losf.  It was not Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee alone who was stricken by the hand of Lis murderer. By that hand a whole people has been smitten ; the injury is deadly; the injury is universal; and this deadly, universal injury is also a deadly, universal, and inexpiable affront to a free nation. Their choice, their admiration placed Mr. M'Gee in the high position from which a murderer has hurled him. When a useful and noble life was taken from the victim, the object of their pride was by the same cruel blow taken from all Canadians. The Prime Minister of Canada on the morrow of the awful event, while 14,003 dollars were offered for the discovery of the murderer, attempted to address a House of Commons drowned in tears, and was himself obliged to desist for weeping. Next day the flags hung half-mast high on the ships of a hundred ports. The man whom they had lost was as beloved in private life as he was illustrious in all public relations. He bad probably more personal friends than any man now alive who can be named in the whole civilised world. It must have been a stranger that killed him ; none knew, without loving, poor Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee. To all well-informed persons, his services to literature, and his services to Canada, are known to form only part of that prodigious work which his influence accomplished. Within the sphere of that influence, at least, he healed a wound supposed to be incurable, and admitted to be the most inveterate that has ever been known in the annals of politics. He made the Irish population of Canada loyal to the British Crown, instead of leaving the hereditary sentiments which they had brought with them from their native shores, to be gradually diffused through the other sections of those rapidly increasing populations.  It would require more space than I can afford to analyze the elements of this achievement, and to show its enormous and enduring importance to the highest interests of the Empire. As Col. Lowrie truly says " his death is a great national bereavement." It is more than national—it will be. felt as widely as literature, as widely as civilisation extends.  In these hurried lines I inust renounce all hope of tracing more than a faint sketch of the gracd historical figure, upon whom, except "in the mind's eye," we shall look no more. A founder of opinions, and practically a finder of truths, because the inventor of forms iu which he iusured their recognition as truths by millions ignorant of them before ; a builder of new nationalities ; a champion of ancient principles, a builder as he said upon the old foundations, a great heart, a great mind, and a great man, has passed away from us ; and we have lost, and civilisation has lost, all that I have stated in losing Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee. M. G. K. Bermuda, April 16, 186 S.