SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11505, 11 February 1903, Page 7

SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY.

(Received February 10th, 10.17 p.m.) LONDON, February 10. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy died jtmteriaj at Nice. ' (£rr Charles Gavaa Duffy, K.OM.G., was bora at Monaghan, Ireland, in 1616. H« founded the "Nation" newspaper in Dublin in 1842. In the following yew he was tried and convicted of sedifiouß conspiracy, -with O'Connell and ottoera, bjtt woe liberated by the House of Lord* oa a Writ of Error in 1844. Two yews later O'lConnell quarrelled with the Young Ireland party, of which the "Nation" wae the organ, and th£y established the Irieh Confederation, of -which Mr Duffy was one of the leaders. The famine in Ireland in 1848 and the eiainple of the Continental revolutions- of that period led Young Ireland to the advocacy of extreme courses- An Act was passed "to control the IriHh Press, and under its provisions Mr l)ufry, John Alartin, John Mitchell, and Dr. O'Doherto were indicted for treason felony. In Mr Duffy's case, after he had been four times successively arraigned, it was found impossible to-procure a conviction, the juries disagreeing at each trial. Subsequently, in 1852, he jrevived tfoe "Nation," which had been suppressed, conducting it on constitutional and moderate lines. In 1868 he was elected to. Parliament as member for New Boss. It was lie who introduced into the House of Commons the principle of independent opposition, but a majority of the members of his party proving unfaithful to their pledgee of independence, Mr Duffy resigned and went to Australia, in, 1856. He became Minister of PubUo Works under the first responsible Government of Victoria., created in 1857. and in 1871 took office as Premier, while five years later he was unanimously elected Speaker. In 1880 he resigned the Speakership and returned to Europe, taking up his residence at Nice He -was C|eated K.C.M.G. in 1877. Amonget otther worka Sir Charles Duffy, wrote "The Ballad Poetry of Ireland" (1845), which ran through fifty editions; "Young Ireland, a. Fragment of Irish History"; "Conversations -with Cajlyle," "A Bird's-eye View of Irish History," and a volume of autobiographical memoirs.]