DEATH OF THOMAS DAVIS.
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/, Thomas DAVIS, of the Dublin Nation. IS NJ
more A great Irisksuan has fallen in the prim.
OF manhood and in the midst ofutiIity and aures
I ireland will long mourn his premature death


he was cut off by rapid fever at the age of thir
ty-two a, sis ..s@ $50 "a .a .s.zs.T
I A giant in intellect-a master in stvle, an EN-


met in patriotism, and Tone in enterprise; he


has fallen victim to an intense and ardent pursuit.


OF his country's freedom and her neglected ltera


ture. Premature death attests his toll and sinceri
| ty. A nation mourns his fall, and more than a
nation, treasures his precepts His pen alone if
spared would have freed has country and revived
her literature. Great are the inscruable designs
OF providence. We must submit to its fiat though
tears flow =" -s2- ~ .te*a stl -. aE


But his career though has not been in vain.
He has taught ireland mighty lesson, and has
beaten path in literature for her neglected schol-
ars His brilliant mind reflected the purest pre-
cepts m government, taste, andsmorals that past
ages furnished-refectedt the most beautiful lima oe
in classic literature or cultivated art All that
the history, art or genius of the ancents Great
ed, were fused by his Talamanic pen into Irish
literature, and infused into the Irish mind


Although Ireland has lost him, she has
not lost the sentiment he has given birth to-
nor the style which he invented. Others a.
rise, who, stirred by his success and inspired
by his spirit will prolong the echo of his songs for
Liberty. and his vows to Freedom. - Il -.


Mr. DAVIS was Protestant, had been educated
in Trinity college, was an admitted barrister in
the Irish courts, and the chief writer in the Nation
of its songs signed the Celt"-and its political
leaders and its literary articles. He received from
MIR. Duffy $500 ISL ,350) per annum, the high
est salary before paid the editor of an Irish pa
per. I'VE know one Irishman who receives $500
a-year from an English paperl His funeral was
attended, on the 9th ult, by the Eighty-two Club,
of which he was the founder, and followed by
thousands of the mourning citizens of Dublin by
whom he was sincerely loved. Truth Teller.