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and the severe labors of the mission soon under- mined his health. He resigned his see in 1807, and announced his intention of returning to his native country. A public meeting was held, attended by the representative men of the island without dis- tinction of creed, and he was presented with a valuable testimonial. A petition was also sent to the English government, requesting that a liberal pension be granted to him, in recognition of his loyalty and his services to the island. Partly owing to his "dread of French revolutionary principles, Dr. O'Donnel always preached unlimited loyalty to the crown, and on several occasions he had been more useful to the English government than a garrison. He was rewarded with a pension of £50 per annum. Dr. O'Donnel spent the remainder of his life in Waterford. He has been frequently called the "Apostle of Newfoundland."

O'DONNELL, Daniel Kane, journalist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1838 ; d. there, 8 Sept., 1871. He was educated at Girard college, and after a brief experience in a printing-office became the editor of a Philadelphia literary journal, to which he contributed many poems and criticisms. In 1862 he joined the editorial staff of the " Press " in the same city, acting successively as news-editor, leader-writer, and night-editor. His criticism on William H. Fry's opera of " Notre Dame," written about this time, attracted general attention. In 1864 he accompanied Gen. William T. Sherman's army as chief correspondent of the " Press." Dur- ing the campaign he was made assistant superin- tendent of education in Charleston, S. C. In 1866 he came to New York city and became connected with the " Tribune." The following year he was made musical critic and leader-writer. In the spring of 1867, as he was already suffering from consumption, he was sent to Mexico to recruit his health and describe the reconstruction of that country. From Mexico he went, in 1868, to Cuba, to report the progress of the revolutionary move- ment there. Returning in 1869, he resumed his duties in the " Tribune " office, Ijut devoted him- self chiefly to the foreign department. During the course of that year he resigned and returned to Philadelphia, where, after serving a year as literary editor of the " Standard," he employed his remain- ing strength in preparing a volume on Mexico, which was never published, and in writing for the magazines. He published a volume of poems en- titled " The Song of Iron and the Song of Slaves, with Other Poems" (Philadelphia, 1863), and sub- sequently printed in the New York " Independent," •'The Fish-Market," "The Cobbler's Hour," "St. Cecilia," and " Birds in the Square." These and his other poetic writings display great facility in versification and a rare talent for rendering home- ly subjects attractive.

O'DONOHOE, John, Canadian senator, b. in Tuam, Gal way, Ireland, 18 April, 1824. He was edu- cated at St. Jarleth's college in his native place, went to Toronto in 1839, and engaged in commercial pursuits for several years. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1869, and was crown at- torney of the county of York and the city of To- ronto from 1872 till January, 1874, when he re- signed. He was an unsuccessful candidate for East Peterboro, for the Ontario assembly, in 1871, and for East Toronto, for the Dominion parliament, in 1872. He was first elected to the Dominion parlia- ment for East Toronto in 1874, was unseated on petition, 26 Nov., 1874, again unsuccessful for that constituency, and was called to the senate, 10 June, 1882. He was elected president of the Ontario Catholic league on 3 April, 1871, and is a Liberal.

O'DONOJU, Juan (o-don-o-hoo'), last viceroy of Mexico, b. in Spain in the last half of the 18th century ; d. in Mexico, 8 Oct., 1821. He was de- scended from an Irish family that had been estab- lished in Spain for nearly a century. He entered the mili- tary service, and, during the invasion of Spain by Napo- leon in 1808, the provisional govern- ment of Cadiz ap- pointed him minis- ter of war. In this post he displayed great activity, "but at the restoration of Ferdinand VII. and the abrogation of the constitution in 1814, O'Donoju suffered for his ad- hei'ence to the Con- stitutional party,

was accused of conspiring against the

king, and imprisoned, but, as nothing serious could be proved, he was released and appointed adjutant to the king in 1820. In 1821, after the deposition of the viceroy Apodaca, O'Donoju, whose liberal ideas were well known, was appointed viceroy of Mexico, and on 3 Aug. arrived in Vera Cruz, which he found closely surrounded by the Independents. He issued a liberal proclamation, offering to give the country full self-government, and through Santa-Anna, commanding the immediate independent forces, entered into communications with Iturbide, and an interview was arranged to take place in Cor- dova. He left Vera Cruz on 19 Aug., met Itur- bide on the 23d, and on the next day the treaty of Cordova was signed, recognizing the independence of Mexico under the immediate rule of Ferdinand VII. or a member of his family. In case of their refusing the crown, the Mexicans were to elect their ruler, and the government was to be administered meanwhile by a junta, of which O'Donoju and Itur- bide were to be members. Gen. Novella, provision- ally in charge of the vieeroyalty, refused to recog- nize this agreement or O'JDonoju's authority, but after an interview with the latter on 13 Sept., acknowledged him as chief and proclaimed him viceroy on the 15th. On 26 Sept., O'Donoju made his entry into the capital, on the next day the independent army under Iturbide entered amid great festivities, and on the 28th the act of inde- pendence was signed, O'Donoju entering on his function as a member of the governing junta. He fell sick soon afterward, and died of pleurisy, or, as some writers assert, of poison.

O'DONOVAN, William Rudolf, sculptor, b. in Preston county, Va., 28 March, 1844. He is self-taught in his profession. After fighting in the Confederate army during the civil war, he went to New York, where he opened a studio, and was elected an associate of the National academy in 1878. He has been very successful in portraiture, and among others has executed portrait-busts and bas-reliefs of John A. Kennedy (1876); William Page (1877); R. Swain Gifford (1879); Arthur Quartley, Bayard Taylor (for the memorial tablet in Cornell university), Winslow Homer, Erminnie A. Smith, and Edmund C. Stedman. His larger works include the Tarrytown monument to the captors of Maj. André, a statue of Washington for the gov-