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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



and one of the most distinguished and popu- 

 lar of Irish Roman Catholic prelates, died No- 

 vember 7th, at the age of ninety, having been 

 born March 6, 1791. He was the son of a 

 small tenant farmer at Tobernaveen, in the 

 county of Mayo. His earliest instruction was 

 received clandestinely under hedge-rows from 

 the Catholic village schoolmaster, who was 

 persecuted in those days, although the laws 

 making it a felony for. him to tcacli had been 

 repealed. He was sent to school at Castlebar 

 at the age of twelve or thirteen, where he 

 learned the rudiments of the classics. Entered 

 in 1807 at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, as 

 an ecclesiastical student, he made brilliant 

 progress in scholarship. Before reaching the 

 canonical age he was ordained a priest, and 

 assisted the Professor of Dogmatic Theology, 

 whom, six years later, he succeeded. When 

 his authorship of the powerful letters in de- 

 fense of the Roman Catholic Church and its 

 system, published in the newspapers over the 

 signature of " Hierophilos," became known, 

 he was marked out for a more prominent posi- 

 tion in the priesthood in that time of agitation 

 and controversy, when the Church felt the 

 need of bringing its strongest men to the front. 

 Accordingly, in 1825, he was consecrated a 

 bishop as coadjutor to the Bishop of Killala. 

 His learned work on " The Evidences and Doc- 

 trines of the Church " had already extended 

 his reputation abroad. His pen was vigorously 

 employed in aid of O'Connell's labors in the 

 Catholic Association. In 1834 he was pro- 

 moted to the highest order of the clergy as 

 Archbishop of Tuam. In the political contro- 

 versy which waxed hotter, and the agitation 

 with which Ireland was heaving, and Great 

 Britain worked into a fever in the next decade, 

 the "Lion of the Fold of Judah," as the arch- 

 bishop was called by his friend O'Connell, was 

 the next prominent figure to the " Liberator," 

 and after the death of the latter he was the 

 leader of the Irish movement. His caustic and 

 impassioned polemical letters in the newspa- 

 pers, bearing the familiar signature, " John, 

 Archbishop of Tuam," treated of all the burning 

 questions of the time national education, the 

 tithes, the poor laws, the charitable bequest 

 act, the great famine, the tenant right, and the 

 repeal agitations ; and when O'Connell held his 

 meetings of the peasantry near Connemara, the 

 archbishop was always at his side. 



In the meetings of the Vatican Council in 

 1869 and 1870 Archbishop McHale spoke more 

 than once, and was the first to announce its 

 decrees in Ireland. He was most conscientious 

 in the discharge of clerical duties, and labored 

 in the humblest pastoral functions as actively 

 as the youngest priest almost to the close of his 

 long life. 



MINXSFELD. Count HIERONYMTJS, Mmister of 

 Agriculture of Anstro-Hungary in the Auer- 

 sperg Cabinet ; died of scarlatina, at Blanken- 

 berghe, July 29th. He was one of the leaders 

 of the Constitutional party in Austria. He was 



born July 20, 1842, the eldest son of Prince 

 Joseph Colloredo-Mannsfeld, and after serving 

 some years in the army, entered upon his po- 

 litical career as deputy in 1872, and was called 

 to the ministry in 1875. 



MARIETTE BEY, the organizer of the Boolak 

 Museum at Cairo, and director of Egyptian ex- 

 cavations; died January 18th. The deceased 

 French Egyptologist, without possessing the 

 highest degree of learning in his department, 

 had a talent for discovery, and furnished more 

 materials for Egyptian archaaology than the re- 

 searches of all other persons in recent times. 



MASON, Sir JOSIAH, an English philanthro- 

 pist ; died in June, at the age of eighty-six. He 

 was born of humble parentage, February 23, 

 1795, at Kidderminster, and commenced life as 

 a street hawker of cakes and fruit. After try- 

 ing his hand at various trades, he found em- 

 ployment in making metallic toys at Birming- 

 ham, and soon started as a manufacturer of 

 split steel rings, and afterward of steel pens, 

 of which he was one of the inventors. He be- 

 came the largest manufacturer of pens in the 

 world, besides carrying on other industrial es- 

 tablishments. He received no education, but 

 taught himself to write when a shoemaker's 

 apprentice. The sense of his own misfortune 

 in this regard prompted him to the generous 

 endowment of the orphanage at Erdington, 

 where he resided, where five hundred children 

 are supported and instructed ; and the more 

 magnificent and important benefaction of the 

 Mason Science College, where only science and 

 useful knowledge will be taught. 



MIALL, EDWARD, member of the British Par- 

 liament and a leader in the disestablishment 

 movement ; died April 30th, at the age of seven- 

 ty-two. He was in early life a Congregational- 

 ist minister ; he founded " The Non-conform- 

 ist " newspaper in 1841, and gathered around 

 him a party of political Dissenters. From 1852, 

 when he was elected for Rochdale, to 1874, 

 when he retired from public life, he was the 

 champion of the Dissenters in Parliament, and 

 a prominent agitator outside for the removal 

 of their political grievances. 



STREET, GEORGE EDMUND, an English archi- 

 tect; died December 23d. He was born in 

 1824, at "Woodford, and studied architecture 

 under Sir Gilbert Scott. His master's work 

 in reviving Gothic architecture was carried 

 forward by Street, whose restorations and de- 

 signs accord better with the spirit of the medi- 

 asval models than the earlier products of the 

 Gothic revival. His principal works are the 

 nave of Bristol Cathedral and the unfinished 

 Royal Courts of Justice in London. Many 

 churches were built after his designs. He 

 wrote extensively on the subject of Gothic 

 architecture, his principal works being "The 

 Brick and Marble Architecture of North Italy 

 in the Middle Ages " (1855), and " Some Ac- 

 count of Gothic Architecture in Spain" (1865). 



UOHATIUS, Lieutenant Field-Marshal Baron 

 FBANZ VON, of the Austrian army, took his 



