12 NOVEMBER 1881, Page 3

Archbishop MacHale, "the lion of the fold of Judah," died

on Monday, at his palace in Tuam, at the great age of ninety years. In former years, he was a great ally of O'Connell, and was devotedly attached to the Liberator personally ; but he was not much.of a Home-ruler, and looked on the recent move- ment with something like suspicion. He was a good Irish scholar, and translated many of Moore's "Irish Melodies," and also, we believe, six books of the "Iliad," into that language. He' was one of the first to defy the foolish Ecclesiastical Titles Act, by assuming the territorial title of Archbishop of Team. On " the no-rent agitation" he declined to pronounce any opinion. He will be succeeded in his see by Dr. MacEvilly, the Bishop of Galway, a man of shrewd and strong intellect.