The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1879-01-05

versical rendering of Moore's melodies int
Irish, vying in sOnorousDess and softnee
with the original. Moore manifested hi
appreciation in i published letter charac
teristicai'y warm. The tables of the we'll
lighted drawinE-Coom in which ona
received number amongst the books upO
them handsomely-bouDd volumes of tn
poet-prelate's patriotic ailettanteism. Oa
notes the presence cf harp. TIE arch
bishop himself tells with raciness low OF
one OF bis continental journeys he ant
others, amongst whom was his nephew
! and namesake of the College des Iriaudais
| having determined to converge with one
another in Irish only. were followed by {
| gentleman through Paris who overheard
| them, and whose curiosity at length in-
PEELED him to add ress them, and say thai
| he thought he WAS familiar with most o.
| the European languages, but, although they
seemed to be Europeans, he seemed to be
| at fault about their tongue. When told
| that it was Irish he expressed his surprise
at the mellifuousness of language which
he had believed TO be, if not entirely obsc-
lete, differing little in uncouthness from
the jabber OF an African of the interior.
An early riser, the archbishop usually
cfiiciates ct the high altar of his cathedral
at eight o'clock, and after simple break
fast devotes the forenoon to the admins
tration of his large diocese. In the early
afternoon he receives, and later in the
day may be met, clad ia the ordinary &C.
clesiastical dress worn in these couLtr,es,
walking or driving, accompanied by one of
his priests, aud escorted by a motley troop
of importunate beggars whom his beuef-
cence maintains. An early and plain dip
ner is followed by an evening of seclusion,
unless on those occasions when the pree-
ence of guests calls forth the geniality of
the distinguished host, who enjoys nothing
better than the company OF thai bon rGcon
feur, Father Tom Burke, the wel.-znOwn
Dominican preacher. OF late years his
grace has rarely exchanged visits with any
of the landed gentry in his neigh5orto ood.
The bitterness of oft-venewed election
strife, in which priests aud peassnts have
been -arrsyed on one siste against old oil
garchical authority on the other, although
allayed, has always been too obstinately
intermittent with insufficient interval for
it's complete subsidence. The extraordina-
ry Galway election, the passions inflamed
by which we're in no way quelled by the
petition judgment delivered by Mr.. Jastice
keogh, has left traces behind it which the
end of the century shall see uneffaced; and
amongst its drdmdtis person0e no figure was
more conspicuous than that of the veteran
churchmau and politician, John MacHale.
1t was curious picture, that crowded
little court house in Spanish looking Gal |
way; the grand jury box thronged with the |
ladies rank and fashioa of the poorest but
the proudeSt of counties the body of the !
hall filled with the fritze clad groundlings; |
the archbishop In the witness chair the |
s,lvery tongued McDonagh of Nisi Prius |
tame on one side, aud the vehement senior I
sergeant of the IRISH bar on ths other, with |
4 Judge upon the bench who, it is said, |
piqued himself on his Napo!eonic contour !
ot coaDtenance, aud in whose mind, which |
even then must have been contem plating
his celebrated charge. thoughts could not |
bc!p but come CTowdlng of the ante Judicial |
days when The member for Athlone eulo-
gized TIE clergy whom he now judged. Bat |
thIs Is history. If DR.. MacHale has often !
been moved 10 take eide in political |
struggles, he Gas never forfeited the res
pect of friend or foe.
His presence, nay his name, can yet en-
klnd!e an enthusiasm amongst the hero.
"orehipping lrish beneath whatever sky,
" hich OCURneirs self, in the palmiest days
Of hIs uncrowped royalty, might envy. For
the people hn heppiiy united the offices of
3 Moses aud H0 AaTor. He was their |
spiritual and their temporal guide. If in
the eyes OF the Eng!ish public never polite
Of practicable, he cannot DO denied what
ever merit is to he found iu fearfessness
and consistent opposition.
He Is the last Ut big race. From Ca
thoilc poin' Of of view he has been far
seeing, II foresight isto be adjudged by the
su bsequent adhus,ol OF his ouce more com-
plalsaut brotpcr preistcs 10 his policy of
hostility TO the Govern
ment ou tie education question. To the
claim for the education of the
children of the state he always retained
an uuvarylng non possumuS. But in his
diocese he has not been unmindful of edu-
cation according to his mind-that impart.
ed by monks and nuns and in schools un-
der the management of his priests.
His annual visitations to these, necssi- |
iDnrnnva nf M lifkla arnnnuanaSa fon
a man of his years, are so many triumphaI |
progresses. Fleets of boats gay with bunt- |
ing convoy him to stormy Achll and to |
distant Arran. The faithful peasantry of
Mayo and slway receive their high priest |
with genuine heartiness allied to primi- |
tive reverence. The sick are brought to
be touched by his hands. It is not given |
to every man to see a statue erected to him |
while he yet lives; but even as the Atheni- ]
ans of old decreed statues of brass to de- |
serving we'll of the state, grata Conndcid,
in the words of the inscription on it's ped