MAC'CLESFIELD, an important manufacturing t. of Cheshire, England, is situated on the river Bonin, on the western base of a range of low hills, 15 m. s.s.e. of Mau pliester. It contains a fine old church, St. Michael's, founded in 1278; and a grammar school, endowed in 1502, and having an annual revenue of £1500. 1Vithin the present century .Macclestield has advanced rapidly as a seat of manufactures. Silks, embracing the finest varieties, are the principal fabrics made; cotton goods and small-wares are manufactured, and there are dye-works and breweries. In the vicinity, coal, slate, and stone are obtained. Macclesfield returns two members to the house of COMMOUS. Pop. '71, 35,570, showing a slight decrease since 1861.
McCLINTOCK, Sir FRANCIS LEOPOLD, D.C.L., LL.D., b. Ireland, 1819; entered the navy in 1831, and in 1838, having passed his examinations, Ile went to South America in the steamship Gor,gon. For his services in bringing off the Gorgon, which ran ashore near Montevideo, he was made a lieut. in 1845. He was attached to the Pacific squad ron, 1815-47, and in 1848 was a member of the Arctic expedition under sir James C. Ross for the relief of sir John Franklin. In 1850 he was first lieut. of the Resi4ance in the Arctic expedition under capt. Austin; and in April, 1851, began a sledge journey along the northern shore of Parry sound, traveling 760 in 80 days. On his return to Eng land he was made a commander, and in 1852 commanded the Intrepid, in the, Arctic expedition under sir Edward Belcher. He succeeded in rescuing McClure near Mel ville island, but was afterwards obliged to abandon his vessel; and only one of the five ships which had cornposed Belcher's expedition succeeded in reaching England. In 1857 McClintock, who in the meantime had been promoted to a captaincy, started in search of sir John Franklin, in command of the Fox, a screw-steamer of 177 tons, fitted out by lady Franklin. On the north-western coast of King 'William Land he found records of the death of sir John Franklin, and of the abandomnent of the Erebus and Terror. On his return in 1859 he was knighted, and received the degree of doctor of laws from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin. In 1865 he was made commodore of the Jamaica station, and in 1872 vice-admiral. He published, in 1869, Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas.
McCLINTOCK, JOHN, D.D., LL.D., 1814-70; b. Philadelphia; graduated at the uni versity of Pennsylvania in 1835; ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and appointed professor of mathematics in Dickinson college in 1837; in 1840 trans ferred to the professorship of Greek and Latin; translated, with Dr. Blumenthal, in 1847, Neander's Life of Christ; and, with prof. Crooks prepared a series of Greek and Latin text-books; in 1848 was elected by the general conference editor of the Methodist Quar terly Review, retaining the position for eight years. In 1856 he was appointed, with
bishop Simpson, a delegate to the -Wesleyan Methodist conference of England, and to the evangelical alliance held at Berlin. In 1857 he became pastor of St. Paul's Metho dist church in New York, and in 1860 was preacher in the American chapel in Paris. When in Europe, during the war of the rebellion, he advocated with ability the union cause, in conversation, hy the pen, and on the platform; and his home in Paris was a rallying center for patriotic Americans. During his absence lie WAS corresponding editor of the Methodist. Returning to America in 1864, lie was again, for a short thne, placed in charge of St. Paul's church in New York. His health failing, he resigned in 1865, and resided in Germantown, Penn. In 1866 he removed to New Brunswick, supply ing for a time St. James's church, and was made chairman of the central centenary committee of the Methodist Episcopal church. Throug,h his influence, Daniel Drew, a member of St. Paul's church in New York, contributed a large sum to the centenary fund, which was appropriated for the founding of an institution at :Madison, N. J., called the Drew theological seminary. Dr. McClintock was its president till his death. Dr. McClintock attained a high rank as a scholar, teacher, writer, and preacher, and for many years was a leader in the Methodist church. Besides the works mentioned, and ninnerous articles in periodicals, he published Analysis of Watson's Theological _Insti tutes; Sketches of Eminent Methodist Ministers; T he .Temporal Power of the Pope; a trans lation of Bungener's History of the Council of Trent. ln the last 20 years of his life he labored in preparing, the Cyclopcedia of Biblical, Theological; and Ecclesiastical Literature, in connection with the rev. Dr. James Strong. At the time of Dr. McClintock's death three volumes had been published, the work being continued by Dr. Strong. Six vol umcs have since been issued. A volume of Dr. McClintock's sermons, entitled Living Words, and .Lectures on heological Encyclopadia and Methodology, have been published since his death McCLOSKEY, JOHN, D D. , Cardinal, b. Brooklyn, 1810; educated at St. Mary's college, Maryland, and ordained to the priesthood iu 1834. After spending two years in Rome, he returned to New York, and became pastor of St. Joseph's church. In 1844 he was appointed coadjutor of bishop Hughes, and in 1847 was consecrated bishop of the new diocese of Albany, where lie remained till 1864, when he succeeded Dr. Hughes as archbishop of New York. In 1875 Pins IX. made him a cardinal with the title of Santa Maria sopm Mineroa, and he received his cardinal's hat in Rome from Leo XIII. in 1878. He has shown himself a highly vigorous and successful administrator in all his responsible positions, and is both personally esteemed and popular as a cardinal-prince in his own communion and outside its bounds.