The true character of the treatment of his case will appear from the following narrative. He had been a poor friendless boy, who had attended the sheep belonging to the ruins of Scienna, or Sciennes, about a quarter of a mile from Edinburgh. It was one of his amusements to turn up the whites of his eyes; and, so effectually did he do this, as to appear, at pleasure, perfectly blind. The nuns spoke of him to some priests and friars, and they laid the plan which was afterwards carried out. The child was secreted for some years from public view, and, when it was supposed he was so altered as not to be recognised, he was sent forth a blind mendicant, accompanied by a person who believed he was born so, and had previously been supported by the nuns. Bound by a solemn but rash vow to affect blindness, he travelled the country for a considerable time, till at length the trick of his restoration was played as has already been stated. Among the numerous publications of M. Guizot, is an edition of the “Chronicles of Frodvard,” which, in addition to much historical matter, ascribes many miracles to the bishops of Rheims. One of them, bishop Remi, it is said, “was in the house of a wealthy female relative, conversing with her on religious topics, when her butler announced that there was no more wine in the cellars. The bishop, seeing her embarrassment, having previously entered some of the lower apartments himself, proposed to accompany her to the cellar. When they entered it, he inquired whether there was not a little wine remaining in a particular cask. The butler replied, that there was only enough to preserve it from decay. The bishop then desired him to shut the door, and not to stir from his position, and passing to the other end to the cask, which was pretty large, he made the sign of the cross and prayed. Soon the wine rose up out of the cask, and flooded over the cellar-floor!” Now, the fact of the bishop’s visit to the cellar first; of a butler, it might be, not very acute in vision, being desired, after locking the door, to exclude all witnesses, and to stand at a distance; and, of a relation of the bishop, who might easily be made a confederate, being engaged; is surely more than sufficient to set aside the whole tale. Moreover, the lady gave, as the result of the prodigy, which many a conjuror has easily surpassed, a portion of her estate in perpetuity to the bishop and his church! Prodigies of the Romish church in abundance have had precisely the same issue. In an official and authorized Roman Catholic publication, printed in 1831, we are told that not less than twenty-six pictures of the virgin Mary opened and shut their eyes at Rome during the years 1796 and 1797, which was supposed to be an indication of her peculiar favour to the inhabitants of that city for the opposition which they presented to the French. Among the subscribers to this work are the four archbishops and eleven bishops of Ireland.