So recently as the beginning of the year 1847, the virgin Mary was said to have appeared to two shepherds, in the district of Grenoble. The so-called miracle was blazed forth far and wide, and an engraved representation of the appearance was widely distributed. Nor was this all: it was said that the virgin sat on a stone during the interview, and that, on this being broken, after she was gone, there was found in the interior an image of our Lord! But what are the facts that have been discovered since? That the priests employed a lady to personate the virgin; and that the figure in the stone was traced by a French officer, who, with a companion, placed it on that spot for a joke; as, in Italy, objects of modern manufacture are buried, and then dug up, to be passed off on the unwary as really antique! In such instances, however, money is frequently made; while the French officers had no mercenary intentions. We close these exposures with a pretended miracle of the Greek church. At the church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, there is annually a ceremony to which multitudes are attracted. It is pretended by the Greek priests, that, on a particular day, a sacred fire proceeds from the sepulchre: the pilgrims, therefore, congregated at Jerusalem, attend there to light theirs; these are then extinguished, and carefully preserved, to be added to the garment dipped in the Jordan when they are buried. All, however, await the arrival of the Turkish governor; for, “till he arrives, the miracle is not certainly to take place.”