ROME, Canada, and Peru bear testimony to the fact that the dupes of Romish priests are not all dead. Nor have all had their blind eyes opened. Madame Bompiani writes of puerile scenes of idol worship in Rome, scenes not of the middle ages but of to-day. A Canadian correspondent tells us that when the body of the deceased Archbishop Bourget lay in state, "priests and nuns remained near it to direct those who came to touch the prelate's hands and vestments for various pious objects, many believing it possible to obtain deliverance from disease and pain by the process of touch. It has been stated that 'no less than three million articles of different kinds were brought into contact with the remains of the reputed saint.'" This statement of our correspondent confirms a former item on the subject, which appeared in our columns. We can only say that if each article thus magnetized or vitalized, or whatever it was, should heal somebody, the archbishop will have accomplished more in his death than he could hope to have accomplished in a century of life. A recent telegram from Chorillos, Peru, says: "Yesterday was the Feast of St. Peter, and the image of the saint, accompanied by a silent and respectful crowd, embarked in a fishing boat and was furnished with fishing-lines. After sailing twice around the bay, a large fish was caught, and the image was then returned to its pedestal in the Chorillos church." The telegram is a little indefinite. It does not positively assert that the image did the fishing, but since it was furnished with the lines we presume it was intended that we should believe that the image caught the fish. We are hardly prepared to accept the account as true, for one fish is anything but an apostolic haul. Yet upon reflection we remember that Peter and his confrères once toiled all night and caught nothing, so that one fish was about all that could be expected from a wooden image of the apostle. But there is a very serious side to all this. We have here threefold testimony that the Romish church still trades upon the superstitions of her credulous followers. Could superstition be banished from the world, that apostate church would speedily learn that the hope of her gains was gone.—N. Y. Observer.