The Apparitions and Miracles at Knock; also, the Official Depositions of the Eye-witnesses

The Multitudes who come to visit Knock.
And first as to the multitudes. A vast gathering of people
from all the border towns within a circuit of twenty miles
assembled those few weeks past at this unpretending little vil
lage ; some of the pilgrim travellers started before day, guided
by the light of the stars alone, and urged onward by
the fervour of their own faith. Some were seen wending
their way on foot, others on horseback, while whole families
of peasants proceeded on their pilgrimage, journeying on the
ordinary country vehicle known as a cart ; the better class
indulged in the luxury of side-cars, or, as they are known in
Dublin by the name, "outsiders;" not a few families from
the different towns cut a dash by a tandem drive with the
highest available vehicle in these parts, known by the unpre
tending and not agreeably-sounding name of " drag ;" a
" hansom " would be quite a novel vehicle in that district.
The gathering had, certainly, been enormous, exhibiting,
at the same time, an agreeable diversity in the mixed
character of the crowd assembled.
The diversity and variety of the Multitudes.
The variety of individual character was co-extensive with
the greatness of the numbers .that composed the gathering.
There, one could behold the blind, the lame, the crippled,
the deformed, the deaf, the paralytic—all seeking to be
cured, like those whom the Redeemer found at the Pool of
Bethsaida, in Jerusalem. Accounts without number have
come to our ears of cures effected before Christmas last, and,
above all, since that period ; and on last Thursday week it is
stated that two remarkable miracles were performed on two
persons who for years had, from the result of accidental