As a pendant to the above I may note a ease which has excited imir.h interest, not in Edinburgh alone, but, throughout Scotlnnd. The Hey. Peter Leys, a retired minister of the United Presbyterian Church, was sum moned before the Court of Session by his son, who sought in this way to recover cus tody of his two children, who for some years had been in the care of their grandfather and wholly supported by him It, appeared that the petitioner was not in a position to maintain and educate the children, but that he had become a Roman Catholic, and than he wished to get, possession of his children in order to hand them over to a certain Father Clarke, a Jesuit, -who was desirous of having them educated in a Roman Catholic institu tion. To such a course Mr Leys, senior, was most strongly opposed, on conscientious grounds, and the children are stated to have viewed it with terror. Accordingly the grandfather had the children placed in some place of concealment, where they still remain, and defended tlie action in the court. The law was found to be against him, and he was ordered to hand over the children to the custody of their father. This he refused to do for conscientious reasons, and he wa.s accordingly sent to prison for contempt of court. The caso, as I have said, excited much interest, and resolutions ap proving of Mr Ley's conduct and expressing sympathy with him were passed by various presbyteries, and a petition to the" Govern ment praying for his release was also got up. Nevertheless he lay in the Calton prison, Edinburgh, for about a month, at the end of which time he was released on the petition of his son, to the effect thai he no longer desired to enforce his right to the custody and possession of his children through the continued imprison ment, of his father.' It is universally believed that this step was taken at the instance of the Roman Catholic authorities, who could not fail to see that the transac tion was doing anything but good to their cause. Be that as it may, the old gentleman was released, the victor in the struggle, though his health suffered from the confine ment. 