25 JULY 1835, Page 13

A MISTAKE IN REGARD TO RATHCORMAC.

TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SPECTATOR.

SIR—Allow me to rectify an error in page 6:34 of your spirited and intelli- gent publication. In treating of Rathcormac parish, you say, " it is cursed with two clergy- men." Now I beg to state, that the Rector of Rathcormac, the Reverend WIL- LIAM BOURNE, has never engaged in any tithe conflict ; nor Las any affray, con- sequent thereto, ever occurred in his parish. Your allusion is evidently to the melancholy catastrophe which took place at Gortroe, the adjoining, parish ; of which the Venerable WiLLEA 31 RYDER, Archdeacon of Cloyne, is the Rector. The parish of Gortroe contains no town or considerable village; and there- fore the inquest on the bodies found dead there was held in the town of Rath- corniac ; and thus the mistake—so prevalent in the public prints—has arisen.