2 FEBRUARY 1907, Page 15

A CORRECTION.

[To Tan EDITOR OF TIM SPECTAT03..] STR,—I observe in the Spectator of January 12th, in a notice of "The Catholic Directory," the statement, rather startling to a Scotsman, that out of the 4,024 Roman Catholic priests in Great Britain, "Scotland has more than a half of the priests, but less than a third of the churches." On consulting my "Whitaker," I find the number of the clergy there given at 3,939, of whom Scotland is credited with 525, or considerably less than one-seventh of the whole,—that is, in proportion to population, almost exactly the same number as England.—I

The Manse, Hamacolm, N.B.

[Our figures were clearly wrong.—En. Spectator.]