[Footnote 35: _Church and World_, 1867.] The Bavarians are as good a people as any in Germany, and it is a shame to libel them. If countries are to be compared--and it is the only fair and honest way to proceed--why not compare them in a straightforward, obvious way--France and England, Prussia and Austria--in fact, all the countries we can get the statistics of, and show the result in a tabular form, so that we can understand the _whole_ thing at a glance? This would effectually put a stop to the cry of the vice of Catholic countries, which the _Chicago Press_, of January 11th, declares to be "notorious throughout the country." It is "notorious," because statements like Seymour's, cooked up for a purpose, give rise to utterly false conclusions, which are easily caught up and trumpeted, through the pulpit and the press, all over the country. We shall now, leaving out Bavaria, for the reasons above given, give the latest and best statistics, in respect to illegitimate births, which it is possible to get. They are taken from the journals of the Statistical Society of London of the years 1860, 1862, 1865, 1867, the principal portions being compiled by Mr. Lumley, Honorary Secretary of the society, and contained in that of 1862, to be seen in the Astor Library. It will be interesting to the general reader, apart from its controversial bearings. In Prussia, we have statistics according to the religious creed of the people. We shall, therefore, divide it into Catholic and Protestant. We wish the same could be done for Holland and Switzerland. Where there is a large minority differing from the majority, it would be most interesting; but it cannot be done except in Prussia. The number of illegitimate births in the hundred is as follows, according to the latest accounts given: _Catholic Countries._ 1828-37, Kingdom of Sardinia, 2.1 1859, Spain, 5.6 1853, Tuscany 6. 1858, Catholic Prussia, 6.1 1859, Belgium, 7.4 1856, Sicily, 7.4 1858, France, 7.8. 1851, Austria, 9. _Protestant Countries._ 1859, England and Wales, 6.5 1855, Norway, 9.3 1858, Protestant Prussia, 9.3 1855, Sweden 9.5 1855, Hanover, 9.9 1866, Scotland, 10.1 1855, Denmark, 11.5 1838-47, Iceland, 14. 1858, Saxony, 16. 1857, Wurtemberg, 16.1 Mixed countries, where the Catholic population approaches the half: 1859, Holland, 4.1 1852, Switzerland, 6. Lest we be deemed to wish to conceal the depravity of Ireland, we give what is given by Mr. J. D. Chambers, [Footnote 36] who probably has access to the registrar's reports, which, of course, we have not: 1865-66, Catholic Ireland, 3 and these, we remark, are _mostly in the north_, which is Protestant.