Besides these grave blunders, the _New Englander_, professing to give a statement of the _German_ provinces by taking _Germany_, "province by province," has omitted many German provinces, which omission very materially affects the result. We take the liberty of putting them in to show how "economical" of truth the _New Englander_ has been. _Provinces omitted for which returns were given._ PROTESTANT. PR. CT. CATHOLIC. PR. CT. Saxon Prussia 10 Austrian Silesia 13.8 Brunswick 18.9 Mecklenburg-Schwerin 20.7 Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 15.6 Saxe Altenburg 16.9 Hesse 17.2 Bremen 7.2 We shall now proceed to do what the _New Englander_ professed to do, but merely shifting the question, has not done, namely, compare the Catholic and Protestant provinces of Protestant Prussia and Roman Catholic Austria, province by province, as they existed previous to the last war, to correspond to the comparison of the cities of these countries which were contained within these limits. Milan, as well as Lemburg and Zara, are put down among the Austrian cities. We shall give the corresponding provinces: _Illegitimacy in Prussian and Austrian Provinces._ POPULATION PROTESTANT. IN MILLIONS. PR. CT. Brandenburg 2.62 12 Pomerania 1.44 10 Prussia 3.01 9 Saxony (province) 2.04 10 ---- ---- 9.11 10.2 POPULATION CATHOLIC. IN MILLIONS. PR. CT. Austria (Upper and Lower) 2.47 29.3 Bohemia 5.11 16.3 Carinthia .34 45 Carniola .47 11.7 Moravia 1.99 15.1 Posen 1.52 6.8 Rhineland 3.35 3.4 Austrian Silesia .49 13.8 Salzburg .15 29.6 Styria 1.09 30.6 Trieste, etc. .56 9.9 Tyrol .88 6 Hungary 10.68 6 Galicia 5.10 8 Dalmatia .44 5 Croatia .95 5.5 Lombardy and Venice 5.55 5.1 ----- ---- 41.14 10.3