by which specimen we may form a good judgment of the general accuracy of the _New Englander_. He goes on, "In nine of the Austrian provinces the population is almost exclusively Roman Catholic. In seven, the Roman Catholics are, on an average, in a minority of 46 per cent." He proves these assertions by a table of _Mixed Provinces._ ROMANISTS. ILLEGITIMATE. Hungary 52 per cent. 6 per cent. Galicia 44 " 8 " Bukowina 9 " 9 " Dalmatia 81 " 5 " Militärgrenze 42 " 1.4 " Croatia, etc. 82 " 5.5 " Transylvania 11 " 7 " -- --- Average 46 " 6 " accompanied by the following remark: "This falling of the rate of illegitimacy from twenty-one to six, when the proportion of Romanists to the population falls off from ninety-seven to forty-six, indicates the salutary effect of Protestant Christianity, not only on its own followers, but also on the working of Romanism itself." But suppose the population does not fall off from ninety-seven to forty-six per cent, and that in most of these provinces, and where the rate of illegitimacy is the lowest, there are no Protestants at all, and a small proportion in the rest; what is shown, then, unless it be the ignorance and bad faith of the _New Englander_, which professes to be the "recognized exponent of those views _of religious life_ which have given character to New England, and its essays to be among the best fruits of thought and opinion which the education given at Yale is adapted to foster"? Alas! Messrs. Editors, you have unceremoniously dropped nearly 4,000,000 of Roman Catholics from your computation. Are you not aware that the United Greeks are Roman Catholics? If you are not, we beg leave to enlighten you, and correct the table you have so ostentatiously paraded before the public: _Jews & Schismatic_ _Catholics._ _Protestants._ _Greeks._ POP. IN PR. POP. IN PR. POP. IN PR. THOUS'DS. CT. THOUS'DS. CT. THOUS'DS. CT. Hungary 5965 61 2349 24 1449 15 Galicia 4150 90 31 1 449 9 Bukowina 43 10 none 0 381 90 Dalmatia 338 81 none 0 77 19 Militärgrenze 454 43 20 2 587 55 Croatia, etc. 721 85 none 0 130 15 Transylvania 775 40 510 27 637 33 ------ -- ---- -- ---- -- Total 12,446 65 2910 15 3760 20