In like manner, the returns for Spain are treated. "As for Spain, its census returns, if quoted at all among statistics, are quoted at even a larger discount than its financial securities. The sum of the Spanish censuses for the last forty years has been up and down after the following zigzag fashion: "1828 13,698,029 1837 12,222,872 1842 12,054,000 1846 12,164,000 1850 10,942,000 1861 16,000,000 1864 15,752,807" Not having found our friend of the _New Englander_ very precise heretofore in his figures, we did not exactly take them on trust this time, but looked in our "Handbuch," and found the following _Table of Censuses in Spain._ 1822 11,661,865 1832 11,158,264 1846 12,162,872 1857 15,464,340 1860 15,673,536 which does not exhibit any great "zigzag" propensity. The following table of births does not show any mark of being either untrustworthy or defective, but is uncommonly complete and steady: LEGITIMATE. ILLEGITIMATE. 1858 516,118 30,040 1859 525,243 31,080 1860 541,231 32,222 1861 577,484 34,125 1862 573,646 33,416 1863 565,144 32,997 1864 586,993 34,458 1865 581,686 33,227 So much for the romancing of the _New Englander_, which we might appropriately designate as building "castles in Spain." We beg our readers' pardon for these long lists of figures, but they are really necessary for the correct understanding of the matter. As to Austria, we shall take the liberty to bring down her figure from 18.1 to 11.1; not that it would make so very much difference in the general average of the nations, except in the clap-trap mode of calculation adopted by the _New Englander_, but because justice, as we have amply shown, demands it. We shall now present a true table of the European countries, slightly modifying some of the rates, to correspond to later and better information, and inserting all the omitted countries of which returns are given: _Table of Illegitimacy in European Countries._ POPULATION PROTESTANT. PR. CT. IN MILLIONS. Denmark[17] 11 2.73 England and Wales 6.5 20.07 Scotland 10.1 3.06 Holland 4 3.53 Prussia 8.6 18.94 Sweden and Norway 9.6 5.81 Switzerland 5.5 2.51 Würtemberg 16.4 1.75 Other German States[18] 14.8 6.40 ---- ----- Average 8.7 64.80