POPULATION CATHOLIC. PR. CT. IN MILLIONS. Baden 16.2 1.43 Bavaria 22.5 4.81 Belgium 7.2 4.98 France 7.2 38.07 Austria 11.1 34.98 Italy 5.1 24.23 Spain 5.5 15.67 ---- ------ Average 8.4 124.17 The _New Englander_ has been quite hard on us for classing Holland and Switzerland, in which there are very large Catholic minorities, as mixed countries, and remanded them with an air of injured innocence forthwith into the Protestant column, where it will be observed they present an uncommonly good appearance, being the lowest on the list. We have shown by documentary evidence that in Prussia in 1864, when there was a Catholic minority of thirty-eight per cent, the rate of illegitimacy was brought down by it from 10 to 8.46, or, in other words, if all the Catholics could be removed at once out of the land, the rate of Prussia would stand 10, whereas it appears now 8.6. For this reason we thought fit to make some distinction, lest there should be any strutting around in borrowed plumes, and to form a table of mixed countries. We shall, therefore, carefully avoiding any further wounding of the delicate susceptibilities of the _New Englander_, append a table, making allowances for the minorities on both sides, coming just as near to the exact truth as it is possible: _Table of Illegitimacy, including Majorities and Minorities._ PROT. POP. CATH. POP. PR. CT. IN MILL'S. IN MILL'S. Holland 4.0 2.01 1.23 Italy 5.1 .33 23.90 Spain 5.5 .12 15.55 Switzerland 5.5 1.48 1.02 Catholics in Prussia 6.5 -- 7.20 England and Wales 6.5 19.00 1.20 France 7.2 .77 34.93 Belgium 7.2 .02 4.97 Sweden and Norway 9.6 5.81 -- Protestants in Prussia 10.0 11.74 -- Scotland 10.1 3.00 .16 Denmark 11 2.73 -- Austria 11.1 3.45 26.73 German States 14.8 5.88 .52 Würtemberg 16.4 1.20 .53 ---- ----- ------ Mean Protestants 8.3 57.54 117.94 Mean Catholics 7.4 To sum up, we have for our final result: _New Englander's Averages._ Protestant 8.8 Catholic 11.7; or, omitting Italy and Spain 14.5