_True Averages._ Protestant 8.3 Catholic 7.4 Here we are glad to end the general investigation, and to show that, if we are not very much better than our neighbors, we are not any worse, and are not to be hounded down with the cry of vice and immorality by a set of Pharisees who are constantly lauding their own superiority, and thanking God they are so much better than we poor Catholics. We must notice, before we conclude, some minor points of the _New Englander's_ reply to THE CATHOLIC WORLD. He insists that it is highly improbable that any of the foundlings received into the hospital at Rome come from the provinces, and says we have not adduced a particle of proof to the contrary. Well, as far as the readers of the _New Englander_ are concerned, what is the use of adducing any proof?--for that very Christian journal takes no notice of any refutations of its statements, nor concedes any point, however strongly proved, but is solely occupied in showing, by fair means or foul, our "total depravity," as if the very life and breath of the Protestant religion depended on maintaining a deep and bitter hatred and contempt of Catholics. To our own readers, we do not think it worth while to adduce any particular proof of a self-evident proposition. If there be a foundling hospital, receiving infants left at its door, it requires no proof that it will serve the adjacent country as well as the city. We have documentary evidence to prove this point; but the _New Englander_ contains so many errors which require our attention, that we have not space for so trivial a matter. We would like, however, to ask our friend of the _New Englander_ whether he believes any of the _three thousand_ infants received in the foundling hospital of Amsterdam come from the country. 2d. The _New Englander_ says, "But where do the infants come from that are received in the multitudes of _country_ nunneries that abound throughout the rural districts, and commonly have each its _crèche_, or cradle, in which the child of shame may be dropped in secret with a ring of the bell, and left?" It is time enough to answer this question when any proof of its truth is brought forward; but we can assure our friend that if any infants are so received, they all find their way to the hospital in short order. 3d. We find the following unique and highly gentlemanly insinuation in the _New Englander_: