In Prussia, we have statistics according to the religious creed of the people. We shall, therefore, divide it into Catholic and Protestant. We wish the same could be done for Holland and Switzerland. Where there is a large minority differing from the majority, it would be most interesting; but it cannot be done except in Prussia. The number of illegitimate births in the hundred is as follows, according to the latest accounts given:
| Catholic Countries. | ||
| 1828-37 | Kingdom of Sardinia | 2.1 |
| 1859 | Spain | 5.6 |
| 1853 | Tuscany | 6. |
| 1858 | Catholic Prussia | 6.1 |
| 1859 | Belgium | 7.4 |
| 1856 | Sicily | 7.4 |
| 1858 | France | 7.8 |
| 1851 | Austria | 9. |
| Protestant Countries. | ||
| 1859 | England and Wales | 6.5 |
| 1855 | Norway | 9.3 |
| 1858 | Protestant Prussia | 9.3 |
| 1855 | Sweden | 9.5 |
| 1855 | Hanover | 9.9 |
| 1866 | Scotland | 10.1 |
| 1855 | Denmark | 11.5 |
| 1838-47 | Iceland | 14. |
| 1858 | Saxony | 16. |
| 1857 | Wurtemberg | 16.1 |
Mixed countries, where the Catholic population approaches the half:
| 1859 | Holland | 4.1 |
| 1852 | Switzerland | 6. |
Lest we be deemed to wish to conceal the depravity of Ireland, we give what is given by Mr. J. D. Chambers, [Footnote 36] who probably has access to the registrar's reports, which, of course, we have not:
| 1865-66 | Catholic Ireland, | 3 |
and these, we remark, are mostly in the north, which is Protestant.
[Footnote 36: Church and World, 1867.]
The particulars of the statistics throw a good deal of light on the morality of the different countries, for instance, in France and England. The rate of illegitimacy in all