| PROTESTANT. | PR. CT. | ROMAN CATHOLIC. | PR. CT. |
| Brandenburg | 12 | Austria (Upper and Lower) | 29.3 |
| Hanover | 9.6 | Bohemia | 16.3 |
| Pomerania | 10 | Baden | 16.2 |
| Prussia | 6.7 | Bavaria | 22.5 |
| Saxony | 15.9 | Carinthia | 11.7 |
| Würtemberg | 16.4 | Carniola | 45 |
| Moravia | 15.1 | ||
| Posen | 6.8 | ||
| Rhineland | 3.4 | ||
| Salzburg | 29.6 | ||
| Styria | 30.6 | ||
| Trieste, Gorz, etc. | 9.9 | ||
| Tyrol and Vorarlberg | 6 | ||
| Average | 11.7 | Average | 18.6 |
We repeat, the question as put by the New Englander itself is not about German provinces, but of the Protestant and Roman Catholic provinces of Prussia and Austria. Moreover, the table as it stands is grossly untrue. The rate of illegitimacy of the province of Prussia is 9 instead of 6.7, which materially alters the general average.
The averages of the table are falsely given as,
Protestant11.7Catholic18.6
The true averages found by balancing the populations and the rates, according to the rules of arithmetic, are:
Protestant12Catholic16.9
Besides these grave blunders, the New Englander, professing to give a statement of the German provinces by taking Germany, "province by province," has omitted many German provinces, which omission very materially affects the result. We take the liberty of putting them in to show how "economical" of truth the New Englander has been.
Provinces omitted for which returns were given.
| PROTESTANT. | PR. CT. | CATHOLIC. | PR. CT. |
| Saxon Prussia | 10 | Austrian Silesia | 13.8 |
| Brunswick | 18.9 | ||
| Mecklenburg-Schwerin | 20.7 | ||
| Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | 15.6 | ||
| Saxe Altenburg | 16.9 | ||
| Hesse | 17.2 | ||
| Bremen | 7.2 |
We shall now proceed to do what the New Englander professed to do, but merely shifting the question, has not done, namely, compare the Catholic and Protestant provinces of Protestant Prussia and Roman Catholic Austria, province by province, as they existed previous to the last war, to correspond to the comparison of the cities of these countries which were contained within these limits. Milan, as well as Lemburg and Zara, are put down among the Austrian cities. We shall give the corresponding provinces: