Illegitimacy in Prussian and Austrian Provinces.

PROTESTANT.POPULATION IN MILLIONS.PR. CT.
Brandenburg2.6212
Pomerania1.4410
Prussia3.019
Saxony (province)2.0410
9.1110.2
CATHOLIC.POPULATION IN MILLIONS.PR. CT.
Austria (Upper and Lower)2.4729.3
Bohemia5.1116.3
Carinthia.3445
Carniola.4711.7
Moravia1.9915.1
Posen1.526.8
Rhineland3.353.4
Austrian Silesia.4913.8
Salzburg.1529.6
Styria1.0930.6
Trieste, etc..569.9
Tyrol.886
Hungary10.686
Galicia5.108
Dalmatia.445
Croatia.955.5
Lombardy and Venice5.555.1
41.1410.3

We have thus shown, by a mathematical demonstration, that the words which the New Englander found convenient to put in our mouths, though we really said nothing of the kind, that "if the returns of the provinces were brought into the account, they would more than redress the balance of the cities," are sufficiently made good. We are glad he "proceeded to put our proposition to experiment," and we caution him when he makes any more experiments of this kind to reflect that, whatever may be the judgment of an uncritical public prepared to take his statements without examination, his artifices, misstatements, and false conclusions are sure to be detected by any well-informed reader who will take the trouble of examining them. The result of the comparison of the Protestant and Roman Catholic provinces of Austria and Prussia sums up in this fashion:

False Average of the New Englander.
Protestant11.7Catholic18.6

True Average.
Protestant10.2Catholic10.3

We have thus finished this part of our task, strictly confining ourselves to the provinces in question; but as it seems more complete to add the other German provinces on both sides, of which returns are given, we do so with the following result:

Provinces already given.

PR. CT.POPULATION IN MILLIONS.
Protestant10.29.11
Würtemberg16.41.75
Smaller German States[16]14.86.40
12.517.26