| PR. CT. | POPULATION IN MILLIONS. | |
| Catholic | 10.3 | 41.14 |
| Bavaria | 22.5 | 4.81 |
| Baden | 16.2 | 1.43 |
| 11.7 | 47.38 |
We dismiss the New Englander from the examination of provinces with the conviction that he ought now to become a wiser if not a better man.
2dly. The New Englander gives us another division of his work, entitled thus, "3. Comparison of mixed populations," the object of which seems to be two-fold: 1st, To show the wonderful effect of a little Protestant salt in a mass of Catholic corruption; and 2dly, to push up the rate of Catholic Austria to a high figure by excluding the best half of it, and thus to come out with flying colors in the grand tabular statement of all the European countries. He commences with the following round but very novel statement: "The empire of Austria includes a population of 31,655,746; of these, 21,082,801 or two thirds, are non-Romanists, belonging to the Protestant church or Greek Church."
The population of the empire of Austria is really divided as follows:
Catholic26,728,020
All others7,703,976
by which specimen we may form a good judgment of the general accuracy of the New Englander.
He goes on, "In nine of the Austrian provinces the population is almost exclusively Roman Catholic. In seven, the Roman Catholics are, on an average, in a minority of 46 per cent." He proves these assertions by a table of
Mixed Provinces.
| ROMANISTS. | ILLEGITIMATE. | |||
| Hungary | 52 | per cent. | 6 | per cent. |
| Galicia | 44 | " | 8 | " |
| Bukowina | 9 | " | 9 | " |
| Dalmatia | 81 | " | 5 | " |
| Militärgrenze | 42 | " | 1.4 | " |
| Croatia, etc. | 82 | " | 5.5 | " |
| Transylvania | 11 | " | 7 | " |
| Average | 46 | " | 6 | " |
accompanied by the following remark: "This falling of the rate of illegitimacy from twenty-one to six, when the proportion of Romanists to the population falls off from ninety-seven to forty-six, indicates the salutary effect of Protestant Christianity, not only on its own followers, but also on the working of Romanism itself." But suppose the population does not fall off from ninety-seven to forty-six per cent, and that in most of these provinces, and where the rate of illegitimacy is the lowest, there are no Protestants at all, and a small proportion in the rest; what is shown, then, unless it be the ignorance and bad faith of the New Englander, which professes to be the "recognized exponent of those views of religious life which have given character to New England, and its essays to be among the best fruits of thought and opinion which the education given at Yale is adapted to foster"? Alas! Messrs. Editors, you have unceremoniously dropped nearly 4,000,000 of Roman Catholics from your computation. Are you not aware that the United Greeks are Roman Catholics? If you are not, we beg leave to enlighten you, and correct the table you have so ostentatiously paraded before the public: