Table of Censuses in Spain.
| 1822 | 11,661,865 |
| 1832 | 11,158,264 |
| 1846 | 12,162,872 |
| 1857 | 15,464,340 |
| 1860 | 15,673,536 |
which does not exhibit any great "zigzag" propensity.
The following table of births does not show any mark of being either untrustworthy or defective, but is uncommonly complete and steady:
| LEGITIMATE. | ILLEGITIMATE. | |
| 1858 | 516,118 | 30,040 |
| 1859 | 525,243 | 31,080 |
| 1860 | 541,231 | 32,222 |
| 1861 | 577,484 | 34,125 |
| 1862 | 573,646 | 33,416 |
| 1863 | 565,144 | 32,997 |
| 1864 | 586,993 | 34,458 |
| 1865 | 581,686 | 33,227 |
So much for the romancing of the New Englander, which we might appropriately designate as building "castles in Spain."
We beg our readers' pardon for these long lists of figures, but they are really necessary for the correct understanding of the matter. As to Austria, we shall take the liberty to bring down her figure from 18.1 to 11.1; not that it would make so very much difference in the general average of the nations, except in the clap-trap mode of calculation adopted by the New Englander, but because justice, as we have amply shown, demands it.
We shall now present a true table of the European countries, slightly modifying some of the rates, to correspond to later and better information, and inserting all the omitted countries of which returns are given:
Table of Illegitimacy in European Countries.