"Il Conservatorio and other establishments of this class" in Rome are as follows:
Asylums for children of all ages, with schools attached:
S. Maria, in Aguiro, 50 S. Michael, 200 boys. S. Michael, 240 girls. Divine Providence, 100 girls. S. Mary of Refuge, 50 girls. S. Euphemia, 40 girls. Tata Giovanni, over 100 boys. Quatro SS. Giovanni, 12 girls. Zoccoletti, 60 girls. { number boys S. Maria del Angeli, { not and { stated. girls. S. Caterina, " girls. Trinitarians, " girls. St. Pietro, " girls. Il Borromeo, " girls. Mother of Sorrows, " girls.
These are institutions of which Dr. Neligan, who visited them, gives an account in his _Rome_, published by Messrs. Sadlier; and to these must be added the department of S. Spirito, where female foundlings, after being nursed, are received back--if not otherwise provided for--and taken care of for life, or until they marry or get a situation; this numbers about six hundred, according to Maguire. If we add all the numbers together, and also the children under the care of the foundling hospital out at nurse, or being brought up in private families; in short, all the recipients of charity of the different institutions of Rome, we might approach a number corresponding to the three thousand one hundred and sixty of Mittermaier.
We can see by this "how the noble and Christian charity of Rome, excelling that of any other city of its size on the earth, is," by a base and groundless falsehood, sought to be turned into a means of holding her up to the scorn and indignation of the whole world.
We can show, also, in an entirely different way, by the official census of Rome, the absurdity of the statement of Seymour, and that in the most conclusive manner. In the _Civilta Cattolica_ of 21st of December, 1867, we have the census of the population and the number of births for the year 1866; also a tabular statement of those for a period of ten years, ending 21st of April, 1867.
From these we find the present population to be 215,573; the number of the legitimate births for the year from Easter, 1866, to Easter, 1867, was 5739, and adding thereto the still-born, 6120. The average annual number of births in an average population of 197,737, excluding the still-born, was 5657 legitimate, for the decennial period. Adding the still-born, we have an annual average of over 6000 legitimate births.