THE ULSTER CENSUS OF 1891.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR." j
Si,—In view of the approaching General Election, will you kindly afford space for the following figures, just published, showing the number of adherents belonging to the various religions denominations in the Province of Ulster ? The fact that out of thirty-three Members returned by the province to the Imperial Parliament, seventeen are at present Nationalists, is calculated to seriously mislead the English and Scotch peoples as to the real state of the case. Attention has fre- quently been called to this matter, but at the present crisis it will not be superfluous to point to it anew :— Protestant Episcopalians ...
... 382,791 Presbyterians' ... 426,245 Methodists ... ... 40,528 Other Denominations ... 44,851 874,415 Roman Catholics ... ... 744,859 Protestant majority ... 129,564
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