A PARAGRAPH is floating around promiscuously in our exchanges which states that although the first Protestant chapel was opened in Madrid as recently as 1869, there are now sixty Protestant communities in Spain, scarcely a large town without a regularly organized church, fourteen thousand openly professed Protestants, and from twenty-six thousand to thirty thousand persons who are Protestant at heart—though exactly how those hearts came to be read we are unable to say—and that at least eight thousand children are found in Protestant Sunday-schools. It is an easy matter to trace to their source these statements, honestly made but greatly exaggerated. As the truth gains nothing, in the end, by claiming more than it can substantiate, it may be well to dispute any delusion which these claims may have created. There probably are in Spain about sixty Protestant congregations, such as they are. Some of them are about, or quite, as small as they can be, and have “a name to live.” How many Spaniards have proclaimed a divorce between themselves and the Church of Rome and are so far Protestants, cannot be easily ascertained. While the number of such people greatly exceeds thirty thousand, there is no such number that can safely be called Protestants in our meaning of the word. Just now they are simply “unbelievers.” The present number of Spaniards who have really become Protestants by an open profession of adherence to some one of the Protestant confessions, or forms of worship, instead of being fourteen thousand does not really exceed five thousand, and even from this reduced number must be deducted a very considerable number who, after a profession of faith in Christ and an abjuration of Romanism, have failed to give satisfactory evidence of a change of heart and of life. A similar deduction must be made from the eight thousand Spanish children said to be found in Protestant Sunday-schools. The number of such children certainly does not exceed five thousand; it is probably considerably less.—Interior.