to state the correct numbers of the Protestant emigration.  Assuming that one hundred thousand Protestants were distributed among twenty millions of Roman Catholics, we think it safe to calculate that from two hundred and fifty to three hundred thousand, during fifteen years, expatriated themselves from France.  Sismondi estimates their number at three or four hundred thousand.  Reaching London, Amsterdam or Berlin, the refugees were received with open purses and arms, and England, America, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Holland, all profited by this wholesale proscription of Frenchmen.  All agree that these Protestant emigrants were among the bravest, the most industrious, loyal and pious in the kingdom of France, and that they carried with them the arts by which they had enriched their own land, and abundantly repaid the hospitality of those countries which afforded them that asylum denied them in their own.

The influence which the Huguenot refugees especially exerted upon trade and manufactures in those countries where they settled, was very striking and lasting.  England and Holland, of all other nations, owe gratitude to the Protestants of France for the various branches of industry introduced by them, and which have greatly contributed in making their ‘merchants princes,’ and, their ’traffickers the honorable of the earth.’  We refer to these nations particularly, because they are so intimately connected with the colonization of our own favored land.  The Huguenot refugees in England introduced the silk factories in Spitalfields, using looms like those of Lyons and of Tours.  They also commenced the manufacture of fine linen, calicoes, sail-cloth, tapestries, and paper, most of which had before been imported from France.  It has been estimated that these refugees thus brought into Great Britain a trade which deprived France of an annual income of nearly ten millions of dollars.  Science, arms, jurisprudence and literature, were also advanced by their arrival.  The first newspaper in Ireland was published by the Pastor Droz, a refugee, who also founded a library in Dublin.  Thelluson (Lord Redlesham), a brave soldier in the Peninsular war, General Ligonier, General Prevost of the British army, Sir Samuel Romilly, Majendie, Bishop of Chester, Henry Layard, the excavator of Nineveh, all are the descendants of the French Huguenots.  Saurin secured the reputation of his powerful eloquence at the Hague; but in the French Church, Threadneedle street, London, he reached the summit of his splendid pulpit eloquence.  Most of the Huguenots who fled to England for an asylum were natives of Normandy, Brittany, Picardy, and Guienne.  Their numbers at the revocation may be calculated at eighty thousand.  Hume estimates them at fifty thousand, another writer at seventy thousand, but we believe these calculations are too low.  In 1676, the communicants of the Protestant French Church at Canterbury reached not less than twenty-five hundred.  Of all the services