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erupted from beneath the granite, and 
intermixed with it on the surface? If 
the latter, we may well conceive that 
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fragments brought down by the rivers 
might be washed by the tides and cur- 
rents as far west as Boulogne. 
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HE avowed determination of our 
Goyernment to acknowledge the in- 
dependence of the Columbian, Brazilian, 
and Mexican States, will, we trust, justify 
us in the estimation of our readers for 
compiling from the columns of the Times 
Newspaper the following account of the 
completion and publication of the Mexican 
Constitution. . 
Sovereign Constituent Congress. Presidency 
of Senor Zavala. Siitiag of Ovtober 4,— 
hen the constitution was subscribed by 
the members, a deputation appointed for 
the purpose was deputed to present it to 
the Executive. This commission con- 
sisted of Senors Vargas, Guerra, Perez, 
Duslonguer, Arguelles, Embides, Casares, 
Cabrera, Florriaga, Veliz, Ahamada, Gu- 
tierrez, Fernandez del Campo, Paredes, 
Alared. Vasquez, Osorez, Valle, Basta- 
mente, Escalante, Marquez, Barbabesa, 
and the secretaries Viga and Piedra. It 
was then decreed, 1. ‘ That without loss of 
time, the Goyernment shall proceed to the 
solemn publication of the Constitution in 
the capital, and communicate it imme- 
diately to the governors of the states, and 
the political authorities of the territory, 
that the same may be done on every point 
of Mexico.—2. That the Supreme Execu- 
tive Power will regulate the ceremony of 
the publication, of which the preceding 
article speaks, taking care that it is all con- 
ducted with due solemnity.” 
“The Supreme Power received with re- 
spect the Constitution presented, and ma- 
nifested, with enthusiasm, the singular plea- 
sure which it felt at seeing the regenera- 
tion of their country completed. It de- 
elared that it would spare neither labour 
nor diligence to cause this fundamental 
law to be observed, and was impatient to 
receive the order to come and swear to 
observe it. 
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the 
Commission left the Palace of the Sove- 
reign Congress with a guard of honour, 
amid salyoes of artillery, the ringing of 
bells, and the joyful acclamations of the 
people. The deputation haying arrived in 
the magnificent saloon, where the Execu- 
tive Power was waiting them; Senor 
Vargas, the president of the deputation, 
pronounced a patriotic discourse, to which 
General Guadalupe Victoria, President. of 
the Supreme Executive Power, replied in 
appropriate terms; and the Constitution 
was fully ratified, both by the Executive and 
the Congress. A manifesto, of great length, 
and which does equal credit to the patrio- 
tism and the intelligence by which it seems 
to have been dictated, was accordingly pub- 
lished by the Supreme Executive Power to 
the nation; stating that the nation was 
ebout to be governed by one President; 
explaining the principles of the federal 
constitution adopted; the struggles by 
which it had been obtained; the duties 
of citizens; the necessity of subordina- 
tion, &c. 
As our limits do not permit us to enter 
into the subject at length, suffice it to say, 
that the Republic of Mexico has’ adopted 
the constitution of the North American 
Union, as its general model—that the 
Mexican Government is federal—and_ that 
the Republic is entitled the United Mexi- 
can States. Like the North American 
Union, the United Mexican States pos- 
sess a general legislative, a general execu- 
tive, anda general judicial power, together 
with a legislative, executive, and judicial 
power for each state. It is the General or 
Federal Constitution, embracing and eon- 
trolling all the states, which has just been 
finished and promulgated. The Provincial 
Authorities and Legislatures are still pro- 
ceeding with the formation of their separate 
codes. The General or Federal Legisla~ 
ture consists, as in North America, of a 
House of Deputies and a Senate. The 
election of the former, as in North Ame- 
rica, takes place every two years. The 
basis of the nomination of Deputies is the 
extent of population. A Deputy is to be 
elected for every 80,000 souls, or for any 
fraction of that number which shall exeeed 
40,000. For proportioning the number of 
Deputies over the Union, a census of the 
population is to be made every ten years. 
The Senate is to be composed of two Sena- 
tors for every State, chosen by the separate 
State Legislatures. The meeting of the 
two bodies of Deputies and Senators is 
called, as in North America, the Genera] 
Congress. It would be needless to the 
readers of constitutions to specify the pow- 
ers, privileges and duties of the individual 
members or collective bodies of these assem- 
blies. ‘[he Deputies and Senators are to 
be paid for their attendance, by a law which 
is to be afterwards passed. The ordinary 
session of Congress is every year to begin 
on the Ist of January, and to end on the 
15th of April. When extraordinary ses- 
sions are held, the specific subject of delibe- 
ration must be determined in the deeree by 
which the legislative bodies are convoked. 
The executive power of the Mexican Fedé- 
ration is to reside’ in a single person, called 
the President of the United. Mexiean 
States. This supreme magistrate is to be 
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