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MEXICO. 



cation, 541; resolutions, 542 ; veto-power of 

 bishops, 543; Colored Methodist Episcopal, 

 643 ; statistics, 543 ; Conference, 543 ; Meth- 

 odist Protestant statistics, 543 ; General Con- 

 ference, 543; proposals for reunion, 544; 

 Primitive Methodists, 544; Western Confer- 

 ence, 544; Eastern Conference, 544; Free 

 Methodists, 545 ; Wesleyan Methodists, 545 ; 

 Conference, 545 ; proceedings, 545 ; Methodist 

 New Convention in Canada, 546 ; settlement of 

 differences, 546 ; Methodist Church of Canada, 

 547; Conference, 547; Missionary Society, 

 647 ; Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, 

 548; Conference, 548; Primitive Methodists 

 jn Canada, 548 ; Bible Christian Church, 648 ; 

 Wesleyan Methodist Convention, 548; Irish 

 Wesleyan Conference, 549 ; Conference, 549 ; 

 Methodist New Convention, 550; Primitive 

 Methodist Convention, 550 ; United Methodist 

 Free Churches, 550 ; Wesleyan Reform, 551 ; 

 Bible Christians, 551. 



XV. Methodist Episcopal Church statistics, 

 487 ; missionary committee, 488 ; Church ex- 

 tension, 488; Freedmen's Aid Society, 488; 

 Methodist Episcopal Church South, statistics, 

 489 ; missions, 489 ; Vanderbilt University, 

 489 ; General Conference, 489 ; the Methodist 

 Church statistics, 489; General Conference, 

 490 ; Union Commissioners, 490 ; Wesleyan 

 Methodist Connection, 490 ; Methodist Church 

 in Canada, 491 ; Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 491 ; Primitive Methodists, 491 ; Bible Chris- 

 tians, 491 ; Wesleyan Connection, 491 ; mis- 

 sion-fund, 492 ; conferences, 492 ; proceeding?, 

 493 ; missions, 494 ; Primitive Methodist Con- 

 nection, 494; Methodist New Connection, 

 495 ; United Methodist Free Churches, 496 ; 

 Wesleyan Reform Union, 496 ; Australian 

 Methodist Church, 496. 



METRIC SYSTEM, THE. VI. Explanation, 

 493 ; basis, 493 ; unit of length, 493 ; do. of 

 measure of surface, 493 ; do. of solid measure, 

 494 ; do. of liquid measure, 494 ; do. of weight, 

 494 ; act of Congress to authorize the system, 

 494 ; measures of length, 494 ; do. of surface, 

 494 ; do. of weight, 494 ; other resolutions and 

 acts of Congress, 495 ; illustrations of the sys- 

 tem, 496. 



METZGER, ISAAC, M. D., German physician. 

 XIII. Obituary of, 565. 



MEXICO. I. Boundary, 462; States, 462; 

 area, 462 ; population, 462 ; races, 462 ; trade, 

 462 ; production of silver, 462 ; political con- 



dition, 463 ; Government, 463 ; list of constitu- 

 tions adopted, 464 ; excesses, 464 ; disorders, 

 464; proceedings of President Juarez, 465; 

 Mexican foreign debt, 465 ; taxes, 465 ; foreign 

 interference, 465 ; doctrine of the American 

 Government, 465 ; its present doctrine, 466 ; 

 immediate causes of the complaints on the part 

 of the three nations, 466 ; convention between 

 France and Spain, 466 ; speech of the Spanish 

 Queen, 467 ; plan of operations of the allied 

 powers, 467 ; military and naval forces, 468 ; 

 arrival at Vera Cruz, 468 ; proclamation to the 

 people, 468 ; do. of the Mexican general, 469. 



II. Population, 583 ; internal affairs, 583 ; 

 movements of the French, 584; position of 

 the Government of the United States relative 

 to, 584. 



III. Progress of events, 631 ; Mexican 

 Church, 631 ; first revolution, 681 ; course 

 of the clergy, 631 ; energy of the Church 

 party, 632 ; Liberals and Church party, 632 ; 

 intervention not a new scheme of the Church 

 party, 633 ; numbers and wealth of the clergy, 

 633; French and Mexican forces, 633; mili- 

 tary events, 634 ; capture of Puebla, 634, 635 ; 

 advance on Mexico, 635 ; organization of a 

 government, 635 ; proceedings, 636 ; proceed- 

 ings relative to Maximilian, 636, 637 ; further 

 military operations, 637, 638; new measures 

 of the Church party in the city of Mexico, 

 639 ; General Bazaine's letter to the archbish- 

 op, 640 ; protest of the bishops, 640 ; sequestra- 

 tion policy, 641 ; correspondence of the gen- 

 eral in command with the archbishop, 642; 

 position of the United States, 642; Monroe 

 doctrine, 643 ; diplomatic correspondence, 644. 



IV. Resolution in Congress relative to, 314 ; 

 position of the French, 517 ; the Juarists, 517; 

 state of the country, 517 ; military movements, 

 617; occupation of Monterey by Juarez, 518; 

 his position, 518 ; arrival of Santa Anna, 518; 

 order of General Bazaine, 518 ; blockade of the 

 coast, 519 ; reply of Maximilian to the French 

 delegation at Miramar, 619; convention be- 

 tween France and Mexico, 520 ; Maximilian vis- 

 its Rome, 520 ; goes to Mexico, 520 ; reply to 

 the Prefect of Mexico, 521 ; enters the capital, 

 521 ; excitement attending his arrival, 521 ; 

 clemency, 621 ; reply of Juarez to his letter, 

 621 ; finances, 622 ; military organization, 

 523 ; events, 623 ; military operations, 523 ; 

 tour of the Emperor, 524 ; letter to the Minis- 

 ter of State unfolding his policy, 624 ; civil 



