MEXICO. . 



437 



preaching-places, 711 missionaries and assist- 

 ants, 18,949 subordinates, paid and unpaid 

 agents, 88,385 members, 10,000 "on trial," and 

 122,791 Sunday-school scholars. 



The jubilee fund is now closed, 175,000 

 having been collected upon it. 



The number of Wesleyan Sunday-schools in 

 Great Britain is 5,328; of teachers, 103,411; 

 of scholars, 601.801 an increase on the pre- 

 vious year of 19,781. The number of week- 

 day schools is 698, with 119,070 pupils. The 

 amount of Government aid to Wesleyan day- 

 schools was 32,611. The Normal Training- 

 School, at Westminster, numbers 132 students. 



The Wesleyan Methodist Local Preachers' 

 Mutual Aid Association of Great Britain num- 

 bers 2,110 members. Its objects are to afford 

 relief to its members during periods of sickness 

 and old age, and also to provide a sum of money 

 for their decent interment at death. The total 

 amounts paid for these objects since the for- 

 mation of the association, in 1849, is 33,492 

 19s. 2d. There is this peculiarity about the 

 Association, that while there are self-help and 

 mutual aid in the members, their own contri- 

 butions are supplemented by the free-will offer- 

 ings of the churches to which they minister. 



VII. METHODIST NEW CONNECTION". The sta- 

 tistics of the Methodist New Connection are : 

 11 districts, 60 circuits, 9 missions, 155 preach- 

 ers, and 26,309 members, in England; 7 circuits 

 and stations, 8 missionaries, and 678 members, 

 in Ireland; and 9 7 missionaries and 8, 71 9 mem- 

 bers in the missions. 



VIII. UNITED METHODIST FEEE CHUECHES.- 

 The statistics of the United Methodist Free 

 Churches are: Itinerant preachers, 312; local 

 preachers, 3,445; members, 68,062; Sunday- 

 school scholars, 152,315. 



IX. PEIMITIVE METHODISTS. The statistics 

 of the Primitive Methodist Connection are: 

 Travelling preachers, 943 ; members, 161,229 ; 

 Sunday-school scholars, 258,857. 



X. BIBLE CHEISTIANS. The statistics of the 

 Bible Christian denomination are: Itinerant 

 preachers, 254; local preachers, 1,759; mem- 

 bers, 26,241; "on trial," 804; Sunday-school 

 scholars, 44,221; teachers, 8,913. The mis- 

 sionary report shows an increase of 9 itinerant 

 preachers, 17 chapels, 434 members, 66 teach- 

 ers, and 1,173 scholars. The income of the 

 society amounted to 5,599 16s. 4d., and the 

 disbursements to 6,039 18s. Id. ; thus leaving 

 a deficiency of 440 Is. 9d. 



MEXICO.* President, Benito Juarez, a de- 

 scendant of the Indian race of Tapatecos, born 

 at Ixtlan, State of Oajaca, 1807; elected depu- 

 ty to the House of ^Representatives, 1846 ; 

 Governor of Oajaca, 1848-1852; exiled by 

 Santa Anna, 1853 ; returned to Mexico, 1855 ; 

 Minister of Justice, 1856-1858 ; of the Interior, 

 1858; head of an insurrection against Presi- 

 dent Zuloaga, 1858-1859; and against Presi- 

 dent Miramon, 1859-1861 ; elected President, 



* For fall geographical information of the republic, see 

 AMERICAN ANNUAL CYCLOPEDIA for 1868. 



1861 ; reflected 1867, for the term from 1867 

 to 1871 ; Vice-President, Lerdo de Tejada. 



The area is about 773,144 square miles. The 

 population, according to the census of 1869, 

 amounted to 9,089,254, distributed among the 

 different States as follows : 



Michoacan 618,022 



Morelos 121,409 



NuevoLeon 171,000 



Oaxaca 601,850 



Puebla 997,788 



Queretaro 166,643 



San Luis Potosi 397,735 



Sinaloa 161,157 



Sonora 147,133 



Tabasco 83,703 



Tamaulipas 107,547 



Tlascala 177,944 



Vera Cruz 380,971 



Yucatan 282,636 



Zacatecas 399,977 



Federal District. . . . 286,500 

 Aguas Calientes .... 86,176 

 Baja (Lower) Cali- 

 fornia 21,000 



Campeche 86,463 



Chiapas 193,987 



Chihuahua 179,971 



Coahuila 67,691 



Colima 48,649 



Durango 173,942 



Guanajuato 874,000 



Guerrero 270,000 



Hidalgo 404,207 



Jalisco 924,580 



Mexico 599,810 



The number of public and private schools in 

 the year 1869 was reported as 3,742, with 276,- 

 854 pupils, and showed a proportion of about 

 one pupil to every 32.78 of the population. The 

 Federal District has 248 schools, with 18,195 

 pupils. The city of Mexico has one pupil to 

 every ten inhabitants. In 1795 the Mexican 

 territory had only 12 schools for a population 

 of 5,270,209 inhabitants. 



The population of the city of Mexico was, 

 according to the census of 1869, only 140,000 ; 

 although a Mexican statistician, Orozco y Berra, 

 in 1865, estimated it at 200,000. The other 

 large cities of the republic had, according to 

 Orozco y Berra, in 1865, the following popula- 

 tion: Puebla, 75,000; Guadalajara, 70,000; 

 Guanajuato, 63,000; Queretaro, 48,000; Ma- 

 tamoras, 41,000; Jalapa, 37,200; Vera Cruz, 

 37,040. 



The budget for the year 1868 to 1869 esti- 

 mated the revenue at $18,219,708, and the ex- 

 penditure at $18,694,438. In the budget for 

 the year 1869-1870, the revenue is estimated 

 at $18,235,513. The public debt, on August 

 1, 1865 (according to Martin's Statesman's Year- 

 Book), amounted to $317,357,250. The imports 

 from England, in 1867, were valued at 320,- 

 000 sterling; the exports to England at 810,- 

 000 ; the commerce with England constituted 

 more than one-half of the foreign trade. The 

 movement of shipping amounts to about 1,000 

 vessels annually, together of about 100,000 

 tons. 



The telegraph now connects Manzanillo with 

 Vera Cruz via Colima, Guadalajara, and Mexi- 

 co, thus opening interoceanic communication. 



There are now 2,000 miles of telegraph and 

 240 miles of railroad in operation. The petro- 

 leum-springs near Espinol, on the Tuxtla Eiver, 

 prove very abundant. A rich silver-mine has 

 been discovered in Tamaulipas. Manufacturers 

 are increasing in wealth. 



The second session of the Mexican Congress, 

 which commenced on September 16, 1868, 

 ended January 21, 1869. Congress five times 

 resolved itself into a grand jury for the purpose 

 of judging of the guilt of the following distin- 

 guished Mexican officials, against whom charges 

 were made : General Cauto, for the crime of as- 



