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MEXICO. 



iog them to increased efforts for usefulness. 

 The relation of Sunday-schools to the Union 

 was discussed. 



XIV. PBIMITIVE WEBLETAX METHODIST CON- 

 NECTION. The churches of this body are all 

 in Ireland. The body originated in a sepa- 

 ration from the Wesleyan Methodist Church, 

 which took place in 1816, on a question of the 

 administration of the sacraments. The primi- 

 tive Wesleyans hold that while the Methodist 

 organization is competent to provide for other 

 functions, only ministers of Episcopal ordina- 

 tion are qualified to administer the sacraments. 

 Consequently, they have received the com- 

 munion from the Church of England. The 

 Conference met in Dublin, in July. The sub- 

 ject of union with the Irish Methodist Con- 

 ference occupied a considerable share of atten- 

 tion. A representative committee was ap- 

 pointed to meet a minister and a layman who 

 had already been designated by the Wesleyans 

 as their committee, and arrange a basis of 

 satisfactory union. The action of the Con- 

 ference on this subject was unanimous. 



MEXICO (REpfJBLioA MKXICANA ], an inde- 

 pendent state of North America, extending 

 from latitude 15 to 32 42' north, and from 

 longitude 80 30' to 116 50' west. It is bound- 

 ed north by the United States; east by the 

 Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and Brit- 

 ish Honduras ; south by Guatemala; and south 

 and west by the Pacific Ocean ; and its area, 

 according to official returns of 1809, is 1,030,- 

 442 square miles. St-flor Don Antonio Garcia 

 y Oubas, however, in his geography, published 

 in the same year, sets down the area at 1,972,648 

 square kilometres, or only 761,640 square miles. 



The republic is divided into twenty-seven 

 States, one Territory, and one Federal Dis- 

 trict, which, with their populations (in 1869), 

 and capitals, are respectively as follows : 



The geographer already mentioned gives 

 8,743,614 as the total population uf the re- 

 public, distributed according to races as fol- 

 lows: 1,750,000 pure-blooded Indians; ^,331,- 

 000 whites; and 4,662,000 mestizoes. 



Wappajus estimates the population at about 

 8,000,000 in 1861, thus far agreeing with Sr. 

 Garcia y Cubos ; but his estimate of tin- num- 

 ber of Indians and mestizoes 4,800,000 of the 

 former, and 1,190,000 of the latter is proba- 

 bly farther from the truth; inasmuch as the 

 mixed race is, by all authorities, admitted to 

 be by far the more numerous of the two. 



The following is a list of the Mexican cities 

 having more than 20,000 inhabitants : 



CITIES. r..|.ulMion. 



Mexico (capital of the republic) 200,000 



Leon 90,000 



Guadalajara 75.000 



Pncbla. 65,000 



Guanajuato G.H.OOO 



QucreUro 48,000 



< viaya 87,000 



Orizaba 81,000 



San Miicncl <le Alleude sr.,000 



San Luis Potorf 31,000 



AL'UIIS CalicuU's 31.000 



ZacaU-cas 80,000 



Salvatlcrra 28.000 



Duraniro 20,000 



Merlda 



Oajacn 25.000 



Morella 25,000 



The President of the republic is Setior Don 

 Sebastian Lerdo do Tejada (elected November 

 2, 1872); Minister of the Interior, Gomez del 

 Palacio; Minister of Justice and Public In- 

 struction, Josfi Diaz Covarrubias (Director) ; 

 Minister of Finance, Francisco Mejia; Minis- 

 ter of War and Marine, General Ignacio Mejia; 

 Minister of Public Works, Bias Balciirrel. 



The President of the Supreme Court of Jus- 

 tice is General Porfirio Diaz. The present 

 Archbishop of Mexico is P. A. do Labastida; 

 Archbishop of Michoacan, Dr. Arciga; and of 

 Guadalajara, Dr. P. Loza. Mexican minister 

 plenipotentiary to the United States, Sr. Don 

 Ignncio Mariscal ; consul-general at New York, 

 Sr. Don N. Navarro. 



The national income and expenditure tor the 

 fiscal years 1871 and 1872 are given as follows: 



INCOME. 



Catom-hone receipt*. 



Revenue of Department of Federal District 



Paper stamp-ddty 



Direct contrlbutloni. of Federal District. . . 



Ptate property 



Mint 



Public Instruction. 



Carrl.-iire-tax 



V<>l -Office 



Sundries 



$fl,07<i,709 71 

 1. 741,62* 91 

 1.734.894 54 

 (1.448 "5 

 806.48) 88 

 159.484 18 

 65,864 11 

 7.078 68 

 2*5.440 SS 

 4,9B7,9& 01 



Total $19,029^90 87 



EXPENDITURE. 



Lejrlnlatlve power $(1.10,105 82 



Executive power gs,ns8 Til 



Jndlrlnl pmviT 17K i 



'i Mini-try 110.81049 



Mini-try of the Interior 1.SM.220 07 



MlnWry of Jntitlcf! B57.108 1 



Ministry of Finance 2..ir>7.:iS( M 



Mlnl-trvof \Vnr 6..18A.3M 79 



Ministry of Public Work* 1.719.418 78 



Sundric 4.<KW,409 58 



Total $18,846,109 M 



