MEXICO. 



LINES BELONGING TO Till FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 



Mexico to QnehSUro S09.50 



Qnere'taro to San Lnl via Ban MlgneL K1.40 



8an Lai.- to Matamoru da 8lllllo, Muutercjr, 



CadentU, Curmlro, and Ml.-r 900.00 



Ouervliro to Leon via Salamanca. 



Guanajuato, and Sllao J7S.S5 



< luanajtinto to Dolores Hidalgo (branch) 



Irajoaio to Pinjamo (branch). M.8S 



Celivs to Salratterra 41.90 



Salamanca to Vallc de Santiago (branch) SO.S8 



Mexico to Tixtla (Guerrero) via Cuernavaca and 



Chllpancln^o 886.83 



Tehuacan to Oajaca. 451.40 



Dnrango to Mautlan 877.10 



Me>lda to Campeach? 159.SS 



Herelchacan to Itnrbide 83.00 



MSridato Sisal B.ST 



Mi-ridato Progreso 88.M 



Merida to Izamal. 87.04 



Me>lda to Tekx 104.75 



Merida to Mania 66.00 



STATE LINKS. 



San Lul toDurango 800.00 



Ojo Calicnte to Agtuu C.ilietitee (branch) 80 00 



Zacatecat to Jerez and Villaneuva (branch) 1J5.00 



Satvatierra to Maravatio. and to Patzcuaro via 



MwelU 180.00 



Jalaciniro to Tamplco. Ha Oznluama 458.00 



VeraCrazto Mlnutitlan 404.96 



PRIVATE LINES. 



Leon to San Bias, via Guadalajara 8)0.00 



San Juan do los LngoB to Aguas Calientcs. 90.00 



Guadalajara to Manzanillo S70.00 



Merlco to Tolnca 67.40 



Mexico to Vera Onus 411.54 



Mexico to Vera Cruz, via Omemsco, Bnamantla, 



Jalaps, etc 681. 



Aplzacn to Pucbla, rid Tlaxcala (branch) 51.95 



Ayotla to Arooca SO.OO 



OinetuKco to Tulanclngo 113.13 



P<*rnte to Tezlntlan 89.88 



Jalap* toCoatppec 8.J8 



1 luanuntla to 1'anada 99.51 



Mexico to Vera Cruz (railway line). 415.00 



Puebla to Aplzaco (branch) 45.00 



IN PROCESS Or CONSTRUCTION. 



San Lulu to Tamplco 414.14 



Mlnatitlan to Campcachjr (WO.OO 



Cliilpancf nzo to Acupulco 167.00 



Izamal to Valladolld 90.00 



ToUl 9,098.86 



Pablic instruction is in a prosperous condi- 

 tion in Mexico ; the number of schools is on 

 the increase ; and the liberality of the central 

 and of the different State governments in 

 their appropriations for the development of 

 the system is most praiseworthy. 



In the city of Mexico there are the follow- 

 ing institutes supported by the General Gov- 

 ernment : The Escaela Prepatoria, the courses 

 of which rumiirise the modern languages, his- 

 tory, mathematics, chemistry, physics, ethics, 

 etc. ; the Schools of Jurisprudence, Agricult- 

 ure, Medicine, Engineering, Fine Arts and 

 Trades, and a School for Deaf- Motes ; besides 

 a high -school for females, seven primary 

 schools, three of which are for females; and 

 a night school for adults of both sexes. 



The Lancasterian Society has likewise a 

 number of primary and grammar-schools tin- 

 der its jurisdiction, as also a normal school ; 

 there are numerous schools sustained by the 

 Church ; and a considerable number of muni- 

 cipal schools supported at the expense of the 

 municipal authorities. Among the private 

 educational establishments the Ateneo, of 8r. 



Don Celso Acevedo, to whose untiring zeal 

 and able teaching the advanced state of learn- 

 ing in the capital is in no small measure due. 

 There are also some forty private, schools in 

 the city of Mexico. 



In the city of Merida there are about a score 

 of public schools ; one primary in each of the 

 five wards, and some dozen central sc!> 

 All the other towns in Yucatan have a pro- 

 portionate number; the State government ex- 

 pends $19,000 annually in the cause of pulilic 

 instruction ; and liberal outlays are likewise 

 made by the several municipalities. New- 

 schools are being founded in every part of the 

 republic. 



Commerce at Matamoras was seriously in- 

 jured owing to an order issued by the 8 

 tary of the Treasury directing the collection of 

 4-jVs per cent., in adddition to the lfV s per 

 cent, import duty already in force. There 

 being no district judge in that place, the col- 

 lector of customs was invested; pursuant to 

 the treasury regulations, with almost unlimited 

 power to seize, embargo, and exercise magis- 

 terial functions generally; and his abuse of 

 authority gave rise to grave complaints ou the 

 part of the commercial community. On the 

 20th of January the store and property of an 

 American citizen were seized under the pre- 

 tense of collecting back import dues, which 

 had been previously abolished, but were after- 

 ward instituted liv the Mexican Government. 

 An immediate effect of such onerous import 

 duties was the introduction of large quantities 

 ot smuggled goods, to the detriment of honest 

 merchants, who were compelled to sell at ru- 

 inous prices, in order to bo able to compete 

 with the smugglers. Indignation meetings 

 were held at Monterey with a view to the 

 suppression of the contraband trade. At 

 Matamoras, a meeting of the merchants was 

 held, January 13th, and a solemn protest cut ered 

 against the arbitrary measures of the collector 

 of the port, in the exaction of an illegal duty, 

 which they regarded as a forced loan. 



A large number of miners in Hidalgo were 

 out of employment; and the works at Real 

 del Monte the principal mineral region in the 

 republic had been suspended. 



On the 10th of February. Mr. Nelson, the 

 American minister, visited President Lcrdo 

 for the purpose of presenting the congratula- 

 tions of President Granf on the election of 

 Sr. Lerdo to the presidency. 



The latter expressed the hope that the 

 friendly relations between the two countries 

 should remain unchanged forever. 



The British Government addressed a note to 

 the Mexican Government demanding damages 

 for raids made by Mexican citizens on British 

 Honduras. In reply, Mr. Lcnlo's government 

 refused to consider the claim for damages; but 

 offered to nse its best endeavors to prevent in 

 future the recurrence of the depredations, 

 expressing at the same time the hope that the 

 threat contained in the British note (of invad- 



