498 



MEXICO. 



REVENUE. 

 Import duties ................................. $10,354,1 59 



Transit " ................................. 1,225 



Tonnage dnes .................................. 50,917 



Lighthouse " .................................. 14,483 



Export duties on gold and silver ................ 881,042 



" on timber ........................ 86,949 



" " onorchilla ........................ 4,500 



on foreign merchandise ............ 2,917 



Eevenue office .................................. 1,238,969 



2,812,077 

 524,495 

 852,511 

 410,361 

 39,440 

 523,583 

 851.007 

 816,998 



Stamped pape 



Direct con A-ibutions (Federal District) 



Nationalized property ......... 



Mint ........ 



Public instruction 

 Post-Office 

 Sundries ...... 



Arrears ........................ 



Total .................................... $18,465,638 



EXPENDITURES (AS ESTIMATED IN BUDGET). 

 Legislative ... ............... $877,100 



Executive ....................... ............... 48,172 



Supreme Court, Circuit Courts, District Courts. . 291,680 

 Ministry of the Interior ......................... 1,773,887 



" Foreign Affairs ...................... 260,360 



" Justice, etc ......................... 878,128 



Ministry of Finance ................. 6,021,689 



WarandNavy ...................... 10,252,522 



" PublicWorks ....................... 4,557'888 



Total .................................... $28,956,421 



In an official publication for the year 1875 

 the revenue for the fiscal year above referred 

 to is set down at $22,197,802.02, and the ex- 

 penditures were the same sum precisely. The 

 disappearance of the large deficit observable 

 on comparing the two detailed tables above 

 given is accounted for by the swelling of the 

 revenue by numerous incidental unclassified 

 receipts on the one hand, and the limitation 

 of the expenditure on the other, in such a 

 manner as to precisely balance the revenue. 



For details concerning the national debt, and 

 the army, reference may be made to the article 

 MEXICO, page 552 of the ANNUAL CYOLOPJEDIA 

 for 1874. In that same article will likewise 

 be found comprehensive remarks relative to 

 the commodities chiefly exported and imported 

 by the Mexican Republic ; while in the follow- 

 ing table are exhibited the several countries 

 with which the foreign trade is for the most 

 part carried on, and the respective values of 

 the exports thereto and the imports therefrom, 

 for the whole of the year 1873 : 



By comparing with the totals of the fore- 

 going table the mean annual value of the ex- 

 ports ($10,000,000 approximately), and of the 

 imports ($14,500,000 nearly), for the four years 

 1825-'28, it will be seen that, while the latter 

 have about doubled, the former have more 

 than tripled. 



The number of vessels entered at the several 

 ports of the republic in the year 1873, and 

 their respective flags, are set forth in the sub- 

 joined table: 



Flags. Number of VeoeU. 



Mexican 2,227 



United States 882 



British 162 



French 115 



German 112 



Spanish 64 



Norwegian 48 



Danish 88 



Dutch 12 



Others 26 



Total 8,181 



Estimated tonnage, 1,000,000. The Mexican 

 merchant navy is composed of 357 sea-going 

 and coasting vessels, and 672 small craft ex- 

 clusively engaged in the coasting traffic. 



Early in the year, the reactionary periodi- 

 cals of the capital echoed in menacing tones the 

 traditional inimical sentiments of the conserva- 

 tive or clerical party toward the present Gov- 

 ernment. This renewed manifestation of hos- 

 tility was provoked by the decree, issued late 

 in 1874, for the suppression of the order of the 

 Sisters of Charity, the only monastic order 

 then remaining in the republic, all the others 

 having be"en abolished by Juarez long before 

 the establishment of Maximilian's short-lived 

 empire. The opposition principles were most 

 strikingly revealed through the medium of 

 certain documents entitled "Protests of the 

 Ladies," signed by, and purporting to have 

 been drawn up by, a number of ladies, many 

 of them the wives of influential citizens and 

 Senators, and, in form, the expression of their 

 regret for the departure of the Sisters of Char- 

 ity, but, in fact, a denunciation of the liberal 

 measures especially characteristic of the pres- 

 ent administration, and that of the late Presi- 

 dent, Juarez. Mr. Foster says : 



The subject has been discussed with much acri- 

 mony in the daily press of this capital, by the Con- 

 servative or Catholic organs on the one side, and the 

 combined Liberal press on the other, the discussion 

 having had the effect to unite the Liberal opposition 

 newspapers with the supporters of the administra- 

 tion in the defense of the law, which law is regarded 

 as the natural sequence of the constitutional princi- 

 ples of 1857, and not peculiarly an administration 

 measure. 



Strenuous were the efforts of the Conservative or 

 church party to form a union with the Liberal oppo- 

 sition, with the design, as it has been rumorea, of 

 bringing about a revolution; but such a coalition 

 was unconditionally rejected by the Liberal opposi- 

 tion press and party. One of the most pronounced 

 of the Liberal opposition papers indorses, in most 

 enthusiastic language, the action of the President, 

 and quotes approvingly an editorial from the official 

 Government organ, referring to the "Protests" and 

 the treatment of tlie officials whose wives signed 

 them. But, to fully comprehend the political situa- 

 tion of the country, it is proper to refer to other 

 matters. 



The long and, for Mexico, profound peace which 

 the country has enjoyed has not fully realized the 

 natural expectation of a revival of business, a rapid 

 development of industries, and an era of prosperity. 

 For the past two years the leading industry of the 

 country, silver-mining, has been much depressed, 



