Women. 
Total 
179 
491 
470 
1,970 
1,104 
3,233 
444 
1,056 
17 
87 
21 
86 
1 
8 

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PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. 271 
present some lists of the numbers imprisoned for the chief crimes, during 
the whole year. 
Men. 
1 . Prostitution, adultery, bigamy, sodomy, incest, 312 
2. Robbery, 1,500 
3. Quarreling and wounding, - - - 2,129 
4. Quarreling, bearing arms, &c. - - 612 
5. Homicide, attempt at do., and robbery and homicide, 70 
6. Rape and incontinence, - - - - ^^ 
7. Forgery, - "7 
8. Gambling, 3 
Which, added together, give the frightful amount of - - 6,934 
males and females, for the higher crimes and misdemeanors — leaving a 
tjaiance of 1,927 only, to be divided among the lesser. It should be stated, 
in addition to the above, that numbers were committed for throwing vitriol 
on the clothes and faces of persons passing along the street j — that 113 
dead bodies were found; — 17 individuals executed* — and 894 sent to 
the hospital. 
The sum of $4,121 is expended in salaries of officers for this Institution, 
and $30,232 for the support of the prisoners. 
ACADEMY OF ARTS. 
Let us pass from this examination of vice and immorality in Mexico, 
to something more agreeable'. 
My expectations had been greatly excited by the Baron Humboldt's 
account of the Academy of Fine Arts ; but how greatly was I disap- 
pointed, in its comparatively miserable condition at present ! It has shared 
the fate of the University, Museum, Mineria, and other public institutions. 
The halls are untenanted. The multitudes, described by the Baron as 
attending the instruction of Professors, and sketching from the splendid 
collections of antique casts, — have departed. One artist occupies an ill- 
arranged studio in a dark corner of the buildings, and paints stiff figures 
of formal officers in gold lace, embroidery and crosses, in a style as dis- 
agreeable as his manners. 
* The mode of execution in Mexico, as in Spain, ifs by the garrote- The culprit is seated in a chair, and his 
neck is placed in an iron collar, which may be contracted by a screw. A sudden turn drives a spike through the 
ipinal marrow at the same time that the collar closes round the throat of the victim. Life is almost immediately 
extinct, and the sufferings are consequently but trifling. The crowds, to see those executions, in Mexico, are innu- 
merable. 
According to Humboldt, there were in 1790, in all the prisons of Mexico, 770 of both sexes, for all crimes, out 
af a population of about 113,000. 
