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112 of the President, who is Minister of the Interior, and is an eminent lawyer, a polished statesman, and a patriot; while the recent representative of Mexico in the United States, Señor Zamacona, and the present minister, Señor Romero, are the peers of the representatives of any of the governments of the Old World.

Although there are plenty of newspapers in Mexico—some sixteen "dailies" in the city of Mexico alone—they have, as might be expected, but comparatively few readers, and apparently exist for some other purpose than that of reporting the "news." Only one journal in the country—"El Monitor Republicano"—a daily published in the city of Mexico, and representing the Liberal Opposition, claims a circulation as great as thirty-five hundred; and probably next to this in circulation (twenty-five hundred reported) is the Church paper "El Tiempo," which is bitter alike against the Americans and all their improvements, not excepting even their railroads. Of all the other daily papers, it is doubtful whether their average circulation ever reaches as large a figure as eight hundred. Of the weekly papers of the capital—some thirty in number—one of the most recent, enterprising, successful, and influential, is the "Mexican Financier," which is printed in parallel columns of Spanish and English; and the publisher and editor of