City Of Mexico

The present beautiful city. four.ded on the ruins of the former, is a wonder to Ihe traveller. It has a population of 160,000 souls and an imone?e arrount of wenllh. lts Catliedral surpasses in metallic lnro al! the olher churches in the world. The balustrade around the gre&t altar scomposed of massive silver. It has a lamp ofsolid silver, nnd of sucli enortnous dimnnsioRs, that three men enter it when they clean it! r.nd il is encircled with ornamentsoflions' heads and other deviccs of pure gold. So grent is the'ir ccclesastic profusión. But Mexico has been celebratfxl for her scliools - the botanical gnrdens, fhe school of mines and the Acadcmy of Fne Arts: - this last has, however, been completeiy ruined by her ropeated revolutions. War nnd the arts ncver were Cf ngenn'. The Mexicana have their peculiarities - they are not without iaste, as our narrativo must have shown. Indeed, the Butcher of Mexico is n sentimental being. He stands at bis shamble in a perfect bed of flowers, and amid a cloud of perfumes, and these are daily renewed by new beauties from their floating gardens; be sings bis ditty, and accompanies it with hisguitar, and this is the general prelude to bis sales. The Mexican loves music and dancing. The laborer in the evening bies him from his task, his hat decked in a poppy wreath - a striking emblem o!' his forgetfulness of toil. We have said the climatc is of the most salobrious kind. It has two seasons, the wet and the dry ; the former begins about the end of May, and continúes fouv months. Mexico abounds with curiosilies and wonders. - The natural bridges - the towcring"snow capped" mountains, emulous to wed the skies; the roaring volcnnoes, nnd the glassy bosomed lakes. Fancy, too, finds there congenial food. The fairy clime, the pure attenuated mountain air, the bounteous fruit, the flowers of perpetual bloom, its lofty situation, on which the moon shines with a silvery wbitoness, of which we grovellers on the plains can