Mexican Races

Thepopulation of the Mexican republ.o, and its mixed character, liaving altracted tniich romark, we havo been ndueed to niake out the following statement of them, and of the names b_v vhicii thcy ure known: 1. Europcan, or uersonv of pure Spani.sh blood, not natives of ilexico powerless in a political point of view, but wealthy, though of small number. Under the Span is b governmen, anterior to to the revulution, thcy engrossed nll civil and military ónices, and generally Ihe high diguitieaof the church. 2. Criollos, or Creólos, persons of unadulterated while blood. During the revolution, these and the first class ore known as Guachupinos, and gfne.rnlly opposing the revojution, wascalled Realistoes-, or Royalists. 3. Mestizos, or half-bloods, the desoendants of the white and the aboriginal races; ttiis clasa bornprises the great niass of the population of Mexico. 4. The naiive unmixed Indian, now rapidly beitig amalgamated wiih others, yetttill powcrful in anumerical point of view. 5. Mulnttoes, as with us, t lie descer.dants of whites and Africnns. 0. Africnns, or persons of uninixed African blood. 7. Zambos, descer.dants of Indian and African parents. Besides, there are numerous descendants of emigrants from the Canary Islands, with a great admixture of Moorish, not African blood, Gitanos, or Gipsey?, and itissaiJ thaton ihe Pacific coast,near Acapulo, a laige proporiion of the population have a great admixture of Malay anj Chinese blood. Tl-.ere are supposrad to be 30,000 persons specially devoted to religión, including nuns, the great mass of whoni are collected in the capital and the valley originally known as thnt of Mexico. The eity of Mexico, with a population of 150,000, contains 30,000 lepcrof, a class correspemiing exactly with tiic