present some lists of the numbers imprisoned for the chief crimes, during the whole year.
| Men. | Women. | Total. | ||
| 1. | Prostitution, adultery, bigamy, sodomy, incest, | 312 | 179 | 491 |
| 2. | Robbery, | 1,500 | 470 | 1,970 |
| 3. | Quarreling and wounding, | 2,129 | 1,104 | 3,233 |
| 4. | Quarreling, bearing arms, &c. | 612 | 444 | 1,056 |
| 5. | Homicide, attempt at do., and robbery and homicide, | 70 | 17 | 87 |
| 6. | Rape and incontinence, | 65 | 21 | 86 |
| 7. | Forgery, | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 8. | Gambling, | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Which, added together, give the frightful amount of, | 6,943 |
males and females, for the higher crimes and misdemeanors—leaving a balance 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;—that 113 dead bodies were found;—17 individuals executed,[1]—and 894 sent to the hospital.
The sum of $4,121 is expended in salaries of officers for this Institution, and $30,282 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 disappointed, 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 illarranged 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 disagreeable as his manners.
- ↑ The mode of execution in Mexico, as is Spain, is by 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 thrugh the spinal marrow, at the same time that the collar closes round the throat of the victim. Lifeis almost immediately extinct, amd the sufferings are consequently but trifling. The crowds, to see those executions, in Mexico, are innumerable. According to Humboldt, there were in 1790, in all prisions of Mexico, 770 of both sexes, for all crimes, out of a population of about 130,000.
