he revenue consists of certain city properties.

_Expenditures._

The heaviest items are for the public prisons $69,863
For the hospitals of the insane 48,000
Lancasterian schools 3,600
Lights and city patrol 52,422
Exhibition of flowers and fruits in November last 1,831
Salaries of school-teachers, and rent of houses
for schools 4,812
Religious worship in Hospital of San Hippolito,
and for vaccine matter 2,282
Cleaning the streets by night and by day 21,378
Salaries 31,472
Dinners and festivals 151

The city has a debt of $617,978, and has, as a set-off, a
claim against the supreme government for $1,700,000 of its
funds seized from time to time, and for keeping prisoners.

[53] The arrests in the year 1851 were 212 men and 182 women for
infractions of police regulations; 1256 men and 1944 women for
excessive drinking; 384 men and 120 women for robbery; 180 men
and 84 women on suspicion of robbery; 120 men and 25 women for
picking pockets; 15 men and 3 women for murder; 728 men and 246
women for affrays and wounds; 209 men and 85 women for carrying
forbidden weapons; 36 men who had escaped from prison; 39 men and
17 women for false pretenses; 354 men and 403 women for
incontinence and adultery; 311 men and 318 women for the
violation of public decency; 64 delinquent youth for the house of
correction--making a total of arrests for the year of 3918 men
and 3430 women; besides, they have protected 315 persons
apprehensive of assaults from evil-doers. _And they have freed
the city from the plague of 6048 dogs!_ Just as many dogs
arrested as human beings. These statistics furnish an inadequate
idea of the number of knife-fights that are of so common
occurrence among the _peons_ about the _pulque_-shops, in which
women and men show an equal skill at stabbing in the back.

CHAPTER XXIV.

The National Museum.--Marianna and Cortez.--The small Value of
this Collection.--The Botanic Garden.--The Market of Santa Anna.--The
Acor