Mexican Names.
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One oi the troubles of those who reaC the newspapers at present is 10 know how 10 pronounce the frequently recur, ring names of places and persons ir Mexico. As that mass of absurdies and contradictions called English or biography has no systematic and scien, tific mode of representing sounds, it is very difficult 10 convey, except orally the pronunciation of foreign words in which the letters have a different force from any that English ears are familiar with. If there is anything which shows the need of correct sy stem Of Phono

 type, in which each letter shall always stand for one sound only, it is the very fact we are speaking of. Foreign words, if printed phonotilica'iy, Ina, is exactly as they are sounded, could always be pronounced correctly by those who had never seen or heard them before.

 For the benefit of our readers, We copy from the Cincinnati Com mercial with some slight corrections, the follow ing list of Mexican names. and the pro nunciation of them as nearly as It can be given. We have endeayored 10 in dicatt the emphatic syllables by mark ing them with an accent thIs has nolh, ing to do with the sound which we have tried to show in another and very clum sy way. IL Is to be noticed that Mexi- co, in common with other Spanish Col onies, has departed very greatly from the pure pronunciation of the language