The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-24 00:00:00

DIVIYAL COINAGE

The final report of the commiesioners appointed to
investigate the subject of decimal coinage has teen published
in the form of a blue book, the bulk of which consists of
thefts or preliminary reports, and copies of d 'cements put in
in evidence, some of value, but the greater number partaking
of the ordinary charectrr of blue-book a..T.nlicee. The
actual report consists of a statement of oho rearms in conse-
crate of which the cumniesioners have decided not to re-
oceatnead say charge in the existing coiner. There ap-
pears to the committee to be no approach to unanimity of
opinion, on the question of the tutroductioe of decimal
coinage, in the coromerci .1 or other easees cf the
community. It is vtry drificult, they sty, to coon
be any useful conclusion as to the merits of the
decimal principle in the alerted, distinct and peculiar
=hies standing each awards, form In which it has been
proposed to in,rudoce the decimal principle into the coinage
of toe country. The posted and mil scheme is the only form
in which, ander the premed state of public fuller is this
country on the custom, the introduction of the decimal
principle into our ceramic= be contemplated with any ma-
tenable probability of sufficient support. As regards paper
eakulations there aeare to be • preponderance of advantage '
ea the Ode of decimal coronae; be• the extent of the supe-
riority Is that reap et may be the milled of touch difference
of opinion. As raged. the comparetive convenience of our
present coinage and of the pound sad mil scheme, for the
reckanap of the shop sad the marker, and for mental calcu-
lations geaseally, is the opinion of the committee, the su-
periority rests with Ms pereot system, in conequance,
principally, of the more c•evetiient divisibility of 4, 12, and
20, as compared with 10, and the facility for a successive
division by 2, that is, ter retested halving. As regard. the •
comparative cstivenience of the odes provided by the rival
systems, Ito advantage appears to test with our present
coinage. The •dventsges in calculation and auounbketcrig
aaticireted from a decimal corm may, to • greut outset,
be obtained without say distarturee of our ptcsest coinage,
by a more extensive ad- of the practice now in use at
the Natioeal Debt Ofi and in the principal meanie=
oder—viz - of redwing MOM to decinias, performing the
indeed calculations in decimals, sad then rertoriag the
retell to the preset setalise.

PEOPITS OP THE LIVERPOOL DOCK WAREHOUnfin,
—Yeeltedey at the noveingolebe Minn Dork Hoard, It wee
ennewecitil that the following nne, be* earplug wean, of
the dock weeelwasee for the half•yeer, had tern trainferred
tram the wirsbeer• monists to the general fond. of the
dock eat..: Albert warehouses, 20,000/. ; Wapping,
7,000!. ; fitenhiy, 3,0001. ; birk.ubesd, 3,500/. ;
33,6004 Is the pevions half -yeer the amount trinaetted
was 20,000/.. snaking a total f.a the whole year of bi,300/.,
egelast 33.60 W. in ,be reeves yemr. It was exotained,
however, thet the inweene wanly met fr.w accounts
dr dieing the preceding year.
Tax BRADFORD POISONINGS:MIMI' ER DEATH.
—Another of .be unhappy rictiine who ate of the poisoned
lownges, sold in the Hiaiford Ilartiet-pia in Oztobar
bar jest olrudasted a hurries dhow * death. He wee •
yeeng ma of 19, nosed Hoary Thew, rendisi ia Mal-
gwriewstreet, New Bradford.
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