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FRENCH COINAGE.

The Committee on the New Coinage Bill has ter-
minated its labours, which, considered in their ensem-
ble, embraced the following questions :—The calling
in of pieces of mixed metal, and their replacement ;
the calling in of copper coin ; the centralization
of all coining operations for France and the Co •
lonics, at the Hotel-des-Monnaies at Paris; the
issue of a new coinage in bronze ; the repairs pro-
posed in the Hotel-des-Monnaies, and the establish-
ment of a new system of coining for the various
pieces. According to the report, pieces of mixed metal
are a temptation to forgers ; there are so many means
of giving to a piece of copper all the appearance
of one containing silver that in all ages and all
countries they have led to the greatest number
of counterfeits. The Committee recommends the
calling in of pieces of six liards, their impression
being almost entirely effaced after more than a
century's circulation ; the pieces of ten centimes with,
the letter N, and the fifteen and thirty sous pieces,
amounting altogether to 25 millions in value. The
Committee demands a credit for this purpose, and is of
opinion that the• copper pieces, composed as they are of
the most heterogeneous mixtures, should be immedi-
ately recoined. The report supposes that the benefits
that will arise from this step will be realized rapidly,
without the Treasury being put to any expense. As
to the centralization, the Committee unanimously de-
clared in its favour, as no economy could be hoped for,
unless working on large masses of metal. It is also of
opinion that the works should no longer be under the
control of a Director, but of an administration, and
that all expenses should be submitted to the Chamber
as forming part of the budget. It recommends the
substitution of bronze for copper, as being less liable
to imitation. The weight of the bronze money gave
rise to some difference of opinion ; but it was at last
decided that the piece of ten centimes should weigh,
ten. grammes, as the Government proposed. The Com-
mittee considered the size chosen for pieces of five
centimes as unfortunate, being the same as that of
pieces of forty francs. It recommends that it shall be
reduced to 25 millimetres (nearly an inch) to pre-
vent mistake, and the pieces of ten centimes to 30
millimetres.

Mr. Eliason, whose spirited effort to get up the
Promenade Concerts with a band of most efficient power,
and with accommodations for the public of unusual ele-
gance and comfort, terminated with results so untoward
in reference to his own interests, takes, it will be seen,
a benefit to-morrow night at Drury-lane Theatre. His
entertainment is one of extraordinary attraction, both
dramatic and musical ; and, independent of his claim on
public favour, may fairly be expected to draw an unusu-
ally crowded house. His bill of fare opens with Hamlet,
and .concludes with the amusing farce of The Prisoner of
War. Between these a concert, vocal and instrumental,
will be given, in which Mr. Eliason will execute a new
concerto, and a grand duet concertante will be played on
two pianofortes by Madame Dulcken and Benedict.
The members of the late Covent-garden corps dra-
matique have subscribed to present Madame Vestris and
Mr. Charles Mathews, the late lessees of that theatre,
with an eleg:,..nt candelabrum, as a testimonial of the
kindness and courtesy displayed by them to their com-
pany during their management.
LEARNING GREEK.—A shoemaker in Piccadilly,
determined to] astonish the world, had put up a motto
from Euripides over his window. Bannister happened
to be passing
with Parson. " That is Greek."saki Ban-
nister. " What! are you acquainted with Greek?" asked
the Professor, with a laugh. " I know it by sight,"
was the happy reply.