12.
13.
331
received
from the mint in Londen appears
to us well adapted to its intended purpose, and we do not conceive that the circumstance
of it's being somewhat lighter than the native
an
cash will prove
impediment to its free Circulation. At the same time it is not easy
to foresee the Caprices of Chinese perejindies,
and
although the results can only ascertained by actual experiment,
be
лис-
emsider the experiment, well worth trying,
even
though it should be the means of
entailing some expense
with that
of
the native coin does not appear
to us material, while its adoption would
probably tend to facilitate the general ~ Substitution of the British for the Chinese
Coin, as shaving the design of Government to be, the local abolition of the latter.
While the mil might for the present
be adopted as the sole. Copper coin, it appears
to us that it would be
very injudicious to
inangurate any change by the introduction
of
on
the bolony; our
a
belief however is, that the new cash
would prove
no less
popular
lar than useful,
And
be required
that a continuous supply woven
from
the
Royal Mint
for
the
circumstance of
hame!
Rome time. The
"bash" clacking
a cent
piece
legal tender.
in no material.
as the smallest Coin forming
Publie convenience would
degree
be
promoted by having
Small
the cent alone to fall back upon for
paymento,
and the great object of providing
the thousands of labouring Chinese in this
lolmy who paurchase their daily food for
1.