If the Member for Great Grimsby does not take care
he will be called" Silvery Tomline," for he never writes about anything else. His last effort has been to send two worn sixpences to the Master of the Mint, and ask what he thinks of them for coin. Mr. Lowe replies, of course, that he thinks badly ; but sends Colonel Tomlin° two bright sixpences in exchange, observing that the Bank will change worn silver for new, and so there is no loss to the public. That is final, if it is only true ; but a correspondent of the Times, who signs himself "S.," says it is not true at all, that the Bank will only change on application from a bank,—unless, indeed, Mr. Lowe, pressed by his obstinate antagonist, has introduced a reform. We suspect any cabman who took a worn sixpence to the Bank for change would get more abuse than coin, and know that every- body in London is tormented with these" blank" sixpences, which cabmen and the like look doubtfully at, then bite, and then decline. The people to whom sixpences are of importance rarely ks:op b.tuk =nuts, and the difficulty of getting worn coin
exchanged is a nuisance which the public would be heartily glad to see removed.
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