16 MAY 1868, Page 3

We rather wonder the penny papers all over the country

do not ,support a decimal coinage more warmly. It would incidentally make their fortunes. We have already the pound and florin, and vrant only the groat, or cent, or dime, or whatever the coin is to be ccalled, the tenth of the florin, or 21d., to have a reasonable system of account. Their price would then be " half a groat," equivalent to five farthings, a gain which would just enable them to give their readers decent paper, and print not visible through both sides of the sheet. They should fight for themselves as well as for accountants, and for the unhappy children who now have to learn the first four rules of arithmetic twice over.