"Did they calculate in florins In the name of common sense, ?" how can it be objected to a system that people do not use it before it is introduced? Let the decimal system be completed, and calculation shall be made in florins; that is, florins shall take their proper place. If florins were introduced _now_, there must be a column for the odd shilling. "He was glad that some hon. If the hon. gentleman make gentleman had derived benefit this assertion of himself, it from the issue of florins. His is not for us to gainsay it. only experience of their It only proves that he is one convenience was, that when he of that class of {171} men who ought to have received are described in the old song, half-a-crown, he had generally of which one couplet runs received a florin, and when he thus: ought to have paid a florin, he had generally paid I sold my cow to buy me a half-a-crown." (Hear, hear, calf; and laughter.) I never make a bargain but I lose half, With a etc. etc. etc. But he cannot mean that Englishmen in general are so easily managed. And as to Jonathan, who is but John lengthened out a little, he would see creation whittled into chips before he would even split what may henceforth be called the Kidderminster difference. The House, not unmoved--for it laughed--with sly humor decided that the introduction of the florin had been "eminently successful and satisfactory." The truth is that Mr. Lowe here attacks nothing except the coexistence of the florin and half-crown. We are endeavoring to abolish the half-crown. Let Mr. Lowe join us; and he will, if we succeed, be relieved from the pressure on his pocket which must arise from having the turn of the market always against him.