§ *MR. ESSEX (Gloustershire,) CirencesterI beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he contemplates any new issue of the lower value coins; whether he will consider the desirability of adopting instead of bronze a nickel or other lighter alloy in a convenient form to avoid confusion with the silver coins; and whether he will before making such issue consider the nickel coins of low denomination lately issued in Belgium.
§ MR. ASQUITHI have no evidence that the present coinage is regarded as other than satisfactory by the public generally, and, in the absence of any general demand for an alteration, I should not be prepared to take the responsibility of interfering with it.