PUBLIC DECENCY.

West Coast Times, Issue 72, 18 November 1865, Page 3

PUBLIC DECENCY.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE " WEST COAST TIMES." > Sir, — Will you kindly lend your aid in putting a stop to tho disgusting exhibitions which hourly take place on our beach, and which prevent that most healthy portion of our township from being tho favorite promenade of both sexes. Unblushing indecency should, bo put a stop to, and I believe that a few lines from you would at onco have that effect ; therefore, in the name of medesty I make this appeal. — Yours, etc., Deoenof. [What would havo moro effect than any lines wo could writo on the subject, wouid be, to givo tho first offender that could be laid hold of, into the charge of tho police.— Ed. W. 0. T.] *

Herb's a CnANon.— Tho following advertisement recently appeared in the London Morning Post :— Marriage. — Mdlo. A. 0,, twenty years of ago, young, handsome, and possessing a fortuno of two million francs, wishes to marry a gentleman occupying an honourable position, of graceful appearance, and, in preference, without fortune, Address, post paid, , Paris, and cncloso a, portrait, if possible Everybody who reads French newspapors for tho first time is struck with their small sizo as compared with our own. This subject is heated of by M. do Girardin in an article headed " Tho Reports of tho Legislative Debates," in .tho Presse. M. de Girardin horo expresses tho opinion that any attempt to increase the size of Piench newspapors to that of English must assuredly fail. lie gives his reason in tho following terms :—": — " Tho French nowspapers aro largo enough, and if they contained moro matter they would be less read. In Franco, journals are not read — they are skimmed."