The courtezans of this city,' says the Times, 'are increasing at a fearful rate. Very true - so are thieves and burglars and the whole population. The supply alwasy keeps pace with the demand. Where there is a market there will be goods. Witness the slave-trade; which is brisker than ever, despite all efforts to suppress it. If there are more whores than formerly, it is only because there are more whoremasters. Geld these, and the evil will be radically cured. The course we have thus far pursued shews [sic] demonstratively that we are no friend to lewdness; but we do not think the cause of virtue can be promoted by falsehood or exaggeration. 'Thousands,' says our writer, 'are laboring under diseases too disgusting to describe.' 'Vell, vot [sic] of it! It is their own fault. The disease is perfectly understood and there are thousands of physicians to cure it. There is small reason for a Jeremiad on this score. Those who suffer deserve no pity. If they will dance let them pay the fiddler. The Times remind us of those who cry 'Poor fellow!' when an attrocious [sic] malefactor is hanged.

'Every year the ranks of vice become more disgusting, forms are inoculated into our youth, and awful are the consequences. Parents mourn over the loss of their offspring, and grim death exults in his charnal halls over the headlong recklessness of our race.'

Ochone! [sic] O wira sthrue! [sic] The world is coming to an end, sure enough. Why, Johnny Moore, what ails you? Do you think there shall be no more ginger and eayenne [sic] pepper? What's the use of crying for spilled milk? What cannot be cured, must be endured. Fornication has been a pleasure ever since man and woman were created and will be till time is no more. You mistake the matter entirely. The disease it engenders are not at all dangerous; thanks to the improvement of medical science! Not ten percent of persons die of them in New York in a year Ask doctor Vashay, to whose charge all the desperate cases are committed. Since Hunter's Red Drop came into vogue the manufacture of noses has visibly declined - indeed, it is quite extinct. Yet you say theat two thousand females and a thousand males die of vernereal disease yearly. How the world is given to lying.

The Times estimates the number of prostitutes in New York at ten thousand. More power to your elbow, neighbor! Extend your experience, and you will find that there are treble that number. He says that the annual increase of their number is forty-five percent. It is not so. The increase is in the exact ratio of the increase of the whole population. You say that 'the imprudence of the parent is invariably visited on the offspring. Such is very seldom the case - in all our expereince, and it has been pretty extensive, we have known but one instance.

The Times agrees with us that prostitution is a necessary evil, which cannot be repressed and therefore should be regulated. He proposes to license stews and, in a word, to introduce the police system of Paris; but he gives us no credit for having been the first paper to suggest the idea. We first proposed the measure, and before this article appeared we had procured the whole statistics and details of the French Sanitary Police, which we shall publish as soon as we have time to translate them.

The Times thinks that this system would 'make courtezanism offensive to those who are sensually disposed.' Not so - it would make it more respectable and, consequently more respected. There would be as many harlots as ever; but they would not be as much detested as they are; nor would they deserve to be so. The morals of the class would be raised. They would be an intermediate grade between the upper and lower classes of women; like the quadroon girls at New Orleans. There would be less street walking, less picking of pockets, less grossness and a great deal more safety. The whole tribe of brothel bullies would become extinct.

'We have given this ball the first kick. No; you have not. That honor belongs to us; but we forgive your presumption, because you know not what you say. Nay; more - we thank you for your assistance and hope for its continuance; which, as you are a good and entertain correct principles, we doubt not we shall have.