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REFINEMENTS OF LANGOAGE.—Delicacy of speech is capricious. We have heard

of savages to whom you must call the whole leg to the ankle "the hip," or be thought indecent ; you must not ask after a Turk's wife and family, but "the house "; and in our Parliament you must not call many things by their right names. A. knavish dunce may be "the honourable and learned gentle- man"; the House of Lords is "another place "; and newspapers are not newspapers, but Lord Normanby last night must correct an error in "the or- dinary channels of information." How would this do in private life ? Tell your servant to " Take five of the largest copper particles of the circulating medium, proceed to another place, and procure an ordinary channel of informa- tion." What would he bring?