The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

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?DEFT AND STUDY DETECTION.—On Wednes-
day afternoon Mr. Samuel Minds, grocer, Plesaance,
missed a box from hilelEncostaining bank-notes to the
amount of 601. His fell upon a message-boy in
his employment named ing, who had not returned to
the shop after going to his dinner at two o'clock. Yester-
day forenoon Police-constable Mitchell oteerred four boys
taking out tickets for Glasgow at the Edlnbargh and Glas-
gow Railway station, and hie soapicion being excited, he
took them into melody. Plitaahlg was one of the four; and,
on searching him. 40/. of the missing money were found ix
his possession. It appears that Fleming and his aseociates
took the box first to the Queen's-park, broke it open, and
appropriated the contents. They then went out to Lebeeton,
where they slept in a eked all night, and next mating came
back to town for the purpose of making their escape to
O4ettow._l2l the drat instance.--liarth Brae*.

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TIIE MANUFACTURE OF WORD,.-No permission
has been so much abused in our days as that of Horace for
rho manufacture of woods. He allow, men to mould one
now and thee, with a modest discretion and caution • but
he is addiewing poets, not vendor, of patent leather or
elegem in marine storm. Would he not have stood etched at
the term " antigropylos" ? Would it not puzzle a &slime or
Bentley? It is time, we protest, to put a Mop to them vile
coinages when every breeches-maker or blacking-manufac-
turer invents a compound word of six syllables as expressive
of his wares. Ladies do not wear petticoats now-a-days,
but crinolines. What is their new name for garters ? Men
do not ride on horseback as aforetime—they take equestrian
exercise; women are not married like their grandmothers—
they aro led to the hymeneal altar. A bookseller, forsooth,
becomes a bibliopole ; and a servant le converted into a
maaciple. Barbera do not sell tooth-powder and shaving-
as their fathers did, but odonto, and dentifrice, and ry-
; hair-wash has pawed away—ft is capillary ran anyone tell us what is the meaning of "diagnosis"
as applicable to disease? It it has a signification at all, we I
will guarantee to find half a dram Saxon monosyllables ex-
restive of the same idea. Medical gentlemen, too, talk of
phlebotomy we know that It has some connexion
with bloodletting, and, for our own part we always
associate the term with • night we once meant be-
tween the sheet*, all alive 01 in en Irish hotel.
Wits would believe that " epiataxis" means simply bleeding
at the nose ? Fancy one schoolboy doubling his est, and
telling another to "look out for eplataxis." What is meant
by that fashionable word " sestbetlos?" We take up
the first book within mach, and open it at random. It
is Wahine Wadsworth; • Biography," by Edwin Pax-
ton Hood. Well, what do we read P "By esthetic
biography," he rya, "is simply intended a life in Its
ideal attitudes." Simply Intended! Did emir mortal man
listen to such verbiage run mad P What, agate, are we en
understand by the words objective"" and subjective,"
which every goose with his sham ivies has sow-
n-4
6y* on his lips ? Thew Titanic lams will cer-
tainly be the death et as.—.l%ileise Zwasiow, ke Sept.