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THE GERMAN LANGUAGE,—.The musical critic

in the Post of yesterday sneers at the German
word " overset" (iibersetz) as compared to our
word" translated." We are Saxon enough in blood
and descent to believe that it would have been a
great advantage to the vernacular had it, like the
German, formed all its words out of its own root,
and not gone to foreign idioms and tongues for
signs of ideas. To overset, is as expressive to an
English boy as to " translate," though lie may
very early learn the practice for which the word
stands. It seems, indeed, more expressive, for,
unless the boy have mastered the Latin as well as
his mother tongue, he can have no acquaintance
with the origin and meaning of the Latin com-
pound he uses, while the Saxon compound ex-
plains itself, and shows how language is
formed. In England we are obliged to
have one species of instruction which is
unknown in Germany, which goes in our
schools by the name of " meanings." in
Germany dictionaries and spelling-books with
meanings for the use of children are not in
use. In England it requires a considerable
study to learn the meaning of our heteroge-
neous Latin, Greek, and French compounds.
Happily for the Germans the practice of trans-
lating Bishops is unknown, but were it in vogue
they would have some word to express it diffe-
rent from to overset, and would not confound
under one term the excellent practice of eri•
larging knowledge by translating books, and
the scandalous practice of corrupting religion
by translating Bishops. If we had, like the
Germans, adhered to the principle of extending
our language with the increase of knowledge,
by forming words out of the
_„Saxon, instead of
importing them from abroad, our knowledge
would have been more clear and precise than at
present.
SIR R. PEEL A DEMOCRAT.—The Times is
quite in error in ascribing to Sir Robert Peel a
design to promote a general system of Govern-
ment Education, by recommending that the ad-
vantages of the excellent pauper schools, estab-
lished and to be established, should be extended
to the children of rate-payers. Sir Robert has
a very different design. He has marked the
progress of democracy, and he wishes in good
time to do away with the distinctions
which now prevail between pauper children
and others. He is anxious to have them
all placed on the same level, and taught
equally to love each other. His is a
scheme of fraternization, not of concentration of
authority. He is sensible, by the existence of
numerous foundations for the middle and upper
classes, that eleemosynary instruction is not
disparaging ; and he will relieve the pauper
class of children from any feeling of depen-
dence or degradation, by making them the
schoolfellows and the playmates of the non-
paupers. Equality is the Right Hon. Baronet's
aim, and he means, therefore, to secure the same
advantage for the children of the industrious and
the children of the idle.