New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-07

M,sLl>sss OF srsrcn.-A lecture recently deiv
cred in Carlisle, England, by the Rev. A. Mdrseu,
sage: The point to which have next to dIsc, a:te1
ton is manliness in speech. There are msny youug
who seem to consider essential to manliness that
they should be masters If slang. The sportiog world
lie lis brother the swell mob, has language Of Ia
own but this dog. EpRlish extends far beyond the
sporting world. II comes with its hordes OF barbsr-
Gus words, threatening the entire extinction
cf genuine Epglish Now just listen for moment
to our fast young man, or the ape OF q fast yolng
map who thinks tina, to be man he must ;alk ir the
dark PHYSIOLOGY Of slang. II he does anything on
his own responsibility, he does Il on his own cook.
II he anything remarkably good, he calls it .
:" stun err the suIerlatve of which IL regular
stuuer' Ii Llsn is requested to pay tavern bill,
lie is a,ked il lie will Island Sam p Ii De meets
.avsge.looking dog, lie calls him an ugly cue
toner" Ii he meets an eccentric man. he calls han
a "iuumy old cove sensible man s chsp
"that lie up TO snuff" man NOT remarkable
for good sense is a "cske "A fiat "A spoon -
s"suok -" HE mother does not know he ia OUT
doul tful .seticn is to bs told to the msrres Al
fiieLd rever scolds, but blows pDever ysys, but
"stnmps up newer finds it difficult TO pay bat u
hard up lever feels fatigued, bu' is Used up
lie las no hat, but saeiters hls head oenes,a q
"tie." lie wears no neckcloth, but sd'rounds
his Il roat with "chOker.' He lives rOshere.
but there is some place where he "hange or.' Tie
lever gees away on wrhdraws, bu, he bol.s' he
"slopts"-he "mizz s'-be makes himself scarce
"cus bis stck" or what is the same thiog he "cuts
his lucky" The highest compliment you can pay him
is to tell him tia: he is regular brick" He does
not pioess to be brave, but he prdes hmse on bedg
"plucky." Money is word ~hica he has forgotten,
but be talks god deal about tin, and The need
flu" "tle rhino" and the "ready." When msB
speaks, he "spouts when he holds his pesce, to
shuts up'-when he is Inundated, he 10 taken
down peg or two" and " made to sing SMALL He
calls his hards paws" his legs pine TO be per-
picked, is to be 4" fummaxed'-to be disappon.so, In
be dish.d to be cheated Is to be . s,ia"--t be
cheated clearly is to be " done brown" Whatsoever
is fine is "nobby'-whatsoever is shabby, 10 " seedy"
Whatsoever is pleasant, is "jolly." tie says
Isl. ssed if he does this bowed if he does that"
banged il he does the other thing or he exclsiWs
"My eye !" my stars" II you asked him which
were his stars, he would be " fummaxea." Then no
sxears "By George" by the ppsr"-on select
occasions he selects " the piper that played before
Moses' Now, a good deal Of this slang s harmIess;
many of the terms are, think, very eXpressive yet
ther. i. much slang that is Objectionable. For ex.
ample as Archdeacon Hare observes in Of his ser
none the word governor, applied 10 father, s
TO be reprebe ended. l have heard young man call
his father the relieving officer. Does 1t not oetray
on the part of your great ignorance OF The pater-
nal and flal relationships, or great contempt Tor
them Their father is to such young men merely a
goyernor-merely the representative Of authority.
IIuocently enough, the expression s used BY thou-
sabds Of Young men who venerats and love their
par. nts; bat only think fit, and am sure you will
admit that it is a cold he artless word wheL thus APP
PHI. d. and that ought forthwith to be abandoned.