DERIVATION OF "NEWS" AND "NOISE."

Why should Mr. Hickson (Vol. i., p. 428.) attempt to derive "news" indirectly from a German adjective, when it is so directly attributable to an English one; and that too without departing from a practice almost indigenous in the language? Have we not in English many similar adjective substantives? Are we not continually slipping into our *shorts*, or sporting our *tights*, or parading our *heavies*, or counter-marching our *lights*, or commiserating *blacks*, or leaving *whites* to starve; or calculating the *odds*, or making *expositions* for *goods*? Oh! but, says Mr. Hickson, "in that case…