"NEWS," "NOISE," AND "PARLIAMENT."

1. *News.*—I regret that MR. HICKSON perseveres in his extravagant notion about *news*, and that the learning and ingenuity which your correspondent P.C.S.S., I have no doubt justly, gives him credit for, should be so unworthily employed. Does MR. HICKSON really "very much doubt whether our word *news* contains the idea of *new* at all?" What then has it got to do with *neues*? Does MR. HICKSON'S mind, "in its ordinary mechanical action," really think that the entry of "old newes, or stale newes" in an old dictionary is any proof of *news* having nothing to do with *new*? Does he then separate…