4 Remarks on Milk and Gas Companies, &c. 
entendre,’ I would suggest, without 
giving him anv farther trouble than a 
reference to Johnson’s Dictionary, that 
it is not in the formularies of the church 
alone that the word in question is used 
in the sense of civil dignity and respect. 
It is thus used by Spenser and Shak- 
speare. Nor is this sense of the word 
yet altogether obsolete; it remains in 
Worshipful, the formal style of Mayors 
of corporate towns: nor is Your Wor- 
ship an unknown address from a simple 
Saxon-mouthed witness to a magistrate 
on the bench. This is the primary ap- 
plication of the word, to signify respect 
towards another generally; and it is only 
secondarily and technically, that it is 
limited to the expression of respect or 
reverence towards God particularly. 
The second clause is one against 
which, I must confess, I never should 
have anticipated any objection; imply- 
ing, as it does, not the transfer of the 
prerogative of legal title and administra- 
tion (which it is the object ef marriage- 
settlements to take from, not to give to, 
the husband), but the conveyance, on 
the part of the husband, of a free and 
rightful participation in the enjoyment 
of his property, or the fruits of his in- 
dustry, in the comforts and ornaments 
of life possessed by himself; in fact, 
constituting a perfect unity of interests 
between the parties. And, surely, if in 
any case a community of goods ought 
to exist ; if such unity of interests is one 
of the characteristic distinctions between 
pure wedlock and foul concubinage,— 
then, assuredly, has the church done not 
only consistently, but wisely and con- 
siderately, in requiring, for the security 
of her who commits her person, her 
comfort, and her earthly happiness, into 
the hands of a man, that that man shall 
solemnly declare to her, in the presence 
of her friends, and of God himself, that- 
he takes her io his home, not merely as 
the partner of his bed, but of his sub- 
stance; not as the slave of his pleasures, 
but as the mistress of his house. 
London, Jan: 13. TE 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sir: 
HE combination of capitalists for 
taking the bread out of the mouths 
of the poor widows and half-superan- 
nuated spinsters, who have hitherto 
supplied the town with milk, have in 
the prospectus, I believe, of the Joint 
Stock Milk Company, professed that 
their dairy farms should be stocked with 
Alderney cows ewclusively. Will you, 
therefore, permit me, Sir, through the 
medium of your miscellany, to put the 
plain downright question to these combi- 
nationists— “ whether there is any one of 
them, or any one of their ostensible con- 
ductors, who will stand forth with his 
avowed name and designation, to in- 
form the public, unequivocally, whether 
there are any Alderney cows in the stock 
upon their establishments ?” I think 
inyself not only entitled, but bound in 
duty, both to the publie and the Joint 
Stock Capitalists aforesaid, to put this 
question, thus openly ; because a friend 
of mine, formerly a grazier, and well 
acquainted with these matters, informs 
me that he has, within these few days, 
been all over the grounds and premises . 
of one of those establishments ; and that 
of Alderney cows, he found not one. 
If this be true, the said joint stock 
gentlemen ought to be reminded, that 
obtaining money under false pretences 
(whatever be the name or colouring by 
which it may be disguised) is, in fact 
and moral inference, swindling: and 
might perhaps be so construed even in 
the courts of law. If, on the contrary, 
the tale that has been told to me be 
untrue, it is better that it should at once 
be publicly stated, and as publicly re- 
futed, than that the reputation of the 
patties should be whispered away by 
the private circulation of the scandal. 
Iam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
Tue Frizenp or Woman. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sir: 
N the valuable department of your 
magazine, entitled the Spirit of Phi- 
losophical Discovery, there 3s an article 
upon the “colouring trinkets, of jew- 
ellers’ gold, so as to look like pure gold.” 
Now, if the author would add the pro- 
portion of ammonia necessary, and the 
process of burnishing the gold after it 
has attained the frosted appearance, it 
would increase greatly the value of the 
above article, and confer a favour on 
A Constant READER. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sir: 
N your magazine of this month, I 
observe an article on the leakage 
from a gas pipe under the pavement of 
Bell-street, Lisson-green. The most 
effectual mode of preventing the recur- 
rence of such accidents, is, for the par- 
ties who suffer, to bring actions against 
the company who supply the gas in the 
district. A court of law would, I should 
imagine, 
