The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-26 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.

Six,—Allow me to suggest to such of the fair equestrians
in Hyde-park as do not extend their ride beyond certain
limits, that it they would go a little further, in the direction
of Notting-hill or thereabouts, where the air blows fresh out
of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire over genuine country
fields, they would not only double the benefit they receive,
but (what is not always the reward of a virtue) very quickly
become sensible of it. Change of the air is half the good of
exercise—there is a perceptible increase of its purity in those
quarters ; and it is, furthermore, a satisfaction to the mind,
of equestrian or pedestrian, to know that they have got be-
yond the region of houses and manufactories, and look fairly
upon the clear and beautiful face of nature.
I cannot express to you the pleasure I receive daily this
fine weather from seeing the number of young and lively
women whom the new fashion has mounted on horseback ;
nor how much it adds to it to reflect that the fashion was set
by the Queen. Most of these fair Hippolitas think of it,
perhaps, as a fashion only, though a pleasant one, and one
that is accompanied with the good luck of doing a service to
their health and spirits. But its benefit is far beyond that.
These sprightly riders are the future wives and mothers of a
class of society, the habits of which are too apt to render
them sedentary and languid, to the great detriment not only
of themselves, but of the pale and inefficient generations that
follow them. The present fashion helps to counteract these
results. It knits the muscles, purifies the blood, disposes to
the cheerful exercise of other duties ; and when the time ar-
rives for these young ladies to be mothers themselves, people
will be glad to see them quit the horse a while for the chariot
or the barouche, as she who set the fashion is now doing, till
the appearance of certain stout and animated little strangers
shall warrant their resumption of it, and commence a new
and promising generation. I need not add, what we may all
hope and look for, of a like vigorous sort, and of incalculable
importance to the nation, from the quarter to which so many
obligations will have been owing. Such speculations may
make the superficial " smile ;" but the good-hearted, the
patriotic, the profound will smile still more, and rejoice
heartily to see a fashionable amusement become the source of
lasting and noble advantages.
I am, Sir, your constant reader,
NICOPHILUS.
P.S.—Let me add how agreeable it is to observe that her
Majesty knows also the value of walking—an exercise that
may be kept up under the most " interesting" circumstances
to the last, and which is of the last service to them too. By
the way, lam no admirer of ladies on " fiery horses." They
should be on creatures as gentle as themselves, and then all
goes well.

Robin's Royal Filters will be found the most valuable
addition to every residence. From a long trial of their
merits, we are confidently enabled to recommend them as the
surest mode of filtration extant.—See edit.

The Kilnwick Percy estate, near to York, and the pet
property of the county, is announced in our columns this
morning for the first time. This sale will create an excite-
ment that has never been surpassed throughout Yorkshire.
Mr. Robins seems to have exceeded himself in his power of
description : his announcement is very clever ; but he cannot
say too much of it. We agree with Sir Walter Scott's lines
as applicable to Kilnwick Percy—
" There is nothing left to fancy's guess,
You see that all is loveliness."

WRECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGE !—What a most splendid
achievment is the blowing up of this noble first-rate man of
war, after having been imbedded for fifty-seven years several
fathoms deep in the dark recesses of the ocean ! and thus--
to say no more—securing a clear anchorage for other vessels.
It is somewhat remarkable that nearly about the time this
magnificent specimen of our wooden walls went down—up
came another first-rater—that transcendent medicine, AT-
KINSONS INFANTS' PRESERVATIVE I which has not only
kept its head above water ever since, but as much of it has
been sold as would have fairly floated the Royal George ;
and as many lives in all human probability have been saved
by it as would have manned a fleet.—See advt.
ENGRAVING ON STEEL.--Messrs. Perkins and Bacon
have unquestionably brought this style of engraving to a
degree of perfection, which cannot be equalled, much less
surpassed, by any other nation. We have just inspected a
specimen of their skill, which is so surpassingly beautiful,
as to exceed all expectation, and almost all belief. It ap-
pears that the proprietors and inventors of an article, which
stands deservedly high in favour with the fashionable world,
finding that the marks and labels of their productions were
imitated to a considerable extent, particularly on the coati-
nent, have sought and found the resources of native talent
and native art a protection against the frauds of unprinci-
pled foreigners, and Messrs. Perkins and Bacon have, at
their suggestion, produced a specimen of perfection in the
art of engraving on steel, which will effectually set all
tion at defiance, and secure the public against the possibility
of fraud and deception. When we mention that, amid a
number of designSthe most beautiful, varied and chaste,oooolteht!
specimen includes an inscription of no less than 3
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and executed.—See advt.