The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-30 00:00:00

CANTERBURY HALL.

After a lapse of five years, the renowned Sam
Cowell, the prince of comic singers, makes his
reappearance at the Canterbury Hall on Monday
next.

Our readers are no doubt aware that during
the time above-mentioned this gifted son
of Momus has been absent from the metro-
polis he has been making a tour of the States of
America, and as such a journey must have thrown
him into all sorts of company, a most comical
description

" Of moving accidents by flood and field"
may most certainly be expected.
We anticipate a cordial and enthusiastic wel-
come will be accorded to Mr. Cowell as some slight
return for the thousands of times he has driven
dull care away from the millions of the metropolis.

The King of Sweden has arrived at Stockholm,
having gone direct to that capital, without visiting Copen.
hagen.
The Duke and Duchess de Brabant will, it is said,
proceed shortly into Germany.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury have
left town to pass a few weeks at Jervaux Abbey, the seat
of the noble marquis, in Yorkshire.
The Earl and Countess Russell and family arrived
at Abergeldie, near Balmoral, N. 8., where the noble earl
and countess will reside for a month or six weeks.
The Earl and Countess De Grey and Ripon and
family left Carlton-gardens yesterday, for Studeley Park,
near Ripon.
The Earl of Abingdon and Ladies Bertie have
arrived in town from Wytham Abbey, Oxfordshire.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Ladies
Villiers, who are staying at Wiesbaden, are not expected
to return home before the middle of October.
The Earl and Countess of Caithness, accompanied
by Lord Bernedale and family, arrived last week at Barre-
gill Castle, Caithness, for the winter.
THE DEER.—Good sport, we are glad to hear, is
being had in the forests. From Balmacaan we learn that
on the 19th the Earl of Seafield brought down a fine stag of
fully 16st. in the Deer Forest. On Satuday his lordship
and party brought down three stags and three roe—all in
fine condition. In the forest of Glenavon, on the 20th
and 23d, Lord Henry Bentinck killed six fine stags—
three of them, on the latter day, at " one stalk." A
royal stag also fell to his lordship's rifle on Saturday.
Lord March has brought down five or six fine stags in
Glenfiddoch during the week. The deer (says a Glenavon
correspondent)—have not been in such good con-
dition at this season of the year for a long time, and such
beautiful heads are rarely to be seen.—Banfshire Journal.
THE MOORS.—The weather at Auchterarder this
week has been excellent for the moors—sunshine, with
cooling breezes. The sportsmen are enjoying good sport,
and this week a great number have been out on the moors
in this neighbourhood. Their sport has been superior,
though we have not yet ascertained the exact result. The
partridge shooting commences in the beginning of the week,
and scarcely have we had more favourable prospects for it.
The partridges are numerous on all the estates here, and ag
many as eighteen are seen frequently in a covey. They are
also in excellent condition. A good number of crop fields
will be cut before that, so that no obstacle fr ma this is ex -
peoted. Several gentlemen intend commencing next week
to the shooting, though for some reasons of late they have
postponed shooting, that the birds might get better, there
being no necessity for that this year. Both hares and roe-
deer are very numerous, and many of these in splendid con-
dition, owing to the fine pasture season.—Scotsman.
SAVE YOUR RaGs.—Something may surely be
done by every family towards putting a stop ta the enor-
mous waste of paper material. The refuse, which has
hitherto found its way to the dast heap, as though fit only
for manure, should be preserved in bags kept for the pur-
pose, and should be handed over to the rag merchant. If
the remuneration received for it be small, the trouble is not
gnat, and the benefit conferred upon the public will be
considerable ; besides the collateral advantages that must
spring from fostering a habit of wise economy and thrift.
Every family which values education, and wishes well to
the cause of cheap literature, will render what help they
may by scrupulously saving their rags, waste paper, and
other paper material. Coald not the rag merchant, or the
paper manufacturer, on his part, organise some means of
collection at stated periods ? Contractors find it worth
their while to fetch away our dust, and pay handsomely for
it, employing a proper staff of servants ; will it be believed
that our linen and cotton rags are less valuable ?—Cassell's
Illustrated Family Paper.
DETERIORATION OF THE COINAGE.—It has been
discovered by the Mint authorities that the intelligent or
intelligible life of coins is much shorter than it was prior to
the introduction of the railway system and cheap travelling.
People move about now more frequently than they used, and
so does money. Whether the former wear out sooner from
their greater activity is a problem for social economists, but
that the latter does is certain. Towards the close of the last
centnry, careful experiments deduced the fact that deteriora-
tion among ten year old silver coins of the various denomi-
nations was as follows :—Crowns, 31 per cent. ; half-
crowns, 10 per cent.; shillings, 241 per cent. ; and six-
pences, 38 2-10ths per cent. Now the loss is nearly as fol-
lows, on coins of the same age :—Crowns, 5 per cent.: half-
I crowns, 12 per cent. ; shillings, 30 per cent. ; sixpences, 45
per cent., and threepences over 50 per cent. ! This increase
is evidently due to " fast living," so to speak, and the
weakest individuals, or at any rate the smallest, suffer most
from its consequences. The gold coinage does not deteriorate
in anything like the same ratio, and this from obvious causes.
It is not subjected to anything like the same course of treat-
ment. It moves in higher and more circumscribed circles,
is only a legal tender when of legal weight, and is there-
fore nursed with more care under the porte nionnaie sys-
tem. Of copper and bronze moneys, pence and halfpence
suffer the most rapid deterioration, farthings being the
longest lived of the three denominations. They are all tokens
of value merely, and their shortcomings are less noticed,
and, indeed, of far less consequence to the public. A suffi-
cient time has not yet elapsed to enable us to judge of the
durability of the bronze coinage, but from the hardness o
the metal of which it is composed, compare, ively with that

of copper, we prognosticate for it greater longevity. Once
oxydation has done its work of deepening the colour and
hardening the surface of the bronze, it will undoubtedly
become more sightly and less subject to loss by abrasion or
"waste" than it is in its present transition state.—Afechanics'
Magazine.

EDUCATION AND PAPER.—Education promotes
wealth. The country never was so wealthy as it is now, for
this reason—that it never was so well educated. Paper is
one of the chief means of education, and rags are the
material of paper. Rags, then, promote wealth ; wealth,
in its turn, increases the production of rags. When people
are badly off, they keep their rags to wear ; when they are
prosperous, they sell them to the rag merchant, or possibly
throw them away. The demand exceeds the supply, and
paper is very dear. Yet, so long as the Country is prospe-
rous, rags, with proper economy, ought to be plentiful, and
statistics prove that, in point of fact, they are so. The
quantity of paper manufactured in Great Britain in which

rag is used is about 60,000 tons. Deducting from this 10,000

tons made from cotton and linen waste and bagging, we have

50,000 tons remaining, which would require about 70,000
tons of rags. At present we import 11,000 tons, and, con-
sequently, we are using 15 per cent, of foreign material,
the supply from our thirty millions of population being
deficient to that amount. The Americans, with twenty-
three millions of population, manufacture 90,000 tons of
paper from rags, and, as they import £150,000 value of rags,
it follows that only about five per cent. of foreign material
is used in America. The Americans, therefore, somehow or
other, get hold of immensely more rags or paper material
than we do, although the facilities for collecting from dif-
ferent parts of that continent must be much less than we

enjoy. Now is this to be accounted for ? A recent pam-
phleteer answers the question :—" Clearly the source which
enables them thus to produce a far greater quantity of rag
paper than the United Kingdom must be traced to a more
rigid economy in the preservation and collection of materia'.
If it is taken into consideration that all fabrics of daily use,
manufactured of cotton, linen hemp, jute, &c., after sub.
serving the purpose to which they are originally applied,
whether for personal apparel, bed-furniture, table .cloths,
ships' sails, coal-pit ropes, corn-sacks, packing-cord, or any
other of the multifarious purposes of consumption into
which they enter, retain a great intrinsic value as material
for paper, and that the consumption of the articles enume-
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rated amounts to no less than, say, 300,000 tons annually,
whilst, as will be shown, scarcely half of this quantity of
material is collected, it will be freely admitted that we are
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very far from having exhausted the elastic capabilities of
home resources."—Cassell's illustrated Family Paper.