The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-06 00:00:00

MUSIC.

THE MILANESE WALTZES FOR THE
PIAIVOFORTE. By E. Allen.
The Milanese Waltzes are calculated to become
general favourites in the drawing-room. They com-
bine a very great brilliancy of .effect with great sim-
plicity of execution. They are animated and sprightly
as waltzes without being overloaded with embellish-
ment ; on the contrary, there is an attractive sim-
plicity in the graceful beauty which characterises
them. At the present season, when the domestic
fireside has peculiar charms, and the festive scene has
especial attractions, these enlivening waltzes very ap-
propriately make their appearance, being well adapted
to increase the cheerfulness of the one and to contri-
bute to the ornament of the other.

ADMIRALTY NOTICE.
NAVAL MEDALS.
Admiralty, December 4, 1848.
Claimants for the Naval Medals aro hereby informed,
that the notice of the 30th ultimo, published in the
Gazette of the Ist instant, has no reference to claims
which have been already preferred.
W. A. B. HAMILTON.

THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.—The Chevalier Le
Molk will, to-morrow evening, between the hours of
seven and nine, make a fresh trial of the new electric
light on the gallery of the York Column. As this light
is especially destined for lighthouses and railroad sig-
nals, it will be produced in the form that may appear
best adapted to those different purposes. Between nine
and half-past nine o'clock the spark will be alternately
directed to the Regent-circus and the clubs in the vicinity
of Waterloo-place, the Queen's Palace, the triumphal
arch near Apsley House, and Trafalgar-square, Sm.
The light will be so directed as to enable a person sta-
tioned in a dark room of a distant office to read a news-
paper with facility. Between half-past nine and ten
o'clock the light will be directed towards Westminster
Abbey, the Parliament House, the Waterloo and
Suspension bridges, and the prolonged line be-
yond the river. Between ten and eleven o'clock
moving lighthouse signals will be displayed at
all points of the metropolitan horizon in such a
manner as to be discernible (should the state of the at-
mosphere allow) from all localities commanded by the
summit of the column. At this period of the evening
the moon (which will not be at the full until Sunday
evening next) will be in its zenith, but M. Molk does not
apixehend any sensible diminution of the lustre of his
light from the presence of that beautiful luminary. As
the base of the statue at the summit of the column pre-
cludes the possibility of directing the light to all quarters
from the same point, the light will be suspended fur the
space of time absolutely requisite for the removal of the
apparatus to the different points of the gallery, the plat-
form of which is very narrow. M. Le Molk proposes,
in a short time, to make some experiments with his ap-
paratus the " port-thunder," and his new " electro-
phonic " instrument, destined to establish an electro-
tFlegraphic communication between all the stations 0f a
line of railroad. Should the weather to-morrow evening
prove unfavourable for the proposed experiments, they
will be postponed until the following evening at the
same hour.

The Commissioners of Sewers dined yesterday at
the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street; Mr. Deputy Pea-
cock,
the chairman, presided, supported by the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Sheriff Goodhart, Mr. Alder-
man Copeland, M.P., Mr. Alderman Sidney, M.P., Mr.
Alderman Lawrence, Mr. Masterman, M.P., Mr. Pear-
son, M.P., Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., Mr. Cubitt, Mr.
Richard Lambert Jones, Messrs. Millard, Kemp, Lake,
Selson, Evans, Toulmin, Smith, Corney, Daw, and a
select party. After the usual toasts, the chairman, in
proposing the health of Mr. Masterman and the Members
of the House of Commons, spoke in high terms of the
exertions of the Hon. Member in working through Par-
liament the Bill introduced by the city of London, for
promoting sanitary regulations. Mr. Cubitt, in return-
ing thanks on his health being proposed, in conjunction
with the healths of Messrs. Walker and Brunel (who
were absent), stated that when the duty of inquiring into
the sewers of the city 'of London devolved upon them,
he had not the slightest conception that it would be
found so practically complete as their survey hid proved
to be. The entertainment was in every respect equal to
the character of the Albion.
So rigorously is the presence of officers with their
regiments enforced by the Duke of Wellington, that one
or his own aides-de-camp, Captain the Marquis of
Worcester, 7th Hussars, is detached from his Grace's
staff for the purpose of doing duty with his troop in
Kilkenny.

FAILIIRES IN lavznrooL.—The number of firms
which stopped payment in Liverpool, during the panic
9f 1847, was 51.