The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-31 00:00:00

MUSIC.

THE ENGLISH QUADRILLE. By Jaen.
LE VALSE A DEUX TEIWS. Comm* pour its

Bals de la Cour d'Anyleterre, par SiMen.
BOUQUET ROYAL. False. Composed for her

111ajesty's State Balls by Jullien.

These brilliant compositions are already familiar to the
frequenters of M. Jullien's Promenade Concerts, where they
are nightly received with the most rapturous applause. Our
Country friends will now have an opportunity of appreciating
and enjoying them. They are published as solos for the
piano, as duets for the same instrument, with accompani-
ments for the flute, violin, and cornet it piston; as septuors;
and with the full score for the grand orchestra. These piano
adaptions are exceedingly clever, all the effects are well
brought out, and we have no doubt but that they will be as
popular in the drawing-room as they are already in the
theatre.
LE S METAMORPHOSES VALSES.. Com-
pods pour les Bale de is Cour d'Angleterre, par Her-
mann Kcenig.
DIE MECKLENBURGER -S T.R EL ITZ
WALTZ. Composed for her Majesty's State Balls,
by Hermann Kcenig.
THE BIRD OF PARADISE WALTZ.
By Hermann Kcenig.
Herr Kcenig, the first cornet I piston player in the world,
is the composer of these beautiful waltzes, and bids fair to
become as great a composer as he is acknowledged to be a
performer. These compositions are the works of one whose
musical genius is of a very high order. Les Metamorphoses,
particularly, is a composition of the most original character,
brilliant, effective, and expressive. Herr Kcenig is capable of
works of a much higher order than waltzes and quadrilles;
he could produce an opera which " the world would not wil-
lingly let die." We shall watch the career of Herr Kcenig as
a composer with great interest, and we hope soon to meet
him again.

LONDON NEWSPAPERS —The increase within the
last ten years in the number of newspapers published in
London has been so great as almost to exceed belief;
The weekly average of the number dispatched by the
mails to the provinces was, in December, 1833, 200,00 n
—in the present month it exceeds 470,000. The, news-
papers, too, have so increased in size that; while at the
former period the weight per week was about nine tons,
it now exceeds forty tons. But within the same week
a great disproportion exists, the papers published on
Saturday much exceeding those published on any other
day. The weight of newspapers now passing by the
mails on every Saturday night is not less than eleven tong.
NAPOLEON BORN ON A RUG !—lt is a curious fact
that Napoleon—destined to be the Imperial ruler of Francis
for a time, dictator of nearly all Europe I—was born on a
wretched rug.--4to very exalted resting-place for the mother
of such a son ! -Madame Bonaparte was at mass on the day
of the fete of Notre Dame of August, when she was over-
taken with the pains of child-birth, and had scarcely reached
home when the future hero saw the light in Corsica, where
he remained until he was nine yeArs of age. It may be
truly said that the termination, as well as the beginning of
Napoleon's csreor was on a rugged spot !
Yesterday was the anniversary of the martyrdom of
King Charles the First, in 1648. The sheet which received.
the head of Charles the First after its decapitation, is care-
fully preserved, along with the communion plate, in the
church of Ashitrithatn, in Brighton; the blood, WWI which
it has been almost entirely covered, now appears nearly
black. The watch of the monarch is also deposited with the
linen, the movements of which are still perfect. These relics
Caine into the possession of Lord Ashburnhani immediately
after the death of the King.