JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
M. JULLLEN has again converted Covent Garden Theatre into a huge concert-room; and his "music for the million" attracts, as usual, hosts of hearers. The stage part of the house has been newly decorated, in a style the chasteness and brilliancy of which are at variance with the dingy appearance of the audience part. White and gold hangings, with crimson Canopies surmounting counters for refreshments—statues of saints and goddesses, encircled with plants and backed by trophies of gauze flags in tapee-piak, and a complete cherub orchestra in plaster—are the ornaments of the promenade. The banners, it may be supposed, typify the warlike cha- racter of two new sets of quadrilles—" The British Navy" and " The British Army"—that are to be the novel features of the "little month" during which Jullien's baton will flourish this season at Covent Garden. The orchestra is strong in talent and' loud in sound; and Herr Koenig's cornet expresses in prolonged blasts the pathetic strains of popular melodies by Jallien's other self, M. Rooh-Albert.
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