The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

VICTORIA THEATRE.

A new domestic drama, entitled The Merchant.'
Clerk ; a Love Story, was produced here last evening
with the most unequivocal success. This is one of those
intensely interesting domestic dramas for the production,
of which this house is so celebrated. The interest el
the piece turns upon the adventures of Mary Hillarf
(Miss Vincent), the daughter of a merchant, whose
clerk, Elliott, is in love with her. Uld Hillary, in
order to break off the match, concocts a charge (3`.t
forgery against Elliott, which eventually recoils agaio
himself. Mary, who is married to Elliott, and
cast off by her father, suffers all the ?nisei
and wretchedness that want and poverty 00
inflict, but Old Hillary, who has been through"
out the tool of a designing housekeeper, who
wishes to estrange him from his daughter, In
order to marry him herself, at length discovers the
machinations of this " fiend in human form" Hiss
quote from the bills), and all ends happily. MO
Vincent's impersonation of the character of Marl
Hillary was distinguished by a pathos and intensiti
of feeling which not unfrequently drew tears froo
her audience. She was well supported by Mr. Hicks
as Elliott. The Old Hillary of Mr. Dale was aO6
piece of acting, and richly merited the applause that
was lavished on it. Artistically viewed, it was the,
best thing in the piece. There was an excellent,
low-comedy part for Forman, who made the most of
it. The drama, which is admirably put on the star
met with the most deserved success, and will have
long run.

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QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM. -- The annu-
al
meeting for the distribution of prizes to the successful
pupils took place yesterday (Monday) in the theatre 0f
the institution. The Right Hon. Lord Lyttelton, the,
Principal, took the chair, and amongst those preset°
were—the Hon. and Rev. Chancellor Law, the Vies'
Principal of the college ; the Hon. and Rev. Granthu°l
M. Yorke, Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., the RO/'
Vaughan Thomas, Dr. Booth, Mr. Sands Cox, the Dean
of the Faculty, the various professors, and a numerous
attendance of ladies and gentlemen. The followid
prizes were awarded :—First Warneford gold medut
Whittell, Leamington ; second Warneford gold medal,
Bird, London ; the Jephson prize, 20 guineas, Bird
Professor Sands Cox's prizes, Bird and • Whitten ; She
governor's gold medal, Barratt, Birmingham ; aztatoot
first medal, Bird ; materia medica ditto, Moore, hale'
Owen ; certificate, Ireland, Malmsbury; chemistry, firs'
medal, Lane, Grosmouth, Monmouthshire ; certificate.
Stead, Congleton ; medicine, first medal, Bird ; certify
cate, Brown, Birmingham ; surgery, first medal, patter'
son, Stourbridge ; midwifery, first medal, Whittell;
certificate, Brown ; botany, first medal, Lowe, Birreing"
ham ; certificate, Moore. The vice principal's first
prize of 32L 10s. was awarded to Bird • and the prise'
in the junior department to Pryer, Wall, Edney, Wit'
kinson, and Stead.
DIOCESAN COURTS.—By an Act of Parliament
passed in July (10th and 11th Victoria, cap. 98) the,
several diocesan courts in England will be opened ft
the transaction of business from and after the first del
of next month. Much inconvenience, it is declared bfi
the preamble, ensues from the continued suspension of
the jurisdiction of the several diocesan courts in Eng'
land, and'it is then enacted, " That the bishop of ever,'
diocese in England shall, by himself or his officers'
exercise throughout the whole of his diocese 0
it now is or hereinafter may be limited or con'
stituted, save only in causes and matters testy
mentary, or relating to the administration of th°
personal estate of intestates, the same jurisdie:
tion and authority which before the passing of this Ao'
he or any bishop lawfully could or might exercise q
himself or his officers within any part of such diocese.
The officers of the court are to pay over the net amount
of fees to the treasurer of the governors of the bouatf
of Queen Anne, to be carried to a separate aecounSo
.. and retained until Parliament shall provide for the sp"
propriation thereof."
HAMBURG, OCT. I.—Mr. R. Cobden arrived on
the 29th of September at Lubeck, on his way iron)Stockholm. Stockholm. The following day a grand dinner wits
given in his honour at the Hotel du Nord, by the me'
chants of Lubeck. Mr. Cobden' being anxious to return
home, sat out next morning for Hamburg, where he ur"
rived about noon, and took up his residence at Streit'o
hotel. Great preparations have been made in this city
for his reception.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES OF CASII AND BANS 0!
ENGLAND NOTES.—Yesterday information
was received
by the police, that the dwelling-house of Mr. G. Howarth,
of Cadishead, near Manchester, had been plundered of
901. in gold, and 350 L in Bank of England notes, and
that a lodger, named Elias Field, at Mrs. Dorothy Tyas%
Castlereagh-street, Barnsley, had goner off with 65L ill
gold, and eleven five-pound notes of the Barnsley ano
Wakefield Bank.