The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-11 00:00:00

VICTORIA THEATRE.

A new piece, entitled the Royal Delinquent, or the
Triumph of Justice, was last night produced at this
theasre. The plot is as follows :—Don Pedro being
deeply enamoured of Donna Beatrice, endeavours, though
with little hope of success, to prevent her union with Don
Carlos, to whom she is betrothed. To secure his pur-
pose he repairs to her house during the night in disguise,
with the intention of carrying her off, but is interrupted
by one of the city guards, whom he kills upon the spot.
In the mean time Don Carlos, urged by jealousy and
revenge, flies from the palace, and joins a band Of con-
spiring noblemen. The body of the slain guard being
soon afterwards discovered, by the officers of police, an
examination ensues, which leads to the conviction that
the King is the murderer, and his Royal Majesty is forth-
with cited to appear before a Court of Justice by Juan
Pascual, an honest farmer, who has been raised to the
judicial dignity by the King on account of his blunt and
independent bearing. The King, with a complaisance
not much in keeping with the character of Pedro the
Cruel, who is recorded to have put his enemies to death by
roasting them on a spit, or boiling them in caldrons, re-
solves to obey this extraordinary mandate. The matter is,
however, prudently enough not pushed to extremities by
the Judge, and Don Pedro, after receiving a suitable
admonition on the enormity of his offence, has the plea-
sure to learn that his life is spared, in consequence of the
impossibility of finding any one bold enough to attempt to
take it away. The King having set such a praiseworthy
example of obedience to the laws, now demands, in his
turn, that justice shall be done on a traitor who bas lately
been apprehended. This traitor is no other than Don
Carlos, who immediately receives sentence of death ; but
Don Pedro, as if to give the lie to his traducers, and to
prove bow shocking a piece of injustice it is to apply to
him the epithet of cruel, pardons his rival, and sanctions
his marriage with Donna Beatrice. Such are the prin.
cipal incidents of the new production of last night, which
met with a favourable reception from the audience.

It is stated that Sir John Wrottesley is to be
immediately elevated to the honours of the Peerage.—Bir-
►niny&am Advotiser.

The Bishop of Bath and Wells has this year
added 30 acres more to the quantity of land he had before
let to the pnor of Wells.

Miss 'Julia Dunbar is engaged by Messrs.
Abbott and Egerton at the Victoria Theatre. This young
lady possesses considerable talent, and must prove a great
acquisition.

We understand that a new Drama is forth-
coming on Monday evening next at the Fitzroy, calculated
from its character to increase the fast rising popularity of
that theatre. It is founded on Banim's admirable story
of the " Irish Plague ;" and proposes, by powerful graphic
sketches of a tragic, though homely, nature, to illustrate
the actual present condition of the suffering Irish peasantry.
In the Literary Gazette of this day, Jan. 11
(No. 866), are, the latest Accounts from the Niger Expe•
dition ; and a very interesting Letter from R. Lander,
giving an Account of remarkable Proceedings with the
Natives and their Kings—Also, a Description of the late
Mr. Heber's Library, and the 90.000 Volumes which are
destined fur sale under his Will (at length found by Dr.
Dibdin)—Reply to Dr. Nolan's Letters, defending his
Attack on English Science in the Bampton Lectures—
The Publishing Trade and Society for Diffusing Useful
Knowledge ; and the consequent Deterioration of our
National Literature exposed—The Legitimate Drama and
its Woodcut Bills, with a complaint from Dobbin, one of
Ducrow's miserable horses—Gin Drinking, its dreadful
extension—A Thief's Parody on Gray's Elegy—Reviews,
Criticisms, Literary and Scientific Intelligence, Varieties,
&e. &c. &c., as usual.—London : W. A. Scripps, 7, Wel-
lington•street.

PARLIAMENTARY SESSIONS IN COLLEGE
GREEN.—Tbe new writs have not issued as yet for the
meeting of the Irish members in College Green, to make
the necessary arrangements for the repeal of the Union.
Though the hot fit is now so powerfully operating upon
the great leader, it is understood that, for some reason or
other, he is not disposed to convene the tail upon the
present occasion. This should not be allowed to escape
notice. If such a convention were deemed so essentially
necessary on the former occasion, it cannot be less important
and necessary now..—Dublin Evening Post.