The Sun. — 1834-01-11 (London, England)

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 purpose 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 conspiring 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 forthwith 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, resolves 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 pleasure 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 forthcoming 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, Wellington•street.