The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-17 00:00:00

Adelphi Theatre.

Last night a lively opera buffa, entitled " CrYing
Jenny and Laughing Johnny," by Offenbach'
was produced at this theatre with success. lb°,
music is light and pretty, and Mrs. Mellon
Miss Futardo gave their respective portions of -
it
with great taste and effect. Mr. Toole has a highly
comic part in the trifle in which he has to drcse
himself in petticoats; the laughter produced therebi
can be well imagined. Mr. Eburne, too, acted hie
part well, and we have great pleasure in comPll-
- him on this occasion, as we have had many
times gone by to find fault with him. The Piece
was well put on the stage, and doubtless will prove
attractive.

DEATH or DR. MARK.—Our obituary contains
au intimation of the death of a respected fellow-citizen
—Dr. James Mau. Dr. Marr, though an English'll3ll,
by birth, received his education in this neighbourhoou
—namely, at the High School of Leith, where be distill."
guished himself by taking the gold medal—and at the 1.1-1'-
versity of Edinburgh. lle was possessed of great energY
e:
combined ~with considerable talent, and was an
teemed lecturer on midwifery in the Edinburgh
tra Academical School for some years; but an °P,P;°„;
tuuity offering of acquiring the extensive typefonn"—
establishment of the Messrs. Wilson, carried on in 14°11:
don, Edinburgh, and Dublin, ho left the medical Pr--
fession and applied himself to that lino of busil°s;
Dr. Marr was a general favourite among his piedi.ctb.
brethren, and was very highly esteemed by those Wi„-
whom his latter pursuits brought him into communicati°"'
Ile died in his 54th year.—Scotsman.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN IN WORKHOUSES."'"
The following form of petition to Parliament ROD
the wives and mothers professing the Roman Catholic re;
ligion was read yesterday from the altars of the chnrellegs
and chapels in the Roman Catholic Archiepiscopal dioce't
of Westminster by direction of the Archbishop, the 31QrSo
Rev. Dr. Manning :—" Showeth—That your petitionee
have been accustomed to hear and thankful to belie)
that they live in a land of religious liberty and of fair
equal laws, and that especially their own religion i 5
longer proscribed or subjected to penalties ; that, Ilev.„eo
theless, they aro still subjected to a cruel penalty Wye.,
severe to them than bodily pain in what may truly be ea
scribed as the compulsory education in principles OPlll5e-if
to their own, and privation of all instruction in t"
own religion, and of all opportunities of practisincs
to which a large number of the orphans alai y°°
children of Roman Catholic parents aro expeneatod
poorhouses, Poor Law schools, reformatories,' Q-0,
industrial schools. That a large proportion of the orit
man Catholic population is very poor and engaged in W
very necessary for the general good, but injurious to t
health of those who carry it on ; and hence the nunaber,,,o
Roman Catholic orphans and children who come under
provisions of Poor-law and Reformatory Acts of raril;
ment is exceptionally large. That system of which Y°ll,l
petitioners complain, of forcing young children to atten'
religious services and instructions different front thus© t°
which their parents have accustomed them, and cuttil
them off entirely from the instruction and consolation Whifft
the clergy of their own faith are ready gratuitously to its %,
to them, usually results in destroying one set of religion'
convictions without implanting others, and in hardoDiPs
and embittering the minds of those who aro made to under-
go it. That to conscientious Roman Catholic parents
the hour of death whose children are not provided for,
are in any such poorhouses or schools, the knowledge of
system pursued in them is the gl eatest grief which e`t
embitter their last moments. That this system, though 01°-
directly prescribed by any law, and, as your petitioners br
Hove, contrary to the spirit and character of the logisl3tic)l4
of the country, is carried on under the sanction of ghat
of Parliament, and by powers granted by such acts. I'D!,
your petitioners, or most of them, are obliged to contribipi
to poor rates and county rates, by which the expense the
the poorhouses, reformatories, and schools in which
children of their friends and fellow-religionists aro
cruelly treated are defrayed. That your petitioners it;
derstand that Parliament has interfered to protect et en
classes of persons in danger of oppression, as 6'3'l'll;l
working in mines and factories, although the evils to re
prevented were less serious, and those whose powers victa
restrained were not receiving grants of public moue)", avt-
the alleged oppression was not exercised in virtue Pf
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ers given by Parliament; that your petitioners, the be
earnestly pray that your lion. louse will no longer ,
contented to pass Permissive Bills which Poor Law glitltsre
dians and others disregard, but will forbid, under effe':"or...
provisions, the refusal of free access to a properly
ized Roman Catholic clergyman to the Roman Ca
, children, and the education of any such children in L-ot
other than their own faith in any poor-house, r '9°r hollY
school, reformatory, or industrial school, supported
out
or in part by taxes, poor rates, or county rates, and I
' petitioners will ever pray." the Oa
LSHAKSPERE'S BIRTHDAY.—Monday next,
• fbclaP
inst., is the anniversary of Shakspere's 1)1r. P.
The banquet which, under the will of the late Mr- ury,
Cooke, is provided at the Dramatic College at iSaYP tbe,
"at which the master, wardens, and members et
_,,a„
council shall preside, and to which the whole of theal-:_a
siouers and any supporters and patrons of the dranvo
well-wishers of the college shall be invited," will liavv.-I'_e_
• Webster for its president and Mr. Creswick for its
president. Special dinners in honour of the occasion
Rise IA held at various social and literary clabg,