The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The hotels of Killarney are already crowded with tour-
ists from all parts of the world, visiting the lakes.
The Cork Constitution says, that a few days ago, a
country pauper bought a little girl from her father for the
sum of five shillings and sevenpence for the object of
trading with her in begging.
Mrs. Smith O'Brien and her children returned to Lime-
rick from Dublin on Wednesday. She has gone for the
present to the house of her father, Mr. Gabbatt, of
Limerick.

The Limerick Chronicle states that Judge Perrin re-
tires from the bench, on his full salary, after the conclu-
sion of the present circuit, and that the Attorney-General
will succeed his lordship in the Queen's Bench.

DEATH OF MR. RICHARD PENNEFATHER.—The Clon-
rnel Chronicle announces the death of this much-esteemed
gentleman, of cholera, at Newtown Anner, the hospitable
residence of Captain Osborne, M.P. for Middlesex. The
deceased was the eldest son of Baron Pennefather, and
was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Tipperary militia
by the Earl of Glengall, on the death of Lieutenant-
Colonel Purefoy. He also filled the important office of
Under-Secretary for Ireland during the administration of
Sir R. Peel, for which he proved himself peculiarly
adapted from his excellent business habits, the intelli-
gence of his mind, personal activ,ty, and courteous address.

- HORRIBLE STORY.—The Cork Examiner has the fol-
lowing shocking statement :—" Mr. Gilbert Lloyd, of
Millview, Kanturk, made appiication to the magistrates
on Saturday, to have the dogs of the neighbourhood
logged, as he stated that his men found the leg and arm
of a corpse near his house after being devoured by dogs,
and he, in person, was compelled to force away some
dogs yesterday from another corpse, after they bad de-
voured the head and neck, and destroyed the entire body.
The workhouse burial ground is on Mr. Lloyd's farm,
from which they were rooted ; but there can be no blame
attached to the vice-guardians, who have done all in their
power to prevent a recurrence of such a profanation."
THE ORANGE COLLISION.—The following is the ver-
dict of the jury upon four of the individuals who lost
their lives :—" The deceased Hugh King died on the
morning of Friday, the 13th day of July instant, in the
town of Castlewellan, in the county of Down, from a
gun-shot wound inflicted on him by some person unknown
in a party procession, in the townland of Maghermayo, in
said county, on Thursday. the 12th instant. The deceased
Patrick King, John Sweeny. and Anne Traynor, died or.
Thursday, the 12th day of July instant, in the townland
of Maghermayo, in this county, by certain violent inju-
ries inflicted on the aforesaid day by some persons
unknown of a party procession passing by said townland
on said day."

PROTESTANTISM IN ROME.

(From the Dublin Evening Herald)

Protestantism is now planted deep in the centre of the
papal soil. We do not say so merely because popery has
been made odious to the Roman people by the murderous
violence of the pontiff. We speak not inferentially, but
upon the reluctant testimony of a most competent and re-
markable witness. Father Ventura, the substance of
whose letter upon the French expedition to Rome we
lately published, has recently published another letter
upon the state of religion in the eternal city. In this
document the following remarkable passages occur :
"You wish to know in what state faith is at Rome. On that
subject I have nothing to tell you but what is most deplorable.
You are aware, perhaps, that the confessionals and holy chairs
were carried away from several of the churches with the inten-
tion of burning them on the Piazza del Popolo. The govern-
ment was strong enough to prevent this scandal. Nevertheless,
the cry was raised—' Death to ail who go to confession death
to the priests 1 death to the monks and the churches, the con-
fessionals, the communion, the sermons, and all religious ob-
servances are abandoned. The churches are deserted, and for
want of hearers there is no more preaching. And all this is
the result of the hatred, the contempt, the execration which
t'3e priesthood has incurred. What is still more astonishing
is, that the women, even of the lower classes, who were for-
merly so religious, are the first to repel the priests, and have
given up all religious observances. I say it with tears in any
eyes, and with a heart broken with sorrow, real protestantism,
which consists in faith without works, in the profession of the
gospel without the ministry of the priesthood, is actually esta-
blished in the central city of catholicism 1 Out of a hundred
persons I doubt if ten can be found to have remained catholics.
They will have nothing but the religion of the gospel, and you
know what that means.. Thus our twenty years' labours' for
kindling a livelier faith, and a more durable attachment to the
church, are lost in seven months. And if this goes on, if an
apostate priest can be found hold and impious enough to con-
stitute himself the head of the religion of the gospel, Protestant-
ism will soon be installed at Rome as the religion of the state..
here is no doubt about it.