The Honourable Frederick Cavendish has addressed the electors of the
comity of Mayo on the Liberal interest, and Mr. Charles Lionel Kirwan has come forward as the Tory c:th,lidate. A candidate' is to be started on the Repeal interest—pledged led only to Repeol. bet to the " suppression " of the present system of II:rho:lel education. A meet- ing, presided over by Archbishop INIellale, has been held. when it was agreed that their candidate should take the following pledees- " fle will be required to vote Me the Repeal of the V Mon, Vote by Bal- lot, Triennial Parliaments, an 1;xtension of the Suffrage, a total extinction of Tithes, the :ippropr:at ion of the surplus revenucs of the E.tablished Church for the educ;it iii oi he rOpIC and the relief of the poor ; to suppre,--s the pre- sent system or national education, and never to count enanee any fature plan that will not secure to the provinee a just prop r liii of the flintIF• to be ma- naged by the local legitimate gum-di:Ms Of she in tin and morality of the people. The next pledge wl deli the selected candid.ne should give was, that he would defray the necessary expenses of a contest, in case of such taking idace."
To the above report the Dublin Monitor of Thursday adds—" One thing is clear, that it' the Repeal and A:di-Education parry push matters Cu) an extreme. Toryism will gain a triumph in Mayo."
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