Mr. Kavanagh, the Member for Carlow, died yesterday week. Mr.
Vigors will be the Liberal candidate to succeed him, and is almosl certain of being elected. On his road from Kilkenny to Dublin, Mr. O'Connell stopped at Carlow, and dined with the electors. He delivered a strong elec.
tioneering harangue ; of which an evidently unfair and 'exaggerated report has been published by that infamous paper the Carlow Sentinel. The words " No savage Protestant," or "No savage Representatives," were conspicuously placarded at the Carlow dinner. The allusion con- tained in this motto has enraged the Orange journalists, who pretend to consider it as a declaration of war against all Protestants ; whereas they were only intended to mark the popular detestation of Colonel Bruen, the Member for Carlow County, who in the House of Com- mons designated the Catholics of Carlow as "savages."
Mr. O'Connell has written another letter to the electors of Lime- rick, as a rejoinder to Mr. Smith O'Brien's reply to his first letter. Mr. O'Connell treats Mr. O'Brien very contemptuously ; charges him with extreme vanity, with a series of Tory votes previous to the Re- form Act, and with persecution of Liberal electors. He also points out the injurious consequences to the Catholic religion in various countries from its union with the State, and refutes Mr. O'Brien's rather silly argument against the Ballot.
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