The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-05-21
MlscE1LAHEous IRISH NEWS.

A1SCkLLANE0US IRISH NEWS.
Important Decision.-The Sk;hharee,
land sessions offer a pretty plain proof a
the necessity that tenants have of the pro
lection of the Land Act. At both ends O,
the social scale there were Representatives
OF that power which has been SO often on.
Plessiyeiy exercised towards tenants
LorG bantry's name has again figured in
tue i1st OF Plaintiffs, his Lordship being, il
we are not mistaken, the only noblema1 in
tnls county whose title was paraded in an
fJectment process since the passing of the
Land Act. His Lordship's kind intentions,
however, were foiled by a dismissal of the
ejectment process. The most important de-
clsion' during the session, was that rendered
III the case OF Thomas Crowley-settlinp a
Poih1 ABOUT which there has been consider.
aole discussion. The history of the case
Is tsa as follows I Crowley twenty years ago
t1oA tne farm valued at 96 5s. for e. los.
he appears to have been an improving
tenant, and made the farm more valuable.
ana therefore his considerable landlady six
years after raised his rent to fl2-aImost
double the Poor-law valuation. AS he
continued to be industrious, in two years
more the rent was raised to. ETA, Being
still steady man he was served with q
notice 70 quit in March, 1866, that did not
appear TO have been acted upon, but he got
another in March, 1869, Of which very good
use was made. On the 18th October, 1869
about Land Act, the day before the SEES
sions, Crowley had to sign document
contracting to take the farm for a wear.
And thus be was deprived of the right he
would have possessed to be COMPENSATED |
LOT disturbance. AS Mr.. Hanill observed
tract, and must ield to the objection made
In that point, which he did, morally speak
ing. with great reluctance in the present
case" All the Chairman in this case could
DO Tor the tenant was to allow him compen-
sation for improvements to the amount of
s47 17s. Cd. This at least has been done
for Crowley by the operation of the Land
ACT. Mr. Hamill holds that the agreement
Tor year does not break the continuity of
me tenancy, but simply continues it, and
therefore, does not debar the claimant from
ne r'gnG 10 recover compensation for i'm
ustained, and from the legal knowledge of
ne Chairman and the attention he has I
'lven to the act, we have great condolences
his Judgment, enc motive will have been {
emoved from the manufacture of those t
little instruments that lately enabled 40 !
many tenants to sign away their rights. !
The scrupulous honesty of the Irish peo- 6
ne In the repayment of loans contracted
as often been noticed with emphatic ad-
nration by keen observers of society. A
trlklng instance of this gratifying fact U
as just come under our notice in the An p
ual Report of the Irish Loan Fund Com d
llssloners. That body lent out last year .
one hundred and twenty-one thousand g
ersons the sum of f565 900, and we are II
'tal of the bad debts resulting. Taking q
le loans at the general 95 average of the y
hole return above, we calculate that q
bout twenty eight borrowers failed to re- Z
ay the loans they had received. Some "
these were, no doubt, prevented by ~
ilure of some plan, from discharging the ls
which they had accepted; but a.
ON whatever cause they failed to do 40. p
le TACT Is here that failure did not result Ia
all except In the case of one borrower "
1t OF every four thousand odd. A still 81
q County Table, we discover at a glance al
at o bad debt balance of 4II6 was re- &c
'rted from the County Down; and pur- CT
ing the inquiry another step, we refer to 81
9 statement of Accounts of Loan M
nnds," and there find that the fund at m
otlywood, IN the County Down, had =,
ased TO operate in 1870, and that the bad pi
lot OF tll6 is an unexplained result of In
Q operations of that branch. The sum
en- 49, That, putting aside this Hollywood re
amen and what special circumstances, so
u SET out In the report, may have been CHI
~ neo1eu Win It's suspensiun-more than 10
III mlllrOn sterling was lent in six land re-
enty irish counties, over the lapse of a at
ioie tWelVemonth, to more than a hun eli,
ed thousand borrowers, and the bad ra
DTS left by such multitude of transac- wi
ms among the poor and needy of the hi
ana were just matter of ECO. Indeed, tic
nineteen counties the bad debt column ha
is mil" We should very much like to of
mpare all this with the results of apy ch
niiar work in Experimentation tn
Strange EUiction Scene-Last week a TN
markable scene took place in the little wi
wn OF Dunmanway, in the county of tri
,rk, which in many Of its featnrns 70 | :.