Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-20
GREAT BRITAIN.
IMPORTANT LAND ACT DECISION.

IMPORTANT LAND ACT DECISION.
BELFAST, Jan. 19.--Commissoner OLA
gen, Little and Vernon, sitting as court of
appeal, yesterday delivered Judgment in the
first appeal form decisions OF the assistant
commissioners under the land act, who
reduced the tenants improved fixed rent lease
from G36 los to ESQ. The question decided
was whether the rent should be varied. The
court affirmed the decision of the assistant
commissioners. Commissioner Vernon dis
dissented, Great importance is at
tached to the judgment, as it set
ties the point in the land act known as
"Healey's Cause" The case will be carried
to the court of appeals. ThSkappeal in the
above case was by Mrs. Dunseath, against the
decision reducing the person who formerly
held on the lease, but is now yearly tenant,
by about 96, fixing it at 93. Appellants
counsel submitted three important points IN
der the land act. His maximum claim was
that ,e tas a foT all is sntsa to
made prior to the expiration of the lease. It
was commended that by change Of the nature
Of the tenants holding, from lease to a
yearly tenancy, these improvements could not
be considered as made by the tenant or his
predecessor in title. If the court declined to
grant this proposition, the landlord was
entitled to receive rent for all the i'm
of the lease, except those made by an
interested tenant, as his predecessors
occupancy could not have been considered pre-
decessors in title. Finally, the landlord
was at least entitled to rent for all improve
ments prior to the lease, and to the same rent
in respect to improvements made during the
lease, as the tenant, by having use of these
compensated Commissioners O'Laggan and
Little decided against appellant on all these
points.
CONNELL, THE TRAITOR.
DUBLIN, Jan. 19-At the Cork assises to-
day the outlaw leader, Council, pleaded
guilty to various charges against him. He
will be witness in other cases in which
the members of his band are dsfend ants.
At the time of his arrest III
the latter part OF December, for
having arms in the proclaimed dis
trict, Cornell was already suspected OF
being the leader OF the band which had
committed outrages, rendering the district of
Mill street one of the most notorious pa Ire
land. His arrest took place at Mushra under
exciting circumstances. A large force of
police acting on private information, sur
rounded the house of Thomas Shea, farmer,
living in lonely district near the Mushra
mountains. Upon knocking the police
were admitted and two of them
rushed up stairs and found Con-
nell in bed but dressed. He endeavored to
divest himself of his waist coat, but the police
after fierce struggle with him obtained DOS
session of the garment and found in one
pocket gold watch stolen from man named
Cudmore, during a recent moonlight raid.
They also found in his possession list of
persons who committed offenses against the
| unwritten law of the Rlband society, and who
were consequently marked for vengeance
The list is signed and countersigned with fic
titious names names, and concludes thus:
Examined and approved of as work for the
| right squad Capt. of the Moonlights."
| Among the Intended victims were James
| Sullivan and Dennis Goodman, farmers,
who were to be shot on suspicion
of paying rent, and Sullvan's two
| daughters, whose hair was to be cut to the
bone, one for having spoken to a policeman,
and the other for dealing with q prescribed
| person. Other persons were mentioned whose
ears were to be cut for lesser offences. In
| consequence of the document found, on Don
| nelly five young men were arrested in
Mill street named Kellieghen, Conner, Leahy,
| Farrell and Hurley have been identified as be-
longing to the party implicated in the attack
on the house of Mrs. Fitzgerald.