Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-12-16 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SCENE" IN A LAND COUBT.  The Downpatrick Land Commission sat on Monday. the first case being that of a tenant of Mr. Richard Keown Boyd, High Sheriff of the county. After the hearing of the case had commenced, Mr. Boyd entered the court and ordered the tenant farmers who occupied the seats set apart for the grand jury at the assizes to leave the seats. The solicitor for the tenant advised them to remain, and Mr. Commissioner Greer, addressing the High Sheriff, said they could not, sitting as a court of justice, recognise any authority but their own. Mr. Commissioner Baldwin concurred, and ultimately the court was adjourned.  Mr. Jasper Sully, editor of the Roscommon Herald, one of the imprisoned suspects, was released on Monday. Great rejoicings took place on the occasion in the towns of Boyle and Balfyfamon. On Sunday night, the house of a farmer named Fagan, at Hilltown, county Westmeath, was visited by three men, who asked whether he was a Land Leaguer. He replied in the affirmative, and in answer to a question whethse he had paid his rent, he said he did as other tenants did. They made him give up his gun, and while in the act of shaking hands with one of the men another fired a revolver, wounding him in the arm. A man named Clinton has been arrested.  At Carrick-on-Shannon Assize, on Monday, Catherine Leaville was charged with the murder of her husband, near Castlebsr. Thomas and Mary Leaville, son and daughter of the deceased, were also °barged with murder. The accused attacked the deceased during some quarrel, and inflicted fifty wuunds. They were convicted of manslaughter, Catherine was sentenced to penal servitude for life, and the others to ten years. It is reported from Lime tick that the coachman to a Miss Russell was found murdered in a quarry near that city on Monday morning. The members of the Newbridge Harriers pack were prevented hunting on Saturday. Some of the hounds were kicked into the air by a hostile crowd. In consequence of the abolition of the Itildyeart Hounds a Land Leaguer has started what is called " The Parnell Pack." Whilst hunting on Saturday near Tradaree several of the boycotted gentlemen of the late hunt joined in the chase, but were immediately compelled to leave the scene. Mr. Ryn, a popular landlord, was, however, allowed to continue, but was thrown from his horse, his arm being dislocated. Many cases of extreme hardship have been made known to the Lord Mayor of London and the general committee of his fund through ron-payment of rent in Ireland. A lady, a widow of a gentle. man, who possessed £1,200 a year from his estates, is now the recipient of 3s. a week from the poor law guardians. Another lady entitled to a jointure of £3OO a year has received nothing during the last two years owing to the strike against reuts. She has been totally without means all that time. A third lady, unmarried, 78 years of age, ill and infirm, out of an annual income of £l2O, has received £42 during this year. Her tenants have refused to pay anything. She is the last member of her family, ad• vanced in years, and is in debt for her lodging and her doctor's expenses. A widow lady, 77 years of age, entitled to £BO a year out of lands in Sligo, owing to the Land League agitation, has received no rent what. ever during the last two years. She has to support an orphan grandchild, and both have been living on the bounty of others. It is rumoured in naval circles that the Channel Fleet will remain off the Irish coast until the condition of the country beeimes more promising.