Glasgow Courier. — 1847-10-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ANOTHER MURDER.  Letters are in town this morning from Longford, mentioning the fact of a brutal murder, committed on Saturday evening in that county. The victim was a small farmer—his offence, the taking of some land—his punish:Bent, the dashing out of his brains ! Morning Berald.  The Dublin Evening Mail, after mentioning some facts relating to the murder of Mr. Roe, proceeds as follows " The townland of Boytonrath—a name not without its notoriety in the annals of the new tenant-right agitation, seeing that it furnished a president to the Ilo!remit) meeting in the person of Mr. William Loughnane, and a scribe who has indicted several letters in a local paper, in relation to that estate--this townland was the property of the late Mr. Roe; and amongst other tenant farmers'—the new phrase for men who hold them, but will neither farm nor pay rent for as one John Lonergan, who several years ago WU in possession of about 15 acres. This land was of good quality and let at a reasonable rent; but the tenant farmer' was a man of dissolute habits and little industry, and not being able, or perhaps willing, to till his farm or pay his rent, Mr. Roe took up from him a portion of the land, forgiving him all arrears, and leaving him about seven acres to cultivate. That the amount of arrears forgiven must have been considerable, may be inferred from the fact that some of the Boytonrath tenantry published I lie kind and generous conduct of Mr. Roe in the public journals, as the worthy act of a good landlord. "The tenant-farmer' of Boytonrath, commences anew upon his seven acres, no arrear hanging over him to ',oral% se his Industry or chill his heart; and what follows? Does he till the seven acres? No; he found the old system of idleness and immunity too pleasant to be abandoned, and he leaves the greater part of his ground unfilled; and not tilling it, be is, of course, upon all principles of natural justice, fair dealing, and tenant-right philosophy, not bound to pay any rent; for, after all, gentlemen farmers of Bolyeross, and the parts adjacent thereto, it is all fair that if a man does not use a thing he is not to pay for it. "This process of farming brought its natural result—the tenant-farmer became &recipient of the soup relief and a labourer on the public works; and, on May-day last, the tenant owed .£22, being two years' rent, and the land was little better than a waste, overgrown with thistles and weeds. Again, the kind landlord is ready to aid one upon whom aid Is conferred in vain. lie offers to forgive the tenant all arrears, and to give hun £lO and such crops as he then had on the land, on condition of his giving up a farm which was almost useless to him: There were times when such an offer would have been thought kind and liberal, and might have even elicited another panegyric in the London journals ; hut those were the good old times before 'tenant-right' was propeunded. But now the Holyerucian philosophers had developed their theories, and John Lonergan, of Bo)totiratb, was In the very focus of this modern illumination, and he knew too well all about the rights of 'tenant farmers,' and 'fixity of tenure; and the ' effective means' of preventing ejectments, and so forth, and he refused the unjust proposition of his landlord with insolence and threats. "Under these circumstances the landlord does what alone is left him to do—he seeks, by the intervention of the law, to recover the possession of his property from one who will nether till it, pay rent for it, or yield up his 'good will of it' for • sum of £lO and crops, by way of ' life assurance.' Mr. Roe ejects the tenant, and in due course, upon his next visit to the country, whereby he becomes amenable to the process of agrarian legislation by coming within the jurisdiction of the fixity-of-tenureeffective-resisting-ejectment society_ In due course, we say, he is murdered; yea, he is shot at broad noon-dny, upon the lands of Boytourath, close to the houses of Lorergan and his brothers, alien those Tory lauds where Mr. Roo had established, at his own