The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-12-16 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SCENE" IN A LAND COURT. 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 get apart for the grand jury at the assizee 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. Cornmissiouer Baldwin concurred, and ultimately the court was adjourned. Mr. Jasper Sully, editor of the Boscommon Herald, • one of the imprisoned suspects, was released on Mow day. Great rejoicings took place on the oocaeion in the towns of Boyle and Balfyfarnou. 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 whether 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 I arrested. At Carrick-on-Shannon Assize, on Monday, Catherine Leaville was charged with the murder of her husband, near Castlebar. Thomas and Mary Leaville, eon and daughter of the deceased, were also charged with murder. The accused attacked the deceased during some quarrel, and inflicted fifty wounds. They were convicted of mansleugl.tar. Catherine was sentenced to penal servitude for life, and the others to ten years. It is reported from Lime ick that the coachman to a Mien Russell was found murdered in a quarry rear that city on Monday morning. The members of the Newbridge Harriers peek 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 Billyeart Hounds a Land Leaguer has started what is (wled " The Parnell Pack." Whil,t hunting on Saturday near Tradaree seveial of the boycotted gentlemen of the late hunt joined in the chase, b a were immediately compelled to leave the scene. Mr. Hy in, a popalar landlord, was, however, allowed to continue, but was thrown from his horse, his arm being disl, c ted. Many cases of extreme hardship have berm made known to the Lord Mayor of London sad the general committee of his fund through uou-payrnent . lof rent in Ireland. A lady, a widow of a gentie• , man, who possessed £1,200 a year from his estotee, is now the recipient of di. a week ftom the p ior law guardians. Another lady entitled to a jointure of £3OO a year has received nothing during the last two years owing to the strike againq re As. She has been totally without means all tliat time. A • third lady, unmarried, 78 years of age, ill aud infirm, out of an annual income of £l2O, has zeceived £42 during this year. Her tenants have refused to pay anything. She is the last member of her family, ads canoed in years, and is in debt for her lodging and her doctor's expenses. A widow lady, 77 years of Me, entitled to £BO a year out of lands in Sligo, owing to the Land heague agitation, has received no rant what. ever nuring 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 bec )mss more promising.  CRINOLINES OR NO CRINOLINESI The folowing letter on this all-important qiiettion (114 least to the fair sex), appears in the Daily News (.f Wednesday :—Having read in your isesue of the 6th inst. • letter from " Sylvia,' mentioning • projected Anti. Urinoline Society, I should be much obliged if you would allow me to take this opportunity of informing the public that such a society is already in existence, and has issued • Lhe following protest, which is already being widely bigned in literary ana artistic circles :—" We, the undersigned, believing that the artificial aid to dress known as crinoline or hoop is inconvenient and ungraceful to the last extent, hereby engage ourselves never to wear the same, whatever attempt is made on the part of milliners to impose this tyranny on the ladies of England."—J. MORRIS (Sec. pro tern, of the Anti-Crinoline Society.)