The Poole Telegram. — 1881-12-16 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SCENE" IN A LAND COURT.  The Downpatrick Land Commission sat on Monday, the first cage 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 fur 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 Hunlcd, one of the imprisened suspects, was released on Monday. Great rejoicings took place on the occasion in I the towns of Boyle and Balfyfarnon. 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 diet 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 Leavide was charged with the murder of her husband, near Castlobar. Thomas and Mary Leaville, son and daughter of the deceased, were also charged with murder. The accused attacked the deceased during some quarrel, and inflicted fifty wuunds. The,' were convicted of manslaughter. Catherine VIM sentenced to penal servitude for life, and the others to tea years. . _ .  It is reported from Lime: ick that the coachman to a Miss Russell was found murdered in a quarry rear 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 Rildysart Hounds a Land Leaguer has started what is railed "The Parnell Pack." Whilst hunting on Saturday near Tralaree several of the boycotted gcntleinen of the late hunt joined in the chase, but were immediately compelled to leave the scene. Mr. Ry-n, a popnlar landlord, was, however, allowed to contintie, but was thrown from his horse, his arm being dial cated. Many cases of extreme hardship have been made known to the Lord Mayor of London arid the general committee of his fund through Lou-payment of rent in Ireland. A lady, a widow of a gentleman, who possessed £1,200 a year from his estates, is now the recipient of 3.1. a week horn the poor law guardians. Another lady entitled to • jointure of £3OO a year has received nothing during the last two years owing to the strike against routs. She has been totally without means ill tb at time. A third lady, unmarried, 78 years of age, ill and infirm, out of an annual income of £l2O, has received Sa during this year. Her tenants have refused to pay' anything. She is the last member of her family, advaneed 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 whatever 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 Cheese! Fleet will remain off the Irish coast until the conditiatt of the country bee rules more promising.