The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-22 00:00:00

CORK INTELLIGENCE.

A telegram from Cork says that the attempt to get
up a demonstration at the funeral of the man Campbell,
who was shot in an ati.ack upon the house of Mr. Grey,
J.P., proved a failure ; but about 1,000 persons were
present at the funeral.—A man named Nall, in cus•
tody for the murder of Mr. Power, has been committed for
trial to the assizes. The police have strong evidence
against him. The prisoner Wall's footprints have been
traced from the scene of the murder, and a bottle identi-
fied as his was found near the body.—A man named Allis
is in custody for the murder of Bradshaw.---Two men,
named Kennedy and Leamy, were charged at Nenagh on
Saturday with stealing arms from the military barracks.
They went on the authority of the Lord-Lieutenant
to the arm stores to get back guns taken during the Fenian
excitement. Having obtained the gun they went away,
but the sergeant's suspicions being aroused, the men were
followed and searched. Seven pistols and ammunition
were found on them. They have been committed for trial.
The police barracks are being fortified with mantles and
bullet-proof shutters.

AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. ,

The Magnet has the following on the agricultural
prospects :—" The unfavourable change in the weather,
and the consequent deterioration of the growing crops,
have caused some uneasiness in the agricultural
districts. The heavy rains, coupled with strong, cold
winds, have greatly retarded vegetation, and considerably
diminished theprospects of anything like an early harvest.
The wheat plant in particular is very backward for tl:e
time of year ; nevertheless, we do not as yet hear of any
positive additional damage, or indeed of any damage at
all, which could not be rectified by a continuance of fine
weather. It must, however, be borne in mind that we
are now verging on a critical and dangerous period,
during which, if wet weather should predominate, the
most disastrous results will ensue. The wheat plant
has come into ear later than in ordinary years, and it is
fully a month behind last year. The flowering time is
now drawing near, and the fate of the crop will be
mainly regulated by the weather which may prevail in the
meantime. Much anxiety is felt as to the issue. The
general opinion is that the harvest will prove unfavour-
able, both in respect to quality and yield. As regards
spring corn the accounts are satisfactory. The crops
look well and promising, the heavy rain having failed
to create mischief. In respect to the hay crop, the re
ports during the last few days have been satisfactory.
A large quantity of grass has been cut ; but owing to
the heavy rains and wind a considerable proportion has
been spoiled. Potatoes on the whole are turning out
well. The complaints of disease in the south-west
of England are very partial, and not sufficiently general
to create uneasiness. The root crops have profited by the
abundant moisture, and there will doubtless be a good
yield."

The trade for wheat is very firm, and prices have
advanced two to four shillings per quarter.
Considerable firmness prevailed in the grain trade
yesterday at Mark-lane, in consequence of the unfavour-
able weather, and an upward tendency was noticed in
prices.

The Chief Rabbi of the Jews in England, the Rer.
Dr. Adler, who is at present in Manchester, was entertained
on Sunday at a banquet in Cheetham Town Hall. The pro-
ceedings were chiefly complimentary. Dr. Adler, referring
to the results of Lis pastoral tour through the north of Eng-
land, expressed e,pecial pleasure on account of the anxiety
ho had found displayed to provide for the education of the
young.

The death is announced of Jas. Edward Cranstoun,
Baron Cranstoun, of Creeling, county of Roxburgh, in the
Scotch Peerage. His lordship was the eldest of two sons of
James Edmund, ninth lord, by his wife, Anna Linnington,
eldest daughter of Mr. John Macnamara, of the kland
of St. Christor. her. He was Loin in 1809, and suc-
ceeded his father in the family honours in Sep-
tember, 1818. The late lord, who was a bachelor, is suc-
ceeded by his brother, the Hon. Charles Frederick Cran-
stoun, burn in 1813.

On Sunday Bishop Gcss made another political
spc«.ll t.t a. lonian Catholic church. In the course of it
he static' that there were thousands of men in England
ready to resort to persecution of the "most horrible
nature " in order to suppress Roman Catholicism ; that
the scheme for the promotion of secular education ought to
ho opposed to the utmost, because it interfered with the
dissemination of true religion; and that Lord Derby'i
speech on the Irish Church Bill showed that ho had been
misinformed on several points. He informed his audience
that the reason why Cardinal Cullen threatened the
Roman Catholics with excommunication if they at-
tended the Masonic ball given iu honour of the royal
visit to Ireland, was that the machinery of the masonic order
was such that, if developed to put into force, it would "exor-
cise a prejudicial influence in the government of the
countrY."