LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3836, 1 November 1883, Page 3

LONDON.

October 30. The Australian mails via Naples, per steamship Orient from Melbourne on September 22, were delivered to-day. Intelligence is to hand from Boulogne I that the ship Mirzapore has been successfully'floated. The failure is announced to-day of Messrs Morris Ranger, and Co., cotton brokers, Liverpool. The liabilities are set down at half a million sterling. Messrs Forman and Cq., havo also called meetings of their creditors, and other failures are expected to bo announced during the next few days. Considerable excitement and anxioty consequently prevail in commercial circles. October 31. Arrangements havo boon made for an exhibition to take place in 1880 on the site now occupied by the International Fisheries Exhibition. Jt will be confined to the products of the various British colonies. Two disastrous explosions, of which no explanation can be given, occurred last evening on the underground metropolitan railway. Thirty persons have been seriously injured, and. the buildings above the runnel shattered by the force of the explosion. The International Fisheries Exhibition was formally 1 closed to-day by the Prince of Wales. In his speech on the occasion His Royal Highness chose the opportunity to specially thank the colonies for their assistance, and (o express a hope tbatjthe.pro- ' jected exhibition of 1886 would result m the

permanent foundation of a colonial mnseum in London. Three further failures for large sums have occurred in Liverpool, and increased anxiety prevails in commercial circles.