ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 246, 16 October 1874, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

■:•• . Lo>*don, Oct. 1. The Timet, in contradicting rumors re the : embarrassments of tl c Prir.ee of Wales, explains that although his income is insufficient ■ hi* expenditure is met by realisation of pror . perty in the Duchy of Cornwall. October 3. An explosion took place at five o'c'ock yesterday morning, in the Regent's canal, which is .unprecedented. A barge ■•.• had : five tons of gunpowder aboard, '< 'and when the explosion occurred it blew up a ' bridge and caused great panic. Houses in c ose proximity were completely wrecked, and the explosion was heard ten miles. Loss • of life Is confined to three bargemen, but the T defeftrnctum to property is immense. The telegraph Bttamship Faraday has returned to Queenswn. During a gale the , cable parted, and is not recovered. r,: . Wood sa>s have closed. Firm advances are . . , maintained, though not a. rious. The bulk is v ..taken by home buyers, but 120,000 bales have K -been, taken for export, including 4000 for America. The next sa'ea are fixed for November 17. Balme and Co., brokers, repott prospects favorable, and estimate an ' increase in quantity ivj ported during the : -year at 100,000 bales. An advance in discount is expectel Full fall of 2s a quarter on English wheat has taken place. Adelaide is quote 1 at 52s 10 549,4 New Zealand at 42s and 495, Tasmania^ at 48s to 61s, ; ; . Arrived— Ben Voirlech and Airemore, Galle, Oct. 3. The Nubia arrived on the Ist inst. Lohdon', Oct. 5. ■i :MrC. W. Eddy, the Hon. Secretary of the Colonial L-istitu'e, who always took a deep intereaVi.V Colonial affairs, die 1 suddenly at ' « Glasgow. He had arranged to read a paper ''■• -ott * The Colonies " at a Social Science ConT.vjrxess. Arrived — Somersetahir. •. '•■ /, /: . , Mjldbid. Oct. 5. The Right Hon. A. H. Layard, English t . Ambassador, and M. Chambordy, French 05 Minister, presented their endentias to , yjfefareliat Serrano, President of the Spanish J/ -^phbUc: : Rome, Oct. 5. The Italian Parliament has dissolved. 3;:?;.' ! ; ■•:•-■!.,.. Bebnb, Oct. 5. -«-' The International Postal Congress, at Berne, adopted a Postal Convention, fixing uniform rates.

Vienna, Oct. 5. The Hungarian loan of seven and a half millions is issued. A pastoral, issued by Cardinal Ranscher. Archbishop of Vienna, accuses Prussia of attempting to extirpate Christianity, anti^ compares the Paris Commune to the revolution in Buenos Ayres in fifty-nine under the leadership of General Mitre* London, Oct. 6, "A Victorian four per cent loan of one million and a half ?s announced. Berlin, Oct. 6. Count Arvim was arrested at Ihe instigation of Bismarck for defaming documents. Paris, Oct. 6. - In the elections to Councils a majority of Conservatives were returned. Madrid, Oct. 6. It is reported that Don Carlos was wounded during a mutiny.