The Failure Record

Nbw York, Oct. 7.- R. G. Dun & Co., say: lt ís encouraging thatwhile the number of failures is large, the ainount of liabilities for the third quarter of the y ear shows a great decrease, f rom $75,032, - 556 last yearto $33,114,254 for the quarter just ended. Business failures during the last seven days number, for the United States, 184; Canada, 27; total, 211; as compared with 230 last week and 212 for the corresponding week of last y ear.